Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-02-16
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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lola has averaged one new brick
school house year for six years
Company II, Twentieth Kansas, held
a reunion in Lawrence, February 4.
Thirty of the guards employed to
protect the saloons in Wichita carry
deputy sheriff commissions.
On February :, 1871. Sumner county
was organized by Governor Harvey. 1t
was named for Charles Sumner.
A commission signed by George
Washington, when president, has come
To- light in lawsuit at Atchison.
The clerks Of the district courts of
the state met in Topeka last week.
They have SALARY" complaint.
Kansas Republicans in Washington
are preparing to entertain the Topeka
tiambeau club at the Inauguration.
q Bourbon county man applied to
the county commissioners to be ap-
pointed as rural delivery carrier.
new Bank has been organized at
Wathena to take the place of the bank
which was wrecked by its cashier.
T.. NJ Erb, of New York. visited
Lawrence with a view of placing an
electric street railway in that city.
Mrs. Jessie Brown and her two chill
dren were drowned while fording the
Verdigris river south of Coffeyville.
Weir City will ask the legislature to
r.;rava ha 10 c60 00O
to put in city light and water plant.
c. w Jewell, retired banker of To-
peka, who died recently, left $4,000 to
the endowment fund of Washburn col
1ege.
Pullman car load of interested
business men of Wichita will attend
the Livestock meeting at Woodward,
o. T..
Stanton county has been sued by the
Aetna Life Insurance company on de-
faulted interest on bonds issued in
1879.
Fred Harvey, the Santa Fe eating
house man, was reported as being near
death on Feb. 6 at his home in Leaven-
worth.
Leading ladies of Harper visited the
saloons there and insisted that they be
closed; to be followed by destructive
acts
Mr.. Hucl1le, of Osborne county, be-
ing handy, rugged an attachment to
his windmill to work a crosscut saw at
his woodpile.
Branner School. with 600 pupils, in
the eastern portion of Topeka, has
been closed because one of the janitors
has the smallpox.
o. p. Updegraff, of Topeka, was one
of those who could talk, and did talk
at the National Live Stock association
meeting at Salt Lake City.
On the last four days of February
the twenty-third annual session of the
Kansas grand lodge of the A. o. Z. w.
will meet in Leavenworth.
The Eureka boring has struck oil in
paying quantities and the town is ju-
bilant There had been heavy expend-
iture of money on the work.
J. T. Houston, an Atchison county
farmer, has just finished new house
on his farm which has cost S12, 900. 1t
has all modern conveniences.
Grading on the Orient road is near
the state line south of Anthony and is
right of way in Sedgwick county will
be done in March.
The snow broke up railroad commu-
nication along the lines running west
from Atchison.
Students at Ottawa university placed
half dozen quarantine flags on the
building, for lark.
The joints at Wellington were CLOSED
by the mayor upon the suppositior
that some kind of raid had beer
planned.
Two hundred and ffty-eight women
OF Eureka have petitioned the probate
Judge to refuse liquor licenses to tn
druggists of Eureka
The ministers of Arkansas City hav
united in request to the mayor t.
close the joints They say they car
no longer repress crusade.
j. b. Bosserman, postmaster and
sort OF local preacher, of Clinton, Doug
las county, is under arrest for violation
of the prohibitory law. He gave $50
bond.
There are three corps of engineers a
work on the Orient line between Wich
tia and Kansas City. How best to ge
through the Flint hills is still unset
tied
Hiawatha druggist was told tina
he must quit selling whisky or qui
business. In ten minutes his door wa
locked and a sign put up offering hi
place and stock for sale.
The womans' clubs of Emporia hav
federated to promote things which wi
tend to the general welfare of tn
town.
j. C. Fuller, owner of the disc-dri
factory at Moline, Illinois, and of tn
gas works and much other property i
Winfield and in Kansas City, died Eel
ruary 9. at Moline, Illinois.