Free press., 1901-10-26

The United Brethren annual confer
ence assembled in Topeka with zoe
delegates.
1t is said that Doniphan county leads
in the number of farmers that have
telephones.
The S. Barnum Dry Goods company
of Topeka, has done an unchanged busi-
ness on the same lots for 33 years.
W. j. Lucas. of OTTAWA, Illinois, has
just bought the Tillinghast farm of 81.
acres near Clearwater for SIS, 900.
c. j. Young. of Marquette, has sold
year of broom corn for s12o ton.
Congressman W A. Reeder, of the
Sixth district. asks the people to select
their postmasters by local elections
Ten of the twenty-five Episcopal
churches in Kansas have been built
under Bishop Millspaugh's jurisdiction
While the state meeting of the Anti
Horse thief association was in session
at Independence seven horses were
stolen from close by the town.
The United States attorney general
decides that the settlers on the For
Hays military reservation have no lega
grounds to hold their claims.
Judge Madden, of Lyon county, sen
fenced George Elliott, of Neosho Rapids
to five years in the penitentiary, an6
fined him $50; all for selling liquor.
The Inman state bank is refusing tc
receive more money on deposit because
it has more than it can loan and does
not want to take the responsibility fol
a greater amount.
BY report of Statistical Secretary
Dixon, the Friends society in Kansas
has gained 1873 members during the
past year, making total membership
IL ,OO2 1t the present time.
The warehouse of the Fort Scott
Pottery company is totally destroyed
by fire with loss of $3, 900. There
was strong evidence that gasoline had
been used, says the telegraph report.
The last list of Kansas towns with
500 or more population which are free
from joints includes Burr Oak, Delphos,
Robinson. Ef1ngham, McLouth and
Nortonville. There surely must be
more.
There were 80 damage suits in the
| Atchison district court at its last term,
aggregating claims of about $3O1, 900.
The largest was S125, 900, the claim of a
| grain company alleging discriminating
freights by the railroads.
Two jointists of Winfield named
Thomas, were sentenced in police court
| on 40 counts to fine of S1OO and six
months in Jail upon each count, which
means Jail sentence of 20 years and a
fine of S4, 900. An appeal was taken.
The entire crop of sugar beets gath
cred about Garden City has been sold
to the Rocky Ford sugar factory. The
| beets tested better than the limit of Il
per cent sugar, fixed by the legislature
allowing bounty of 81 a ton for sugar
beets grown in Kansas.
Mrs. Lenhart, telegraph operator al
Plymouth station, found augur holes
fresh bored in the floor, evidently bored
from below. She wired to Emporia for
help, and in 40 minutes an engine
| brought the sheriff who crawled under
the building and caught Ernest Stout
who was taken to Jail at Emporia.
Attorney General GODDARD has given
an opinion that the law requiring
county commissioners to provide for
the maintenance of destitute widows OF
veterans is valid The question was
raised in Clay county where the com
missioners refused to follow the stat
utes, claiming that 1t was class legisla
tion.
Somebody wonders whether the nexi
move of the doctors trust will not be
to make it crime for anybody to be
cured by an unregistered doctor.
The Kickapoo reservation is having q
seige of smallpox and the towns ot
Brown county have put out guards tc
prevent the Indians from coming to the
towns.
A house alongside railroad tracl
near Atchison has sign on it which ia
been there for 26 years. 1t reads
''This family has been wronged by tn,
railroad company
The state board of charities is ar
ranging to purchase winters supply
of potatoes for the various institutions
in their charge. Seven thousand five
hundred bushels are required.
/
Edward Wagner, foreman of the gov
ernment book bindery in Manila, wa
born in Topeka in 1869 and learned hi
his trade there. He has worked il
Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and il
Guatemala. Galveston and Denver, AM
in the government printing office Il
Washington, from which he was sen
sent to Manila.
Forty-one Italians employed on Mis-
souri, Pacific construction work at At
| Gibson quit work because of col
night They went south.
One drug store stock of liquors seize,
by the sheriff of Shawnee county in