Free press., 1901-09-21

of southern Kansas frequently now.
The Rock Island is putting heavy
steel rails between Wichita and Herring
ton.
Two Santa Fe employees at Emporia
were discharged for smoking in the oil
house.
The heavy showers of Friday and
Saturday, September 13 and IA, were
general in Kansas.
Cattlemen at the Wichita stock yards
pay 50 ton for prairie hay. Alfalfa
is held at s12 ton.
New York men propose to sink shafts
and build power house at Little River
to work the salt mines.
The new law requiring prescriptions
Tor morphine and the like seems to be
easily evaded in Kansas
Curtis Monical succeeds Chas. j. Webb
as chief clerk for Superintendent Nc
Lellan, of the Santa Fe.
j. w. Robson, Butler county farm
er, has 600 acres of alfalfa and intends
to make it 200 this year.
Superintendent Nelson suggests
changes IN the school tax laws to make
them more equitable to the smaller dis
tricts
Major j. W. Bolus, of Fort Scott, is
dead He had a remarkable war
record. Major Bolus had lived at Fort
Scott since 1866.
~ Y u,l,,,, e 49, c,1
county. took 13 of the IS first prizes
awarded at the Nebraska state fair.
He had no cattle in the other five
clesses.
Miss Amanda O'Conner, formerly of
ST. Marys, has accepted the place OF
first assistant in the piano department
of the territorial university at Norman,
Oklahoma.
bridge being built east of Caldwell
collapsed from the action of a rushing
flood. Several men who were strength
ening the false work fell among the
twisted timbers 35 feet below and were
injured.
Judge Henry G.. S1uss, who has been
judge of the United States court of
private land claims, will have served in
that capacity for ten years next July.
He will probably resume the practice
of law in Wichita next summer.
VIM. Bastain and Chas Roth, two
Santa Fe water service men, were over
come by gas while working in an oil
tank at the Topeka shops and death re-
suited before they could be helped, or
even before their predicament was
known.
The pipe organ presented to the
Presbyterian church of Junction City
by Andrew Carnegie in memory of Col
onel John B. Anderson, was recently
set up and recital conducted. Mrs.
Anderson heard the recital at her home
in Manhattan by telephone.
A young soldier of the Kansas
Twentieth named Miles, whipped a
| Topeka socialist who was bawling
against the government. The next
| day Secretary Hawk, of the socialist
| organization, got out hand bill calling
Miles an anarchist. Miles went to the
1
and get the straight scory of how he
was going to lick Hawks. The licking
went off according to time card.
1t is noted that General J. C. Cald-
| well, who has been consul in a port of
the Gulf of Mexico for four years, has
never sent home "a piece to be printed -
The general has record as a leader in
the battle of Gettysburg, succeeding
Hancock in command when the latter
was wounded, and is best liked by his
closest acquaintances, yet he does not
parade before the public. General
Caldwell's home has been in Topeka
for many years.
The city schools of Wichita opened
with an enrolment on the first morn
ing of 1854 pupils of which number
there were 342 in the high school
Attorney General GODDARD decides
that county clerks must turn over the
81 taken for registering doctors Ger
tificates, into the general funds of the
county
After celebrating their sixty-secont
wedding anniversary. Mr.. and Mrs. j
Fl. Spicer, of Neosho Falls started t,
see the sights at the Pan-American ex
position.
State Superintendent Nelson favor
, adopting the savings bank system il
the schools in this state which SOM
other states have found valuable
Prof. Landson, of the Fort Scot
schools says that in 25 years but on
boy addicted to the cigarette smokin,
: habit has graduated from the school
, of Fort Scott.
, DIR. E. NJ. Wood, who has been a
the head of the department of mathe
e Enatics at Baker university for II years
Y has accepted the same position in A
bion college, at Albion. Michigan
n Hail at Freeport broke glass in pa.
f senger coaches of a Missouri Pacifi
t train and made dents on iron roofs
d The hail came along with a heavy rain
The two negroes who robbed tw
O harvest hands at. Salina have bee
o found guilty by a district court jur
n and will probably go to prison for te