Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-02-24
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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two teams of horses by theft.
The Santa Fe has transferred five
train crews from Topeka to Argentine
The Highups of the Santa Fe are on
an inspection tour of the road west of
Topeka
Burton II. Hartmann, whose home
was at Oswego, Kan, was drowned in
the bay of San Francisco.
E. Bierer, of Hiawatha, is visiting
his three sons who are in the govern
ment service in Washington.
The January receipts of the Lansing
penitentiary were So, 482 more than the
expenditures for the month.
The new poor farm in Butler county
is equipped with a piano and is the
scene of many entertainments.
Senator Harris has introduced bill
appropriating $1,000 for the public
building Pittsburg is asking Tor.
The assembly board of the Ottawa
Chautauqua proposes to erect boys
building, 3Ox6O feet to cost 81 900.
The Kansas. agricultural college has
$500 on call in Washington, being
the eleventh annual installment.
An Atchison school teacher has set
the multiplication table to rag time
and the children learn it in a week.
A site for the Cherokee county high
school has been located and the board
thinks the school will be ready for use
by September 1st.
The state treasury was about to be
swamped by the amount of Quantre1
raid scrip and the treasurer has quit
receiving it for taxes.
George A. Hancock, master mechanic
of the Santa Fe has been appointed
superintendent of machinery of the ST.
Louis and San Francisco.
Window had a church social, and the
social used gasoline stove, and the
stove started a fire and the fire en-
dangered the whole town.
Three lawsuits have grown, in Ne
maha county, from the planting of
mischief seed by school boys. One of
the boys was ridden on rail.
Kansas and Oklahoma mill owners
held meeting in Kansas City to de-
wise means of raising the standard of
hard wheat raised In their sections.
John Heustis and Nels Linden were
killed by an explosion of a locomotive
boiler in the Santa Fe round house in
in Topeka. Three others were injured
of whom j. L. Beardsley may die.
State Superintendent Nelson esti-
mates that at nearly 2,4OO different
places in Kansas, if schools are counted,
there were public celebrations OF the
91st anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's
birth.
Express messengers and agents of
the Rock Island have a movement to
clnb together and start a rancho. Forty
men propose to invest 5000 each and
put $40 month each into an expense
fund.
). A Wichita special policeman was
watching building that had been
tempered with. He saw some one
there and gave chase; dropped his re-
through his leg.
A gang of horse thieves has been
captured in Cowley county; supposed
to be same that have been guilty
OF extensive horsestealing along and
each side the Kansas state line. Three
horses wers stolen in Wichita in one
night last week.
Reno county farmers. some of them,
grow two crops of potatoes on the same
land. Thomas Yerkes marketed his
second crop in January and February.
Rural free delivery is spreading
rapidly in Kansas. On the 18th OF
March service on 25-mile route run
ming out of Lawrence will be com.
menced.
AS soon as Nellie George of Yelling
ton became of age she brought suit
against her stepfather for $4,000 dam
ages, charging him with having beaten
bruised and disabled her.
Shawnee county will have the largest
delegation in the republican state con.
vention-31. Wyandotte comes second
with %, and Sedgwick third with 81.
N. Kelley, of bingham received g
$500 check from the National Tribune
of Washington. 1t was the capita
prize of guessing contest put up by
that paper.
1t is becoming pretty general senti
ment that there is no other way tx
improve the moral tendencies of the
state reform school boys except By
giving them something to do.
Liberal is now connected with Hans
ford, Texas, by telephone. Rancho
on the line have telephones and from
them comes the report that cattle ar
in good condition and not injured b,
the late storm.
State Auditor Cole says that Their
are more school land sales being re
corded now than in many years, TIL
payments are being made more prompt
"; more patents are being issued an
more new purchases have been recorde
this winter than in any previous CON
narrative Deriod within at least 25 wears