Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-05-05
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

abilene is now owned by Abilene peo-
pie
Independence has taken the initial
steps to become the owner of the water
works there.
Robert c. Johnston, of Lawrence, a
dealer in Angora goats, has now herd
of ! 800 of them.
George Hussey, of Ottawa county,
has brought from Illinois, $500 Here
ford to put in his herd.
Pittsburg is to have a corporation
which will manufacture paving blocks,
hollow brick and pottery.
The Leavenworth Congregational
church has band of forty boys hard
ut work on military tactics.
Three colored girls are members of
the class which will graduate from the
Sabetha high school this season.
Edward Hinote, young man, was
trying to ford South Fork Creek in
Chase county, and was drowned.
Horse and mule buyers for both the
American and British war departments
are just now securing Kansas for stock.
The three Kansas medical societies
have for several years held joint annual
meetings. This practice is now stopped.
: Fifty-three Poland China hogs from
Council Grove, which averaged 354
pounds, brought $40 in Kansas City
A La Cygne boy went west a couple
of years ago and bought an abandoned
gold mine. This week he sold it for
$40, 900.
John T. Mcdaniel, of Attica, cele-
brated his s7th birthday and the 61st
anniversary of his marriage, both on
the same day.
The Baptist church at Cherryvale,
with it's fine carpets, opera chairs and
organ, is total loss by fire; amounting
to about S.. 900.
Mrs. J. 7. Goodnow, of Manhattan,
is dead, at the age of SO. Every early
settler knew her husband and most of
them knew her.
John and Sarah Mcmillan, who have
lived in Emporia 40 years, recently
celebrated the sixtieth anniversa ~
of their marriage.
Sergeant w. Milliken, of Company
G, Twentieth Kansas. has been ap
pointed to a charge at Bartlett by the
Methodist Conference.
Captain Daniel E. Mccarthy is or.
dered from New York to Fort Leaven.
worth to assume charge of the construc,
ton of buildings there.
There is an epidemic in Topeka OF
the disease known as 'pinkeye." A
few years ago only horses had pipkeye
but now people have it.
A Glasco man sold IA grade Hereford:
coming two, of his own feeding, a
$5a5. They averaged 1856 pounds
another Glasco man IS of the same cat
tie at $5.15, which averaged 1,27C
pounds,
A Methodist preacher at Madison dis
covered that the members of his choi
played cards, went to Sunday picnic
and did other Goddess deeds. He asked
the whole choir TO resign and they re
signed.
It is estimated that the loss of liv
stock in Gray and Finney counties
during the late storm, amounted t
perhaps $4,000 When the storm
came the cattle had been on fresh gras
and were soft.
The Smoky Hill and Solomon river
were so high the other day as to Ell
danger railroad bridges. The electri
light plants at Solomon and Abilen
Were run by steam, as the water wa
too high to be used.
A number of burglaries occurred i
Galena, during the early morning {
April pa the Frisco depot was one {
the places robbed.
The meeting of the Kansas Gran
Lodge Knights Templar will conven
in Wichita May s. Five hundre
Knights are expected.
George P. Dold. who had the contrc
of the Dold packing house in WIGHT;
died April IS, at Buffalo, n. Y. pro-
ably from fatty degeneration of IL
heart.
Mrs. Chrisman, of Topeka, willie
$25o.OOO for the founding of Meth
dist university, contingent on tt
churches raising an equal amount wit
in ten years. She also gave SIS, 900
the Ohio Wesleyan university, S.. O
for new parsonage for the First J
E. church of Topeka and SO, 900 to ii
Women's Missionary Society.
Mrs L. B. Smith, president of Il
Kansas State w. c. T. T., was qui
seriously injured at Quincy. by falliI
on broken sidewalk.
Rev. Colonel Allen B. Buckner h
been given pension at $50 mont
DIR. w. F. Boyakin, of Marysville. w
is 90 years old, is given a pension
$40 a month.
1t is said that during March 2,E
acres of farm land in the vicinity
Mound Ridge, Mcpherson count
changed hands, the total considerati
being nearly ST., 900.
Coffeyville gives 81. 500, the Nilsson
Pacific 81 900 besides the site and 81