Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-06-08

took 5000 fares on Decoration day.
jewelry store in Nickerson has
been robbed of 500 worth of it's stock.
There is a ranch in Chase county that
has 2,15O acres of alfalfa. 1t is being
cut
Nine-tenths o: the applications for
jobs in Kansas are said to come from
Illinois.
The state printer makes and supplies
all of the blanks used by county super
intendents4
The present membership of the Kan
sas G. a. r is 13, SOS. Last year it
was 1880.
About 500. 600 is paid yearly in Wich-
tia to people in the postofice and to
postal clerks.
A gas and coal company has been
chartered to operate at Caney. Its cap
ital is SIS, 900.
The railroad board has contracted
for $40, 600 new railroad maps of Kan
sas to cost 1925.
C. T. K. Prentice has commenced
upon his 3sth years service as city mar
shall of Lawrence.
George Milligan. of Liberal, has
started back to the Klondike, with 60
young men with him
Two men from Belgium visited the
zinc smelters at lola. Belgium manu-
! facturers use much zinc.
| There are so soldiers of the Spanish
| American war now inmates of the
! Leavenworth Soldiers home.
| letter from Wellington puts the
wheat prospect of Sumner county at
! from - to u bushels per acre.
| Elk City is the first town to act under
the new law which authorizes cities tc
issue bonds to prospect for coal
John Collins. having learned the
printers trade in the penitentiary, has
been given a subordinate clerkship.
The farmers OF Mcpherson county
have over 1000, 900 bushels of old
wheat on hand, held for better prices.
F. NJ Baker. the Atchison wheat au-
thority, says that the crop in the north
ern part of the state has probably been
damaged 10 per cent.
During May the creamery company
operating in Dickinson county paid
$42, 900 to farmers for milk. It was
the product of about Is 900 cows.
Little Miss Helen Barr, of Fort Scott
has mother aged 10, a grandmother
aged 80, great-grandfather aged 81
and great-grandmother aged IS
The expenses of the burial of Mrs
Sells of Topeka, and for W hich claims
have been made against her estate
amount to $S2475, which amount only
covers two bills,
Sheriff Kiff, CT Atchison says thai
Mrs. Wells, wife of the manager of +;
private insane asylum in that towI
can manage an insane person better
than any man about the place.
1.-The outstanding bonded indebted
ness of the entire state of Kansas
amounts to S33, 632, 3s4; while the banl
deposits reach 500, ZOO, 900. Kansa,
could pay every bond and then have
more in its banks than it had five year
ago.
Experts estimate that under the new
law giving cities, townships and schoo
, districts the power to compromise thei
= indebtedness, ''including coupons anC
, judgments thereon it is possible t.
) max 500, 900 debt amount, in eigh
years to So 600, 624 2S if bonds are re
issued under the law every two years
The Union hotel in the packing hous
/ district in Wichita, with u boarder
r has been placed in quarantine. Ever
male occupant was taken to the pes
house. There were three case
D of smallpox in the hotel which had no
j | been reported
E VIM Barricklou. a pioneer, died q
Coffeyville on May 20. He settled /
i Douglas county in 1855 and went t
z Coffeyville in 1870. where he had sine
S lived He was connected with the He
= aid of Freedom that was thrown int
the Kansas river by Quantrelrs men.
/. Farmers of Phillips county are blu,
r ing spectators lands quite freely an
), there are some newcomers also buyin
lands. The county raises all kinds {
grain, corn, millet, alfalfa, etc.
e Harry Hubbard, of Rlue Rapids, WI
l. placed at FL Dorado four months sine
e and was transferred to independence
His adaptability to the business an
Il his industry have now secured to hi
is transfer to San Francisco, where
T. has charge of the Armour's egg an
IS poultry department of the entire P
cific coast.
v Business conditions are good in No
If ton county and the people have a
h vanced to financial independence
It There is a good demand for farm LAM
lie at improved prices, the purchasers b
& ing mostly home people.
The law giving inmates of the Lea
a enworth. Soldiers home the right
t, vote there at the state election, is Xix
j. ly to change the political standing
is Leavenworth county. The trustees
5. the township in which is the home 1