Free press., 1901-09-28

jured at Anadarlo in a railroad aeci-
dent.
All the saloons at Valley Falls got
orders to close up and quit on Septem-
ber 19.
The Southwest Kansas college at
Winfield opened with an increased at
tendance.
The surplus funds of the oil inspec-
ton department amount to about $780,
900 a year.
Bert Neely. pardoned convict. stole
a watch at Fort Scott, and was locked
up again.
Miss Matte Beal heads the list of
Wichita carnival.
VIM. Bitner, brakeman on the Rock
Island, was killed at Herington while
switching in the yards.
The people of Parsons are furnished
with gas for furnaces at IS cents a
thousand with 10 per cent off for cash.
A. D. Arbegast, formerly an official
of the NJ. K. & T. railroad, fell from
his back porch in Parsons and was
killed.
Emma Goldman visited Pittsburg
four years ago and not much is remem-
bered of her visit except her appetite
for beer
J. n. Hamilton, near Hoxie, lost nine
steers from being struck by lightning.
He had been having all kinds of i'll luck
| and sickness.
| a one-year-old daughter of VIM. Itch,
of Hope, fell from a porch into tub OF
water and was drowned. No one saw
the child fall.
| Calvin Coffee, of Atchison county,
sold his apples in the orchard of As
acres for $4,000. The crop is estimated
at 900 barrels.
Farmers of Dickinson county are
putting in greater acreage of wheat
than ever before. The ground is in ex-
cellent condition.
A nine-foot vein of fire clay has been
found two miles south of Topeka. A
large portion of the Dudley farm is
Win CIlO nTC clay.
Ex-Representative VIM Bradley, of
Clay county, has been arrested for
whipping an old man and his wife, an
old woman, over dispute about a
pasture.
! Ledru Guthrie, former practicing
attorney of Wellington, has so much
business in his new location in New
York City as to require six rooms for
his office
On Sunday morning September %,
the Wichita city Jail was without an
occupant; which has not occurred be-
fore in long time; but fair week is
close at hand.
James James, of FL Dorado, wept
like child when the news of the death
of his comrade, VIM. Mckinley, came.
They enlisted together as privates, al
Cleveland, in 1861.
Mrs. Rosa Bell, aged so years, of ST.
John, was killed by freight train
while gathering wheat from the rail,
road tracks. She and her husband
who are Irish, had considerable prop
erty.
A young man, formerly hotel clerk
of Greensburg, Ind. and Topeka, was
found two miles east of Ellsworth with
both legs cut off. 1t is supposed he at
tempted to catch on an outgoing freight
but missed his hold
Lieutenant Buchan, of Wyandotte
and Miss Laura Conger are married
and will go to Manila shortly. They
first met just a year ago when the res
ton in Pelkin. Miss Conger was witt
her father, the ambassador
5 A negro killed the sheriff of Crawford
county and people along the route h
5 took, in wagon with a woman, lai,
for a chance to shoot him. This wa
true as far away as Parsons.
/ A Meade county farmer who ha
t raised close to 200 bushels of whea
? and barley in the past two season
drove into town the other day an
t made arrangements to get a deed fo
: another tract of 16O acres. He says h
i don't know of place on earth wher
!. he can get ahead at more rapid rat
than right where he is now.
n A Cherryvale man, after getting on
:. of Jail where he was put for fast drivin
S was put on the streets to work ou
e S14. 80 for using abusive language.
: A Topeka woman who said she wa
/, glad Mckinley was dead, was visite
by the mayor who advised he
e to emigrate. She immediately lei
. town.
The K. n. G. officers school wen
0 into camp at the fair grounds in Topt
ka, living in true army style. Co1one
i Metcah and Colonel Hoisingten ar
). the principal instructors.
t Chas. Kerfus, who broke Jail at Hay
3 City, secretly came back and stole ava
V his sweetheart, a domestic in privat
o family.
Judson McGrew. of Fort Scott, so
4 der in the Philippines. died there frol
the effects of thrust from Filipin
| with a T,0iScuod Sr1aar