Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-08-17

Bluff City has arranged for public
concerts every Saturday.
The ex-Confederate association held
a meeting in Wichita on May Is.
Coffey county orchardists complain
of the ravages of the canker worm.
The Kansas penitentiary has LOIS
inmates, $50 of them from Oklahoma.
The ninth annual musical jubilee to
be held in Hutchinson, is set for June
At
The graduating class at the Larned
high school included Is girls and four
boys.
Morris county voted in favor of build
ing new court house by over 500 ma
jority.
Medicine Lodge is hoping for an ex-
tension of the Choctaw road to that
place.
Senator Bent Murdoch seems to be-
lieve that the Orient road viii miss
FL Dorado.
The city pastors frequently preach
on Sunday afternoons at the Masonic
home in Wichita.
Marshall county has had seven burg
larry cases in 30 days, three of them be-
ing postoffice burglaries.
There is one man in Wichita who
collects rent roll of So, 900 to So, 600
month from his nearly $50 residences.
Over 200 representative wheat grow
ers of the state met in Salina on May
II. to organize to fight the wheat
trust.
Mrs. Eliza T. Grismore, of Lawrence,
took part in drill at Tonganoxie by
| the Lawrence Rebelxah lodge and died
of apoplexy at that palce.
The Oxford, Kansas, ball team beat
the Indians from the Chilocco school
by score of one to nothing. There
were no errors in the game.
Christian Scientists have p1 released
a site for a new church in Wichita and
also the old Congregational church
| which they will move and make over.
Fully $500 of the best horses of that
region have been shipped from Abilene
in the last year and half, which has
reduced the farmers stock so that
buyers can get but few now.
The new law requires only four
jurors to try insanity cases. In case
no jury is demanded the judge may
appoint two physicians as commission
ers to take evidence in the case.
The making of better roads is assum-
ing a large place in the attention OF
| the farmers of Kansas. Plans for sec
tions of macadam roads are being
planned for in many townships.
The United States government has
made contract with the Coffeyville
Brick company for brick for use in
Montana 1t is understood that the
brick will be furnished at the plant at
Cherryvale.
| There seems to be authority for the
| statement that the Choctaw railroad
system will build line through Au-
gusta, Okla, to Alva, and from there
parallel the Orient through Anthony
to Wichita.
! farmer near Spearville took claim
on school land about Is years ago but
never proved up. He put valuable i'm
| provements on the land making good
farm. He did not prove up in order
to escape taxes. Recently he wrote to
Topeka that he wanted to make a new
entry of the land. He was told that
his only chance to get title would be
to buy 1t at auction when it is put up
for sale by the state.
What is probably the last case in the
Parsons-Clay Center contest about the
location of the new asylum will be
heard in the supreme court in June.
w. L. Martin, a general agent al
Winfield for an implement company,
while target practicing, received bull.
let through his head and was killed in
stantly.
The sale at auction of the Usage
lands in Kansas will be made at the
U. S. land office in Topeka on July 10
There are about 5000 acres of it il
small tracts.
Sherman Shinkle, after two years
service IN the Philippines reached hi.
home in Ottawa while his fathers flu.
neral was going on. He was not ex
pected nor had he heard of his father
death.
Henry Lowery, of Oxford. has blacl
hair. He is charged with killing tn,
last baby added to his family becaus,
it had red hair.
5 John Emmeluth, who is leading the
: opposition to Governor Dole, of Hawaii
is former resident of Atchison wher,
he was a timer.
} j. f. McAfee has resigned the man
1 agement of the Topeka Wooden Mil
company and is organizing a eompan!
to start a new wooden mill there.
At the state county high school ora
torical contest at Chapman. J. w. Kay
\ ser, of Sumner county, took first place
: with A. p. Morrison. of Norton, sec
s ond- All the county high schools wer
represented.
D Among the causes for the great de
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