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

cent peach crop.
Everest people talk of rock pile;
too many tramps.
Olathe is voting bonds to improve her
waterworxs system.
Arkansas City has closed the bargain
for the purchase of the waterworks
there.
Much hail in Atchison comfy has
damaged fruit and broken window
glass.
Washburn's baseball team won over
the Kansas University boys by a score
of to 5.
Burns last week car of hogs which
sold for $3.50.
Captain Clad Hamilton, of the Twen-
tieth Kansas, has been appointed audit
or of Shawnee county.
Mrs. Fred Funston has an article in,
the May Cosmopolitan on "a Soldiers
Wife in the Philippines"
Rev. ]. c. Pratt, aged sc, is dead.
|
ing then Baptist missionary.
Southern Kansas never had such q
show of apple bloom as appeared in
one day in the last week in April.
State Mine Inspector Tomlinson re-
ports the penitentfary nine to be in
better condition than it ever was be-
fore.
Judge Charles Chadwick, who lived
in Lawrence since 1857, died last week.
He was the first attorney general OF
Kansas.
A company has been formed at Tom
ganoxie to find out what there is in the
reported discoveries of zinc and lead
there.
VIM E. Airport has been taken from
Galena, where he has lived since 1897,
to McDonough, Ill, to answer charge
of attempt to kill.
The state board of health requires
probate judges to record answers to
long list of questions from applicants
for marriage licenses.
Two hundred union carpenters are
on strike in Kansas City, Kansas;
most of them were employed on the
new Cudahy packing plant.
Mrs. Arthur Capper and Mr.. Georg g
Crawford were called to Washington,
D. c., where their mother, wife of ex-
Governor Crawford, is very sick.
E.
to numbering John Allen. of Ottumwa,
doesn't want to stand trial. He wants
to be sent to the penitentiary forth
with.
Bishop Jesse Engle, who went from
Abilene to South Africa a year ago,
died there, aged 90. He was the lead
er of the River Brethren church in Kan
sas for many years.
The body of John Blagg, once a
prominent Farmers Alliance lecturer,
was found in the Solomon river near
Abilene, having evidently been in the
water several days.
The Topeka postofice is allowed
extra clerks during pension payment
week. The pension business of that
week requires the handling of over
100, 900 pieces of mail
On Memorial Day, Chester Long will
deliver an address at Gettysburg; Cal
, derhead one at Annapolis; and Charles
Curtis one at q national cemetery in
the District of Columbia.
= 10 I've e. lon
) by rain of April "a and damage was
done along the Nemaha valley; 400 feet
of the Kansas City and Northwestern
road was washed out, north of Seneca.
: Dickinson comfy is the first to or
ganize a lodge of the new farmers or
, ganization, known as The Knights Of
i the Soil" This is the new farmers
S trust to control the production and the
price of wheat.
S Bismark Grove at Lawrence has beer
: sold to private parties to be used as ;
c shipping and supply station for thu
e horse and mule market at Kansas City
s The coal oil inspector has turned int
the treasury in the past nine month
n 15,116.75. Salaries of the inspection
# department during the same time wer
# So, $50.
James Edmonson. of Ottawa, has jus
d received 1920 from the war depart
e ment to reimburse him for money ad
d vanced out of his own pocket for rail
road fare during the civil war.
il Six cars of breeding cattle from Iowa
|. billed to Winona, Kansas, were he'll
D in quarantine at Kansas City.
e picture of an old Kansas far1
house, with his mother standing nea
d the door, caused Edward Moon, youn
D convict in the Kansas penitentiary, t
Ie try TO escape. The house is of the so1
4 built by the Kansas pioneers, wit
20 trees in front and vines climbing tn
10 sides. On the back of the picture
1. written in trebmling hand: eddie
lie these are vines that you planted by tt
house."
he A Presbyterian pastor in Dickinso
tie county, and the officials of his churC
lg had disagreement and the truste,