Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-08-11
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

missing since June 20.
The Rock Island is making extensive
improvements at Smith Center.
Two carloads of wild horses were
sold in Chanute a short time since.
They came from Idaho and Montana
j. P. Royal, a Sedgwick county
farmer, paid 81, 500 cash for section
of land adjoining his half section farm.
Jesse Cook, assistant electrician at
the Soldiers Home at Leavenworth,
takes a place as electrician in Honolu-
1u
C. G. To1and, of Wellsville, was
found by trainmen near Red Rock sta
ton and taken to Perry, o. T. He
was bruised in many places.
Farmers in the vicinity of Russell
are talking of putting up an elevator
with a capacity of from one-half to a
million bushels IN which to store their
grain.
Chancellor Shows report says that
July was cooler than usual and that
more rainfall during the month than
the July average.
Eight threshing machines were run
ming within sight of Cicero, Sumner
county, at the same time. One man
estimates that there are $50 machines
at work in that county.
Five of the new chair cars which are
being built in the Topeka shops by the
Santa Fe have already been turned
out. There is nothing that is desirable
to have which these cars lack.
Joseph Lewis, who served in the
Black Hawk. Mexican and Civil wars,
has been mustered into Lincoln Post,
in Topeka. Abraham Lincoln was his
captain in the Black Hawk war.
During the recent big fire at Phillips
burg, resident of the town managed
to get away with II pairs of pants and
IL pairs of shoes. The goods were
found in his possession the day follow
ing.
Superintendent Nelson of the Wichi-
ia street car line gave a trolley excur-
sion in honor of his daughters eighth
birthday. Her little friends made up
a handsome crowd and enjoyed the
occasion.
Agnes Thomas, aged 10, daughter of
a Butler county farmer, was riding a
horse when she was thrown over the
horses head and trampled to death.
The horses hoof went clear through
her abdomen.
w. w. Addington's daughter was
visiting at her uncle's farm in Mont
gomery county, and her cousin placed
his knee against her back and pulled
her shoulders back. She died from the
effects of the act.
DR.. and Mrs. w. L. Challiss, who
came to Atchison in 1856, recently
celebrated their golden wedding. Mrs.
Challiss was attended by one of the
three bridesmaids who "stood up with
her fifty years ago.
Fraucis McNeely sold 200 acre farm
near Lindsborg for $4,000. When he
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cred that part of Kansas and every
thing west to the Rocky Mountains
was in Piketon county.
Ben Kerfoot, private secretary to
Webster Davis, was a soldier in the
Twentieth Kansas. He was made a
lieutenant while in the Philippines.
Kerfoot is a graduate of the Wichita
high school and of Kansas university.
w. C. Fair, of Caldwell, was over.
come by damps in a well and died be.
fore help could reach him.
II. j. Parker, who swore warrants
against eight Emporia druggists, charg
ing them with unlawfully selling
liquor, has been arrested on a charge
of perjury.
On July Is there was paid for freight
on wheat shipped over the Missouri
Pacific from Lindsborg, S7s6. SO, and
the 10th $s64. It is estimated that il
will average during the shipping sea
son between $500 and 5000 day.
The regents and the president of tn,
Kansas agricultural college have ex
amined the buildings, etc, of the For
Hays reservation preparatory to taking
charge of it as soon as the Legislature
accepts the gift made by congress.
Samuel Hazlett, a Scotchman, aged
"A, dropped dead while working owe
his wife's grave at Hartford, Lyo1
county.
The Missouri Pacific train dispatch
er's Office at Conway Springs has beel
abolished and the men transferred t.
Wichita
Circleville held an old settlers meet
ing, Woodmen logrolling and
barbecue, all on the same day. It i
said that 5000 people attended.
The reason that circuses are scare
in Kansas this year, railroad manager
say, is because engines are all bette
employed than in hauling circuses fror
town to town.
Mr.. Young, of Perry, Kas., starte
to throw blazing gasoline stove gu
of the house, when some of the gasc
line spilled on his 1-year-old child, VIII
was burned to death.