Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-01-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mcpherson.
Tails Lebarge, I9 years old, of Cloud
county, pulled his gun through hedge
and is dead.
Senator Henley, of Lawrence, is in
favor of using convict labor in improv-
ing country roads.
Assistant Secretary of State Hill P.
Wilson is about to publish a book of
biography of Kansas men.
Ex-Chief Justice A. II. Horton is
spending the winter in Florida to get
rid of the effects of pneumonia.
Hugh Cameron, the Lawrence her
NIT, having had his house burned four
times, has dug a cave to live in.
sioner has among his regulars" George
Washington and William K. Wander
bilt.
The town of Pratt is so completely
filled that vacant room could not be
found in which to hold poultry ex-
hibit
The state board of health reports 262
cases of smallpox III the state; less than
half the number in Topeka alone one
year ago.
The milling plant of Joseph Oliphant
& Co, in Cooper Hollow, near Galena.
is burned. The loss is $500, insurance
one-half.
Five foreign countries are represent
Ireland, Germany, Switzerland and
Sweden.
North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky.
and Maryland contribute of their ma
tives to the membership of the Kansas
legislature.
Lyon county has finally awarded
contract for building new court house.
Dan L. Thomas, of Emporia was the
successful bidder.
Near jamestown Clarence Hartwen
fell on the ice while hunting and his
gun exploded tearing his foot SO that
amputation was necessary.
The former wife of W. Fl. Catch, of
Woodbine, has received from Mr..
. Will @O,OOO III CASH anu d mousse
and lot from her divorced husband.
Jssse George, formerly a Leaven-
worth lawyer, who was sent as a mis-
sionary to the Philippines, is now SUI
perintendent of the Manila schools
The proposed new election law to
prevent name to appear as a candi-
date on more than one ticket on the
blanket ballot, is already prepared.
The state auditor, in his report,
schedules necessary appropriations for
the two fiscal years ending June 30,
1908, showing total of $3,097, 91S. IS.
Colonel c. A Smith, a Minnesota
1umberman, has transferred to Bethany
College, Lindsborg, the title TO %, OOO,-
600 feet of lumber on the stump in Ore
gon.
Thomas Hindman, formerly a lawyer
of Pittsburg, Pa, and a soldier in the
125th Pennsylvania volunteers, came to
Reno county 10 years ago for his health.
He died on January 10.
Ed. Metz, under sheriff of Reno coun-
ty, was run over by train at Hutch
inson. When pulled off the track he
asked if both his legs were cut off,
saying that if they were he did not
want to live. Both legs were cut off
and he died in about an hour
The Nicholson plant at lola is to
have four more furnaces containing
1900 retorts. This will cause an in
crease of 100 men to the force required.
John Lindsey, rural mail carrier of
Atchison, built a postoffice on a light
spring wagon, with mail pouches and
equipments, glass windows and a
stove.
December 90 was the heaviest in Wich-
tia in point of receipts of hogs at the
stockyards this season. About thirty
carloads, or in the neighborhood of
1000 hogs were unloaded and sold.
John Mahan, of Abilene, judge of
the court of appeals, proposes to re-
move to Seattle to resume law practice.
He has lived in Abilene 80 years.
II. C. Finch, of Usage county, re-
Gently died and in his wallet was found
5000 in promissory notes, some OF
them thirty years old. For a great
many years a Burlingame banks pub
lished statements contained an item:
Cashiers check outstanding" This
check was found in Finch's wallet along
with New York state bank bill dated
1862
The jury in the district court of AL.
len county rendered a judgment for
$500 against doctor for malpractice
the patient having sworn that his bro
ken leg was set ''cattawhopperd.
The habeas corpus suit to get Mrs
Carrie Nation out OF the Sedgwicx coun
ty Jail was fled, tried, and habeas cor
pus denied by Judge Dale, being dis
posed of in few minutes. The peti
ton for writ was then taken to the
court of appeals but Judge DennisoT
said<it would be impossible for thai
expiring court to take up the matter.
The commissioners of Butler count,
paid the cost of the Jessie Morrison