Free press., 1901-08-31
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

$50 years old and another dated 1858.
Rev. Irving Baxter, rector at Salina,
has accepted call from the Episcopal
church at Lawrence.
The Clay Center electric light plant
burned, but the waterworks pumping
station near it was saved.
Jeavenworth. with its big revenue
from saloons, etc. has not enough funds
for full time public schools
Burlington made extensive prepara-
tions for the dedication of the new
court honse on September 2.
Judge Madden, of Emporia. gave his
decision in the Santa Fe Injunction suit
in favor of the Orient railway.
Miss Mary Belts, of FL Dorado, a
pioneer school teacher, has been made
matron of the Kansas penitentiary.
Scottsvi1le is town of 200 people, A
bank recently opened there received
$4,000 in deposits the first half day.
j. C. McColm Union Pacific brake
man, who was sent back to flag train
went to sleep on the track and was
killed.
James F. Legate, who went to the
Soldiers home last May blind, has re-
covered MS sight and mas left the hos
pital
SaIina has damage suits against the
city amounting to over s25, 900 for in
iuries received from defective side
walks.
l. Il. Alter thinks his corn crop on
his Shawnee county farm will average
SO bushels to the acre. The ears are a
foot long.
Mrs. Strothmeyer, of Cawlter City,
was milking when a troop of colts came
mp and rushed the COWS so that they
trampled the woman to death.
A tramp robbed caboose in Arkan-
sas City while the trainmen were taking
their dinner. He secured $50 which
belonged to the conductor and brake
man.
threshing machine and about 5000
bushels of wheat burned on John Gau-
vers farm in Barton county. Heroic
work saved the residence, barns and
granary.
The city attorney of Topeka has dis
missed 81 cases pending in the district
court against joint keepers because
Judge Hazen has formerly ruled against
s1spotter" evidence.
A mortgage given by the Frisco com
pany for Ss5, Gee, 600, due in 1851, is be-
ing recorded in counties through which
the road passes. The original mort
gage has ON it s42, 500 in revenue stamps
Samuel Proctor, of Kfnsley. lost an
arm while going to the Hutchinson re-
union. He had his arm resting on the
window sill when a car door flew off a
stock car ahead and skinned all the
flesh off his arm from the elbow down.
His arm was amputated.
The semi annual interest of the state
school fund has been distributed to the
chool districts. This year the appor-
fionment is 40 cents for each person OF
school age. The. amount of the interest
WAS smaller this year because of the
difficulty in finding investments fol
the funds. Eastern bond brokers Offer
more for Kansas bonds than is allowed
by law to be paid by the commissioners
of the school funds. Besides there has
been a marked increase in the schoo
population.
The Santa Fe recently added to it:
passenger service locomotives forty
Baldwins.
sect Santa Fe move on you is uset
s=a hurry up exhortation at the Tope
ka shops.
Labor Commissioner Johnson effected
aeeompromise at Coffeyville which pu
an end ito the strike of the Touring mil
employees there.
Henry ID. Boutwell,, mourned as dead
for 20 years, has returned to his famil,
at Peabody. He left, or disappeare'
sn April 1881, with considerable money
District Judge Madden, at Emporia
denied a permanent injunction agains
the Orient road from crossing the SAINT;
Fe yards and the Santa Fe attorney
are preparing to take the case to tn
supreme court.
Miss Rea1, of claim No. 2 at Lawton
Is back atwerk in the Wichita telephon
exchange, and will remain there unit
about February L.
Stafford county claims that it ha
fewer people over ten years old VIII
cannot read and write than any othe
county in the world.
There are lots of divorced people i
Kansas, or people who helieve they ar
divorced, who are not because the
have not paid the costs la their divorc
cases. It Is claimed that a Kansas d
vorce is not complete, under the Law
until all costs are paid
In the semi-annnal distribution {
school fund interest Wyandotte count
secured the highest amoant, wit
9.139. 60; Shawnee county gets til
second highest sum, s., ,O49. 20: Sedgwic
county is third and Cherokee county
fourth.
Under the Bush law of 1898 aid CO..
porations in Kansas must make yearl
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