Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-02-24

Lawrence has good roads cOnVen-
ton appointed for March 10.
Ten inch ice has been put up at Burr
Oak and IL inch ice at Dispatch.
Much California fruit is in passage
on the Santa Fe these cold days.
great scarcity of box cars is re-
ported on the middle division of the
Santa Fe.
Seven quarter sections have just been
sold, lying south of Goddard, at $4,000
a quarter.
The Santa Fe has been sending much
material into Oklahoma of late, for
new track.
Mrs. Mary Stewart, of Mulvane, has
lived in three centuries, she was 100
years on February IA.
Robert Farrar, of Frankfort, has
been appointed head gardener at the
Topeka insane asylum.
Horse dealers are taking all the good
horses offered and at good prices and
are shipping them east.
Among new rural delivery routes an
nounced are two in Jewell county and
one in Wyandotte county.
The cattlemen and lumbermen hold
conference in the executive Office at
the state capital on Feb. %.
Ottawa entertains delegates from
local Knights of Pythias lodges OF
twenty-five towns, February 81 and %.
John Taylor. the wealthiest resident
of Dickinson county is dead. He and
his sons owned 1000 acres of fine farms
and be had extensive realty interests
in Cincinnati.
Senator Thurston has bill to bring
about revision of and adjustment OF
the sales of the Otoe and Missouri lands
BILE that congress will take early action
Lincoln is having building boom.
Besides the new court house there are
seven business houses being erected:
in the second story. They are being
built of Lincoln county stone.
Effective February 20 the rate from
Kansas City to Galveston on grain for
100 pounds. This is reduction of s
and cents per 100, and the same re,
auctions will be made from all country
points.
Ten counties in the state have failed
to pay the first half of their taxes this
! year and Treasurer Grimes sent letter
to the treasurer of each county asking
him to remit. Over half the counties
have not only paid the first half, but
also good portion of the second.
Congressman Bowersock is asking
congress to expend SIS, 900 to repair the
road leading out of Fort Scott to the
national cemetery. Nearly 1000 vet
Grams of the Mexican, civil, Spanish and
Filipino wars are buried in this GENE
terry, and it is kept up beautifully by
| the government.
A special session of the legislature.
| once upon time, when there was a
drouth on the western border, gave
counties out there seed grain The
| counties furnished farmers and took
their notes. Many of the notes are still
unpaid and the counties are talking
about bringing suits.
The Kansas delegates to the national
pure food and drug congress, in Wash
ington March are: Willard Bigelow,
Gardner; w. F. Jensen, Beloit; B. w.
Woodward, Lawrence; j. F. Greenlee,
Hutchinson; Thomas D. Hubbard
Kimball; S. D. Banner, Newton: w. A.
| Smith, Wilson: Charles II. Beers, Hoxie
William Green, Topeka; Charles F.
Keffer, Atchison.
A Burr Oak man shipped a thousand
bushels of popcorn last week. 1t was
all raised by one man. The Burr Oall
dealer paid 60 cents bushel for it.
Superintendent Frank Nelson has
the naming of three young men or wo
men of Kansas for free scholarships ir
the Methodist law school at Nashville
Tennessee.
All the bridge inspectors of the Santa
Fe proper will be relieved from service
Their work will henceforth be done
under the direction of the foremen O.
the bridge erecting gangs.
DIR. T. A. Aderhold, graduate O
the Topeka Capital Carrier gang, anc
at the same time. of Washburn college
has gone to be surgeon in the Boel
army, with the rank of captain.
Eight miles from Wichita is tn,
Cartwright chapel When the janito
went to prepare the place for service
he found everything inside that coulC
be broken was broken. Carpet gone
, all the coal burned, stove ruined, lamps
smashed, altar and altar rail broker
up and burned, with marks of destruc
ton everywhere.
Ed and Elmer Hopp1e, farmers o
Rocks county, are under arrest TO
/ wholesale stealing of merchandise
: lumber, etc. They were caught b.
? tracking their wagon loaded from
neighbours wheat bin.
q The following resolution adopted a
: the meeting of the county clerks.
E being generally discussed: Resolved
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