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


Mormon elders working in Kansas
say they intend to establish church
IN Lawrence.
The Rock island hotel at Lexington
was burned September 3. The loss is
about S., 900.
A three-year-old boy of John McKaig,
of johnson county, had both feet cut
off by cane cutter.
The Epworth Leagne and Home Mis-
sionary societies are holding a camp
meeting at Larned
Coroner B. E. Whee1er, of Pawnee
county, died from an overdose of NOR
phine taken by mistake.
Reece, Greenwood county, suffered
loss by fire. 1t is small town and a
large portion of it was burned.
Colonel E. c. Little, Governor Stan
ley and the Rev. D. NJ. Fiske were the
Labor day orators at Topeka.
The farmers of Verdi, Ottawa coun-
ty, have taken charter for an eleva-
tor company with capital of $4,000.
The poultry storage and cleaning
house at Argonia. has been burned,
with a loss of 81, 200; insurance $1,000
A partition sale, near Sedgwick, on
petition of heirs, resulted in the sale Of
24O-acre farm for 81, $50 cash in hand.
Vineyards in Southern Central Kan
sas require to be constantly patroled
to keep the orioles away from the
grapes.
Hazeltine, the Cawker thresher man
has five machines at work this year
each of which keeps dozen men wait
ing on it.
Lightning struck John Strahm's
barn near Sabetha and his son. aged
10, was killed. The barn and contents
were burned.
The railroads have granted one and
one-third fare to the annual meeting of
the anti-horse thief convention at Wich-
tia on October 10.
A farmers wife, in Dickinson county,
sued the sheriff for damages because
he searched her house and barn for
Ed NJ. Davis, the absconding cashier
of the Cross bank at Emporia, has been
located in Mexico, where he is clerk
for coffee planter.
b. P. Wagner gave a party to the
children of Atchison, paying car fare
and giving a band concert. About
$500 children attended
A Union Pacific section man has sued
that railway company for $50 dam
ages for injuries he received while
working on the track.
John Waller, of Kansas, once repre-
senting the United States in Madagas-
car, is now reported to be earning his
bread at manual labor.
Edith W., a Wichita PAGER, took the
$4,000 prize at a free for all race in
Decatur, Illinois. She had to contend
with two very fast PAGERS.
E. D. Gorham, of Gorham, had 100
acres of wheat in one field which av-
eraged "a bushels to the acre, and
which tested 641l pounds.
At target practice OF company A.
of the Kansas n. g., the members of
the company who were Twentieth
Kansas boys made the best scores.
Six stone cutters working on the
Coffey county court house quit work
because they were refused As cents an
hour. They had been getting 40 cents.
Mrs. Robert Taylor, of Nortonville,
lost the first joint of some of her fingers
while tying her horse. Her fingers
in the loop of the knot of the
halter when the horse jerked back
catching her fingers, tearing off the
ends.
Charles II. Hatton and Charles Mus
selman, who recently returned from an
extensive European tour, on THEN
wheels, are now both in college; Hat
ton at the University at Boulder, Col
orado, and Musselman at the Kentucky
university at Lexington.
The Plaza mine southeast of Galena
was fired twice by incendiaries, anG
the last time it burned. 1t was owned
by eastern people.
A Sumner county man who went
through an old bridge with a Wagon
load of apples has fled bill against
the county commissioners for $500 dam
ages
Kansas club women have Inaugural
ted a scheme to raise $4,000 in tn,
western states which furnished troops
for the Philippines, to erect soldiers
and sailors club house in Manila.
Atchison is to have new bridg,
over the Missouri river and during it
construction wagon traffic will b.
handled the old way, by a ferry boat
Among big yields of wheat reporte,
In Rice county are the crops of Vim
Asher, 400 bushels off eight acres: an,
Thomas Saint, As bushels per acre OF
forty acres.
Special trains commenced to arriv
in Wichita early in the day of Septem
Der 5, bringing crowds TO attend tn
Woodmen logrolling. Later the pa
rade was an event to he remembered