Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-06-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

every morning.
The South Eastern Kansas gun clubs
contested at st. Paul, which towns
club led on the score.
Council Grove citizens will erect a
5000 band stand for their band, of
whom they are proud.
Captain Adna G. Clark. of the TWEEN
tieth Kansas, is seeking an appoint
ment in the regular army.
One of the three prohibition parties
of Kansas is to hold state nominating
convention in Topeka June 20.
came to work in Kansas harvest fields,
was killed by train at Abilene.
The new Catholic church at Parsons
when finished, will be almost 200 feet
from foundatian to top of spire.
A Lutheran Sunday school excursion
from Abilene to Fort Riley was par
ticipated in by about 800 people.
The state board of charities has just
awarded contracts for $1,000 worth
of supplies for the state institutions.
T. N. Hancock, of O1athe, has been
re-appointed as a member of the board
of managers of the Dodge City Soldiers
home.
The first car of new wheat to reach
the Kansas City market went from
Chautauqua county. The wheat was
sold at 20 cents.
A Missouri Pacific freight was
wrecked east of Eureka. In the wreck
were two carloads of hogs and half of
them were killed.
The probate judge of Sherman coun-
ty was called up at two o'clock in the
morning to marry a couple who couldn't
wait any longer.
Miss Lilly Stolz was married As
minutes after delivering the gradua-
ting grafton of her class at the Kansas
Wesleyan university.
All but six of the 304 votes cast at
Highland on the proposition to i'm
prove the school house at a cost of
$4,000 were for the proposition.
Lawrence has 43 pupils in the high
school for every thousand of population.
lola is next with thirty-six, Emporia
and Hutchinson have twenty, Newton
and Wichita nineteen.
The Santa Fe has 1880 acres planted
with catalpas which are now Is years
old. Their cost has been 500 an acre.
1t is estimated that in ten years more
fine tract will have produced So, $50, 600
worth of poles, ties and posts.
Experiments made in different sec
tons of the state go to show that salt
sown with wheat, at about 200 pounds
TO the acre, brings better crops, in
quality and quantity, on poor soils,
than the best bottom lands produce
without it.
The Smith Center ladies had a read
ing club and wanted a library and
went after it. After three years they
now own two story brick building
on the main street of the town, of
which the lower story is fitted up for
the library and reading room and the
second story is rented. They have a
large library. One side of the room
has cases filed with minerals, shells,
relics and curiosities. The association
is out of debt and has funds on
hand.
During the storm on June 10 much
damage resulted from lightning which
entered the Sterling telephone ex-
change and caused a fire.
Harper county proposed to give the
Orient railroad S45, 900 in bonds as soon
line, and also pay the expenses of the
election.
Rock Island freight train ran into
an open switch at Mayetta. demolishine
three car loads of threshing machines
and engines. Oh. yes, all receipts o.
the railroads are profit. Nit.
A Blue Rapids calf did not have {
hair on it until it was two weeks old
The Rev. Linus Blalesley, who fo
thirty years was pastor of the FRS
Congregational church of Topeka, vii
remove with his wife to FL Paso, Texas
thinking the change will benefit thei,
health.
The roadmasters of the Western anG
southern divisions of the Rock Island
also Superintendent Bishop, use gaso
line motors for their inspection trips
A rate of 80 miles an hour can be mad
with these motors.
j. M. Anthony, brother of Susa1
3. and Daniel R., dropped dead in For
Scott He had lived in Fort Scot
thirty years.
The Peavy elevator company Ia
captured control of the grain trad
along the Union Pacific in Kansa
under the name of the Midland Eleva
tor company.
Fifty Kansas counties must pay tn
state about 500, coo, as result of tn
decision of the supreme court in tn
Harper county case which makes coun
ties liable for unsolicited state taxex
The enumeration of Wilson connt
gives the population at 15,335. In tn