Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-06-16

ty, won the piano contest at Liberty
CMo) Ladies college.
Somebody has figured that the aver
age increase in Kansas towns has been
20 per cent this year.
Topeka has adopted the plan of
moulding the names of streets in the
sidewalks at each corner
More than 800 men passed west and
south through Topeka, with harvest
hands tickets, in one day.
cooperative creamery company,
with capital of SIS, 900, has been char
tered to do business at Oswego.
Bishop Hartzell, of Africa delivered
the baccalaureate sermon at the Kan
sas University commencement.
One of the three prohibition parties
of Kansas is to hold state nominating
convention in Topeka June 20.
Harry Tippy, of Casey, H., was
asleep on the railroad track near Hal
stead and was killed by train.
Clay Center, by the last issue of the
bulletin of the battle, will deal another
hand in the insane asylum game.
The new Catholic church at Parsons
when finished, will be almost 200 feet
from foundatian to top of spire.
A large barn in Lawrence used for
baling and storing hay is burned, with
all the machinery and three horses
So many cattle have disappeared in
Barber comfy that the county COM
missioners have offered rewards for
the thieves.
Harper is suggesting it's wants to
the outside world; the most pressing
of which are an elevator and tele-
phone system.
J. S. Hollinger, wealthy farmer of
Dickinson county, is dead from the
kick of a horse. He was an ex-member
of the legislature.
The authorities have decided to put
the penitentiary Irvine on the general
market. Heretofore it was only sold
to Kansas farmers.
The Germans held a camp meeting
in Woodson county, lasting six days.
These religious gatherings of the Ger
mans are widely attended.
Sheridan township of Ottawa county
has no deaf, dumb, blind, idiotic or in
sane person. It has 1,O5O people, does
not owe a cent and has $500 in its
treasury.
Levi Wilhelm, of Winchester, is dead.
He made fortune in Jefferson county
farming. He had been county treas
urer and had served several terms in
the legislature.
The receipts of the Kansas insurance
department for the year were $780,
721.O5: the expenses amol nted to &c.
| 592. 80, leaving a nice balance which
went into the state treasury.
Had fire insurance rates remained
the same in 1899 as they were in 1898
the insurance written would have cost
the Kansas policy holders nearly a
| quarter of a million dollars more than
| it did cost.
Attorney General Goddard amour
ces that he will appeal from the de-
cision of Federal Judge Hook in which
the latter held that the section of the
Kansas prohibitory law which pro-
hibits drummer from soliciting and
fling orders for Intoxicating liquors is
unconstitutional.
g. R. Landers. the Harper county
cattle man who has been in trouble
over bankruptcy proceedings, is miss
ing.
A preacher at Peabody has given up
his pastorate to give all his time to his
other professions, veterinary and auc-
| tioneer.
The Santa Fe railroad has donated,
to be delivered free OF charge, twenty
car loads of crushed rock for the walks
and driveways in Riverside park in
Wichita. The Missouri Pacific adds
fifteen cars of macadam free of charge.
Secretary Coburn's bulletin of June
says: ut is doubtful if the sun ever
shone upon a like area of wheat, in
any single state, more promising than
that in Kansas at the beginning in
June, 19OO.'
There was an increase of 43 in the
number of farms in Kingman county
last year, and the acreage cultivated
was increased 81, SIT.
The stone cutters at work on the
federal building in Topeka, asked fol-
and received an advance in pay from
40 to As cents an hour.
|
The Kansas association of banker
elected as officers, C. Q. Chandler, Med
icine Lodge, president: Scott Hopkins
Horton, vice president; Thurston Cooke
Harrington, secretary; c. L. Brokaw
Kansas City. treasurer.
Two feather renovators were arrest
ed for stealing feathers. They wen
to Hartford with their machine anG
took no feathers with them. Whel
5 they left they had 400 pounds of feath
ers. Their customers began to inves
, tigate and found their beds spoiled b,
substitution of other material
Greenwood county commissioner
/ are asked to begin war on Canad