Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-04-28


A big pipe organ is being built in the
Baptist church in Winfield.
John James, Sr., hung himself with
a strap, in his barn near Aida.
S. w. Hough and his wife, of Column
bus, were poisoned by canned corn.
Shoughnassee, the famous Pottawat-
omie chief, is dead. He was 90 years
old.
Six young ladies acted as pail bearers
at a funeral at Olive Hill. Jackson
county.
R. II. -Rarnes, of Topeka. is conduct
ing an industrial home in Matanzas.
Cuba.
The Kansas state Sunday school con-
vention will be held in Atchison, May
to 10.
Primary elections are very SHINY at
tended, the farmers are too busy for
politics.
There are sixty-two women in the
graduating class of Kansas University
this year.
Only one couple has been married
in Peabody by justice of the peace in
Is years.
John Allen, merchant at Ottumwa
was shot dead at his own door, N COM
pany with his wife.
The Arkansas river was reported out
of its banks On April 20, at Nickerson,
Sterling, Great Bend and Hutchinson.
Three co1ored boys were running
ahead of train at Coffeyville, one of
them stumbled and was cut to pieces
on the track.
Alfred DOrman, a ranchman of Lucas,
Kansas, was knocked down and robbed
in Kansas City, Mo. His injuries were
at first considered serious
Already over 1OO, 900 pounds of peni-
tertiary binding Irvine have been sold
to the Kansas farmers. The whole out
put will be taken as fast as it is made.
There is fight in Elk county over
the building Of county high school,
which has resulted in a political feud,
| splitting all parties because of the one
| issue.
A farmer in Dickinson county forced
his way into house where was a case
of smallpox, claiming the right of a
citizen to go where he pleased. He
was promptly quarantined.
J. L. Reneau, of Anthony, is presi-
dent of an organization formed at
Houston, Texas, of the heirs of Phillip
Francis Renault, formerly of Houston,
who left an estate something like $780,
600, OOO
M. J. Burke, who died in Johnson
county at the age of 90 years, was a
fellow of Trinity college, Dublin, and
one of the best read men Kansas has
ever known. He came to johnson
county in 1858, and engaged in survey
ing for the Indians.
The Armour Packing company has
established stations for receiving, dress
ing and shipping poultry at Eureka,
Clay Center, Ottawa, Reloit, Marion
and other points. They say they dc
this in opposition against the combine
of local poultry buyers.
Five years ago a Blue Rapids man
bought three-quarter Jersey calf, two
weeks old, paying SIS for her. He ha:
kept a careful account, and finds that
the expense of keeping her since the1
E amounts to SAC. 20, while the receipts
, sale of calves, butter and milk-foot VI
the tidy sum of $473.6s; leaving tn
tidy profit of 1926 90 for the five years
Scott county has a doctor who wa
about to leave because his practice dit
+ not make living. The county boar
appropriated $500 as a bonus to tn
. doctor if he would stay, which was &C
cepted.
The output of berries in Doniphal
county is big item in the production
and this year berry growers report tn
right kind of prospects.
\ Robbers tried to blow up the Mis-
souri, Pacific safe at FL Dorado. bu
| failed. They then cut open and rifle
the mail sacks in the depot.
Valley Falls First NJ. E. church an
h parsonage are burned. There was il
$ surance of So. 100. Only the .orga
i and pulpit was saved from the church
+ the pastor saved most of his househol
n goods.
The Winfield Paramount debate wa
# won by Winfield on the remarkabl
d close margin of one-quarter of 1 Pc
q cent.
= ]. w. Rounds, of Logan county, ma
e keted a car of hogs which were all lie:
n than six months old and averaged >:
pounds.
" E. Haworth, professor of geology {;
,r Kansas University, says he knows I
It at least hundred assays of ore take
from different mines around Caller
!, and there has never been any trace
gold and very slight indications of 81
!, yer found.
1t Governor Stanley has named Mrs.
K Hudson of Topeka, and Mrs. s.
10 Peters of Newton, to be members
la the women's board of managers of Il
t. Pan-American exposition to be held
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