Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-08-24

conway springs. winch mas pOpuIa-
ton of over a thousand, has no lawyer.
Vol. of the Kansas geological sur
vey is in the hands of the state printer
n. W. Henry, of Chanute sold his
driving team for $500 to Mr.. Jarvis, of
Holton.
The Manhattan Live Stock and Sales
company will hold its next sale on De-
cember 1.
Pawnee county employs sixty-three
teachers of whom forty-six are young
ladies.
The promoter CT a new telephone
system at Hutchinson has forfeited his
cash deposit
The Rock Island will employ a force
of 30 men near Wellington in burning
gumbo ballast.
The government mineralogists are
looking for zinc as far west in Kansas
as Greenwood county.
Miss Marie c. Chamberlain, of OF
tawa, has published book with the
title I'm the Cleaning
Some Edwards county farmers put in
their wheat with a twenty disc drill
drawn by a threshing engine.
VIM. H. Barnes and E B. Cowgirl
represented the Kansas Horticultural
society at the National Irrigation Con
gress.
Mrs. Isaac P. Gardner, of Wetmore,
now has thirteen children, the eldest
being "a years old, and the last ten are
all girls
Robert Stone, of Kansas, is chairman
of the permanent legislative Commit
tee of the National Good Roads asso-
citation.
The Cudahy Packing Company has
contracted for a $4,000 refrigerating
plant for the Company's Wichita pack
ing house.
Manhattan, with its 325 phones,
claims that it has more of them than
any other Kansas town according to
population.
Blackleg vaccine is still being sent
out from the agricultural college to
farmers and stock raisers in all parts
of the state
The E. B. Purcell mill in Manhattan
is being put in condition for active bus
mess. new company has acquired
the property.
A meeting is called at Wichita on
December 10, of the implement and
hardware dealers of Kansas and Okla
homa, to form an association.
An election curiosity: Four wears
ago Judge Riggs received majority
of 35s over Smart. This year Smart's
majority over Riggs was exactly the
same.
Ex-Congressmen Jerry Simpson and
Mason Peters are now partners in the
Union Livestock Commission company
doing business at the Kansas CITY
stock yards.
Sumner county commissioners held a
special session to canvass the vote of
the veterans at the Fort Dodge Home,
although that county had no represen-
tatives there
A new state bank was opened at
Burns the other day and there was
over $4,000 received on deposit within
the first two hours. The capital of the
bank is 1000.
An eastern man recently wrote to
Topeka asking that claim of 100 acres
be set aside in Topeka township for
him to preempt. He will know more
than he does now, sometime
The longest measurement across
Doniphan county is 25 miles but the
county has a frontage on the Missouri
river of 12S miles. The river flows
toward every point of the compass.
One of the fire department stations
in Wichita caught fire in the hay loft,
probably from spark from a timers
furnace in use in repairing the roof
The damage was about $500 to the
building.
A national bank in Wichita received
in shipment of silver several hundred
bright and unused Columbian half dol
lars. As these coins were sold at
dollar each by the government, some
parties must have taken a whole lot of
them on speculation who have now let
go.
What purport to be official figures
OF the result of the election as pub
lished in the morning dailies of No
vember 21, do not agree with each
other; nor do the results given in any
one of them agree with the figures
from which they are deduced.
The State Bankers association sug-
gests that the state place it's idle funds
with banks over the state in $50. 900
lots: the bank offering the highest in
terest to get it and to secure it by de-
post of sufficient state, county or
municipal bonds.
The Santa Fe is laying 81 pound rails
on its Wellington and Hunnewel
branch.
Miss Anna Marbough, of Atchison,