Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-10-27

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Over 1000 persons visited the Kansas
penitentiary during the past month.
The new Carnegie library at Leaven-
worth is to be built like a Grecian tenn
pie.
Peabody has its electric lines again
running, all differences having been
settled.
Mrs. NJ. E. McC1intock fell under the
cars at Emporia and was horribly
mangled.
There were 1854 old soldiers in the
Leavenworth home, at the last report
given out.
81. A. Rice, of Kansas City, proposes
to start glove and mitten factory in
Wamego.
Miss Luella Neiswanger has been ap-
pointed police judge in Almena, Nor
ton county.
Fifty grain elevators have been built
along the Kansas railroads during the
past six months.
Tonganoxie, with about 1 200 popula-
has collected since January /, 81, 200
from joint keepers.
It is asserted that the coal vein at
Atchison is thicker than is the same
vein at Leavenworth.
It is said that there are II 900 insur-
ance agents in Kansas, but there are
few who will believe it.
Marshall county already has twelve
rural delivery mail routes in operation,
which accommodate 5000 people.
Kansas had a choice location as
signed for its building at the Pan
American exposition at Buffalo.
E. D. Replogle, Cottonwood Falls
druggist, was sandbagged and robbed
while driving home in his buggy.
An accidental discharge of a small
rife instantly killed Herbert Golf, of
Arkansas City. He was ~ years old.
The contract is let for Coffeyville's
new municipal electric light and power
plant, for s17.95a. The city voted $780,.
900 in bonds.
!
| county to the Kansas Agricultural COL
1ege, many of them teachers, had very
disagreeable weather during their visit
E. P. Hickey. foreman of a round
house of the Norfolk and Western, sue
| ceeds Frank J. Guuther as general
foreman of the Santa Fe shops in To-
| peka.
| A church and Sunday school census
was taken in Wichita on October 90.
| The work was mostly done by ladies
and was so partitioned that it could be
| completed in one day.
Last week Freight Agent Torring-
| ton, of the Santa Fe, at Wichita, had
orders of 100 more cars than he could
get to ship freight from the wholesale
houses and commission men of that
city.
| George w. Smith, a Salina volunteer
| in the Twentieth Kansas, who came
home without a scratch, had finger
bitten off by sow, and was also bitten
| on the arm and leg. He was driving
the SOW with her progeny,
| It is a race between the Rock Islands
shops at Horton and the Santa Fe
shops at Topeka which can build the
most new box cars They have each
built about l ZOO cars during the past
six months and each have large orders
| ahead.
Two children, girl and boy, were
playing in an attic in Reno county
when the girl was killed. There was
gun up there, with most of it's stock
broken off, but it blew her head of.
The boy was too frightened to remem-
Der just how it happened
The Washburn college foot ball team
played with team of soldiers at Fort
Riley and the score was so to for
Washburn.
There have been five golden we'd
dings in Oskaloosa in less than twenty
two months: or one for every 200 in
habitants
Old time breaking plows, which were
used to turn prairie sod in the early
days when from B to yoke of oxen
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in Kansas. There is one on exhibition
in Dodge City; 24 inch pillow.
Frank Rockefeller and his family are
or, their Kiowa county ranch. He is
negotiating for some of W. W. Guthrie,
polled Herefords
Earl w. Evans, of Governor Stanley.
: law firm, was married in Toronto, Can
, ada, with Miss Maud Balfour, of thai
; place. They became acquainted Will,
3 attending an Epworth League conven
Z ton.
, The first enclosed coursing meet t.
, be held in Dickinson county will occu
| October 80, "a and "a. Famous dog
are expected from long distances
Garnett officers compelled man t,
: come forth from his place of hiding b,
q the use OF loud-smelling disinfectants
thrown into the room.
e James Parnell is considered one o
rho model farmers of I.ahetts oou0kD