Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-10-13
lARRY FREEzE. Fualishsr.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

in the townships of Labette county.
Old students of Garfield university
Wichita, held reunion carnival week
The Northeast Kansas jubilee, at
Nortonville opened with an attendance
of s,e0e.
The Aasons of independence occu-
pied their new temple for the first time
on October 2.
The youngest freshmen ever enrolled
in Kansas University is Chester E.
JOSS, of Brown county.
There are 25 or 80 gasoline engines
in use at Garden City and vicinity,
pumping irrigation water.
"A larger acreage of wheat than
usual is being planted" is a common
item ia the Kansas weeklies-
One hundred men are wanted by the
ton work and other positions.
Miss Alice Spradlin, the Twentieth
Kansas nurse, writes that she will re-
main in Galveston until November 1.
is having a general overhauling for
repairs; about 81 900 is to be expended.
The Rock Island handled $50 excur-
sion passengers from points in Illinois
to Kansas and Oklahoma ON October g.
The Topeka city physician has caused
: the arrest of a prominent doctor there
for failing to report a case of smallpox.
One hundred and fifty Reno county
farmers propose to spend day at Kan
sas Agricultural college on October 90.
The north central part of Neosho
county had total of 81 inches of
rainfall in six days, ending September
%.
The premium for the tallest stalk of
corn at the Wilson county fair was won
by a stalk which measured II feet, 8
inches
Volney Hoover, of independence,
was leading horse by wire when
the horse jerked and cut two of his
fingers off
The Burton car works buildings in
Wichita have been contracted for by
Pawnee Bills wild west show for win
ter quarters.
wreck occurred west of Strong City
on the night OF October 8, in which s
cars of cattle, two of hogs and one of
wheat were smashed.
Aa so acre field of sorghum sown for
forage in Saline county, measured six
feet high just 90 days from the time the
seed was put into the soil.
George Dorsey, machine worker Of
Wichita, was found dead in one of the
the Missouri Pacific line in Chautauqua
county.
Corporal James Richie, of Augusta
a soldier of the Spanish war, passed
and is given place in the q. S. treas
ury department.
The Rock Island railroad ran special
trains to the Wichita carnival, one
from Herington and one from Caldwell
the Last named, on its return trip go
ing to Ponca City.
Miss Grace Riggs was shot by he
young brother, in Wichita. The shoot
ing occurred while both were in play
full mood and was not an intentiona
act. The young lady is dangerously
injured.
The Hoover orchard, from which
came the finest display of apples at tn
Wichita street fair, covers ITO acre
northwest of the city.
Four thousand feet of lumber which
had been rented for the use of the Wei
1ington jubilee disappeared and viii
now have to be paid for by the jubile
management.
Miss Lillian Dyer, appointed by Gov
ernor Stanley as student in the New
York art school last year, is marie,
with Milton Butterfeld, an attorney Io
Gated on Wall street, that city.
Judge Hook issued a mandarin
against the mmissioners, clerk an
treasurer of Pratt county, that the
levy and collect tax Immediately t
pay Judgment in his court. They al
say that such action is impossible 70
then So perform.
\ rop, lza firm is now employing 5
men, working Il hours a day, to fl
contracts for the new court houses a
Beloit and Clay Center and for Haskell
institute in Lawrence The contract
are for doors, windows and insid
finish.
Cooperative mutual insurance wa
discussed by delegates attending
state meeting at Emporia on Septen
Der 90.
Jones Bros store at Lebo, has bee
robbed by an employee named Mile
While being pursued, Miller plunge
into the Marias des Cygnes river an
was not seen again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Terrell, of Mcpherson
who were in the Galveston food, f1oa
ed around on a board three feet Ion
and one wide from o'clock one nigh
until the next morning.
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