Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-06-22

Diphtheria is epidemic in Atchison
and is quite fatal among children.
W. P. Tomlinson, veteran Kansas
editor, died in Topeka, June ID, aged
65
The Salina creamery made 1922
pounds OF butter in the first week in
June.
A new s., 900 Methodist church has
just been dedicated at Chelsea, Butler
county.
Sixteen farmers about Woodbine
have planted $4,000 bank in Wood
bine.
IAN Ottawa county farmer has just
been marketing 1000 bushels of old
| wheat.
Kansas City crooks were arrested
for robbing a store at Roxbury, Nc
| Pherson county.
Geo. Sharp, Central Branch brake
man, was killed near bingham by an
overhead bridge.
The State Agricultural college con-
fered degrees on 81 graduates and nine
! post graduates on june u.
Labette county made its first ship
ment of butter to New York last week.
The Parsons creamery sent carload.
A project is started in Columbus to
put on an automobile cab line to and
from the union depot to advertise the
| town.
Walter Post, aged IS years, was
drowned in the mill race in Burlington
while swimming. He was seized with
cramps.
Kingman county has 166 people who
are over 20 years old: of these thirty
are past 80, three are past 90 OF the
1856 the women far outnumber the
men.
A villain threw a stone through the
window of a Katy passenger coach, at
Parsons, and Miss Libby Chetelle was
struck by it and received internal in
jury.
Ex- Representative E. ]. Turner, of
the Sixth Kansas district, is practicing
law in Washington before the con-
gressional committees and depart
ments.
G. B. linn, of Topeka, ships scoring
Holstein cattle to Mexico where he has
business partner. They are doing
much to improve the breed of cattle in
| Mexico.
The Topeka Mirror Manufacturing
company has asked the attorney gen.
eral of the United States to prosecute
the Mirror and Plate Glass trust under
the Sherman antitrust act.
D. B. Bartholomew, stockman and
farmer of Stafford county, was killed
at the depot at Hudson. The express
truck stood too near the track and an
engine struck it and it was hurled
against Mr.. Bartholomew.
L. w. Luellen. of Olathe, the invent
or of a voting machine. is in Washing
ton consulting attorneys about organ
izing company to build the machines.
Ex-State Treasurer Heff1ebower is f.
nancing the invention.
Miss Augusta NJ. DeForest, who won
scholarship in Washburn college,
when she graduated from the Atchison
county high school at the age of Is years
has now won a four year scholarship
in Columbia university at Washington,
D. c., Upon her graduation from a
high school of that city.
Mrs Amelia Bruning, who has been
a widow Q years, has in that time
greatly improved her farm in Ellsworth
oo,,1tr TNIo far,p oc1SiS+e IF seO Z. o-o.
of which 200 acres raised a crop OF
wheat this season: with other crops in
proportion. She has fruit in abund-
ance. Her house is % by 80 and her
barn 80 by As with sheds for 100 cat
tie.
Prof. James H. Garfield, once chan.
cellor of Kansas university, now Ii
brarian of Columbia university, Ohio
is proposed as national president OF
the Young Mems Christian Association
A representative of a Kansas City
firm spent three days in Wichita try
, ing to find an agent who would take
loans for his firm. He was told that il
> was useless as no money was wanted
= on mortgages in that part of the state
/ that banks were buying per cen
a school bonds because of there being NJ
demand for loans.
The st. Louis Democrats beauty
! show at Salina resulted in the selection
/. of Miss Margaret Mcconnell as tn,
/ most beautiful woman in that city
. Miss Mcconnell is city school tecaher
s Hugh A. Cook is dead at Ottawa
He came to Lawrence in the sos AM
: his store was burned there in the Guam
: trell raid. Later he was associated
e with Scion o. Thatcher in newspape
L work. He was twice sergeant-at-arm
e and once member of the legislature
d and was the second sheriff of Franklin
county. His children numbered IA.
e There were only about twenty dele
If gates of Sons of Veterans at the juno
IS ton City encampment. The member
J. ship in Kansas is now only about 400
d Twin Grove township OF Greenwood