Free press., 1901-03-16
KAHzAs ITEMS or INTEREST.


Wilder 8 Metcalf, of Lawrence. led |
one of the divisions in the inaugural |
parade.
The penitentiary wagon trade bill
mining.
Train loads of lola cement are being
shipped to fill. orders from New Or
leans.
The bill was passed authorizing
county boards to purchase and use
voting machines.
During the late snow storms cen
trail Branch train was Il hours getting
over AZ miles of track.
Morris Fraley, of Brown county, is
still living on the 16O acre claim which
he pre-empted in 1857.
A gas company has been organized
at Sedan and the work of drilling will
commence Immediately.
Capt Schilling, ex-senator from
Brown county. is still considered to be
in d dangerous condition.
Alfred Harrison, of FL Dorado, usu-
ally takes a trip every year, and this
year expects to visit Hawaii.
"a Spring Hill woman on her death
bed told her husband where to find
her savings, amounting to S40o.
Two hundred and fifty resident and
visiting citizens of Kansas attended a
reception to Senator ]. R. Burton
Judge David Martins remains were
taken to Mechanicsburg, Ohio, to be
buried beside those of his parents.
Cities of the first class are authorized
by the new law TO pay the mayor 1000
year and councilmen $500 year.
The state board of health reports
about 1000 cases of smallpox in the
state, fully one half of them in Cra~-
ford and Cherokee counties.
Judge E. B. Jewett will remain at
the head of the Wichita postoffice force
at least until sometime in May, before
actively assuming his position as war
den of the penitentiary.
At gathering of farmers wives at
a farm house in Riley county, fifteen
in number, near neighbors, eleven of
them had travelled abroad, through
Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land.
At the oratorical contest at Ottawa
Robert Loofburrow, of Baker Univer-
sity, won first place, and John C. Quinn,
of Ottawa University, second. The
Baker man was only one point ahead.
The Frisco depot at Arkansas City
has been robbed by blowing up the
safe, and $59s in checks and $40 in cur
rency taken. The robbers threw the
checks away and they Were recovered.
As there are some who think the BIZ
ennia1 election law of county officers is
unconstitutional, a case will be pre-
pared with the view of having the su
preme court pass upon the question
before the full election.
There will occur something not alto
gether agreeable to the hoodlums who
break mail boxes on rural delivery
routes and use them as targets. Severe
punishment is provided for destroying
them, by federal laws.
Under the law creating free employ
ment agencies the control of that busi-
ness is taken away from the cammis-
sioner of labor and given to new state
officer, appointed by the governor,
with a salary of 81, 200 a year with $500
for Office expenses
G. Christensen once lived in Marshall
county. He is now a prisoner in st.
Helena, having been captured while
serving under General Cronje, the Boer
Hereafter Sumner and Montgomery
counties will have township registra
ton of voters. It's success there will
likely extend the system to all border
counties
Walter Scott, of Atchison, who wa.
at work at Fort Leavenworth on new
building, fell from the roof and broke
his neck. He died at the Fort Leaven
worth hospital
The cooperative store at Canton ha.
been broken into and burglarized bu
nothing was missed save a few cents
taken from the money drawer, and tn,
hand car which the thieves went of
with.
Mrs W. D. Clay, of Wellington, be
ing affected with disease of the heart
had been warned to avoid excitement
She was frightened by the scatterin,
of trash fire in the yard by the wind
but controlled herself for time, bu
when about to sit down to dinner sh
fell dead.
The legislature appropriated So, so
to start the litigation upon the Arl1an
sas river water supply for irrigation
in the case against Colorado.
A special Santa Fe train was rul
from Topeka to Atchison for the az
commodation of those who desired t
attend the funeral of Judge David Mar
tin.
The old lady of Wichita who attempt
ed suicide by eating heads off froI
matches will either be taken care of b
her SON, Mr.. Millison, of Fort Worth
Texas or he sent t0 the insane asvinu