Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-11-10

The registration of lola is 1861 and
that of Winfield is 1873.
Thirteen insurance companies have
state agents in Topeka.
The mill and elevator at Frederick
are burned. Loss, 5000.
| The union stock yards. at Wichita
are to be paved with brick.
One man at McCune has 600 BUSH
! els of apples for sale at his orchard.
Work has begun on a $4,000 addi-
ton to Dold's packing house in Wichita.
Oil and gas have been struck at Peru.
The flow of oil is about 80 barrels a
day.
| will have to be pastured to prevent
jointing.
Charles Warren, aged IS, of Wamego,
pulled his gun through hedge and
was killed.
A movement is on foot for the for
nation of women's basket ball leagues
in this state.
w. 81. Sears, formerly private secre-
tary TO Senator Harris, is doing Red
Cross work at Galveston.
Miss Lofty Garrison, of Fort Scott,
has been offered $500 a week as leading
soprano in the Bostonians.
Through the parole system 80 boys
from the reform school were placed in
good homes in the last year.
Miss Molly Arnold. of Reading, has
been chosen as a teacher in the public
schools of Las Vegas, n. NJ.
Chancellor Snow, of Kansas Univer-
sity, has been compelled to take va
cation on account of poor health.
During October there were brick
sidewalks laid in Topeka along SO city
lots, requiring the use of 4O8, 900 brick.
Salaries and running expenses paid
out at the Hutchinson reformatory for
the month of October, amounted to
S7,5S5.15.
The appellate court has decided that
the city cannot prescribe a Jail SEN
tence for anything save failure to pay
poll tax.
Superintendent Sti1lwell of the Rock
Island tells Wichita peoole that his
road needs and will build new freight
depot and extend its yards in that
city.
During October there were 80 pris-
oners received in the Kansas peniten-
| tiary, Is of whom were from Oklahoma.
During the month "a were discharged
and died.
The Santa Fee has commenced the
work of reducing grades on the EN-
poria-Ottawa cut off. The work will
cost $4,000 The maximum of grade
on that line is to be 81 feet to the
mile.
The piano and organ dealers general
ly report the sale of a greater number
of pianos to farmers in Kansas this
year than ever before. Heretofore
farmers bought organs if any instru.
ment
The project for the construction OF
an electric railway from Fort Riley to
Junction City has resulted in charter
to company for that purpose. An cleo.
trio light plant and an ice plant for the
city are included in the plans of the
company.
Capt. Newton Bridgman rode sad
die in a recent parade in Wichita that
was ridden by the general of his bril-
gade up Sal, Juan hill. It was left in
his possession as quartermaster and
though it is but wreck he prizes it
highly as well he may.
The county treasurers propose to
formulate statute which will cause a
all property to be assessed at its actual
value. This is job that has been tried
by somebody or other at every session
of the legislature for the past 90 years
and more.
The Farm department of Kansas
Agricultural college has finished up it's
work in summer Institutes, having con-
Quoted 121 with a total attendance of
$4,000 people which is fully four times
as many people as has ever been
reached before in an entire year.
A farmer near Topeka who ordered
of two boys was shot by one of the
boys, receiving serious wound. The
boys are unknown.
} Kansas has at least 10000 veterans,
of whom about 10000 receive pensions,
: while the Grand Army of the Republic
has less than Il, 1000 members in the
, state.
A horse and buggy was found floating
r In the Neosho river in Coffey county
but there was no trace found of any
: driver and no one has claimed the
rig.
i Entomologist F. o. Popenoe, of Kan
& sas Agricultural college, is in charge
8 OF the inspection OF Kansas nurserie.
i which is made necessary by laws O
b other states which prevent shipmen
n of nursery stock without inspection
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