Free press., 1901-02-09

more new box cars
The senate refuses to bar lobbyists
from the senate chamber.
An Enterprise photographer is ad-
vertising eight views of the Nation
raid.
burned to death in her house in Pitts |
burg.
The Kansas agricultural college |
dairy makes 1900 pounds of butter a
week.
Februarv opened with 100 students
enrolled at Kansas university, with
more expected.
1t seems unlikely that the legislature
new insane asylum
Mr.. and Mrs Gideon Ready, who
have lived in Topeka 80 years, have
been married Il years.
The board of managers of the Sons
of the American Revolution met in To-
peka on January 3s.
E. ]. Eicholtz. Hiawatha druggist,
has destroyed his stock of liquors. His
stock was quite valuable
Wicfield Freeman, of Wyandotte
county, is being pushed for appoint
ment as consul at Dublin.
Secretary q. W. Martin proposes to
prepare a new Kansas history. in four
volumes of GOO pages each.
The Santa Fe has added to the Ii
braries provided for the reading rooms
for employees along the line.
/ Stockmen of Osborne county who
have tried both say that they can raise
more and better feed from sorghum
than from alfalfa, acre for acre.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Palmer, of
Nortonville. recently celebrated their
67th marriage anniversary. Mr.. Palmer
is 90 and his wife nearly as old.
4 $3.50 team, hitched to road wagon,
was stolen from a hitch rack at Oxford.
Large rewards are offered by Sumner
county and by the Anti Horsethief as
sociation.
The State Cattlemen's association at
their meeting in Topeka, decided to
use their best efforts to secure rail-
| roaG bill without classification on rate
schedule.
| A mattress factory in Wichita. uses
about 300 cords of cottonwood, each
The factory has the latest machinery
for this purpose!
| E. W. Thrall, of Eureka. is the owner
of the largest herd of Galloway cattle
in Kansas, and is also the newly elect
ed president of the American Galloway
Breeders association.
Barnum B. Brown, formerly a col
lector for the natural history museum
of Kansas university, goes to Africa on
a collecting expedition for the Ameri-
car museum of New York.
L. H. Mckinney, who travels for a
patent medicine house, stopped at
Robert Puckett's farm house in Wilson
county, and finding Puckett sick gave
him dose of belladona which killed
him. He has been arrested.
| a business man of Horton laid down
his overcoat in the Rock Island depot
waiting room in Topeka, to take a
| drink of water. When he turned
around his coat was gone and the $3.50
roll which was in its pocket, with it.
Representative Storms, of Stevens
county, staid by his land there when
| To
to live someway'' and picked up COW
now and then-l<ept the calves and
after awhile found himself one of the
most substantial of the cattlemen o.
Western Kansas.
Fees collected in January by the
superintendent ofinsurance and turned
into the state treasury. amounted tx
S17O.45.
The superintendent of the insane
asylum at Topeka turned in to th'
state treasury on January 81, 1864. q
received for the maintenance of privat,
patients.
Abraham Whitehead and wife. O
Lincoln county. We're bern on the sam
. day in 1890 They lived together 3
years and both died on the same da,
last week.
Wyandotte county has had a negr
ravisher in Jail for some time. Hun
, Everitt knocked down and assaulte
4 young lady when she was going hom
from her work one evening last Nc
vember.
! Miss Mary Mastellar was burned t
, death in Ell Dorado. She was carryin
a lamp She came from Philadelphi
to visit friends in FL Dorado.
Jointkeepers and their friends raise
f money to present Mrs. Meyer VIII
j.. pounded Mrs. Nation. with a gol
broom in the form of a breastpin.
a Citizens on rural mail routes mus
4 comply with the regulations as to ma
r boxes or their free delivery will be CT
off Inspection is going on and notice
= will follow where boxes are foun
: which do not fill tie requirements.
d The father of the negro Alexande
T who was burned in -Ieavenworth, PR