Free press., 1901-11-09


Topeka now has 12s miles of paved
streets and 64 miles of paved alleys
Clay Center has replaced its burned
electric light plant with much better
one.
C. F. Webber, who owns many eleva-
tor, has purchased home for himself
in Wichita.
The Moherman Angora got ranch at
WeIlsville has sold five hundred goats
this season.
Only five Octobers in the past "a
years have been warmer than the one
just closed.
The Y NJ. C. A. library of Hays City,
has received gift of books from Miss
Helen Gould.
Kansas officials defy the law which
prohibits outsiders from hunting in In
dian Territory.
Colonel A. o. Brodie, chosen for gov
ernor of Arizona, lived several years on
a farm in Greenwood county.
The Wichita Commercial club is ar
ranging for trade excursion to the
principal towns of Oklahoma.
Only one arm was broken at foot
ball game at Emporia; the other in
juries being contusions and sprains.
The application for a new trial in
the Jessie Morrison case will be heard
January term of the supreme court.
H. NJ. Reid, of Crawford county, has
lost several cattle from blackleg. Mr..
Reid is big breeder of fancy cattle.
Mrs. Stearns, 90 years old, who lived
at Willis, Brown county, was burned
to death last week She was smoking
a pipe.
J. E. Hurley, division superintendent,
is quoted as saying that the division
terminals at Coolidge will be removed
to Syracuse.
A car containing British mules
caught fire on the Frisco near Fort
Scott. Many of the mules were burned
so badly that they had to be killed.
All but two or three of the school
district boards of Atchison county were
swindled into giving their notes for S33
each for Primary Language series.
J. B. Orr, principal of one of the pub
lie schools of Kansas City, Kansas, used
coal oil in kindIing the kitchen fire at
home, and was burned so that he died
Wellington is to vote on issuing bonds
to build and equip an electric light
plant. The bonds are to be for SIS 900
and are to be taken by the three local
banks.
The Standard Oil company is obtain
ing leases for oil lands in Neosho and
Allen counties. The consideration in
every case is percentage of the oil OBJ
tanned.
NJ. r. PlatS, of Kansas City, tells the
Kansas Agricultural college to send ex-
perts to select two heifers from his herd
of Herefords which he viii present to
the college.
A strong company has been formed
for the purpose of taking out coal or
oil, or both, in the recently discovered
producing district adjoining Topeka's
south boundary.
Sumner county farmers do not like
the the special registration law which
applies only to Sumner and Montgom-
cry counties. Many refused to register
and there is talk of contesting the
validity of the act.
Miss Coles, stenographer of Topeka,
was attacked by a negro while going
home. Her screams attracted neighbors
and the negro fed. A black fiend has
been arrested and is held to await Miss
Coles recovery from the nervous shock
SO as to be able to identify him.
st. Paul, Neosho county, now has a
strong flow of gas and preparations are
being made to supply the city with
gas.
The Fort Scott & Western railway is
to be extended from Gas City, in Allen
county, through Humboldt to Chanute:
the new gushers being. the loadstone
that draws the railroad there
A Topeka township justice of the
peace has been arrested in a poker
game in the city. 1t was Disney who
has been putting heavy penalties on
convicted jointists.
Benjamin Curtis, after farming the
same land near Doniphan since 1854 has
sold his farm and moved TO Atchison.
Ex-Mayor S. c. King. of Atchison, is
having built a machine that can be
used for blowing, or for hauling freight
wagons. 1t is on new principle dis
covered by him, and which he has to
hide because of its simplicity. 1t is a
walking machine with legs, acted upon
by gasoline engine The machine
being built is of Is horsepower and
win be able to draw s plows and turn
over 40 acres of soil in ten hours
William A. Limbocl1er. an old resi-
dent of Manhattan, now police judge
is under arrest on the charge OF having
altered pension affidavit.
In Barton county the local assessors
found only S29, 200 in each. The state
ments of the banks show that there is
81. .323, ,317.71 in cash on deposit in the
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