Free press., 1901-12-14


apples this fall.
Harper now has much cement and
brick sidewalks.
Abilene expects to construct sewer
age system to cost s11, 900.
The Topeka school board has decided
to build manual training school.
Dr. N. o. P Woods one hnndreth
birthday occurs on Februry 10, next.
The state school fund has purchased
some school district bonds of Oklahoma.
Frank Culin, a civil war veteran, died
at Harper on December 9, aged SIS
years.
Representative Miller has bill in the
house for 500, 900 federal building at
Emporia.
E. D. McKeever, of Topeka, has been
appointed assistant q. S. district attor-
ney, District of Kansas.
A justice of the peace near Ottawa
has sent in a voucher for fees i'll case
of ''salt to mitt a fel1ny.'
The Kansas Historical society will
give a reception on December II, to
formally open its new rooms.
A Topeka syndicate has leased lands
near MuIhal1, Oklahoma, for the pur-
pose of producing gas and oil.
w. II. Smith, secretary to the board
of railroad commissioners, is quaran-
tined on account of scarlet fever in his
family.
Delphos has new, Is, 900 bushel ele-
vator, with all modern improvements.
1t is owned by a cooperative grain as
sociation.
The Santa Fe now has depot of its
own at Pittsburg. Heretofore that
company has occupied depot jointly
with the Memphis road.
The De Forrest sisters at Irving have
received 81 900 each as an advance pay
ment from the estate of their uncle,
Henry Dolan, of New York.
The socialist colony in Bourbon coun-
ty of Carl Browne and Coxey's planting
is so far abandoned that the coal mine
and the canning factory are both idle
and only of 80 families are left.
Prof. Ernest Fahrig, a scientist or
Philadelphia, has made several tests
and promises that the Trego shale of
Western Kansas will turn out more
than So ton in gold and silver and
give profit.
Jas. Higgins, a Santa Fe brakeman,
who lost both legs in an accident has
been offered by the railroad company
to teach him telegraphy and give him
life long job, also pair of cork legs.
He has accepted the offer
J. W. Stone, of Lawrence, G. A. r.
official, is one of the incorporators of a
Soldiers and Sailors Historical and Be
nevolent society, with the object of
collecting the history of soldiers and
sailors for the benefit of their families
in future generations.
The Southwest Kansas and Oklahoma
Implement and Hardware Dealers as
sociation, at their meeting in Wichita,
pledged themselves to work for the de-
feat of any congressman or senator
who fails to do his utmost to bring
about antitrust legislation.
Chief Justice Doster, acting as arbi-
TRAITOR between the coal operators and
the miners in the Pittsburg district,
decides for the miners. The dispute
was over the meaning of the phrase in
their contract double shifted entries, y
| the operators claiming that it meant
working men in alternate shifts; the
miners that it meant working two men
in one entry. Judge Doster said that
the first construction was technically
correct, yet by common use of it about
| the mines it had become recognized as
| meaning what the miners contend.
The state fish commissioner has
stocked Cow Creek at Hutchinson with
1000 young bass and 1000 red-eyed
! perch.
Superintendent Nelson finds many
errors in the reports of county super
intendents, mostly in figuring. He has
sent back some of the reports several
times. One report has 29s errors in
addition.
The opera house at Cottonwood Falls
is used for the revival meetings there,
which are being conducted by the Chi
cagO Oliver brothers, revivalists.
A Union Pacific passenger train ran
| into a freight train at Collier, spelling
several cars and delaying traffic several
| hours.
Judge o. P. Engenbright, of Inde.
pendence, became i'll while making an
argument before the Kansas supreme
court SO that he was compelled to stop
before his speech was finished.
Near Pittsburg James Boden, an en-
gineer Of the Kansas City & Southern
was fatally injured. His engine went
down tie bank and Boden was crushed
under il, dying in few hours
]. B. S. Norton, formerly of Manhat
tan, Kas., has accepted the professor
ship of botany in the Maryland Agri
cultural college. Since leaving Kansa.
three pears ago, Professor Norton ha.
been connected with Shaw's Botanica
| Gardens in St. Louis