Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-01-20


Kas., was killed while handling an in
candescent light.
A. B. Hill is under arrest at Yelling.
ton charged with forging drafts and
passing worthless checks.
The Abilene Commercial club is talk
ing about government building, also
a wholesale grocery and cold storage
plant.
Farmers in many sections of Kansas
are huslzing corn and blowing at the
uary.
Ex-Chief Justices Albert 81. Horton
and David Martin were pitted against
each other in the trial of case in Con-
cordia.
Two freight trains on the Rock Is
land road co1lided at Denton, neal
Troy, Kan, and half dozen cars were
derailed.
The Rock Island and the Santa Fe
are both pressing the work of supply.
ing their cars with air-brakes and auto
matte couplers.
Edward Smiclz, the 17-year-old SOL
of K. C. Smick, editor of the Kansas
Agriculturist, of Wamego, Kan, was
killed by train.
The grade out of Kiowa, Kansas, is
still an unknown quantity. Parties
making the grade fear that it will be
sold and not used.
The cooperative store at Mcpherson
is said to have paid a larger dividend
than any cooperative store in the state
for ten consecutive years.
]. W. Egloff, owner and proprietor
of the Linn county roller mills OF
Mound City, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head.
The Kansas City Live Stock exchange
is finding fault, emphatically, about
stock being abused during shipment.
They say that the value of many ami.
mails is reduced by inhuman beating
and prodding.
M. Butterfeld, of Lees Summit Mo-,
has invested in Reno county lands and
will begin the planting of a large apple
orchard. He has a theory that the
sandy soil in the Arkansas valley is es.
pecially adapted to fruit culture.
In Dickinson county a fve-year-old
baby, the son of Mr.. Price, while run.
ming with pencil in his hand fell and
ran the pencil into his head just above
the eye. The pencil was broken into
seven pieces. The child will recover
Half the school houses and number
of residences in Sedgwic,7 county have
been looted recently and the stuff
brought to Wichita, where J. F. ingram
a junk dealer, sold them. Ingram is
in Jail on a charge of being the fnan
cial agent of the gang.
Lyon county farmers last year re
ceived $500, 900 for their butter, egg.
and poultry. One firm alone shipped
out seventy cars of eggs, three car.
of butter, fifteen cars of hides, anC
twenty-five cars of poultry. This same
firm shipped out 800, 900 worth of pro
duce from MCPHERSON county.
born in Tipperary, Ireland, ninety-foul
years ago. He came to this country
while yet a young man and settled il
Texas. In 1887 he was in Sam Hous
tons Texas army, and by the narrowes
chance missed the fate of his comrade
in the massacre at the Alamo.
The eighth annual meeting of tn
Kansas Editorial association will b
held at Fort Scott, January 1928. o.
the morning Of January "a the editor
and their wives will go to the zinc an,
lead fields of Southeastern Kansas an
Southwestern Missouri as the guest
| of the Memphis Railroad company.
Doniphan county furnished a walnu
tree four feet two inches in diamete
that made 76s feet of lumber. TIL
tree was 12O years old.
President Edwin Locke and the e1
ecutive committee of the Epwort
League have selected Topeka as tn
place to have the first annual CONVEX
ton of that organization, on June 1872.
next.
At Riceville, suburb Of Galena, E
c. Hurd's livery barn burned, with
horses, 5 buggies and harness. Lo:
81, 800, insurance 5000.
, Governor Stanley believes that whe
parents place their children in reforl
, schools they should be required to r,
inquish all claims upon them.
. Advertisements have been sent OF
/ by the treasury department for bio
} for the addition to the Topeka, Kas
public building, to be opened Februai
26.
( Silkwood, the California trotter, w;
bred and raised in Shawnee count
Snkwood's record was 2:O7 when Ge
S try, another Kansas trotter, beat it
San Francisco, going mile in 2:o3.
. The state labor bureau says: ssFro
c every laborer replying to our queri
o sent out recently comes the same sto
d increased wages and increased o
Y portunity to find work. Not a sing
I complaint has yet been recorded"
At a public sale in Harvey coun
y two-weeks old calves sold for 81
n spring calves brought $50 and cows s.