Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-08-18
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Baldwin is bidding for the location
of the Orient road through that place.
Pink eye among horses and cattle is
reported as resulting in total blindness
in some sections.
A joint at Williamstown had stick
of dynamite placed under it which de-
molished the building.
The Gould salt plants at Hutchinson
have stopped work indefinitely. About
800 workmen are affected.
l.. B. Graves, wealthy man of Par
sons, who was the first lumber dealer
there, has killed himself with a razor
Coffey county and Osborne county
both report that delinquent tax lists
of this year are shorter than for any
previous year.
There have been no new cases of
Texas fever in Chautauqua county for
several weeks. So far. ten cattlemer
have lost 122 head.
w. w. Van Gundy, an inmate of the
Leavenworth Soldiers Home, died in q
wagon near Emporia. lie was on a
camping trip with his family.
The Kansas live stock sanitary board
decides to continue the quarantine on
breeding cattle from all states outside
of Missouri, Colorado and Oklahoma.
Greeley county complains of plague
of flying ants which throng the houses.
II, he ~
by the fire shovel full in all the rooms
Presiding Elder George w. Howes.
of the Southwest Kansas conference of
the NJ. E. church, died recently of con-
gestion of the brain. Death came sud
denly.
The Kansas Oil and Gas company are
still taking leases, having now $4,000
acres in Southern Montgomery county.
They are making arrangements to put
down wells.
The house occupied by Mrs. Thomp-
son in Wichita caught fire. She rushed
to the gate where she fell. One whole
side is paralyzed and she is blind; all
the result of fright.
Twenty-Five years ago Anton Mermis
came to Ellis county with his entire
possessions tied in a blanket. This
year he has harvested so, 600 bushels OF
wheat from his own land
Some of the Topeka ministers com
plain that the old custom of being
called upon alternately to hold services
at the insane asylum is changed; one
minister now going there regularly.
Ed. Ford and wife were boat riding
near Clay Center when both were
thrown into the water. Ford was
drowned but his wife was saved BY
holding on to weeds until help came.
Geo. E. Chamblin, of Girard, 2otI
Kansas soldier, after being married
two weeks, was accidentally killed
with gun. He was buried July z
and his wife died of broken heart g
month later.
Three St. Francis men punched then
cattle and hired herder The boy
went after rabbits with his dogs and
the cattle went into field of greer
sorghum and Is of the cows were killed
by being gorged with the sorghum.
Lincoln Park, Mitchell county has
grove of most magnificent oak tree
that have probably not grown an,
since Columbus landed; as it takes 80,
years for an oak to grow, 300 years t.
mature and 300 years to die. Thes
trees are still thrifty.
The Wichita Eagle corrects TIN
statement, first made by the Eagle
that the Gould Salt works at Hutchin
son are closed; was wrongly informed
Department Commander Martin ha
designated the Santa Fe as the officia
route for the Kansas soldiers to tn
Chicago. encampment, Aug. 26 to Sept
l.
Mrs. Crumley, of lola, was paid tn
other day. SIS, 406, insurance on the lif
of her father. The payment was tn
first she knew that there was insuranc
on her fathers life
Miss Katherine West hanged hersel
in the Osawatomie asylum. She wa
highly educated and became insan
from too much study. Her home wa
in Fort Scott, but she had been teach
er in New York, Connecticut and NIicf
igan.
State Fish Commissioner Wiley ha
within a year placed 20, 600 fish in til
Blue, Smoky Hill and Verdigris river
and in private ponds and lakes B
has bought $4,000 to distribute in Sc,
TENDER, and will receive a car load frol
the government this fall
An English clergyman writes I
Kansas University asking what fee h
shall send to receive the title of D. ]
from that institution.
A baby was left with two boys i
the yard The boys had matches an
the baby was burned to death TIL
was at Mcpherson.
Henry Hibner was standing In fro1
of a threshing outfits engine when
blew up. He was blown 400 feet, ov,
Il wheat stack, and made two bound
one of A. and one of % feet. He wi