Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-06-16
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

VIII meet IN topeka June ~
Two Atchison men have the pop corn
franchise at the Paris exposition.
Fifty-five convicts were received at
the Lansing penitentiary in May and
% were discharged.
F. T. Dentists child, 21l years old,
was killed while asleep on the railroad
TRACK, at Idenbro, Labette county.
Three fourths of the 1000 corpora
tons in Kansas ignore the law requir-
ing reports to the secretary of state.
Andrew Patten, Topeka grocer, a
negro, was overcome by the heat while
riding his wheel and fell off it dead.
The Kansas Academy of Science has
received gift, of shells, probably the
finest in the country, valued at 81, 500.
The state general revenue fund has
$172, 6O4; enough to prevent stamping
warrants mot paid for want of funds. "
The railroads give free transporta-
ton for the additional 35 cars of Kan
sas corn for India from Topeka to New
York.
The Santa Fe has appropriated $780,
900 for the improvement of it's tele-
graph system, to be expended this sea-
son.
Kansas led and now several western
and southern states are encouraging
the Beers to come among them and
settle.
Superintendent Nelson has found
CSC. schools with less than ten pupils
and he advocates consolidation of such
schools.
At the sale of the Mcpherson water
plant the mayor served notice that the
franchise was null and void, being il
legal.
j. M. NATION had served in the post
Office at Geneva for almost 40 years, up
to the time he resigned at the age of
IS.
A nurse of Clyde is under arrest for
appropriating 81, 900 in money belong
ing to her charge, after the patient
died.
Goebe1, the murdered Kentuckian,
left good deal of property in and
about Wichita, and his administrator
is now selling it.
The Kansas Bankers association
asks repeal of the bankruptcy law.
They favor deed of trust law similar
to that of Missouri.
Two years ago Kingman county
marketed 81, O1s worth of horticut ural
products. Last years crop was sold to
the extent of $25, 5O7.
A girl in Wichita attempted suicide
by shooting herself. The Eagle says
that her destroyer is young man well
up in social circles in that city.
A Spearville lad had the measles and
attended a school entertainment. At
the regulation time thereafter there
were about sixty cases of the disease
in and about the town.
At La Grease lives the man who used
to deliver meat to Mrs Admiral Dewey
at Fort Hays, and ate her pie at the
kitchen door of the barracks occupied
by General Hazen's family.
The storm of last week did much
damage to crops, and some buildings
about Conway Springs, Sumner county,
and around the towns of Furley and
Kechi in Sedgwiok county. At Con-
way Springs there was very great
fall of hail.
The national council of the Knights
and Ladies of Security meets in Topeka
June IL.
Victor Benson, New York waif
aged Is, was killed by lightning at
Fontana.
DR.. William Bishop, one of the first,
if not the first, Presbyterian ministers
to come to Kansas in the SOS, died at
Salina June 4th, aged 81.
Two hundred graduates of Kansas
University received diplomas and thir-
ty-six who took the pedagogic course
received state certificates.
Two men were killed who were of a
party who had keg of beer at Atchi-
son, quarrel resulting.
Boring for gas is to be done at Eu-
reka. A sufficient fund has been gath
cred.
A woman is travelling over Kansas
and other states collecting money for
the deaconess home in Wichita with
out authority, and is pocketing the
proceeds. Trace has been discovered
of her at several points and the author
tiles of the home are preparing to take
steps for her apprehension.
The Irvine trust seems to be flooding
Kansas with trade journals which
aim to stop the demand for peniten
tiary Irvine.
In a number of counties Kansa,
farmers are arranging to run two set
of men through harvest and keep tn,
the machines going day and night i
they can get the men.
Judge Isaac Reed, who was pardonet
out of the penitentiary, where he wa
serving a sentence for killing man a
Wellington some years ago, is said t
be dying from cancer in Boston.
Captain Boltwood observed the cul
ture OF tobacco in the Philippines an,