Free press., 1901-09-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

opened with an enrolment of over 200.
Farmers about LIE Roy claim that
their corn viii turn out so bushels to
the acre.
Brakeman o. Smith was scalded at
Kiowa by hose slipping off the steam
pipe on the engine.
r. Fl. Bishop. aged 72 years, is dead.
He was justice of the peace in Salina
continuously for thirty years
The New York World mentions
Chester 1. Long as among the possibili-
ties for member of the cabinet.
Pratt has hole 1 800 feet deep which
It is proposed to sink !. 900 more before
giving up the chance of finding oil.
Sterling people are agitating the
starting of city library and making
home for it in the new Masonic temple.
The farmers about Culver, Ottawa
county, have organized cooperative
grain company to fight the wheat COM
bine
Private Robt. Tasl1a Salina boy was
ONE O1 Lnc dG CA1C
in Buffalo prior to the death of the
president.
The first days enrolment of the pub
lie schools of Topeka was 5,6s5, being
ala over last year. There were 716 in
the high school.
The Dodge City Presbyterian church
burned the mortgage on the church
with great ceremony and saved the
ashes as a memento.
Improvements have been made on
the Masonic temple in Salina which
cost $11 900. The sets of scenery for
the stage cost S., 400.
The monument of granite to be erect
ed on the site of the old Pawnee village
IN Republic county was shipped last
week from Vermont
Wm. Hobson, Fort Scott boy, has
sold his interest in a silver mine at
Cripple Creek for S65, 900. He has been
mining for eleven years.
A. G. Courtney, a soldier just returned
from the Philippines, was sandbagged,
drugged and robbed at Parsons of $500
in gold and $500 in currency
Captain Herbert L. Draper, U. S.
Marine Corps, who died at Hong Kong,
was appointed from Kansas and entered
the marine corps in July 1889.
The Carr Coal company of Leaven-
worth voluntarily raised the price paid
for mining to 90 cents ton of mine
run; an advance of six cents a ton.
j. w. Hiatt's son Bert, of Grand Sum-
init, is in the Winfield hospital in a
precarious condition as a result of a
fall of his horse upon him. He was
driving cattle.
f. o. Popenoe, the Topeka man who
is mining in the mountains of Costa
dent of that country to go to Paris to
negotiate a loan.
The state board of education is out
on an inspection tour of Kansas colleges
to learn if they are meeting the require
ments of law in the matter of preparing
students to take state teachers certif-
Gates.
Al Patterson, plasterer, was given
a ride on a rail at Attica and ducked in
The city water tank. He was then
warned never to come back to Attica.
the city officers all hid away during
the proceedings. Patterson had been
defaming President Mckinley.
State Oil Inspector S. o. Spencer ha.
g. 4.
His collections were 81, ,357.6 60: expense.
$3.50. 81; profits to the state 81, ,9O7.O6
A man who went into Pawnee count,
and killed lot of prairie chickens ant
tried to ship them, was forced to pu
up for a fine of $25 and costs amounting
to $7s.
j. II. Dye of Clearwater, was run ou
of Wichita for making disrespectful re
marks about President Mckinley AM
for proclaiming he was an anarchist
He claims to be a dentist
On Chicago and Alton train between
Kansas City and Chicago, the other day
IA young travelling man from St. Loni
said that all the citizens of Kansas wer
tcut-throats, thieves and liars A bank
er from Larned, name not given
knocked the young man down twice.
The Frisco, the Santa Fe and tn
Rock Island trains stood still for fv
minutes, from o'clock until 2:05 D. M
wherever they were. Al Glazier VIII
was conductor of a passenger train,
having ministers as passengers, asked
them to conduct five minute service
Owing to a short crop of sisal tha
sproduct has jumped from to cent
a pound, and the Kansas penitentiar
win have to raise the price of binding
ltwine to the farmer.
An Alton hired girl was offended a
tremarks made by the man of the hous
concerning president Mckinley an
chased him out of the house. She the
took her things and went home. Th
girl is the daughter of an old soldier
The people of the town took up a co
lection and gave her a handsome pre-.
ent.
The missing Reno county farmer. Y
Il. Gregory, whose disappearance cause