Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-01-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

struck east of Chanute.
Neodesha Presbyterians are prepar-
ing to build parsonage.
Burglars have been working at their
profession in Hutchinson of late.
1t seems to be common practice in
FL Dorado to fill cisterns with ice.
The town of GIasco has purchased a
block for the purpose of public park.
Fifty-three witnesses in the Jessie
Morrison case received an average fee
of s21
Morton Albaugh has been appointed
and confirmed as state bank commits
sioner.
There is likely TO be a bill before the
legislature to LEI the state printing by
contract.
The four new justices will sit in the
supreme court for the first time at the
February term.
The report of the state grain liz
spector for December shows profit 20
the state of $500.
Mound City has a colored woman,
Mrs Carrie Brooks, who is known to
be 113 years old
The country people are becoming
convinced that the Belgian hare is like
ly to become pest.
Major A. 4. Powell, postmaster at
Coffeyville, fell on the ice at Kansas
City and broke leg.
A quilt with President McKinleys
autograph is to be raffied off at a Mont
gomery county church.
Rev. John Moorhead, chaplain of the
house of representatives, was chaplain
of the penitentiary in 1895.
Representative Il. L. Wise, OF Reno
county, who died in Topeka, had life
insurance amounting 81, 800.
There are not enough lawyers in the
Kansas house of representatives to fill
mp the two judiciary committees.
Cattlemen of Finney county are
holding their stock for advanced prices:
and so are the broom corn raisers.
Ten machines worked all the season
threshing the wheat crop about Glasco,
averaging about $4,000 bushels each.
Frank NJ. Rarig will represent the
Wesleyan university of Salina at the
March |.
The A O. U. w. started the year
1899 with 31,734 members in Kansas
and at the end of the year had 80, 444
an incresae of 4,71O.
The cOroner's jury in the case of the
burning of the negro, Alexander, re-
turned verdict of burned by a party
or parties unknown
The demand for arms by both blacks
and whites, including women, soon
exhausted the supply in Leavenworth
after the burning tragedy,
A Beloit man recently invested So, 900
IN Missouri Pacific stock at "a and is
now figuring how much he is ahead
with the stock quoted at S41G.
The school at Corbin, Sumner county,
has been closed on account of small
pox. Another school near Corbin has
been closed because of the itch.
The Whitman house at Salina was
quarantined and the victims first en-
joyed the novelty of imprisonment, but
soon got weary of being cooped up.
estate Printer w Y. Morgan is elect
ed for a second term by a strict party
vote; Grant Harrington, of Hiawatha
receiving the votes of the minority.
The number of real estate transfers
filed in Sumner county in 1896 was S91
in 1897, 1853; in 1898, 1,434; in 1899
1927; in 1900, 1,TO1.
There are many cases of smallpox il
southern Osborne and northern Russell
counties. Schools and all public gath
erings are closed and the country i
quarantined.
The is a demand on the Legislature
for more pay to county and city officers
Several special bills are already in
which may be consolidated into gen
eral bill.
Chief Justice Frank Doster will re
tain his position until the end of tn
term for which he was elected, whel
Justice Johnston will become chief jus
tice under the constitutional amend
ment.
Dennis Madden, new district judg
at Emporia. has ruled that no deere
of divorce will be granted until all tn
costs of the case are paid.
Waldo, on the Lincoln branch of tn
Union Pacific, has seven cases of small
pox and is quarantined. No passer
gers are left or taken at the station.
a bill to enable Wichita to issu
small bonds, SO to 500. for sufficier
amount with which to purchase waite
works, is likely to be presented to tn
legislature. The franchise of til
waterworl1s company will expire ne,
spring.
Senator Tapp, of Wichita, told SEN
tor Vincent, of Hutchinson. that l
got the money to buy his marriage ]
cense by selling load of buffalo bon,
in Hutchinson: and after getting h