Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-05-18
KANSAS ITEMS or rNrEkxsr.

Wichita has thirty-three passenger
trains daily and all of them are usually
full of people.
Fred Beauchamp, a farmer in Paw
nee county, died of heart disease while
milking in his barnyard.
The war department has ordered the
establishment of a permanent recruit
ing station at Fort Scott.
A g. A. r. monument costing $3.50
will be presented and dedicated at
Peabody on Decoration day.
The Medicine Lodge Odd Fellows
have decided to surrender their char
ter; an extremely rare thing.
The Kansas State Bankers associa-
ton will hold the 14th annual conven-
ton at Lawrence on May 2s-29.
The Union Pacific ballasting. work
ing from the east, will probably be
finished to Salina obout May 25.
A large number of grafters were run
out of Oklahoma City last week, the
most of them coming into Kansas.
The trial of Jessie Morrison is the
first on the docket of the term of court
in FL Dorado, which commences on
June II.
Station A, of the Wichita postoffice
has been established on the West Side
in Wichita Another carrier is added
to the force.
A large and commodious Catholic
church is being built at Waterloo, near
the line between Sedgwick and King
man counties.
Ed Elkins, Charlie Howard and Her
bert McCarret, broke Jail in Great
Bend. They are chaged with robbing
country store
A pair of Kansas jack rabbits have
been sent to Alaska to be placed on an
island where it is believed they will
thrive and multiply.
The Wetmore girls band raised $500
at an entertainment and will now visit
st. Paul and have ther pictures taken
under Minnehaha falls
Colonel John C. Carpenter of Chanute
is much talked about now because he
rendered him by the president.
John Scott, farmer of Coffey coun-
ty, was out killing crows While
crawling through fence his rifle was
discharged and he received the bullet
in his stomach The wound was con
sidered fatal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Lowery, of Ok
ford, are held by the coroner's jury fo1
investigation of the charge of killing
their baby. The child's stomach was
analysed at Kansas City and poison
was found. Lowery was locked up.
Members of the G. A. R. in Kansa.
are renewing their complaint against
making Memorial day general holi
day given over to frivolity. They say
this is their last protest and if it i.
away with.
The w. C. T. q. of Wichita have
come to the conclusion that Mrs. Ma
ton is insane and that something
ought to be done for her. The last in
cident inducing the belief in her in
sanity was that of her whipping the
jailor and trusty, giving them both {
strong desire to get away from her
The criminal case against Mrs. Nation
was passed over when dates were fixed
for trials and it is believed that thi.
indicates trial of her mental condition
instead.
Frank Clark, who is charged will
criminally assaulting his 15-year-olC
sister, in Sumner county, was brough
back to the Sedgwicll county Jail 70
safe keeping, as there We're indication
of lynching party being formed a
Wellington.
j. B. Hoy, an old soldier of Eureka
was candidate for street commissions
and has sued the mayor under the new
law, because the place was not givel
to him. Others who wish the law test
ed have promised to see the cas-
through the supreme court.
The principals of the county hig
schools met at Chapman and formed
permanent organization.
N. A. Stull of Doniphan county
teaches school, has preaching appoin
ments somewhere every Sunday, Ia
delivered lectures in every town in tina
part of the state, writes for uewsp;
pers, plays the piano, can do any kin
of work including saw filing, and
always ready for call for any of h
accomplishments. He does all sorts
things except sitting in the sun viii
thing on pine stick.
A tramp shot at Conductor Al Powe
of the Rock Island, near Perth. f
was soon arrested and taken to IL
Jail at Wellington.
Samuel r. Hutchinson, prominel
figure in the county seat war, yea
ago. in Western Kansas, has been a
rested at Hutchinson, charged vii
bigamy.
A party of Wichita millers took
days drive through the wheat fel
and came back enthusiastic over Il
wheat prospect They did not see al
green bugs.
An assessor of Barton county -four