Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-05-11

The number of inmates, in the char
liable institutions was 3.O39 on May l.
The new NJ E church at Valley
Falls will be reado for dedication June
1st
The ninth annual musical jubilee 70
be held in Hutchinson, is set for June
Al.
A jury at Norton acquitted teacher
who was prosecuted for whipping a
pupil.
Buggy dealers everywhere report in
creased sales and most of them to farm
ers.
The gas well at the Osawatomie hos
pital for the insane gives a pressure of
135 pounds.
Burglars blew open the safe in a
lumber yard office at Norwich and
found about $50.
A Wichita gardener has eight acres
of peas from which he has commenced
to take peas to market
Henry Munday, a switchman on the
Missouri Pacific, was crushed to death
between cars at Wichita.
r. Loofburrow, of Baker University,
won first place at the interstate ora
torical contest at Des Moincs, Iowa.
Kansas railroads are arranging to
run special trains into Topeka on the
day the president and his party are
there.
The Union Pacific has built round
house at Mcpherson and finished lay
ing 7O-pound rails from Mcpherson to
Salina.
The Armour Packing company is
only one of the egg buyers in Franklin
county, but that company bought 16
carloads there in April
Under law which came in force on
May 1 the rate paid by the state for
the care of the pauper insane is cut
down from $3.50 week to 81 a week.
Clark Bud, a Santa Fe brakeman.
fell from the door of a baggage car
when near Halls Summit. His shout
der was dislocated and an arm was
broken.
Implement dealers of central Kan
sas expect large trade to commence
early as most of them are satisfied that
the insects will do but very little harm
to the crop.
The sugar beet growers sent out an
offer on May l of $50 to SIS a month
and board to go to the Arkansas Val
ley in both Kansas and Colorado. Rail
road fare is also offered.
Senator Harris, of Kansas, is one of
a congressional delegation which will
start late in June to look into the con-
dition of the Philippines. Besides Wis
iting in those islands, visit is planned
to other outlying territories.
Captain E. c. Charlesworth. assistant
adjutant general, died in Topeka on
May 4. He was civil war veteran
and a captain in the Kansas 22nd in
the Spanish war. His home has been
in Mitchell county since 1854.
John T. Morton, pioneer states
man, editor and jurist, died last week
in Topeka at the age of 81. He was a
member of the territorial legislature
of Iowa in 1916; an editor at Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, for two years, and
from 1850 to 1861, part owner and ed
itor of the Quincy, Ill, Wing. He
came to Kansas in 1861, having been
appointed clerk of the q. s. courts of
the Kansas district. In 1864 he was
secretary of the Kansas senate. He
served one term as probate Judge of
Shawnee county and fourteen years
as judge of the Third judicial district.
A number of Harvey county Russian
and German farmers are planning
trip to the old country, to be gone six
months.
Nathan Browning, who was sent to
the penitentiary from junction City,
was paro1ed but did not behave him
self and now goes back to serve as
months of his unfinished term.
Eureka has 300 cases of chickenpox:
Severy has two cases of scarlet fever,
and Madison just out of smallpox quar-
antine has number of cases of chick
enpox. All in Greenwood county.
During the first four months of 1901
two building permits were issued in
Topeka for buildings to cost over S1O,-
600; they will cost S63, 900. For build
ings to cost less than $4,000 there
were 116 permits issued which repre-
stint S1O7, 1856.
crusade is on against the jug trade
from Kansas City. Jugs are expressed
to any name with directions to the re-
ceiving express agent to deliver to any
one who will pay the c. o. D. bill and
charges. A case from Usage City has
been appealed to test the law.
David Nation, of Medicine Lodge.
was visiting relatives at Marion, In
diana, and while there visited dog
and pony show and wac robbed of SIS
and his return ticket to Wichita
Patrolman Hall, of Topeka, who
broke the skull of George Head, is in
Jail, as much for his own protection as
for criminal act Head was joint
list and resisted arrest for disturbing a
religious meeting, when Hull struck