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

Of Rocks county land at S12. SO an acre
The first crop of alfalfa is being har-
vested in the western part of the state.
There is to be new town IN Craw-
ford county named for the late General
Lawtop.
happy handling of the G. A. E. en-
campment.
Treasurer Coburn had up to May z
received S14, 800 in cash for the India
relief fund
During April there were shipped
from Wakefield 25 cars of hogs and 600
cases of eggs
A contract has been let for a new
bridge across the Solomon at Glasco,
to cost 81 800.
Work on the new administration
building at the insane asylum at Tope-
ka is commenced.
The assessors count of the population
of Concordia is 3,760; gain of nearly
200 over last year.
Sterling's high school graduates 4
students this year; two young men and
two young women.
VIM. McNabney's farm house, east of
Jetmore, was torn to pieces, with all
its contents, by the wind.
Hutchinson voted by over the re-
CURED two-thirds for levy Of a half
mill tax for free library.
Rev. NJ. D. Goerz, of the Mennonite
Bethel college, has started for India to
distribute aid to famine sufferers.
Pictures of Kansas farm scenes are
being secured by the Santa Fe for use
in advertising matter now in course
of preparation.
A Shawnee county farmer said On
May 1s that he had field of corn that
was knee high and that he had cult
waited three times.
An electric railway system is talked
about to connect most of the towns of
Doniphan county with each other and
with Atchison.
Chas. Lee, who claims to be los years
old, is to be seut to the insane asylum
from Wichita when there is room for
him. Lee is negro.
Parkdale, a suburb of Topeka, has
circle of men who have a mine in
Alaska for which it is said they have
been offered 81, 900, OoO
S. J. Hoisington has written a his
tory of Barton county, which county
was named for Miss Clara Barton, the
head of the Red Cross society.
Ed. Healy of Wichita is sending
sheep ana lambs to Chicago in three
car load lots per day. He has several
thousand thin lambs in pasture near
Beaumont.
The remains of General Henry Leav-
enworth are to be removed to the ma
tional cemetery at Fort Leavenworth.
1t was for him that the fort, city and
county were named.
1t is said that w. A Quayle, who was
a Shawnee county, Kansas boy, and
president of Baker University at Bald
win, can have the presidency of De-
paw university in Indiana if he will
take it.
Waverly's contribution to the India
famine fund netted $1O56. 80. Their
corn sold at 10 cent premium on ac-
count of the purpose its proceeds were
devoted to. The Santa Fe made no
charge.
Thousands of range cattle are to be
pastured this season in Sedgwick, But
Ter, Greenwood and Chase counties.
They came mostly from Texas. Five
trainloads were unloaded at Towanda
to be pastured in the Flint Hills.
MCPHERSON county assessors agreed
to assess at 20 per cent of the value of
the property and now school boards
say that schools cannot be maintained.
A New Hampshire produce company
has shipped $50 carloads of eggs from
Hutchinson so far this season. The
eggs brought the producers over $780,
900.
The beautiful little town of Everest
in Brown county lost practically all of
its business buildings by fire last week
Loss S35, 900 or more, half of it covered
by insurance.
A Santa Fe surveying corps are at
work on a proposed line from Moline,
Kas., to Saltwater, o. T. It is also
understood that the proposed line from
Coffeyville will be built. The Moline
line will be direct one from Emporia
to Guthrie.
DR. and Mrs McNicol, of Wichita,
and lady whose name is not given,
celebrated their 37th birthday together.
The coincidence is more interesting
because all three were born on the
same day and in the same town in On
tario, Canada.
The twenty-eighth session of the Ma
| tional Conference of Charities and Cor
rection is to be held in Topeka, Nay
1924, 1900.
Eat Yates Center, during a heavy rain,
| the 7-year-old son of Senator Lamb was
run over and mangled by hand car.
The first report states the child was
still alive.