Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-11-03
KANSAS TEENS OF INTEREST.


Paola waterworizs
3There is to be fall inspection of the
Kansas National Guards during No
vember and December
now complete in the Frisco line; the
last requisite act is finished.
Jos. Edwards, of near Clifton, raises
potatoes in quantities every year.
This year he ships five carloads.
The Kansas hens contribution to
the wealth of the state this year is es-
timated at four million dollars.
The Kansas MiIlers' association will
hold another meeting in Topeka the
second Wednesday in November.
A jefferson county man returned
from the Kansas City Angora goat
show with l62 goats and 126 kids.
Sedgwicl has a population of less
than 1000, yet there are over 200 daily
newspapers received at the post Office.
A West Virginia company has taken
a charter under the name of the Kan
sas Oil and Gas company of Fort Scott.
All of the Santa Fe's 2s,O42 freight
cars are equipped with air brakes; of
which 27,71O have automatic couplers-
The work of thirty coopers is re-
quired to supply the four or 5000 bar
rels used in the mills of Atchison every
week.
Samuel Lewis, a colored prisoner in
the Kansas penitentiary, sent there
from Wyandotte county, has commit
ted suicide.
A Mcpherson county farmer sold $3.50
worth of alfalfa seed from Is acres of
land, besides retaining bushels for
his own use.
A brave lad near Cedarvale attacked
n catamount with stick and got his
shoulder and neck badly torn by the
animals claws.
1.-THE special election in Washington,
Kas., on issuing $25, 900 bonds for
system of waterworls, was carried by
a large majority.
n OlT0 GOR dG ECOtiCH JIdNch L1dGC
dead set on box of quails at the depot,
thus giving away the shipper who was
breaking the law.
A church census in Wichita develops
the fact that nine-tenths of the families
in the city have a preference for some
particular church.
A car of fish from the government
hatcheries has been distributed at
Wichita to farmers, with which to stock
their ponds on their farms.
The $50 excursionists from Reno
county to the Kansas Agricultural col
lege, many of them teachers, had very
disagreeable weather during their visit.
At the Kansas City horse show Silk
wood, owned by Jacob Willetts, for
merly of Topeka, but now of Santa Ana,
California, was sold to L. b. Willetts,
of Newman, Kansas, for So, Silk
wood is a 14-year-old stallion.
The general conference of the Men
monte church will be held in the large
Ebenezer church at Buhler. Dele
gates will be present from Sas-
katchewan and Manitoba and from the
states from North Dakota to Texas.
Five prisoners broke out of the Co
lumbus Jail. They were pursued and
the sheriff. He was instantly killed
by shot from that officer, when the
other four surrendered. The dead man
is negro.
The Masonic temple in independence
was dedicated on October %. One OF
the three living charter members Oh
the Independence lodge, N. d. Henry
was present. He is SO years old. The
lodge was organized in 1869. The tenn
pie cost about $4,000.
There are stored in one warehouse in
Topeka between u and 13 Thousand
bushels of Kansas apples. Ben Davis
Wine Sap and Missouri Pippin are
being shipped to the eastern states
while Baldwins and Greetings are com
ing to Topeka from New York.
The twenty-ninth annual Sunday
school convention of Reno county viii
be held in Nickerson November l3 and
IA.
Attorney GODDARD has decided that
rules and regulations made by the state
board of health are effective and prac
tically have the force and effect Of
laws
There is a quarter in Osborne county
for which the owner received $3.50, cash
rent. this season. The quarter is in al
falfa. The owner is going to raise the
rent, too.
An Esl>ridge barber who has worked
there year, says that he has not beer
swindled out of the price of singl.
shave.
The board of health of Rush county
asks the people to cooperate in tn,
work of stamp ng out a contagioc.
disease that very much resembles
smallpox"
Frank Allgood. who is about to @.
to the penitentiary for horse stealing
was taken from the Wichita Jail TO tn,
First Methodist church of that city anC