Free press., 1901-10-19


wheat this year.
Newton knights of Pythias have
dedicated their new hail.
: The Kansas wheat is receiving warm
rains in ample quantities.
The registration at Kansas university
has reached ,O61. which is 1O7 more
than last year.
It is said that five per cent of the pop
ulation of Cottonwood Falls are mem
bers of whist clubs.
Jay Smith. son of A. w. Smith, of
Mcpherson, has gone to Europe to study
music for two years.
Contract has been let for building
freight depot at Wichita. to cost SIG, 800,
by the Missouri Pacific
A Sa1ina firm has already shipped
six carloads of alfalfa seed this season,
each valued at about $4,000.
The annual state convention of the
Kansas Equal Suffrage association is to
meet at Mcpherson on Nov. and 2.
Farmers institutes are to be held at
Benton, Oct. II, Augusta, Oct 18, and
R. Myer, of Dickinson county has
cut 35 large loads of hay from 20 acres
of alfalfa this season and has sold S12o
worth of seed.
The bank of Narlza has been robbed
of s. 900 The safe was blown open.
The state bank commissioner says that
the loss is fully covered by insurance.
The state grain inspectors report for
September shows collections of S4 ,4s9. 20
and expenses of So 100, leaving a bal
ance of 81, ,3s9.7O for the months busi-
ness.
Mrs. Sarah C. Morrison, died at
Hutchinson on the 9th. She was prom
inent in the work of the Relief Corps of
the state, and a member of various
other lodges.
Business men of Emporia are propos-
ing to increase the capacity of the city
electric power plant so as to be sufficient
to furnish a street railroad system to be
owned by the city.
The ladies of the literary clubs of
Abilene who have in the past year
raised $575 for public library, have
assurances of assistance that will bring
their fund up to 81, 900.
The best element of the citizens Of
Clyde demanded that the drink dispen-
saries of the town be closed and the
four saloons that have been wide open
for years obeyed the demand.
The new $4,000 Masonic temple at
Sterling was dedicated on the 10th. A
banquet and ball followed the dedica-
tory exercises. There was a large
number of visiting MasoDs present
Leases have been taken of lands on
Spring Creek east of Jewell City. A
fourteen inch vein of coal has been
found at depth of 15s feet This vein
is overlaid by valuable vein of fire
clay.
Anthony has granted right of way
to the Choctaw road through the town.
L
! rapidly. Meantime the Orient is put
| ting in switch to the Anthony salt
| mine.
The refunding of all kinds of Kansas
bonds, under the new law, keeps the
auditors Office busy registering the
new bonds. The fees of the Office fo1
| registering during September amounted
to over $500.
Anna Harnet, of Horton, sued Daniel
W. Weigman, a jointist, for s., ,O0C
damages. She bases her suit on the
| ground that the jointist sold her hus
band liquor after warnings not to dc
so, causing him to lose profta bic place
! and reducing her to want.
La Crosse, the county seat of Rust
county, has a court house which cos
S23, ,OOO;. 81, 900 school building, and {
SIS, 900 bank building, all of brick.
George Eddington is dead of diseast
of the heart. He had been prominen
among the promoters of the interest,"
of the city of Chetopa for thirt,
years.
An extra train was ditched near Ok
ford, caused by the washing of the roac
bed by heavy rains. Trains from tn
east, during the day, had torun arounC
by way of Mulvane.
Discharged men from the Standart
Oil refinery at Neodesha were anon;
the first to prevent a heavy loss from
fire.
Steel is beiug laid on the Fort Scott
lola & Western railroad and trains ar
expected to be running over it as far a
lola by January 1.
There are two telephone systems i
operation at Fort Scott. The franchis
of the elder system has expired, an
the town being tired of having two.
about to refuse renewal of the oil
franchise.
. r. III. Town, of Valencia, Shawne
, county, has secured four crops of alfalf
hay aggregating tea tons per acre, o
land that is worth $50 an acre. He
offered $40 a ton for his hay or twic
the value of the land.