Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-07-20
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


ond trial of Miss Morrison will be
about 81, 900.
The commissioners of Atchison coun-
ty want a ''tax ferret and are asking
Cor bids from experts.
In case from Russell county the
supreme court decides that barber is
a professional man.
The state forestry farm at Ogallah
has been run over by a fire which
nearly wiped it all up.
One squadron of the 18th cavalry is
to leave Fort Leavenworth to go to the
department of Colorado.
A drug store, barber shop and a har
ness shop at Richmond burned, with
total loes of about S., 900.
The Parsons Catholics claim their
new pipe organ is the largest between
Kansas City ard Galveston.
A 13-year-old boy of Fort Scott died
of lockjaw produced by wound on
his hand while firing toy pistol.
A Touring mill and an ice house at
Blue Mond left terra frma for the
clouds in the same column of smoke.
Samuel A Deel, of Baldwin, has
been appointed magnetic observer in
the coast survey office in Washington.
A tourist sleeper filed with Epworth
Leaguers left Ottawa to attend the
national convention at San Francisco.
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for assistant L. S. district attorney,
when District Attorney B. f. Tracey,
of Wamego, is appointed.
Two threshing outfits were destroyed
ing from sparks from the engines An
other in Pawnee county; both fires
reported on the same day.
Many county fairs in Kansas, here
tofore announced, are being abandoned
on account OF the prevailing dry and
hot weather. Like action is probable
in the case of the state fair at Topeka.
The walls of the state library and
of the Office of State Superintendent
Nelson, We're damaged 81, 900 by the
carelessness of some one in leaving
water faucet running all night in a
room on the floor above.
About all the travelling men in
Southern Kansas towns, wnen the
opening proclamation was issued,
found that FL Reno would be appro-
priately entered on their route sched-
ule for the next round.
When Jessie Morrison was starting
to go to the penitentiary several hum
dred people congregated at the rail-
road station; half of the crowd being
women. A large number crowded
into the train to stare at the prisoner.
S. j. Peterson, claim agent of the
Union Pacific, says that 1000 acres of
wheat has been burned along the road
in Kansas. The road runs through
100 miles of solid wheat fields, and
Patterson thinks the railroads loss is
comparatively small.
About thirty years ago General W.
b. Hazen commanded some troops at
Wichita. While SO employed he played
poker and won out. In squaring the
deal the loser, named Bancroft, decided
Hazen some city lots, rated at $500.
Hazen never paid any taxes, and now
a suit is started against Admiral George
: Dewey and his wife, Mildred Dewey,
(vvho was General Hazen's widow be-
fore her name was made Dewey to
secure from them a quit claim of the
lots to j. o. Davidson, the holder OF
the tax titles.
Sam Radges, Topeka city directory,
compiler and publisher from way back
says that GO per cent of the people OF
that city live in their own homes.
There are 40 DEGREES of divorce il
Shawnee county in which the costs o.
the case have not been paid. By Judge
Hazen's order no record of Judgment il
made in the journal until costs art
paid. So there are forty couples whC
probably think they are divorced while
they are still married. Some of thes
are liable to prosecution for bigamy
having married again.
The state board of charities esti
mates that there will be S35, 900 great
er expense in providing food for tn
inmates of State institutions this yea
than usual on account of the failure O
their vegetable gardens from drouth.
Corn in large sections of Kansa
commenced shriveling up on July {
Up to that date the crop had general
withstood the heat The oat crop is
general failure and grass to make ha
is very scarce. 1t is not SO serious i
Western Kansas and considerable stoc
has been shipped there.
Carloads of young and middle age
men, with grips, blankets aud she
guns, pass through Kansas from ia
ther east, bound for the newly opene
lands.
John Howard, private of the 43I
volunteer infantry, has been arrests
on the charge of shooting Chillicoth
MO, man named Gibbons, at Hutchi
son. Howard says his party had bee
warned against being held up, al
when Gibbons with other returnir
harvesters entered their car, some Oh