Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-01-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Kansas now mas 5OO creamer1eS Skill
ming stations and cheese factories.
There are now twenty houses under
construction or contracted for at Her
ington.
One firm at Ell Dorado paid out 81, 900
to farmers for poultry the two weeks
before Christmas.
Frank A. Root and w. E. Connolly.
of Topeka, are writing a history of the
overland stage line.
There are now los travelling libraries
from the Kansas state library, in actual
use out over the state.
Judge A. W. Dennison. of Butler
county, has just marketed 221 full fed
5-year-olds for 50, 764.17,
James P. Webster, the Mitchell
county farmer who recently died, was
a nephew of Daniel Webster.
The Rock Island ice house at Herring
ton has been doubled in crpacity. 1t
now has room for 2 900 tons of ice.
w. G. Barnett, formerly chief opera
tor in the Wichita Santa Fe freight
Office, is going into the grocery trade.
Otis L. Benton shipped from his
Sheridan county ranch 5000 cattle to
Central Iowa, where he is feeding
them.
During December more than 500, 900
in life insurance was written by agents
in Ottawa Most of it was of the en-
dowment kind, with heavy premiums,
the sort that is taken as an invest
ment.
L. f. Duggan, manager of the Wich-
tia station of the Missouri and Kansas
Telephone company, has been made
district manager for all the lines south
and west of Usage City, with headquar-
tiers in Wichita.
A force of men are building a new
Rock Island depot at Enterprise in
place of the one that was destroyed by
fire last month. The new depot will
finished than the old one.
A farmer near Argonia has so acres
of sandy soil which was considered al
most worthless, having failed to raise
either wheat, corn or oats He then
tried fruit and has better profits than
others have on good grain land.
Ernest L. Huffman, formerly of COM
pany D, Twentieth Kansas, later of
troop F, Eleventh cavalry, has returned
to Girard from Manila. He numbers
among his battles the engagement
where General Lawton was killed.
At the home of o. N. Gray in Jewell
City, little boy sat down to his Christ
mas dinner in company with his father
and mother, his two grandfathers and
his two grandmothers, and his great
grandfather and great-grandmother.
Almeda is a small station on the
Missouri Pacific in Kingman county at
which one man serves as postmaster
railroad agent and merchant. There
has been shipped during the season of
1900 g. carloads of hogs from Almeda
The mother of Dr. Mitchell, at At
Gibson, is "a years old. She was mar
ried at Il and now has ten living chill
dren, 100 grandchildren, 100 great
grandchildren and great-grest-grand-
children. She still rides horseback to
church.
D. Tennyson. farmer of Marshall
county, put twenty tons of clover hay
in his barn loft 20 years ago. This
winter he is feeding that hay. 1t is
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pact mass and requires cutting tc
handle it.
Wichita teachers won the special
prize at the state teachers association
for the largest attendance from a city
in proportion to number employed in e
city. The prize was So. % worth OF
books.
The Hutchinson Salt company gave
as Christmas gift to each of it's SOC
workers, turkey and a small cash
present.
District court at Columbus adjourned
and the schools closed on account OF
smallpox. 1t is estimated that there
are zoo cases in Cherakee county.
Mr.. and Mrs w H. Beck are in tn,
Neosho county Jail on a thirty days
sentence for marrying, as they are frs
cousins. They are well to do people
and they say that when they get gu
of Jail they will go where they can b.
legally married.
Wash Pearson and his bride, VIII,
live near Edna, went to the barn han,
in hand, where he reached to TAX
down his shotgun. when a young DO,
tossed a monkey wrench SO that it fel
on the hammer of the gun and Nh
Pearson was killed.
The johnson county teachers asso
citation presented Miss Edith Barnett
the county superintendent, handsom
silver tea set.
Four hundred cattle were stampede
In the streets of Armourdale. Thei
roar gave sufficient warning for tn
people to get out of the way. On
steer entered a grocery store, over
turned counters, smashed show case.
tore down shelving and made genera
havoc. When he went out he took tn
doors off their hinges 1t took fou