Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-08-25
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Pekin, once lived in Nemaha county.
The Union Pacific depot is erecting
new passenger and freight depot at
Rossville.
Kirwin has about 700 people, yet it
is reported that $4,000 we're IN town
on circus day.
A Lawrence man who breeds Poland
China hogs, received an order for one
from South Africa.
Niles Wiseman, of Ford county, has
pasture fenced with wire. Some one
cut the fence in 4s1 places.
The Rev. DIR. Floren, of the Swedish
Lutheran church of Salina, accepts
chair at Bethany college, Lindsborg.
Forty-three trains, with a total of
about 200 CARS, went through the
Memphis roads yards at Fort Scott,
in one day recently.
A young lady of Council Grove has
painted the house in which she and
her mother lives and has done as good
a Job as could have been done by any
painter in the town.
A contract is closed for the erection
of new court house at Clay Center, at
a cost of $50, ZOO. No bonds. A 3 mill
levy raises $4,000 year until the
court house is paid for.
Joshua Keene, of Montgomery coun-
ty, this year with the assistance of two
men raised and harvested 5000 bushels
of wheat, $500 of oats and expects to
have 5000 bushels of corn.
l.. d. Thompson of Johnson county,
marketed his crop of fax seed from 35
acres and received 1912. so cents for it.
He does not claim to have had the best
crop III his neighborhood.
TIE war department has decided to
send another equipment for the Kan
sas National Guard to replace the S2O,-
900 worth carried from the state by re-
cruits for the Spanish war
Arkansas City's smallpox expenses
amounted to So, GOO. Winfield paid out
just half that sum. The towns have
asked the county commissioners to re-
imburse them for the money thus ex-
pended.
J. w. Robinson, president of the
Kansas Cattlemen's association, says
that their picnic at Kingman was the
biggest affair of the kind on record
On two days the crowd numbered about
1900.
A neighborhood herb doctor at Gree
ley concocted some medicine by boiling
some jimpson weeds in kettle which
she afterwards cooked roasting ears in
for supper. The combination caused a
very sick family.
Miss Grace Gilbert and Mrs. Blanche
Miller, who were so dangerously in
jured in runaway some days since in
in Riverside park, Wichita, have so far
recovered that they are able to move
N5out in their rooms.
VIM McLelland escaped from the
penitentiary IL years ago, having then
ID months to serve. He recently pre-
scented himself 10 the warden and told
his story. His record was examined
and found to be true. Governor Stan.
ley has granted him pardon.
Judge Stephen j. Osborn has returned
from England, where he went to in
vestigate the Rev. James legacy
Judge Osborn states that that there i.
nothing there at present to show that
there is fortune in store for the Oak
ley minister. Other heirs had posses
sion.
Florence has six regular passenge
trains daily each way on the main lin
of the Santa Fe; four trains daily leav
ing there on the Mcpherson and E
Dorado branches, and several freigh
and accommodation trains.
John E. Frost, formerly land com
missioner Of the Santa Fe, has bee
chosen president of directors of tn
Kansas Exposition company. The OF
iect of the association is to hold an ez
position in 1904 in celebration of tn
semi-centennial of the formation of tn
territory of Kansas.
The new Missouri Pacific depot q
Wichita is to be completed Novembe
in spite of strikes by stone mason.
The brick work is begun.
Bartlett, Neosho county, is nearl
swept away by FIRE. The Presbyteria
church; storage hay barn. two elev;
tors and other buildings were d.
stroyed.
a citizen of Rosalia township, Butte
county, says he has resided there {
years and that there has not been
fist fight or lawsuit in the TOWNSHIP
In all that time
1t is said that the wheat raised i
Ellis county, Kansas, this year wi
amount to enough to give every vot,
in the county 81, 500 in cash.
Union Pacific railroad land imi
reach north from Wallace county I'M
Sherman comfy with 90, $50 acre
south from Wallace county into Greelt
courty with So, 200 acres; north fro
Logan county into Thomas count
with I'll, 200 acres; and south from L
gan county into Wichita county wit
II, $50 acres. All of this region h
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