Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-08-04

this year.
Cor4cordia is to have a log rolling
September 6.
New Workers are in Kansas trying
to contract for hay.
Dickinson county is shipping water
melons east and north.
The log rolling at Galena brought
out an immense gathering.
Expenses of Shawnee county during
the past year were 500, $50. 20.
| The Seventh Z. S. battery left Fort
Riley on rush orders for China.
The Emporia Avenue NJ. E. church
| in Wichita is to have a So, 900 addition.
Arthur Stewart, of Dickinson county,
had his foot badly cut with plow
share.
The Shawnee county poor farm has
80 people there; the smallest number in
five years.
Sedgwick county and the city of
Wichita both work prisoners at break
| ing rock.
The twenty ninth session of the Kan
sas Grange is to meet at Manhattan,
Dee. IL, next.
Fritz the Twentieth Kansas dog,
was killed at Coffeyville. His skin
was mounted.
| there is smaller percentage of deaths
than in any other Kansas county.
August 20 is appointed by Governor
Stanley to hear applications for par
don. There are 125 cases on the dock
ct.
Three miles from Seneca is $780, 900
Catholic church, and six miles from
Westmore1and a still finer one is being
built.
The Kansas delegates say that the
most rowdyish and ungentlemanly dele
CATION at Kansas City came from Mas
| sachusetts.
Cattlemen of Stevens county are or
gained and have offered a standing
cattle thieves.
The Dickinson county parties who
| went to Cape Nome, are returning.
One of them got 81 worth of gold by
working five days.
According to certain business di-
rectory Leavenworth leads in the num-
Der of joints, with Atchison second and
| Wichita in the third place.
This beats them all. DIR. Milton, of
Ford county has threshed ten acres Of
wheat which averaged SO bushels to
the acre and tested Ga pounds.
Cary Aikens, a catt1eman at Hoyt,
Kas.. was thrown from horse and his
skull fractured. Physicians say that
he cannot recover. Later: he died.
The penitentiary Irvine plant is
| changing some machinery so as to
make Irvine suitable for binding corn
shocks. and the new product will be
ready for market very soon.
Joseph Lewis, of Topeka, is 90 years
old. His family settled near where
Topeka is now in 1912. He served in
the Black Hawk war, the Mexican war
and the civil war. He, at the age of 8,
witnessed the burning of all the rest
of his fathers family by Indians. He
is still a strong man.
Two children of T. J. Duncan, of
Mitchell county, one a girl of 10 and
the other a boy of IA, rented 100 acres
of wheat ground. They plowed the
ground with riding plows, the girl
narrowed and the boy followed the
drill. Harvesting and threshing were
hired The crop was 4 900 bushels of
81 pound wheat.
VIM. Holman's threshing machine
was burned near Lincoln Center. Loss
s., 900.
A Ford county farmer reports yield
of 45 bushels to the acre of his field OF
wheat.
w. E. Boggs, of Saline county.
threshed wheat from IA acres which
yielded Il bushels per acre. The wheat
tested 62x pounds to the bushel
A juror at Mcpherson boarded with
a poor widow. He circulated a sub
scription and raised enough money tx
connect her home with the waterworks
L. NJ. Beebe, of Norwich, clipped
1920 pounds of wool from his sheer
last week. At the present price tn,
wool is worth S2,117.6o.
independence has negotiations pro
: crossing for the removal of a glas
factory to that place from Marion, In
diana. The factory will employ 10
men.
: Captain Q. s. McAlexander, VIII
: went to China with General Chaffee, i
Kansas man. His wife remains wit
: her sister, Mrs. J. D. Milliken, at BIC
Pherson.
? The federal courts have ordered exc
cution on the property of the Connect
: cut Mutual Life Insurance compan
and the New York Life Insurance CON
pany in Kansas, to satisfy the jude
ment of Mrs. Sallie E. HiIlmon-Smit
/ for ss4 900
A Pratt county jointkeeper was ser
D fenced to a term in Jail; the sheri1