Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-06-09

Sedgwick county has just contracted
for four new steel bridges, costing
SIS, 500.
A Muscotah man got drunk and paid
all his debts. He then sobered up and
was sorry.
Rev. j. P Fulton and wife, of Har-
per, recently celebrated their golden
wedding.
Concordia's high school graduating
class has % young women and five
young men.
Hunnewen is to have patent wash
ing machine factory, with a capital
stock of So, 900.
There is living in Eureka brother
of M. Demange who was Captain
Dreyfus' attorney.
It is said that the Sti1lwell road will
cross the Kansas line south of Corwin,
in Harper county.
Miss Flora Thomas, of Paola, was
declared the winner of the prize piano
at Mexico, Missouri.
Mrs. Ella Armstrong of FL Dorado
has clerkship in the surgeon generals
Office in Washington.
The new Street Railway in Wichita
paid during May, about 81, 500 for con-
struction work alone
A subscription paper realized $11O at
Summerfeld, to replace team which
had been killed by lightning.
The sisters of St. Joseph in Wichita
will formally open a normal school, no.
vitiate and orphanage on June 81.
Thirty descendants of Robert New
ton Allen. of Indiana, assembled at
Chanute, the guests of R. N. Allen.
Christian K1umppf, aged 70, and Mrs.
Minerva Brown, aged 6S years, were
married the other day at Garden City.
Assessors returns in Sedgwick coun-
ty show that during the year there had
been sold poultry and eggs for sos, AIT.
Wyandotte has passed Crawford
county in having the largest assess
ment of railroad property among
Kansas counties.
John Kitten, deaf old man, was
crossing the Rock Island tracks at
Turon, and he and his horse were
killed by train.
A boy in Chanute died from rupture
caused from boyish scufae and two
boys have had a charge of murder
made against them.
Dickinson, Salina and Mcpherson
counties had heavy rains accompanied
with local hail storms, last week.
which did some damage.
Kansas now has ninety-two rural
delivery routes for the accommodation of
farmers with the promise of large
increase to the number.
Wind damaged farmers fences and
buildings in Lincoln county and 100
neighbors gathered and repaired them.
They called it holiday.
The city ASSESSOR returns show the
population of Salina to be 6,5O1. Sa-
inc county has a population of 1851,
a gain of s31 over last year.
The passenger department of the
Santa Fe has issued circular in colors
telling about the Chautauqua assembly
at Winfield June 21-July 2.
Colonel A. P. Forsythe, farmer OF
Liberty township, Montgomery county
Kan, presented the county high school
with a wagon load of books for the
school library.
The special election in Mitchell coun.
ty to authorize levy of $4,000 tc
erect court house carried by large
majority.
A farmer near Inman sold his farm
and went to Barber county and bought
$40 acres for Ss, 400. He also bought &
large Hereford herd, hogs and nipple
ments. The ranch has fine buildings
superintendent Church. of the State
Insurance department, in his repor
says that ia reduced fire insurance
rates the people of Kansas have beer
saved in the last year S249, asa.
A writ of mandamus was served OF
the commissioners of Sumner county
ordering them to canvass the vote OF
the county high school June Is.
Decoration day was observed at NOR,
places in Kansas and by more people
than ever before. At least the multi
tude of reports that appear woul'
show this as true.
Surveyors for the ''Orient" railwa,
have reached Wichita. having finished
work on almost an air line from Bur
lington o. T., coming through Harpe
county, Kansas.
The railroads running into WIGHT
report greatly increased business a
that point. The wholesale houses ar
sending out unusually large shipment
and the retail merchants are putin
in heavy stocks.
w. Q. Church, late superintendent c
the Wichita street railway, has take
place in the freight department {
the Pittsburg and Gulf road.
Kansas has 1900 miles of railroa
exclusive of side tracks yet there al
five counties-Grant, Morton, Stanton
Stevens-that have no track.
The army worm is destroying garde
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