Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-07-20


Browns general store at Allen, both
building and stock, is total loss from
fire.
The e. S. weather bureau reports
that wheat in Western Kansas ripened
too fast.
The railroads have gangs blowing
fire guards along all the lines in the
wheat belt.
Colonel E. c. Little, of the Kansas
Twentieth, has been given a pension
of $50 month
The Dold packing plant at Wichita
has been incorporated with million
dollar capital
The wagon trade for truck market
ing at Atchison is suspended for lack
of a local supply.
The opening interfered with thresh-
ing, as the crews all wanted to go to FL
Reno and register
a pearl declared to be worth $500 or
$500 has been found in the Marmaton
river near Fort Scott.
VIM. Archer, of E1linwood was one
| of the many losers by fire in the wheat
/ fields. He lost threshing outfit.
| The Topeka mil1ers have commenced
their fight to compel the railroads to
establish the old milling in transit
rate
A Wichita wholesale shoe house
shipped in one day 4,332 pairs of shoes;
more than car load. There were sci
cases.
A hundred acre wheat field in Riley
! county was destroyed by spontaneous
combustion. The crop was valued at
| 900.
The excursion from Wichita to Buf-
falo, which had been posted for an
earlier date, has been put off until
September z.
The Wells-Fargo company are to
erect a large two story brick building
for their use just south of the Santa
Fe depot in Wichita.
Douglas county has shortage of
about 20 teachers. Only AZ out of 20
who took examination secured high
John Warner, Riley county farmer,
was thrown from his moving machine
and had both feet badly cut by the
sickle. His right foot was amputated.
A Kansas contractor, J. A. McGoni-
gle, of Leavenworth, has the contract
| for building a twelve-story, fre-proot
brick building at Uniontown, Pa, fol
s7OO, 900.
A goodly portion of the sympathy
felt for farmers on the burning of their
wheat is more properly due the rail
roads which pay good values for the
most of it.
Kansas town people unite in telling
the farmers how to save their stacks
from fire. OF course the dry goods
box roosters would have had every
thing safe long ago.
Barton county farmers lost another
1O.O 900 acres of wheat in second wide
fire. There were buildings burned
also. Many losers at this fire hac
taken insurance after the first big fire
Dr. Barth, Of Wichita, has been made
the head of the meat inspection a
Topeka with six people in his force
The government has also made hin
chief of the quarantine division, will
headquarters at Topeka.
|
packing plant at Wichita hos foo
capacity of 172,s72 feet, nearly fou
acres It is for the cooling depart
ment and is 90 by 1913 feet. Six storie
of the building are completed.
The acreage of alfalfa in Kansas i
greater than that of any tame grass
{ and this crop never fails from drouth
Miss Rosa Preston, of Fort Scott
/ has been awarded years SCHOLARSHIP
f in the Chicago university valued a
2 S12O. There were about 1 900 contest
S ants.
e Wyatt Stanley last spring bough
D the Treadwen ranch in Kingman cour
e ty for 500. 900, the 1000 acres of grow
E ing wheat on it being thrown in. Fl
!, harvested the grain to the value S25
600.
: OF the first rs, 900 bushels of whes
: bought by the Enterprise mills the1
e was none that tested less than {
r pounds.
# Sheffield ingalls,, the youngest SO
of ]. j. Ingalls,, is a candidate fl
IS member of the next legislature fro
5. the country district of Atchison coul
y ty.
a A gasoline tank used to initiate
y balloon in Forest Park, at Atchiso
n caused 20 acres of the park to burne
TX over, together with ffty-acre whe
field
ID The state school fund has 5000, 600
ot invest and the board finds Difficult
r to secure desirable bonds as priva
ID investors offer premiums.