Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-12-29
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

City has raised 81, 900 to prospect for
gas.
Emporia and Lyon county will vote
on the Orient railroad bonds on Deem
Der 20.
Shorthorns worth $1,000 each live
high on M. A. Lows farm in Brown
county.
There is among the cadets at the
Salina military school youth from
Havana.
The organization of cooperative
store is talked about, to be installed in
Garden City.
Large quantities of shelled corn in
100 pound sacks, is being shipped from
Kansas to Cuba.
The number of books relating to
Kansas, published since 1854, is 224;
about six year.
Out of the ten games played by the
Haskell Indian team the young braves
lost but one game.
Wichita packers are paying close to
Kansas City markets for hogs and do
not get all they want.
1t is said that the Missouri Pacific
and the Burlington railroads will sink
coal shafts at Atchison.
The Santa Fe is expanding over ST.
600 in fitting up reading rooms for its
employees at Dodge City.
Rev. s. S. Estey, pastor of the Presby-
terrain church of independence, has ac-
cepted call from Salina.
John Seaton has represented Atchi-
son in the Kansas house Of representa-
tives continuously since 1879
VIM. R. Miller, of Kansas, has been
given position in the copyright divi-
sion of the congressional library.
The MCPHERSON district court opened
with only four jury cases on the dock
ct. The usual number is about so.
Survivors of the Eleventh Kansas,
Colonel Plumb's old regiment, held a
reunion at Emporia on December :.
Clay Center is to have a broom fac
tory in operation by the first of jan
nary which will employ thirty men.
]. M. McClain, of Syracuse. delivered
to Coulter & Hatcher, of Finney county,
30 mules, to be placed on their ranch.
Fifteen graduates of Kansas Univer-
sity were elected November to office;
five to the legislature, one probate
judge, one clerk of court and eight as
county attorneys.
The governor has called a special
election on January 8, in one of the
Shawnee county legislative districts
for the election of a successor to Repre-
sentative Elect Stafford, deceased.
Three of the justices of the supreme
court have rooms assigned them on the
second floor of the south wing of the
state house, and the four new justices
will occupy rooms on the third floor.
A postoffice inspector recently re.
ported the Topeka postofice unclean
and new custodian has been appoint
ed. The work upon the new addition
and the changes in the building was
the cause of accumulated dirt
The Southwestern Stock Growers
association, at a meeting in Dodge CITY,
by resolution approved of the appro-
priation by the legislature of $500. 900
to enable Kansas to be properly repre-
scented at the Kansas semi-centennial
in 1904.
John Donohue, prosperous farmer
and stock raiser of Syracuse, has fin
ished threshing 95O bushels of alfalfa
seed.
Mr.. and Mrs Sam Arthur, of Atchi.
son county, gave their fiftieth Thanks
giving dinner. Of their fourteen chill
dren, nine were present and passed
their plates for more
DR.. Swan, secretary of the state
board of health, proposes that a com
mission be created to examine plumb
ers and pass upon their qualifications
in sanitary plumbing.
Frank D. Brooks, of Lawrence. j.
vice consul, now acting consul, al
Smyrna, the Turkish port visited b,
the battleship Kentucky.
Near Kirwin Mrs Robert Williamson
fell down a deep well with child. A
rope was lowered and the mother tied
her child to it and its life was saved
Mrs. Williamson then fixed the rope
about her body and was drawn out
1t was then found that both her leg.
Were BROKEN, one of them twice, three
ribs were broken and the breast bone
was crushedS
The Dodge City commercial club ha.
requested the governor to recommend
to the legislature las large an appro
priation as will enable Kansas to show
herself as she is-the most promising
star in the Union, " at the 1904 exposi
tton.
j. A. Newman, the chairman of tn,
Santa Fe telegraphers, is quoted a
saying that the strike which com
menced in Texas may extend over tn,
entire system There are about 1906
of the brotherhood employed by tn,
Santa Fe.
Mrs Mcclellan. a daughter of al
Abilene banker has bsa1 fo,. q -,