Free press., 1901-12-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The discharge of guns at artillery
practice at Fort Riley is heard at Alma,
25 miles away.
The gross receipts of Kansas post
Offices for the year was 81 ,756, 10000, or
$1.20 per capita.
The constitution of Kansas was draft
ed in building on the Wyandotte fats,
since washed away.
There is nothing in the way now of
preparing to build the new asylum for
epileptics at Parsons.
Two carloads of turkeys were shipped
from Stockton in two successive days.
There were 1000 of them.
The Logan Republican denies the
story that there are 26 widows in Logan.
It says there are only ten.
J. w. Amis, prominent educator,
once assistant state superintendent,
died at Smith Center recently.
The Kansas wheat crop of 1901 is
94.6 per cent greater than the average
annual crop for the past ten years.
Miss Julia McInerney, of Abilene, re-
Gently sold to Chicago publishers two
musical compositions for 500 each.
Judge Glass, of Marysville decides
that the search and seizure clause of
the Hurrell law is unconstitutional
The state board of pharmacy at its
meeting in Leavenworth, made II new
drug dispensers out of 80 applicants.
j. A. Young, a colored Baptist
preacher of Fort Scott has been arrest
ed for using Cancelled postage stamps.
R. NJ. Wright, state forestry commits
sioner, reports the Russian thistle as
taking the country in Western Kansas.
Geo. Hendrick, the Smith Center band
leader, has gone to Carson City, Nevada,
to lead the Nevada state band, of so
men.
The hod carriers at work on the Lyon
county court house struck for more pay
and the work is now done by horse
power.
Stockton shipped carload of pota-
toes to San Francisco, and on the same
day the Alton mill shipped 1000 bags
: of -four to Liverpool.
Superintendent Nelson reports that
the consolidation of schools is especially
strong in Jewell, Dickinson, Cherokee,
Rice and Shawnee counties.
w. 81. Lewis, for twenty years ticket
agent for the NJ. K. & T. at Parsons,
died suddenly at his home. He was
prominent in Masonic circles.
Professor Lucien Blake, of Kansas
University, is said to have sold to New
Workers for $25, 900 a process for sep
arating gold without the use of water.
Atchison capitalists are cautious.
They have taken an Arizona charter
for the company which proposes to open
coal mine there, SO as to avoid the
double liability law of Kansas.
Fort Scott proposes to tax lawyers
from SIS to $50 a year. The lawyers
are to be placed in four classes, each to
choose his class. Ministers who receive
$1,000 year are to be taxed $40 year
So said the city attorney while in To-
peka.
December was Topeka's 47th birth
day. At the old settlers meeting the
only survivor of the original town COM
pany was present. He is John Arm
strong who never wears his best suit
except at these annual old settlers
meetings.
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company has purchased a lot in Law
renee upon which to erect an eXchan ge
bnilding. 1t is to be of pressed brick,
plate glass front, two stories and base
ment.
The warden of the federal prison at
Leavenworth does not approve of the
mooted plan to confine Aguinaldo
there, because visitors would constantly
annoy everybody connected with the
prison by wanting to see Aggie. They
have much bother from people who
want to see Oberlin Carter.
Nenaha is the banner corn county
this year, the product being 3,1O7, ,664
bushels, as shown by Secretary Coburn's
report.
awarded damages against chemical
company for the destruction of crops
by fumes from the company's works.
r. w. Wells, the youngest member o.
the Maryland legislature, lived severa
years at Coffeyville, Kansas. He wa,
admitted to practice in the Kansas su
preme court in 1896. He is now p
years old.
c. G. Hill, mayor and postmaster a
Burr Oak, quarreled with j. NJ. Hotch
kiss, farmer Hill locked the doc
and the two men fought. Hill was ar
rested, but Hotchkiss went to Kansa
City for medical treatment.
Less than month ago one stat
house stenographer was married. Th
announcement of the engagement O
two others-to each other-was an
nounced last week and four others hav
given their employers quiet tips tha
they win soon give up their jobs t
to reign over households.
Paul E. Webb, of Stafford, has bee