Free press., 1901-09-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

hotel keeper, raised $4,000 bushels Of
wheat THE year on the side.
The Newton public schools opened
with an enrolment of 1,193. of which
1s2 were in the high school.
A man at Preston was on top Of a
windmill tower and counted thirty
three steam threshers at work.
T. Z. Thompson. of Dover, Shawnee
county, won three prizes on his Short
horn cattle at the Iowa state fair.
All difficulties between Cottonwood
Falls and Strong City over the route Of
the Orient road have been adjusted. /
Mrs. Morton Albaugh was injured in ;.
= runaway in Kingman. Mr.. Albaugh
had left after the cattlemen's picnic.
Pittsburg claims to have had 10000
working men there on Labor day.
There were 5000 miners in the parade.
Old settler reunions have followed
been about as many of them in the
state.
The missionaries under the American
Sunday School association in the cen
tra1 west spend week in conference at
Topeka.
Mrs. Sherman McKinnis, of Republic
county, has four pairs of twins, all
living, the eldest pair not yet eight
years old.
The attendance at all the veterans
reunions in the state was larger than
usual, with the exception of the state
reunion.
An excursion from Emporia to Fort
Riley took $500 people. There were
four sections of six cars each. No stops
were made.
The Katy officials have notified Par
sons that they will establish big car
shops there at once, with $50 men to
start with.
A party of so Nebraska farmers came
TO look over Sumner county and attend
the wheat carnival, and with view of
buying farms.
John FL. Cram, Fort Scott attorney,
had fight with James Burton, an ed
itor of that city. 1t arose from saloon
license disputes.
c. B. Combs, of Reading, married
Miss Rose Vicl1ers, of Saltwater, Okla,
Immediately after she had fled on
claim at LawtOn.
Adjutant General Fox has issued
revised edition of the rules and regula-
<ioDS fO, tho frovarDuaDf Of tho KaD
sas National Guard.
Difficulty is experienced at Baxter
Springs in the selection of a location
for the postoffice to take the place of
the building recently burned.
Mrs. Stansbury, of Coffeyvil1e, has
sued the liquor sellers of the town for
$4,000 damages, alleging that they.
made her husband drunkard.
Larkin Heron, whose home is at
Oxford, was playing as pitcher for the
Arkansas City Grays, when he fell dead.
It is thought he burst a blood vessel
while sliding to base.
d. R. Gordon, of Dickinson county,
offered 25-acre field for $40 an acre
two cuttings of hay and one seed crop
from it, the whole bringing $50 an acre
or S45 an acre after paying all expenses.
There will be still another light hay
crop.
Another large number of non-union
miners arrived at Pittsburg on Labor
day to work in the Big Four mines.
The companies posted notices offering
their old employees the same wages and
the same conditions which have been
IN force heretofore.
Labor day, September 2, was mad
vertently set for the award of contracts
for work on the state house, but Gov
ernor Stanley decided to observe hi.
own proclamation asking everybody tt
rest on that day and the opening O.
bids was deferred.
A. NJ. Sagar, aged % years, who's
home is in Cherryvale, was stabbed
and killed by Riley Smallwood In
saloon in Tacoma, Washington.
The recruiting station at salina
since it was established on May Is, ha
examined 1@1 appncanIS ana eni1Stet
72 of them; 25 of these were enliste,
during August.
Pastures of Reno and Kingman coun
ties recovered after the dry weathe
but stock water is scarce and in som
places not to be, had. This causes re
moval of herds.
A lot of people of Parsons got scare
and put in their winter hay at $40 an
and S13 ton. Soon after loose ha
was worth 81 and baled hay ss there.
P. B. Kanaga, one of the first to sci
tie at Hutchinson, died at Los Angelo
recently. He went there a short tim
ago in the hope OF benefit to hi
health
o. S. District Attorney I. E. Lam
bert had to fix up the docket for th
session of court at Wichita He e,
pected that B. H. Tracy would be al
pointed in time to do this job.
Topeka home defenders explode
dynamite in the yard of road hous