Free press., 1901-03-16

695.23 worth of stamps in February.
An Osborne county has a team of
mules that has served him for "a years
Topeka is having one of t he dirtiest
tricky municipal campaigns in its his
tory.
John Seaton will again be a candi-
date for governor on resubmission
issue.
The law to provide seats for women
clerks will be in force as soon as pub
lished.
A Kingman miller gets orders for
-four from Philadelphia in three car
load lots.
The Wichita mattress factory re
ceives its supply of cotton in lots o.
five carloads.
Warden Jewett says he started with
the office of police judge and landed in
the penitentiary.
The mill at Halstead took in Il, 900
bushels of wheat in four days, paying
So cents a bushel.
An elevator of 10000 bushels ca
pacity at Clearwater will be ready for
use in short time
An end was burned out of Touring
mill at Hope, which caught from hot
box in the machinery.
Chicken farmers in Ness county get
Is cents for capons in Denver, when
ordinary chickens sell for half as much.
The first reported prosecution under
the Hurrell law occurred in Salina. A
saloon was raided and a considerable
stock was coniscated.
Farmers find that the written per-
mits they give strangers to hunt on
their premises are liable to turn up as
promissory notes in some bank.
The Hutchinson school board has de
which to transfer unruly scholars, and
to gather in young loafers on the
streets.
Heavy rains and hail are reported to
have occurred on March ''al1 over
Kansas" amounting in some places to
almost cloudburst. This sounds
strange in southern Kansas.
An administrator of an estate in
of recently and divided among the
heirs more money than the estate in
voiced when he was appointed.
A drilling outfit has commenced
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van Springs. If gas is not found at
that place the Ottawa gas Prospecting
company will try a number of other
places encircling the town.
The Legislature provided for an agent
in every county of the state to hunt
homes for children of the orphan s
home. They are appointed by the
state board of charities, and are to re-
ceive So day for time employed.
Among Mr.. Carnegie's latest is the
promise of S25, 900 for a library build
| ing and a new library for Lawrence.
In all his library contributions there is
a provision for the receiving city to
/ provide well for the maintenance OF
i the library.
Two highwaymen held up six men
in one store at Olpe, Lyon county, and
robbed them. The six men were then
marched to another store and guarded
while two more men were robbed
there. The eight men and four others
were then marched to bridge at the
edge of the town and told to git"
Judge Theodore Botl1in, OF Hutchin
son. is said to have decided to remove
to Utah and settle either in Ogden ol
Salt Lake City.
f. NJ. Rea, postal clerk on the Engle
wood branch of the Santa Fe, was in
jured while switching at Ashland. H,
will have to lay off for some time
The high winds which were genera
on March was a hurricane at McPher
son, where the new round house jus
completed by the Missouri Pacific wa
demolished, its large timbers being
twisted and broken.
Mrs. Grant Gillette is in Kansas
She says that the recent stories abou
her husband are untrue; that he is no
expecting to come back to Kansas soon
that he has charge of mine in Mexic
and is doing we'll.
The ss4, 900 appropriated to pay tn
Quantrell rad claims will all go to 2
persons who have bought up the 25
claims.
The Catholic church in Salina whic
was something grand in the early days
is to be replaced with a new one I
cost SOS, 900.
, The big extra edition ordered by tn
legislature of Secretary Coburn's rC
port will not be out before August, a
the work of the state printer is grea
The contract is soon to be let for tn
erection of the Y. NJ. C. A. building &
, Coffeyville with money furnished b
Miss Helen Gould, the Missouri Pacif
and citizens.
The case Of Balf Stark, the youn
1 Topelzan found guilty of trespass
= one of the Nation raids, will be take
to the supreme court, and an early d.
| ciSion Is looked for