Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-06-02
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Of 1900 at independence.
The association of registers of deeds
of Kansas met in Wichita last week.
Lone Tree township, Mcpherson
county, produced Al babies last year.
A Masonic temple is to be erected at
Osawatomie to cost not less than $751;
600.
O. D. Barnes, of oswego is in jail for
giving mortgage on stock not his
own.
OF SO teachers who took examination
in Cherokee county only Is were gfvec
certificates.
The Hessian fly seems TO be damag-
ing the wheat in the north side of Nc
Pherson county.
The graduating class OF the Topeka
high school is composed of 53 young
women and IL young men.
The German singing societies of
Kansas will hold their annual saenger-
feet in Topeka on June II.
Claude Saunders was drowned in Fall
while fording that stream.
The daughter of Rev. Wilkinson, of
Marion, aged ~, died from the effects
of a catfish barb in her hand
W. J. Healy, chief clerk of the audi
tor of freight receipts of the Santa Fe,
succeeds Mr.. Sutton as auditor.
The Ottawa Herald says that %
Franklin county school ma'ams are to
be married during the summer.
It is said that Miss Lou Goodwin, of
Marshall county, owns one of the best
herds of Hereford cows in Kansas.
The second main track, between
Olathe and Kansas City on the Mem
phis road, is approaching completion
John Torenango, of Frontenac, has
of an estate, but he is coming right
back.
The graduates of Bethany college,
Lindsborg, number so this year and it
takes two weeks to hold commence
ment
Dr. Swenson, of Lindsborg, has
spoken at four high school commence
ments and has eleven more appoint
nents.
Eugene Ware owns two lots in Fort
Scott which he proposes to donate when
his old home city is ready to build a
library.
A Smith county farmer had 1000
bushels of last years crop of corn
on the stalks in the field, in the middle
OF May.
Secretary of Agriculture James n
dress at the Kansas Agricultural col
lege June IA.
The passenger department OF the
Santa Fe has issued circular in colors
telling about the Chautauqua assembly
at Winfield June 21-July 3.
w. @. Church, late superintendent of
the Wichita street railway, has taken
place in the freight department of
the Pittsburg and Gulf road.
A picture attracting attention in
Paris is landscape by Alonzo ST.
George Huntington, young man who
was born in Leavenworth in 1868.
Seventy-three FIRE insurance compan-
les doing business in Kansas in 1899
transacted business as follows: Risks
written, S1s3, 444, 731; premiums re-
ceived, 81 ,949, os1.7 II; losses paid, 81, Ill.,
1913.
The Lawrence World says Lawrence
has not yet recovered from the closing
of the wire mill by the trust.
Governor Stanley has refused the
application for pardon of Pool Grin
stead, the Wathena editor, who has
served 14o of the e4o days in Jail for
libel.
Labor Commissioner Lee johnson
persuaded the Leavenworth planning
mill, which let out its men because
they belonged to union, to take then
back. He showed the mill men ths
state law.
The drummers for wholesale under
taking houses say that the death rate
in Kansas is very low, compared with
former years.
Silverdale stone quarries are activ,
in putting in new machinery. TIL,
quarry has S25, 600 con tract with tn.
state for stone for the Hutchinson re
formatory.
Florence Robins, aged 10 years, wa
caught by her foot in frog at
switching point in the electric railwa,
in LeavenwoIth, and had one leg Gu
off and was otherwise injured.
The association OF Kansas sheriff
attended one of the meetings of tn
National conference of Charities am
Correction.
About 300 of the medals to be pre-
scented to the soldiers of the Twentieth
Kansas have been completed and dis
tributed. 1t is the purpose of tn
Grand Army to see that every membe
of the regiment or his relatives ar
furnished with medals.
A boy recently had his face badl
cut with barbed wire with which
WELLINGTON school house yard is fenced