Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-05-12

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A United Commercial Travellers
council is to be instituted in Abilene.
The graduating class of the Topeka
high school numbers AZ; IA boys and "a
girls.
High water took out a portion of the
bridge over the Arkansas river at SYRIA
cuse.
What is claimed as the largest gusher
in Kansas is spouting oil near hide
pendence.
a shell game worker following
Hiawatha.
A new NJ. E. church to cost Sc, 900 is
proposed at Sterling Contracts for
stone are made.
The ladies of Columbus held a weeks
festival and raised S4OO for the benefit
of the local band.
The ST. Louis & San Francisco road
will soon begin the erection of a new
depot at Wichita.
A meeting of all the Registers of Deeds
in the state is called to convene in
Hutchinson May 90.
A military school for officers Of the
K. N. Guard will be held in Newton
the last week of June.
Rev. J. D. Richey came from ST. Louis
pal church in Wichita
Perry Hutchinson, of Marysville, had
% steers killed by lightning; they were
standing by wire fence.
Captain George Ritchey, ex-postmas
ter at Leavenworth. died at the Soldiers
home last week aged 60.
Miss Helen Gould is to furnish two
beds in the Winfield hospital. The
building is nearing completion.
The Phoenix mills at Coffeyville were
damaged by fire to the extent of s., 900
last week. Insurance covers the loss.
The penitentiary now has an even
thousand convicts and there is no
trouble in keeping them all at work.
Eugene F. Ware has placed bronze
portrait bust of Daniel Webster Wilder
in the rooms of the Kansas Historical
society.
A Waverley farmer gives figures to
prove an average profit of 1888 from
his quarter section farm, since it was
opened.
Ex- Senator Ingalls, is to return to
his home in Atchison June 1st, from
Arizona and is much improved in
health
capacity to handle 100 tons of coyr
and 1,5OO bushels of tomatoes every
eleven hours.
Fort Scott's high school is now on
the list of Kansas schools whose diplo-
mas entitle graduates to admission to
Chicago university.
George NJ. Lescher, who went from
Topeka to Costa RIGA to do construc-
ton work for the Topeka Mining COM
pany, died there of yellow fever.
In the large wheat raising counties
of Mcpherson, Rice, Barton, Stafford,
Sedgwick and Sumner, the eye meets
nothing but the green of enormous
fields
The People bank of Colony, with
capital of SIC, 900, goes into voluntary
liquidation because the bankers think
they can make more out of their money
in other lines of business.
Ben and VIM. Mcclellan, father and
son, were sent to the penitentiary from
Concordia for eighteen months each for
assaulting Frank Wilson near Glasco.
Charles Hirrell came to Montgomery
county from Ireland in 1869 with
nothing. He died recently one of the
richest farmers in the county, at the
age of IS.
Harry Hammond. of Sumner county,
is planting 1900 black locust trees. He
received them from the state forestry
plantation at no expense save trans
portation.
A farmer near Valley Falls advertised
for wife and received 700 replies. He
selected one of them which came from
Massachusetts, written by IAN ordinary
woman" as the writer said. They
were married last week
Kirwin and Ellsworth are usually
first IN public affairs. They COM
menced arrangements for Fourth of
July quite early.
The contractors of Parsons estimate
| that there will be more money spent in
| improvements in that city this season
than for many years past.
John A. Cragun, president of the
board of education of Kingman. gives
$40 annually as an oratorical prize to
be competed for by high school grad
yates.
VIM. McKibben. farmer near COTS,
turned so fat steers into his feed lot
and the next morning 30 of them were
dead. Indications are that they were
poisoned.
L B. Wilox, of Atchison county, is
dead; aged Sc. He made the original
surveys of much of the government
land in Kansas in the COS
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