Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-04-14

robbed the other night
The city library tax was voted on in
Hutchinson and it carried
Valley Falls election went dry and
at Hutchinson the ''wets' won.
A Franklin county woman is acting
as official examiner OF mortgages.
a great deal of farm machinery is
carried by the railroads just now.
Hillsboro pays its city marshal SIS
month and its street commissioner So.
w. NJ. Ferguson, of Wellington paid
$50 head for 1000 and 4 year cid
steers.
A party of Topeka and northwest
Kansas men will go to Yellville this.
| month
Parsons has voted s.. ZOO bonds with
| the proceeds OF which to make another
effort to develop natural gas.
The colored people of Great Bend
nominated city ticket composed en-
tirely of colored men. It was defeated.
At an oratorical school contest in
first prize and Biddy Leahy the second.
Over $50 car loads of eggs have beer
contracted for in Kansas to go to New
Hampshire. The same party wants
300 car loads.
The will of John !. Blair was record
ed in Barber county, as he owned some
property there The will covered 35
pages of the record book.
j. w Mickey, clerk of the court of
visitation fell in the basement corridor
of the state house and sprained his
ankle badly. He is walking on crutches.
A woman, Dr. Eva Harding, was
delegate and sat in the populist con-
vention from one of the wards of To-
peka The first instance of the kind
there.
Little Pearl Martin, the s-year-old
twin daughter of James NJ. Martin, of
Havensville, was horribly burned to
death while burning some rubbish in
the street.
A divorced couple went before the
|
that the judgment for divorce be set
aside The request was granted; the
first case in Kansas.
Charles T. McAlester, near West
moreland, finished reading a chapter
in the Bible and picked up a copy of
the Christian Herald. The next in
slant he was stricken dead.
The deputy warden of the Kansas
penitentiary has returned from Yucca
tan, where he bought SOC, 900 pounds of
sisal, or about 35 car loads; al price
trife below New York quotations.
A car load of groceries arrived at
Abilene recently from Chicago store
which farmers in Dickinson county had
ordered from travelling retail sales
man. That is a beautiful way to break
up a county.
The earnings of the Kansas peniten-
tiary for the month of March were $19,-
$50 and the expenses $14, 624, leaving a
profit of 81, 742. More coal was taken
out of the prison mine than in any
other month on record.
An Atchison county farmer who had
prospered made up his mind to move
to town and take the balance of life
easy. He moved to Atchison and stayed
there three months. Then he went
old dogs that find it hard to learn new
tricks.
: J. w. Riggs, of Sumner county. has a
4OO-acre farm; 29O acres of wheat, IL
acres of oats and will have so acres OF
corn His sons all stay on the farm
and help him with distinct agreement
that as soon as each reaches twenty
one years of age, he is to have pre-
rata share of the farm for himself.
The Santa Fe has purchased ground
{ for the enlargement of its terminals in
Kansas City. This property extends
from Hickory street 166 feet on Liberty
, street, 10 feet on Fourteenth street
and 4O2 feet on Fifteenth street, a total
e of .0os feet.
From the Mississippi river to the
L Pacific there is only one Presbyterian
church besides the First of Wichita
4 that has over 1000 members. Thi:
2 church also stands third in the list, OF
h this continent in contributions fol-
charities and missions.
g Alva Holly. aged IA, was riding OF
y an engine pilot in the Frisco yards a
t Neodesha He fell under the wheels
|. and was killed.
|, John Mcdonald, a Wichita mail car
rier, was surprised by visit from hi
n brother, NJ. A. Mcdonald, of California
: whom he had not seen in 1s years. H
did not recognize his brother.
d ottawa elected the Republican cit.
l. ticket except its candidate for cit
= clerk, who is a woman. The candidat
h elected was Corporal Hanson of tn
Twentieth Kansas.
l. The four ice plants in Topeka hav
n agreed to make uniform price for ic
is this season to all consumers, great an
B; small.
:; The railroads brought to the WIGHT