Free press., 1901-11-02
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

second telephone company.
a company has been formed to pros
pect for coal, gas and oil at Jewell City.
Six real estate sales were made at
Sabetha in one week for combined
consideration of $40, 400
A gas company has been chartered to
bore for gas at Fredonia and to supply
the city with light and heat.
The largest COW in Kansas is owned
by Dick Clark, of Gaylord. She weighs
1000 pounds and is six feet high.
E. II. Lockridge, of Oak Hall. has
killed the old eagle who has made its
home in that section for 25 years.
Congressman w. A. Reeder, of the
Sixth district, asks the people to select
their postmasters by local elections.
The finest livery barn in Emporia,
with Is horses and II carriages, is
burned at a loss of towards So, 900.
e. Tyner, of Hiawatha owns a COW
feet IL inches long, feet 8 inches
high, feet in girth, and weighing over
. ton.
The city marshal of Wellington takes
boys to school; those who do not at
tend, and the school board furnishes
them with books.
The state board of charities has con-
tracted for 5000 bushels of Minnesota
potatoes with prices ranging from 7s to
IS cents bushel.
DIR. Louis Schleisinger, of st. Louis,
who holds spirit seances at Arkansas
City, has been arrested for refusing to
pay his license fee.
The Chanute Oil and Gas company
has struck a gas flow of 1900, ,OOO feet a
day. This is the seventh successive
strike on Gas Ridge in go days.
Mrs. Lewis Hornbeck, late of the
Beloit industrial school for girls, is an
applicant for the position of matron of
a North Dakota Indian school.
Case Brodericl1, of Holton, has been
made special master to take testimony
in the case involving title to several
thousand acres of land in Western
Kansas held by the Santa Fe rail
road.
c. A. Keller, the Cowley county apple
king, is harvesting and storing in
buildings erected for that purpose 1O,-
600 bushels of apples. He has twenty
varieties. They are now nearly all
picked.
II. B. Brown, of Cloud county, bought
20 acres two years ago at $40 an acre
and put it in alfalfa. His two years
income from the two years crops paid
interest, taxes, seeding and repaid the
$40 an acre too.
It is proposed that the state buy
Stiger's island, adjacent to the peniten-
tiary at Lansing, for the purpose of
extending the state coal mines under it.
The mines now being worked viii not
last much longer.
Probate Judge B. B. Garrett, of Ness
county, died in barber shop at Ness
City while waiting to be shaved. He
had resided there 27 years and was the
first county treasurer. He was serving
his fourth term as probate judge.
troublesome citizen of Ottawa got
to that point in his career requiring a
lesson. The court, in one breath, fined
him s25 for being drunk; 500 for dis
turbing the peace; 500 for resisting an
officer; 500 for destruction of jail prop
erty; costs, $7.15. The court put a
limit on the number of cubic feet OF
stone day he must break until the
1892. 15 was wiped out.
A Rock Island freight piled up Is
ears in a cut south of Peck, the second
station south of Wichita. There was
some livestock on the train. The en-.
gine escaped and no one was hurt A
train was sent from Wichita with AZ
men to clear the track.
County Superintendent Smith, o.
Franklin county, found that when the
monthly meeting of teachers was helC
at Ottawa much time was spent at the
milliners, shopping and making calls
He then appointed the meetings at the
small tows and secured better results
DIR. Farig, of Philadelphia, govern
ment expert, has visited the Trego gol(
fields and sent wagon load of tn,
shale to an eastern station for analysis
During the late drouth deposits il
Kansas banks have increased to $40
100000; about equally divided between
the national banks and the state an,
private banks.
BY report of Statistical Seeretar,
Dixon, the Friends society in Kansa
has gained 1873 members during tn
past year, making total membershi
1,002 at the present time.
Law Notes, the leading law journa
of the country, says that the Kansa
supreme court reports are the best tina
are issued. L. E. Dewey is the author
John Wilburn, one of the mob at
country saloon in Leavenworth count
last February, is being tried for tn
murder of Rose Hudson, who was lxille
by gun shot at that time.
Miss Matte Simpson, daughter c
Ben Simpson, of Paola, the old polit
cal war horse, has been appointed t
position as stenographer in the ST