Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-05-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Rev. Sheldon gives the Topeka Y. NJ.
c. A. $500 for improving their rooms
Dickinson countys district court
has not single criminal case on the
docket.
High priced corn is crowding cattle
and hogs to market from Decatur
county.
The gun and rife clubs of Winfield
are planning to import some Chinese
pheasants.
Evelyn Louise Lease, late of Wichita,
won the prize at the annual debate in
the Normal college in New York.
The Sumner county commissioners
have accepted the new Jail and sheriff S
residence, built at a cost of SIS, 200.
Frankfort, with population of 300
or over, has department store which
has floor space of 1000 square feet.
Reports of the officers of the Sons of
Veterans show that the order is de-
creasing in camps and in membership.
In one day OF pension payment week
the treasurer of Shawnee county took
in $61O in pension vouchers for taxes.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal says
he will take up certificates of banks if
they do not quit allowing overdrafts.
E. F. Hughes, of Phillipsburg has a
pair of harness names which were
made in Virginia before the Revolu-
tionary war.
The valuations of railroad rolling
stock were not changed by the state
board of railroad assessors from those
fixed last year.
The Kansas conference of the Swed-
ish Lutheran church convened last
week at Mariadahl, for it's thirtieth
annual session.
The Fort Scott city council has under
consideration proposition for the pur-
chase of an electric street railway line
and light plant.
Roy Jordan, Hutchinson boy who
served in the Twenty-fourth United
States infantry in Manila, died in San
Francisco, May Z.
An agreement has been made by
which La Crosse is to have a SO barrel
-four mill, to be in operation not later
than September 1.
Christopher Hester of Lone Elm came
to Kansas in 1858. He is 81 years old.
He still does a full portion of farm
work. He says he never was sick and
never tasted liquor.
There is gas engine factory at Pitts
burg the business of which requires
larger quarters; this has given Chero-
kee an opportunity to try and secure
the removal of the factory to that place.
The statisticiap of the department of
Agriculture says in his May report:
kansas, which ranks third in the
scale of acreage, reports the high aver
average reported on May 1 of which
there is any record. %
John Speer says that Josiah Miller,
OF Lawrence originated the Kansas
motto lad astra per aspera" and that
he had never heard before the present
discussion of the matter that John J.
Ingalls, claimed to be the author of it.
Mr.. Miller was chairman of the COM
mittee on state seal in the first Kansas
legislature and Ingalls, was clerk of
the committee. The motto is engraved
on Miller's tombstone. Miller once
told Speer how delighted he was when
he hit on the motto
Mrs. 6. r. Landers, of Harper coun-
ty, was attracted by the pleasant flavor
of castor beans and ate four of them.
Physicians saved her life.
In November, 1896, the banks OF
Wichita held $500, 900 id deposits; now
their deposits are about two million
dollars.
A special car load of Wichita knights
of Pythias visited the Mount Hope
lodge where they were royalty enter
tanned. While there they assisted in
the initiation of seven members of the
Mount Hope lodge.
A very large delegation of Sunday
school workers of Wyandotte county
attended the annual state Sunday
school convention at Atchison.
An epidemic of measles has run It's
course at the Orphans home at Atchi.
son and at the deaf and dumb school
at olathe, but there were no deaths al
either
Fully half of the Paris excursionists
to the exposition are farmers One
township in Ottawa county contribu
ted five farmers and their families t.
the crowd.
Thirty-eight graduates of the Olathe
high school received diplomas at the
commencement exercises in the opera
house.
Ex-New Workers of Franklin county
have effected permanent organization
and have selected August as their an
nual reunion day.
The people of Waverly and vicinit,
have contributed ], 129 Bushels of corr
and si72.27 in money to the India fam
inc relief fund, and the local elevator
hauls all the corn, shells. cleans and
loads it free of CHARGE