Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-11-17
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

efcQ an attendance OF 0.UUO.
A threshing engine exploded south
of Sterling injuring two persons.
water which seems to be inexhaustible.
Ed o'Brien, of Florence, won the
medal at the Peabody gun club shoot.
Emancipation day, September %,
was quite generally celebrated by the
eolOred people.
Atehison has new fire engine which
cost 81. $50 1t has a pumping capacity
of s70O gallons minute.
Two Montgomery county boys, about
16 years old, have been arrested for rob-
bing several farm houses.
James Richie, of Augusta, has been
appointed to position in the treasury
department at Washington.
strong artesian well has been
struck near Muscotah in the swamp
lands of the Delaware valley.
Mrs. Mary Griffin, of Lawrence, Wis
iting in Japan, received an invitation
to a ball given by the Mikado
Rev. Dr. w. w. Ayers, Episcopal rec
tor'at Lawrence. has accepted call to
church at Canon City, Colorado.
p. c. Bonner, under arrest in Iowa
for forging deeds and mortgages, is
wanted in Wichita for like crime.
Plans are maturing to provide Wich-
tia with a system of drinking fountains:
series of lectures to provide the funds.
Tramps have Il new shibboleth now;
they have lost everything in Galveston;
and there are plenty of them in Kan
sas.
VIM. Chart, of Leavenworth county,
was fatally injured by a young bull
while he was walking through the
pasture.
Clay Center has a fair and coursing
meet, which commenced on the 25th.
There were ITO hounds to catch $50
rabbits
Portions of Fort Scott were under
water on September 81. People in the
north part of the city were compelled
to move.
The first prize at the Woodmen's
drill at Harper was taken by Yelling
ton. sos: the second by the Kingman
team, $50.
Political and campaign matter crowds
ordinary news and makes it scarce
Kansas is now thinking and talking
but little outside of politics, reunions,
street fairS and the lilo
a small tornado visited Neodesha
September %, wrecking two houses
three barns and damaging others.
Mrs John Ford and her little son were
injured. the first seriously.
The lights in the dome of the new
Topeka auditorium are in the shape of
:, q sunfower, formed of 40 incandescent
lights, set in brown center and sur
rounded by yellow petals three feet
long.
Parsons was deluged last week. The
dam of the waterworks company, on
Labette creek, broke and the lower
portion of the city was flooded. Houses
were emptied and there was damage
to property and live stock.
Near Tonganoxie a man prepared
four blasts in a mineral prospect hole.
AS he was being hauled out in a tub,
one of the blasts went off prematurely.
In spite of the danger the man at the
windlass hung on until he was at the
top and saved.
Rev. James Shaw, aged 90, is dead
ut Atchison. He had been a Metho
dist preacher &c years and had beer
preaching in Kansas since 1857.
President A. Monroe, of the Mer
chants National bank of Lawrence
has given $3.50 to Kansas university
for special scientific researches in the
department of physics and physica
chemistry.
The Kansas conference of the United
Brethren church was held at Abilene
commencing September 20; BishoI
Floyd, of Indiana presiding.
There was, last week, only fouI
houses in Norway without case o
typhoid fever. Only one death ha
occurred.
The Odd Fellows lodge at Dighto1
borrowed money of other lodges i,
1893 to furnish members with see,
wheat. The last of the borrower
money is now repaid.
Engineer Fred Chick, who pulls tn
Santa Fe passenger train between
Kansas City and independence, ha
been constantly employed as enginee
since November, 1869.
The old buffalo grass sign would in
dictate the approach of severe winter
The seed on the buffalo grass is report
ed to be very thick.
The Santa Fe's Panhandle divisio
is furnished with special officers en-
powered to arrest tramps wheneve
found on the trains or the right G
way.
An Ottawa man who has contract
for railroad work in Kansas, Olxlahom
and Texas has difficulty in carryin
ont his contracts because he canno