Free press., 1901-09-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

900 each time.
joints and when the sheriff called on
them they put up S13s. s5 each
Each institution of learning in Kan
sas has baseball team stronger than
ever this year according to the local
papers.
If there are any Kansans who feel
badly over having had a dry spell they
ought to get pointers from Texas, and
feel better contented.
Although Kansas has $1,000 more
men than women, three of that large
majority were cowhided within one
week by members of tbs minority.
Miss Beatrice Baker graduate of
Fairmount college, Wichita, this year,
has been elected to professorship IN
Fort Scott claims to have the largest
sider mill in the state. 1t is worked by
steam and turns out 5000 gallons a
day. Bourbon county's apple crop is
Immense.
Instead of obeying the order to take
down fences which enclose government
land in Western Kansas, five ranchmeH
are now building SO miles of fence in
Geeeley county.
The Santa Fe let the contract for
building their new pattern house in
Topeka, for $4,000. It is to be 40 by rs
feet, three stories high, of brick, and
well protected against fire.
Hereafter in Kansas under the new
slection law, when a ballot is not
marked according to law it will be
thrown out, whether it shows the in
tention of the voter or not.
Benz Wallacl1, of Effingham, sixteen
years ago gave his eight children each
81 900 in money, and since has given
them various sums each year. Last
week he gave each one S4OO.
/ Allen n. Cameron, of Kansas, has
been appointed marshal of the United
States consular court at Hanlau, China.
He went from Lawrence as mission
w N44Ao y Oo1o
Mat Bennan, bachelor of Garden
City, who lived alone, was found dead.
There wc-e evidences or murder. On
the last day he was down town it was
known that he had S4OO which has not
been found
Here's a record worth displaying to
the gaze Of the world. Atchison coun-
ty, with large population and city
of Is, 900 people, has but one criminal
case for the September term of the dis
trict court.
The bridal dress worn by Miss Clara
s. Glenn, of Wichita, was made entirely
of a cloth manufactured in the Philip
pines from banana fiber. She went to
Manila with her sister, the wife OF
Major w. II. Bishop, of Salina.
In Ellsworth county, where there are
several consolidated school districts the
board hires man to gather the pupils
who live two miles or more from the
school, and the people are pleased as ii
gives them the benefit of graded schools
G. w. Graham. of Cowley county, cut
the hay on the Graham farm and
stacked it, put the corn in the shock
threshed the oats; all without charge
and because the crops needed attention
with no one to give it.
The school population of Topeka in
creased 23 in the past year. According
I'd the school census just completed the
total school population is IL $50.
Prairie chickens are more plentiful
than usual in Western Kansas and par
ties from eastern cities are quite fre
quent in counties along the Union Pa
cific.
The steel strike in the east is respon
sible for delays in the completion o
obout 500, 900 worth of improvements il
additions to the Rock Island shops a
Horton.
The first Sunday of the camp meetin
at Riverside park, Wichita, the stree
car company counted their passenger
after o'clock and there were 2,1s5.
Fourteen of the 154 school distrie
clerks of the state failed to rt
port the tax levy to the county clerk
before Aug %, the limit, and are liabl
to fine.
Rains continue plentiful in Decatu
county and some corn will make thirt
bushels to the acre. Andrew Simpso
has $50 acres that he thinks will brin
him f. 600 bushels
Two boys rented 80 acres of land nes
De Soto and planted it to potatoe
Their sales reach about 81 ,O5O. 1t
estimated that if they had held for
later market their returns would hay
been 81 900 or S125 an acre.
1t is expected that Doniphan count
will ship $50 car loads of apples tn
season. Two dollars barrel 81
offered for winter apples on the tree
Buyers are now paying S1.5O barr
for early apples. The farmers are n,
anxious TO sell the winter apples ia
yet.
Lieutenant E. n. Agnew marrit
May Sexton, of Minneapolis, Kas., an
they started for his post in the Phil