Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-08-10

1000 mum bers drawn at FL Reno.
Harrington people have decided to
hold carnival September and 6.
natural gas well has been struck
on the school house grounds at Erie.
Governor Stanley has pardoned Car
RE nation out of the Shawnee county
Jail
The Kansas railroad commissioners
have asked for lower rates on forage
and feed.
Miss Helen Riley, of Empire City,
aged Is years. was drowned while
bathing.
An elevator at Smolan, Saline county,
bursted splitting 5000 bushels of wheat
on the ground.
Randall Bundy, IS years old, was
oiling windmill at Ellsworth and fell
IS feet. He died.
The ringleaders of the threshing
gang which raised trouble at Colwich
have been arrested.
The Culver Touring mill at Salina
burned while it was closed for repairs.
| The loss is about st, 900.
Thieves in the southern part of Sa-
line county kill cattle in pastures and
haul them away in wagons.
! Thaddeus Hyatt, an early friend of
Kansas, died last week at Sandown,
Isle of Wight, at the age of Sc years
The creamery at Madison is burned
building and contents. 1t is thought
that the fire started from the gasoline
engine.
| Secretary Geo. w. Martin, of the his
! torical society, addressed the best old
settlers meeting Hutchinson ever held,
on August 1.
Kansas Agricultural college is inau-
| gurating experiments in poultry feeding
to produce eggs: also a Judging school
to teach poultry Judging and scoring.
Vice President Roosevelt partially
I promised to stop over at Hutchinson on
his return trip from Colorado and adj
dress the veterans at the state G. A. r.
reunion.
At livery stable fire in Wichita
eight horses were burned. There We're
80 horses in the barn. The vehicles
were all injured but most of them were
taken out.
An Atchison minister sued man for
his fee for marrying him year ago.
The minister concluded-th as the man
| was already married again he could
afford to pay.
DIR. Rafter, who was major surgeon
of the twentieth Kansas, has been re-
tired from the hospital service at Man
liza and will return to Kansas, making
his home at Holton.
A wealthy woman named Brunswick
in Chicago has left a fortune to a girl
named Grace Brennan who worked in a
Topeka Laundry about two years ago,
but whose present location is now un-
known.
Mrs. Tracey, of Brown county, has
sued DIR. Swan, of the state board of
health, for SIS, 900 damages for locking
up her daughter in pest house which
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with man in it.
The city of Parsons owns in common
stock in the NJ, x. & T. road SIS. 900.
A proposition last spring to give this
to the railroad because of the many i'm
provements it had made in the town
carried by large majority. Now the
mayor refuses to transfer the stock un.
less he is Unidentified against lega-
consequences. The city council has in
Identified him. but ne still refuses tc
make the deed.
The manager of the Harvey eating
house at Dodge City, has been arrested
charged with having prairie chicken.
in his possession out of season.
Miss Beals, the winner of second
prize in the Lawton district, denies tn,
story started by the Kansas City Jour
nal that she is engaged to a Kansai
City man.
The slops at the Osawatomie asylum
: amount to about seven barrels a day
There was spirited contest among
5 bidders to get it and it was sold TO
four months ahead at $50 month
The annual reunion of the 21st Kan
sas volunteers has been changed from
l Great Bend to Hutchinson, where /
will occur. on August 1917; dates fxe,
. for the state reunion of the G. A. R.
' j. E. Fisher. of Edwards county, wa
); on the point, five years ago, of aban
f doning his farm because of dry climate
He and his sons now hold clear title t.
: 9 quarter sections, have 100 cattle, 2
/ horses and every kind of farm nipple
: ments, besides 5000 bushels of whea
e in the bin. They have sufficient forag
to carry through the stock.
: Governor Stanley has offered a re
r ward of $500 for the arrest of the maj
: who assaulted young woman at Col
r by. The county commissioners hav
r. offered $500. The wretch was traile,
. by bloodhounds toward Atwood wher
. all trace was lost
E Governor Stanley does not beIiev
that the Blenders were killed nea
. Cherryvale, and almost everybody els
: | heliavaS that fhau Uoro Tx se <r,,.