Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-01-05
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

HUNTS Tor coyotes are the common
thing in Sumner county these days.
Dodge City reports shortage of
coal, extending to about all of the
surrounding towns.
A Stevens county man has shipped
$1,000 pounds of watermelon seed to an
eastern seed house
The two girls who tried to burn the
Beloit reform school have been dis
missed and sent home.
superintendent of Machinery of the
Santa Fe Player denies the statement
that he intends to resign
John Ryan, of Florence, lost 80 tons
of hay by fire, started by locomotive
on the FL Dorado branch.
Newspaper clippings in regard to
prominent Kansans are preserved by
the state Historical society.
Eugene johnson, OF Osawatomie, an
engineer in the Missouri Pacific yards
at Coffeyville, had his head and hand
cut off by the wheels of his engine.
The Kansas Agricultural college
bought a cow in Lincoln county that
yielded S73.75 worth of milk, at cream
cry prices, during the last 10 months.
The highest percentage of school en-
rollment to population is in Kansas,
where it is 27s7. In New York the
percentage is 1894. while in Pennsyl-
vania it is 1876.
Miss Sara Thrasher, a graduate of
Kansas university in the class of 1898,
won the first prize from 800 contest
ants in the amateur Photographic con-
test in st. Louis.
One of the western counties was or
ganized in 1879, but has no trace of it's
county officers since 1891. search in
the state historical society records
shows full roster of officers back to
1875.
The attorney general tells Warden
Tomlinson, of the Kansas penitentiary,
that he has the right to offer a reward
for the capture of convict who has
been conditionally pardoned and has
broken his parole.
The state oil inspector has turned
into the treasury during the past year
$40, 1892 Mr.. Spencer recommends
that in testing oil the gravity as well
as the flash test be used to determine
the grade of the oil.
C. w. Goodlander has written a his
&C. III of
the Goodlander hotel, the Goodlander
mill, the Goodlander bank, the Good
lander lumber yard and at Mayor
Goodlander's office.
There is movement to repeal the
law providing for the organization of
private banks. There are now SO of
them, and under the proposed legisla-
ton they will be compelled. to incor-
porate as state or national banks.
The penitentiary board will ask for
telephone and fire alarm protection.
They also favor giving discharged pris-
oners better clothing. The binding
Irvine plant, they say, should be made
a separate institution with a superin-
tendent.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal says
that from present indications state
with Kansas people and if changes
which experience suggests are neces
sary, are made in our state law from
time to time, there is no reason why
Kansas should not build up a system
of state banks superior to any yet es
tablished.
One Cloud county creamery patron
whose milk check for last month
amounted to S45 says that it was prac
tically clear profit, as the cows were
which was making growth too rapid
for its good.
doc" Johnson, who has had a larg
toy and notion store in Cawker Cit,
for many years, went to visit his farm
in Florida, expecting to return befor
the holidays. He has not been heart
from and there are fears concernin,
his fate. He is an old man.
Will Weaver, who went to the Phil
ippines from Nemaha county, marrie'
Japanese girl and is now keeping
hotel in Manila
The big artificial lake, in Bartol
county, between Great Bend and Hois
ington, is reality at last. The waite
was turned on Thursday, and the bis
basin is now filling up. The basin i
eight miles long and three miles wild
and when filed will be the larges
body oe water in Kansas. 1t will b
used to feed three big irrigation ditche
and also for a summer resort.
The Lutheran church of Abilene nov
has $500 pipe organ.
Frank Rockefeller, the Standard o.
magnate. told friends in Wichita tina
he expected to spend his decliain
years on or near his ranch in Kiow
and Clark counties. lie is in love wit
the climate of southern Kansas. H
residence at the ranch is a large mos
ern building, erected with comfol
rather than luxury in view 1t is SUI