Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-09-15


Many shipments of sweet potatoes
are made from Abilene.
The contract for the Mitchell county
court house is let for S33, $40.
John Butler, once a railroad con-
tractor, died in Wichita last week.
Salina gets special rates of one-half
fare for its street fair, September "a
%.
Emporia boarding houses furnish
meals to Normal students at S1.s6 a
week
a soda fountain explosion at Downs,
broke Fl. w. Fortunes leg and crushed
the bones.
New corn is being sold at the Wichi-
ia stock yards and it is almost as dry
as old corn.
Kansas soda fountains sell claret in
phosphates and ice cream parlors serve
frozen egg nog.
The Doniphan county court house
has been set on fire but there was not
much damage done.
a Jackson county farmer lost 5000
diamond while attending the Circle
| vile Woodmen picnic.
The Hutchinson band ahd some local
singers gave the boys at the reform
school musical treat.
Kansas railroads are locating switch
engines all along the lines to handle
| the great rush of wheat.
The woi k of clearing the site for the
new federal building to be built in
Kansas City, Kas., has begun.
The Rock Island depot at Alma is
burned, with loss of So, 900 or more.
A better building will take its place at
once.
Burglars wIked a hardware store
at Cimarron and two days later. were
captured, with their plumber at La
Junta.
The putting in of the heating ap-
paratus at the enlarged federal build
ing at Topeka has been contracted for
at 81, 46S.
Heringtons three days harvest fes-
tival was great success. On farmers
day prizes were given for the biggest
loads of grain.
Prof. H. NJ. Stout, of the University
of Chicago, is to take the department
| of mathematics and astronomy at the
Friends university in Wichita.
Just before starting from Salina to
Iowa to be married, Ralph Anderson
heard of the death of the bride to be,
Miss Mabel Bishop, of Mount Pleasant.
She was buried on the day set for the
wedding.
Charles Congdon, the Arkansas City
conductor who was killed by his own
train, was walking encyclopedia on
the subject of fast horses, stage char
acters and political candidates, cover
ing period of 25 years.
A seventy-fve mile system of electric
trolley lines is projected, to connect
Neodesha, Cherryvale, Coffeyville, Par
sons, and independence. It is proposed
that the lines shall be used for both
passenger and freight business.
Judge Hook has ordered the commits
special tax to pay a judgment of 81 ,964
The county has bonds out and default
ed amounting to $50, 900. Stevens
county people say that it is impossible
to pay out.
Sheriff S. P. Costigan, of Franklin
county, was shot in the arm, by John
NJ. Tanning, while the sheriff was at
tempting to secure a child under writ
OF habeas corpus. Tanning and wife
had parted and their child was given
secured the child and refused to give il
up.
Jacob H. Roller, a farmer living sew
en- miles west of Topeka, was struck
by a Union Pacific train while driving
to town and instantly killed.
E. P. Davis, clerk of the distric
court of Cloud county. is dead of ty
phoid fever, aged 50. His wife anC
son died of the same disease two years
ago.
L he new cement plant at lola makes
a terrible noise, but the pay checks
handed out by the company talk il
such loud tone of voice that no on,
kicks on the racket of the machinery
The Arkansas river has had NOR,
water in it during the past six month";
than ever before since Colorado irriga
tors have been using most of the flow
Many Kansas Touring mills are usin,
/ their utmost capacity in filing order
t from England. Kansas flour is pre-
: ferred in that market over Minnesot;
-four.
The Thomas county high school a
e Colby. opened with the largest enroll
5 ment it ever had. Many students wer
); turned away because rooms and boar
could not be secured.
e homeseekers' excursion passe
through Wichita on the morning O
e September 5. 1t was met there b
. committees from towns of Oklahoma
4 On September 10 several township