Free press., 1901-02-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OAay center nlgn ScnOOl mas O1cycle
rack in its corridor.
The new 5000 bushel elevator at
Harper is completed.
A 160 acre farm in Nemaha county
sold recently for s11, 800.
A Lindsborg mill will ship SO bar
rels of -four to Venezuela.
Forty Mormon missionaries are at
work in Kar sas at this time.
The farmers near Solomon propose to
buy an elevator at that place.
A carload of poultry was shipped to
San Francisco from Larned last week.
The Lyons Roller Mills, at Lyons,
are burned, with loss of SIS, 600: in
surance $4,000.
Senator Harris, it is reported, has
sold his Linwood farm to Geo. II.
Adams, of Denver.
Another train load of horses was
shipped from Bismark Grove, enronte
to Africa, on Jan 26.
When Bill Hackney returned to Wiz.
field he was met by a delegation of
citizens with brass band.
The clerks of the district courts of
the state met in Topeka last week.
They have salary" complaint.
The government census gave Topeka
a population of 33,6O8; the assessors
reported that they found 36,7s2.
The Schillings. of Enterprise, who
had the fracas with Mrs Nation lost
their all in the Galveston storm.
Geo. 81. Tucker. of Eureka. respond
to the toast of honor, kansas, at the
Kansas Day banquet in Topeka.
Mark K. Powell, deaf mute, was
Knocked from a westbound track, inside
of Wichita, and seriously injured.
The Santa Fe has added tinware
department to its Topeka shops and
will manufacture it's own tinware.
The snow of February 1st and 2nd
was quite general over Kansas, and is
considered valuable for the wheat.
The officers of the Kansas National
Guard are asking the legislature for
$4,000 for an encampment in 1902.
The young men of a Saline county
neigborhood got together and drove the
lightning rod sharps out of the county
Rev. Pease, an aged Presbyterian
minister, of Wichita, is crazy over Mrs
Nations doings, and is confined il
all
L. ]. Stuckey, of Sedgwick county
was awarded gold medal for his dis
position.
An oil tank wagon at Beloit caught
fire near the Standard Oil depot. The
team and wagon were destroyed apc
the driver was badly burned. The
tank did not explode.
Andrew Carnegie is to buy a pipt
organ for the Presbyterian church a
Junction City as a memorial to ex-Con
gresham Anderson, who was once the
pastor of that church.
A new elevator in Wichita between
the tracks of the Santa Fe and tn,
Rock Island. is totally destroyed by
fire. 1t had a capacity of 10000 bush
| els of grain and it was nearly full.
Half dozen people were injured IL
Salina barber shop by the explosion
of a gasoline lamp. Rev George Ca1d
| well. United Brethren minister, ma-
die. People who were passing wer
blown into the street and cut by fyin:
glass
Charles n. Nettles. who was officia
court reporter when c. j. Foster wa
U. S. district Judge, and later an ex
pert stenographer, city councilma1
and probable candidate for mayor @
Topeka, died at his home in Topek
on January %.
Thayer, Neosho county. expects
special train of II emigrant cars fror
Iowa to come to Thayer soon. Fac
car will carry the goods of one family
and coach in the rear will carry tn
Il families. All of these people wi
locate on farms near Thayer.
Herman Newman. of the senior elias
of Friends university, has been granite
a $500 scholarship in Haverford colleg
of Philadelphia
Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah Hughes, of TX
peIza, celebrated their G5th weddin
anniversary. He is an old soldier an
has lived in Kansas since 1856. Il
owns much property and. although ,
years old. looks after all of his ow
business affairs
Walter C. Stephens, the speaker
the Oklahoma house of Representative
was raised in Mitchell county. Kansa
The new Rock Island depot at Ain
| was burned last week. 1t was built
few months ago after its predecess
burned.
W. H. Walsh died in Wichita he
pital January 20. He had been connec
ed with the r. g. Dun for So years al
. for IA years was travelling reporter
the agency.
Every saloon and joint in Montgol
cry county has been closed. throus
threatening notices from the county {