Free press., 1901-10-12

Topeka who have been made special
policemen.
A commercial creamery is to be
started at Kansas agricultural college
on November 1.
About so families from Missouri are
expected to settle IN Ford county be-
fore next spring.
Haskell county has cancelled S32, ,OOc
of judgments and warrants by issuing
S26, 900 of bonds.
The state permanent school funds
are now all invested up to the full
amount, Sc, 100000.
The ranchmen about Liberal are har.
vesting the largest forage and feed
crops ever known there.
Two detectives are trailing D. w.
Kent, the defaulting grand secretary
of the I. o. o. F. grand lodge of Kane
sas.
j. F. Mallory fell from a Union Pa
| cific train in North Topeka and was
killed. He was brakeman and his
home was in Rossville.
| The August payments of the Topeka
pension agency aggregated S3,754,-
! 634.s7. The payments for the present
| quarter will reach 81, 900, 900.
The Carnegie library at Leavenworth
is nearly completed. The city will pay
that part of its cost not met by Mr..
| Carnegie's donation of S25, 900.
W. P. Patterson, of Fort Scott, has
been appointed cashier in the Office of
| Colonel w. w. Martin, treasurer of the
Soldiers home at Leavenworth.
John Means and Charles Williams,
of Ellsworth county, together with
bushel OF lead dollars of their manu-
facture, have been gathered in.
Ross Lynn, a graduate of the Sterling
high school, has won a $500 scholarship
at Harvard. He is earning his own ex-
pense money there. Watch him!
Frank Suiter, smelter workman at
Gas City, was killed by the fall upon
him of a heavy casting. In his pockets
at the time there were found 81, $50 in
bills and notes to the amount of 5000.
s. P. Burnell, well known old sol
dier, and his wife, have sued eX-Repre-
sentative w. S. Bradbury for $4,000
on account of Bradbury's attack on the
old couple with horsewhip recently.
township board in Greenwood
county has been ordered to appear be-
fore the supreme court for contempt of
court. They were ordered to levy a
tax to pay a Judgment and have not
| done it.
The ''True Eleven a new order orig
mated by colored people at Atchisons
owns its own lodge room. Eight of it's
members are to open a night school to-
teach old colored people how to read
and write.
VIII H. Glover, for several years a
postal clerk on the NJ. K. & T. out of
Parsons, is charged with borrowing
sums of money from various women,
giving a different assumed name in
each case. He is now in jail at Paris,
Texas.
It does not seem long to us old set
tiers back to the time when it was COM
mon belief that it was of no use tc
plant fruit trees in Kansas very faI
away from the bluffs of the Missouri
picking his crop of 10000 bushels OF
apples.
In 1890 F. A. Hough, of Hiawatha,
Kansas, gave as a gift a note to the
| mi IF ir1o1
$465. He paid $50 interest and now the
principal and interest amount to 500
for which he has been sued by the uni
versity. He has made no signs of pay
ing and the case is set for the Novem-
Der term of court.
The Pike monument just unveiled in
Republic county, has been paid for out
. of the state treasury. Its cost is
$1,75O.
) Ruffianism in Kansas colleges is tc
be shut off at Kansas University if the
authorities there can successfully carry
out their plans. Ruffianism in colleges
has become a stencil everywhere.
S The Kansas State board of charitiei
S has let the contract at S19, ,5S5, fol
building a new school building at the
t Kansas institution for the blind a
Kansas City.
t The Missouri Pacific is going to bui1C
t a freight depot in Wichita to cost $50,
e 900. 1t is to be 400 feet long and 81
r feet wide, and is to be completed b,
e February 1, 1902. This new buildin,
is to cover the entire block on the cas-
d side of Wichita street between Firs
t and Second, the block just north of tn
o new passenger depot.
s Charles Meredith, a cattIeman VIII
r came from Clayton, n. NJ, and bough
e property in Wellington, committed sui
y eide with a pistol. Financial trouble
are supposed to be the cause.
e C. Q. Chandler has organized hi
d twelfth bank. 1t is at HunneweI
n Fred Laird, the Topeka cocaine fen
who, it is said, attempted to blaclzmai
t, Charles Wolff, the local packer, out c
It 1000 by threatening to kill dim, wa
D adjudged insane and ordered sent t