Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-07-27

A new laundry building and outfit
at Eureka is burned at loss of $500.
The pasture lands of Kansas are
greater in extent than Pennsylvania.
Kansas wheat harvest covers 200, 600
more acres than all the state of Della
ware.
Bank Commissioner Albaugh is of
the opinion that Kansas has too many
banks.
Two hundred Odd Fellows attended
the dedication of a new hall at Hum
boldt
Northeastern Kansas complains of
a severe drouth during the last week
in June.
The cost to Butler county in the Sec
ond trial of Miss Morrison will be
about So, 900.
The files of the Atchisou Champion
show that on June 20, in the years, 1881,
1891 and 1901, the thermometer regis
tered 102 in the shade.
Miami county has just paid S212, 200
to take up its bonds voted to the NJ. &.
& T. 80 years ago. The county has not
another dollar of debt.
The Birdsell family, of Nortonville,
consists of father, mother, three sons
and five daughters, and the average
weight of the ten is 200 pounds.
In Dickinson county chinch bugs
have left the stubble fields and are at
work upon the corn. They multiplied
enormously during the dry weather.
While the county teachers institute
was in session at Westmoreland a game
of baseball was played between the
| girls of the institute and the town
| girls.
Bethany College, at Lindsborg, has
been presented with all the important
works of the $50 most noted authors,
which constitute the best Swedish
| library in America.
! Alfred Swanson, a farmer of Nc
| Pherson, county died in his harvest field
after working continuously three days
and two nights. 1t was called sun
stroke, but was a death from over
work
Twin boys, Is months old, were play
| ing on the railroad track near Wood
ston, Rocks county, and both were in
stantly killed by train. They were
children of c. C. Cook, whose home is
near the track.
The city ordinance of Wellington
which places an occupation tax of
$1,000 a year on druggists who hold
permits to sell liquor went into effect
on July /. The tax is payable semi
annually in advance.
The legislature provided for parole
agent to keep track of the prisoners
paroled from the state reformatory, and
j. w. Leibengood, of Hiawatha, has
been appointed to that Office. The
salary is 81, 900 year.
1t is asserted that the board of com
missioners of Shawnee county has con-
tracted with lawyers to prosecute the
SO insurance companies doing business
in the county, under the law which
puts penalty upon the use of rate
books by their agents.
a hobo entered the house of Frank
Kestler in Barton comfy, while the
. family were all in the harvest field.
He found $50 and left, but was follow
ed when he fired upon his pursuers
without effect, but received shot from
them, which may be fatal. The money
was recovered.
A ton of Trego county shale has
yielded SIS worth of silver and SIC
worth of gold.
: State Labor Commissioner johnson
r is harvesting his $40 acres of wheat in
Sumner county.
Pittsburg has 12 676 people and with
: the mining camps surrounding the city
the number is 10, 500.
t Elmer Mott, a Topeka mail driver, il
in Jail charged with robbing mai
O packages of jewelry.
S A New York alderman has schem,
to send 5000 unemployed men AM
S women to Kansas and Kansas will no
e stand it and has told the New Yorke
y SO. Governor Stanley sent this mes
thrifty, helpful people, but doesn't in
=, tend to become the poor house OF tn
d nation.
n Items like this are common thin,
er just now: a farmer near Belle Plain
is threshed his wheat and it turned on
t. 35 bushels to the acre and tested 6
rs pounds to the bushel. He was NOR
E. surprised than he could express.
,e S. P. Calm, one of the jurors in til
al Jessie Morrison case, lost his big ha
in barn on his farm by fire.
President and Mrs Taylor of sh
State normal closed their 10 years sci
- vice in the school buried in flower
IF After the regular chapel assembly tn
~ students, dressed in their best, hle
past the stage, each throwing a DO,
quet which left the recipients OF thel
'V- 'knee deep in June"
De A Winfield beer seller was convicte
rs of dispensing II glasses of beer anon
II men and was fined 81, 700.