Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-06-01
G. P. & t. Agent, St. Louis, \
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Emporia have their wages raised.
The Wolff packing house in Topeka
is to be doubled in capacity this sea-
son
A steamer has been put in service
between Arkansas City and Geuda
Springs.
A factory has been established in
Rice county for the manufacture of
concrete fe1ceposts.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Druggists in Topeka was attended by
about 300 druggists
Atchison is said to have a man who
never laughed aloud. There is another
one running bank at Cheney.
: VIM. Sharon. Barber county farm
addition of Is registered cattle to his
herd.
At the debate in Emporia between
the normal schools of Kansas and Ne
braska, the debaters from Nebraska
won.
Gas has been struck near Sedan at a
depth of $50 feet which is 800 feet less
than former gas finds in paying guam
Titles.
Hail destroyed the wheat about Ba-
varia, Saline county. in a territory
about four miles square. The land
will be planted in corn.
There are successful pecan orchards
in Rice county. Mrs. Thomas Parks
planted the first one and she is now
getting good profit from it.
The trageling libraries sent out from
the state library are proving to be very
popular in the neighborhoods which
have acquired the library habit"
A battery of artillery from Fort
Riley made practice march to Topeka
and went into camp there for several
days and gave some exhi bition drills.
Ed King, the Santa Fe engineer who
went back to Mexico. to prison to de-
faaHd an immediate trial, has not been
heard from since by his Wichita friends.
The stone pavilion erected in Maple
Grove cemetery, Wichita, by the W. r.
! c. No 40. is now completed and dedi-
| Gated to the unknown dead in unknown
! graves.
A justice of the peace at Eureka or
! dered the mayor to be oUsted from
! office for not appointing an old soldier
|
gave an appeal bond
Cherokee county man sued another
for damages from the bite of a bull
dog He was assessed for the costs o.
the suit by the jury. The costs were
| several hundred dollars
There is one, at least, bogus deputy
marshal swindling people in Kansas
There are but three bona ide deputy
deputy q. 5. marshals in the state
they are E. A. Prescott of Topeka, W.
c. Mooney of Fort Scott AMI c. E. Car
rol of Wichita.
The division superintendent and the
roadmaster of the Missouri Pacific
residents of Wichita, now use a gaso
line motor bicycle for their inspection
trips over the road. 1t makes a speed
of 35 miles an hour when it is desired
to make that time. In a trial trip i
was run five miles in eleven minutes.
The women of Eureka have organ
lied town improvement society. Tn
ladies of the city club recently raises
money for public library and hav
turned it over to the city. Eureka ha
a woman doctor and two women pho
tographers.
Farm lands in Labette county hav
advanced in price from Is to % pc
cent and the demand for them ha
raised from so to IS per cent A hun
dred residences, mostly of the bette
during the past year.
The Arkansas City council has re
duced the salary of the mayor to 81. 0
year and that of councilmen to :
) cents year.
| Smith county wheat looks fine, cor
, a little slow. Considerable land is sci
ing. mostly to home people. Deposit
in banks of the county are a millio
and half dollars.
5 Real value in Ottawa county farm
: has advanced 10 to % per cent With
| - months; valley land selling from s.
to $40 an acre; same land a year ag
held at SO to $40.
$4,000 rectory is to be built by S
: Johns Episcopal church in WIGHT;
= The sum of $1,000 was raised in a fe
D moments after the subject was broache
l at the close of service on Sunday by
member.
f The state prison binding Irvine plar
D sends out two or three carloads
r Irvine every day. Farmers are givin
f this brand the preference.
r Farming and grazing lands in o
4 borne county are changing hands, a
e ways at an advance ranging from l.
to Is per cent over few years ago.
n Mcpherson county land has advances
d 81, 900 on the quarter section. and ne
V men are investing. Banks are unab
f to find borrowers
There was an unusually large sa