Free press., 1901-11-09
KAssAs ITEMS OF INTEREST.

2Dr. J. D. Drake, of Tennessee, has
been elected president of the Lane uni
versity at Lecompton.
An eight-year old apple tree in Wood
son county yielded thirteen bushels OF
apples to the pickers.
On November 10, IL and 12 Bethany
college at Lindsborg will celebrate its
twentieth anniversary.
4 large stand pipe is to be erected at
the insane asylum, at Topeka, as
protection against fire.
Last year the money collected from
fire insurance companies for the fire.
mans relief fund amounted to S25, 900.
The Santa Fe dispatchers and the
trainmaster, now at Newton, are ex-
pecting to be moved to Dodge ity very
soon.
The Rev. Fl. E Mills, Congregation
alist pastor at Fort Scott, and his wife,
have volunteered as missionaries in
India.
Congressman Charles Curtis grand
mother is "a years old. She lived where
Topeka now is a generation before To-
peka was
w. Fl. Haskell, of Smith county, is
appointed to succeed Elmer E. Ames,
of Norton, as director of the peniten-
tiary, Ames having resigned when ap-
pointed U. S. bank examiner.
b. G. Giger, of Independence, is
working on an organization of farmers
who shall agree, generally over Kan
sas, not to plant wheat in 1902; this to
diminish the supply and raise the price.
Wild Tom, 81 ,592, the famous Sunny
S9ope farm bull, has been prize win
nef at The Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota,
Indiana and Wisconsin state fairs. He
weighed, when four years old, 1850
pounds.
Russians of Ellis county are rich from
their wheat crops. One of them has,
in the past three years, marketed rs, 900
bushels None of them make deposits
in banks but they bury their money in
the ground.
nO IdSkAcI IAoLdH La"
renee has the largest attendance of any
Indian school in the country, now hav-
ing 700 while the building and main
tenance fund are really only large
enough for 600.
According to the statements OF the
national, state and private banks of
Kansas there is $50, 900, 900 on deposit,
yet all the local assessors of the state
combined could find for taxation pur-
poses was 81, ,O53, ,424.
The Postal Telegraph company viii
build line along the Katy from Dali
las to Kansas City, with another line
from Parsons to st. Louis, and still
another will run over from Parsons to
Pittsburg, Columbus and Joplin.
A Winfield doctor was called to Ar
kansas City the other night to save the
life of one of its citizens. The Arkan-
sas City officials arrested the doctor for
practicing within the city limits with
out taking out an occupation license.
Miss Effie Kuns, Mcpherson county
teacher, has been appointed as a special
teacher in the schools of Porto Rico and
has started to go there She is a grad
uate of Mcpherson college, holds the
degree of A. B. from Kansas university;
is a graduate in the full course of ex-
preston and elocution, of the Columbia
school of Oratory of Chicago; has at
tended the Northwestern university of
Evanston, Illinois, and the Leland
Stanford university, and has taught in
the University OF the Pacific.
Leavenworth's new library building
is to be dedicated about the first of the
year. New books to the value of 81, 500
will be ready at that time.
An Iowa man has bought eleven acres
of land on Elm Creek, south of lola,
for $25, 200, upon which he intends to
construct brick plant There is an
abundant supply of shale under the
land.
II. c. Chain, 90 years old, who has
lived on the same farm near Huron for
35 years, committed suicide on account
failing health.
AHdTcW OF A)SDOFnc county. saws
he raised A tons of beets on 1115
square rods of land this year.
Frank Decker, Brown county farm
er, has four acres in alfalfa, some of it
sowed two years ago and some of it last
year. He has cut II tons of hay worth
s. ton, in three cuttings He threshed
one cutting and got 43 bushels of seed
worth So bushel, making, with the
hay. an income of S343 off four acres OF
land. He expects to cut fourth CROP
of hay from which he expects two OF
three tons.
a colored school of Fort Scott has
been closed because of about twent,
cases of smallpox among the negroes o.
the city.
Rev. L. p. Broad has resigned a.
secretary of the Kansas Congregations
home missionary board. He expects t.
enter missionary work in the field.
III. r. Brown, of Parsons, is dead a
the age of "a years. He is the oldest o
the Ellzs, having joined the Elks yea
ago. Until about week before hi
death he was going about everywher,