Free press., 1901-10-19
HARRY FREEZE, Pub.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OuTlnQ carnival week uOG d Single
house in Wichita was broken into.
Newton has factory employing e6
young women in making ladies' belts.
Saline and Dickinson counties are
much troubled with horse thieves of
late.
Fort Scott has voted to issue $40, 900
of bonds for the prospecting for gas
and oil.
The swapping ratio in Kansas is
two bushels of peaches for one bushel
of potatoes.
dam across Stale creek, to increase the
supply of water for the town.
The city of Good1and has been sued
for non-payment of a block of coupons
from an issue of funding bonds.
A company at Pleasanton has $4,000
to prospect for gas The scheme includes
taking leases on 10, 900 acres of land.
Thirty-five sophomores of Kansas
University must apologize for ungentle-
manly conduct or vamose the ranch.
The Santa Fe will not be stingy of
expense in the effort to bring the muir
derer of George Montgomery into court.
Coopers of Hutchinson, though kept
busy making salt barrels, have 1900
apple barrels to make at once, on con-
tract.
1t may be only talk but there is talk
that the Rock Island will build from
Pratt to Medicine Lodge and thence to
Kiowa.
A commission has been appointed by
the supreme court to recount the To
peka vote for mayor and the count is
being made.
The barb worm which infested wheat
fields in Saline county, proved a bene-
fit to the crop by cleaning the boards
frG1n the wheat.
The HoltOn Tribune says that Sarah
Burr Daniels, who lives in jackson
county and is 9G years old, is an own
cousin Of Aaron Burr.
The local union of Coffeyvil1le inter
fered with the business of a milling
company there and District Judge
Soule issued an injunction against the
interferers.
Frank Scott, Wichita banker, gives
farming attention as side line. He
raised i ,920 bushels of sweet potatoes
from 12 acres of land and sold them for
81 a bushel.
Jno. A. Fleener, of Arkansas City,
has settled his claim for SIS, 600 for
damages sustained to his person while
being initiated into the Order of Pyra-
lnids, and has accepted 5000.
An iron bridge over Pawnee Creek in
Bourbon county went down while a
herd of cattle was crossing it, killing
and injuring many cattle. Mr.. Straitor
and his little girl were driving cattle
under the bridge at the time and the
girl was nearly killed.
Fred Wellhouse will clean up profit
of $40, 900 or S25, 900 from his apple
crop; but then he has ,24O acres of or
chard to gather from. Up to 1875 this
apple king worked for others, but
studied orcharding all the time. A
Leavenworth lawyer, l.. 3. Wheat, had
a lot of rough land and took Wellhouse
into partnership and the big orchard
resulted. Governor Morrili's 500 acre
orchard is handled on Mr.. Wellhouse's
plan and it brings the ex-governor
large returns.
The National Association of Live
stock Sanitary commissioners in session
at Buffalo, decided that their next an
nual meeting be held at Wichita, thanks
TO Billy Bolton, who first suggested il
and worked for it.
The Kansas supreme court decides
that when railroad runs through g
farm the company must provide gates
for the convenience of the farmer bu
the farmer must keep the gate shut
1t was in suit for damages for the
killing of horse which reached the
railroad track through an open gate.
E. C. Strickland has been appointed
as instructor in music at Haskell insti
tute at Lawrence. He was membe,
of the Twentieth Kansas band and wa
later in the quartermaster's depart
ment at San Francisco.
The southwestern division of th
Friends church met in annual conven
tion at Friends university in Wichiti
on the 10th with about 200 delegate
present. The jurisdiction include
Kansas, Southern Missouri, Oklahoma
Nebraska, Northern Texas and Eastern
Colorado.
Governor Stanley promptly offered
reward of $3.50 for the assassin wh
shot George Montgomery, but the Sar
ia Fe had already offered 81, 900.
George Montgomery, the secret sci
vice man employed by the Santa F.
who was killed in his own home, wa
the son of preacher who lives in Tc
peka.
The cotton crop of Montgomery cou1
ty will again be about ESQ bales 1t
to be ginned at Independence. Cotto
is considered the most profitable ere
in the county this year.
During July, August and Septembe