Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-11-24

The Glendale ranch in Saline county
| ., $40 acres
Representative w. C. Millar, of Bar
/ Der county, was defeated for reelection
by two votes.
Miss May Scott, an lola girl, is elect
ed school superin tendent in Bingham
county, Idaho.
! Two hundred books have been added
to the travelling library department of
the state library.
The explosion of a lamp in a saloon
! caused the destruction of twelve bust
ness houses in McCune.
Long distance telephone lines are
completed from Salina to Plainville
and Stockton via Delphos
Jewell county farmers harvested
their last cutting of alfalfa in the
middle week of November.
Some farmers are moving their
wheat to prevent its jointing. This
experiment will be watched.
/ General J. K. Hudson and Ex-Gov-
ernor John P. st. John. are both hand
ling mines at Versailles, Mo.
! The State Teachers association will
meet in Topeka during holiday week
as has become the settled custom.
Sedgwick county employs 2T9 school
teachers; exceeding the number en-
ployed by any other Kansas county.
Members of the Canton National Aid
associa ton turned out and husked John
Evans orn crop because he was sick.
Clarence Olson. Lindsborg student
at Yale college, has been selected to
! participate in the Yale Harvard de-
bate.
The soldier vote at the Fort Dodge
Home turned the result by two votes
| for T. A. Noftzgar, of Harper for SEN
ator.
! Wyandotte county pays the largest
average salaries to teachers; for male
teachers $50. so a month, for female
! teachers So month.
Inquiries come to Auditor from East
ern owners of large tracts of land in
! Western Kansas, upon which taxes are
in default, as their amount
Cattle are being rapidly shipped out
of F'inney county and fewer feeders
are being brought in than usual in
consequence there is surplus of hay.
| The name of Lieut.. NJ. Koontz. Forty
| Fourth infantry, is in the last list of
| killed from Manila. He served with
! the same rank in the Twenty-Second
Kansas.
| Lawrence merchants, and perhaps
those of other towns, complain that
rural delivery of mails has cut down
their trade; which benefits the country
villages and stores.
Kansas University will ask this win
ter for appropriations of 500, OOU for a
new museum building, So, 900 to COM
plete the chemistry building and gen
eral maintenance fund of 500, OOO
Delegates appointed to the national
irrigation congress are: George NJ.
Munger, Eureka; D. NJ. Frost, Garden
City; w. A. Reeder, Russell; L. R.
Moses, Great Bend; c. S. Lands, Os-
borne; II. NJ. Cottrell, Manhattan.
The newsboys of Topeka have banked
nearly $500 during the past year. j.
E. Nissley, on last Thanksgiving day.
promised all the boys who would save
10 cents a week during the year that
he would give them cents each for
each week.
There will be no inaugural ball in
the Kansas state house this time
There has been no ball at the three
proceeding inaugurations. The prac-
tice was started early and was not
interrupted until it was Governor Nor
rills turn.
Probably the oldest house in Kansas
was built in Kickapoo in 1884 by the
Catholics for a mission school. Cover
nor Reeder, first territorial governor of
| Kansas, used it as his office: later it
! was occupied as the first U. S. land
Office in Kansas. 1t is still standing.
A starch factory company in Michigan
has contracted for $1,000 bushels of
Gull potatoes in the Kaw Valley. It is
$4,000 bushels they will locate a starch
factory at Bonner Springs.
The Kansas Millers' association at
the session in Wichita empowered B.
Warkentine, of Newton, to arrange
for the importation of Crimean hard
wheat for seed. The idea is to place a
car of the wheat in every county of
the wheat belt. The price of flou1 was
not discussed at the meeting.
1t stands between Superintendent
Nelson and Treasurer Grimes who of
the candidates on the elected state
ticket received the most votes.
The new law names May / as the
date when county school superinten-
dents enter upon their Office. This
leaves from January until May. a space
of about months, for which county
commissioners will name superintend-
ents. 1t is probable that all who were