Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-05-26


out 5000 barrels day.
Eight cars of stock were shipped
from Seneca last week.
Smoky Hill river has become dan
gerously swollen again.
Seneca claims to have had no small
pox case since December, so.
Kansas University has students from
seventy-nine counties of Kansas.
Mrs. Grant GilIett, of Mexico, is Wis
ting friends in Dickinson county.
There has been but one death in
Haskell county for more than a year.
It is believed that returns will show
10000 acres of alfalfa in Jewell county.
A Rochester, N Y. horse dealer gets
stock to sell largely from Harvey coun-
ty.
Keck & Young, at BatesviIle lost
their hay barn and 700 tons of hay by
| fire.
w. r. Weaver, paper-hanger, was
cut in two near Valley Center by
train.
The G. A. R. reunion for that sena-
torial district will be held at Corning
in August.
Holton is receiving bouquets for it's
happy handling of the G. A. R. en-
campment.
OF IS teachers who took examination
in Cherokee county only Is were given
certificates.
John Hanshay was killed by being
caught between two street cars in
Hutchinson.
Twenty-Five of the forty graduates
of the Independence high school are
young women.
During April there were shipped
| from Wakefield % cars of hogs and 600
cases of eggs.
Abilene's postal receipts having
passed $4,000 it is likely to get free
delivery of mail.
A Kansas City man is purchasing
residences in the outskirts of Wichita
for renting purposes.
will run excursion trains to Geuda
| Springs this summer.
| Kansas University was beaten by
South Dakota University in athletic
contests at Sioux City, Ia.
Judge Hazen, of the Shawnee coun-
ty district court, decides that the city
| poll tax law is invalid.
st. Louis syndicate is taking oil
and gas leases in the sand-hill district
between Abilene and Solomon.
Ex-senator Ingalls, has changed his
plan and now says he will not come
home to Atchison this summer but re-
main in Arizona.
The latest swindIe on the note not
to be collected until after certain re-
suits, is now being worked in the sale
of electric belts.
A Baldwin hveryman who is holding
team of mules until he is paid for
their keeping was called out of the
barn at 10 o. m. and shot at, but es-
capped being hit.
from insurance companies, the portions
for some Southern Kansas towns are:
Wichita, S1.265. 35; Wellington, S162;
Winfield, S262; Pratt, $66 SO; Kingman,
$40. 81; Harper, SIS. 50; Augusta; $40. rs
Anthony, $40. 81; Arkansas City, S265. Il.
|, Thirty-seven years ago Henry
Thompson, now living 10 Smith Center,
mailed from the camp of his regiment
in Missouri letter to his brother in
Iowa. Last week this letter was re
turned to him from the dead letter
| Office at Washington, and in a matter
of fact way.
r. A. Short, of Cloud county, gets
a 5000 clerkship in the census bureau.
The supreme court has affirmed de-
cision of the district court against
Garden City for 5000 worth of trees
which that city purchased during the
boom.
Teachers are again complaining Oh
the character of the examination ques
tions sent out by the state superinten
dent. Out of 40 who took examination
III one county Only SIX received Ger
tifcates. The teachers are indignant
over being required to guess puzzles
In lola there was religious meeting
; in the court house and when the ga.
was turned on there was tremendou.
roar which startled the ladies and Mrs
/ NJ. D. Whitney was paralyzed by the
, shock.
: Willis K. Foulks, treasurer of Kan
sas university, has sent E. E. Brown Il
, Cape Nome. Brown was Chancello
1 Shows stenographer.
1 Department Commander w. W. Mar
t tin, of Fort Scott, has appointed Franz
e Lyons of the same place as adjutan
general of the G. A. R.
n A bullet was found in an elm tire
n near Atchison imbedded near the Ger
L ter, and inside of 100 rings which sho1
the annual growth of the tree.
l. Two chicken thieves have been ser
d fenced to the penitentiary from Sede