Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-02-02
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ASOE' hOuBSLOn, OI CnO independence
Christian church, has smallpox.
Mr.. Caves bill for the determination
of prairie dogs has passed the house.
A Caldwell contractor has contracts
for the foundations of eight residences.
The bill to divide the sitting of the
Crawford county district court has
passed the senate.
The whole camp of the Salvation
army in Parsons is quarantined on ac-
count of the smallpox.
The colored men of Seattle have
offered Z; $50 reward for the burners of
Alexander at Leavenworth.
Mrs. Elizabeth Greer died in Topeka
the other day in the house in which
she had lived forty-One years.
John C. Hermann, Nickerson boy,
is now high clerk in the corporation
counsel7s Office of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Herb Rogers, of Douglas county, lost
his barn with considerable corn and
oats, by the upsetting Of a lantern.
John NJ. Tanning was convicted last
week at Ottawa, of assault and attempt
to kill Sheriff Costigan last summer.
Representative Ridgeley voted for the
re apportionment bill which would
have given Kansas only seven mem bers.
DR.. Z. II. Creditor, of Wichita, is vice
president of a company formed in Chi
cago to exploit oil fields in California.
One Emporia man sued another for
81. 25 for balance due on carting some
rock. The other man sued back for SO
damage to the rock through breaking
it and won.
Angora goats are tempting and prom
Use profit, but it may be as we'll to re-
member that there was similar craze
about 40 years ago. What became of
it? Does any one know?
The first telegraph wire was strung
in Kansas in 1889. 1t was up the Mis-
souri, river to Leavenworth. 1t was
several years later before there was a
wire up the Kansas river.
Many of the schools of Kansas pre-
pared to celebrate John Marshall day.
February is the centennial Of Chief
justice Marshalrs first membership of
the United States supreme court.
Lewis Bubb, jr., of the Efingham
high school in Atchison county. was
hazed by having a part of his head
shaved and painted red. Bulbs par
ents threaten to arrest the hazers.
s. NJ Scott, a former candidate for
congress from the Fourth Kansas dis
trict, says he owns 325 acres next to
the great oil well at Beaumont, Texas,
for which he could get 81, 600 an acre.
Senator Smith says that hardly bill
comes to the judiciary committee that
does not require to be rewritten so
that it will stand the test ofthe courts
Macy even forget to put in enacting
clauses and titles.
The oldest volunteer soldier, Thomas
Z. Sauls, aged 81, died recently in
Webb City, Mo. He served in the Sem
mole war, in the Mexican war and in
1862 enlisted in the Sixth Kansas and
served three years in the civil war.
Injunction suits have been started by
the Dickinson County Temperance
Union, against four saloons at Abilene
one at Lexington, one at Solomon and
two at Hope. Officers of the Union
say they will push the injunctions.
The Rev. 5. s. Martin, pastor of the
Methodist church at Fort Scott, has
hao Of
with back pay to the amount of $500
Mr.. Martin enlisted in Speaker Hen
de -ons Iowa regiment when he wa.
but IA years old.
concurrent resolution introduced
in the Kansas legislature provides TO
a joint committee from both houses t,
confer with the Missouri legislator,
regarding alleged unjust discrimina
ton against grain shippers by elevate
men and spectators
There are about 5000 acres of gov
eminent land in Kansas as yet unoccu
pied. Most of this land exists in scat
tered tracts of about 40 acres each
Amos Riggs, an s-year-old boy, Q
wagon to catch q ride. When he lie
loose he fell under the wheels and wa
instantly killed.
Major 81. Wood Martin died in Noun
Vernon, Ills, last week He was
member of the first Kansas Legislature
In 1861 he was appointed agent of tn
Sac and Fox Indians
Ploughing has been done on tn
farms, during January. quite general,
in the southern counties; three tiel
from the south line of the state
The outgoing board of county con
missionerS of Waubaunsee count
named the superintendent of schoo
elect to fill the vacancy until his teri
began. When the new board secure
control they reconsidered the actio
and named the retiring superintender
for the interim. Both claim mail a
the postoffice and both are refuses
OF course there are other complication
The chairmen of the committees O
Judiciary of both houses of the 1egisl
ture expect their committees to repo