Free press., 1901-11-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cubic feet of gas every "a hours.
The Southern Kansas and Oklahoma
Implement Dealers association is to
meet at Wichita on December and 5.
The city marshal of Havensyille has
been arrested for striking boys who re-
fused to obey his order to go home on
Halloween.
A. C. Emmons, mineralogy expert,
has been detailed by the interior de-
partnlent to inspect the Trego-Ellis
gold fields
For the first time in eleven years
there is a change of one county COM
missioner of Smith county in party
membership.
James Simpson, the third white man
to settle in Doniphan county, died on
his preemption claim recently at the
age of 90 years.
It is believed in official circles that
fully IS per cent of the ballots cast at
the late election were rejected on ac-
count of errors.
Coffey sille has fire alarm which is
piece of pipe with a whistle at the
with a gas well.
Fredonia has gas well; calls it one
of the very best in that gas belt The
company has already seven miles of
main line pipe laid.
1t is quite general belief at Win
field that William johnson, who is held
for the murder of Detective Geo. Mont
gomery, is not guilty.
1t was Twentieth Kansas man who
captured Thompson, the half-breed
leader of the escaped convicts. Dudley
Keefer, of Council Grove, was the man.
A street fakir worked Beloit crowd
for S25, but was forced to return the
money together with more cash in the
way of court costs. A good example
for other towns.
Farmers about Downs are having
telephone connection with the town
constructed. This also gives them
connection with the entire system in
that part of the state.
Two Wellington men who went to
Lamar, Colorado, have secured offices.
L. f. Blodgett is elected county Judge
and Frank Rosecrans gets the Office of
county assessor out there.
E. P. Hanna, the attorney who made
the opening argument in the Schley-
Sampson investigation, is Kansas boy
from Salina. He has been connected
with the navy department good long
time.
Anon Youngblood. an aged negro, of
Wichita. was killed by his Jersey bull
when he went to move his picket pin in
a patch of wheat The bull had always
been kind and gentle before this at
tack.
Luther Dickerson preempted naked
prairie land in Atchison county in 1854.
He lately cut $50 cords of wood off three
acres of it. He now has 1 600 cords of
wood on 100 acres which was formerly
prairie.
A. B. Wilkins, a merchant of Medi-
cine Lodge, received serious injury
from the falling upon him of box
when he was stacking up boxes in his
store. He was taken to one of the hos
pitfalls in Wichita.
DIR. w. II. Hudson, of Atchison, has
given good start to free school fo1
negro men and women. The school
already has 25 pupils, but it is such 9
success that a permanent institution
will be established.
Colonel t. w. Harrison is to be giver
big reception at Topeka on November
%. He is the highest Mason in Kan
sas. Invitations are sent out to Scot
tish Rite Masons all over the state.
Judge Thompson, of the district cour
of Usage county, instructed jury tina
any express agent who delivers whisi,
to any person to whom it may be sent
through his Office, and receives pay fo
ing whisky. This case will probabl,
be made test case, in the suprem
court.
Judge Charles Lobdeu and J. S. Sim
AAOAot super O1 GuC
reformatory, are the principal stock
holders of new bank at Jetmore.
The county commissioners of Mitch
ell county are up against a suit to hol
them personally responsible for tn
costs in the suit against a jointist whic
they had remitted.
colony of nearly so old soldiers al
taking claims in Greer county. The
are members eff the colony formed Z
Kansas City to take claims in the ne
counties and failed to draw them.
The federal prison at Leavenwort
contains S16 prisoners; ninety-three
these are military prisoners Thel
are 722 civil prisoners, 433 white, /.
Indian, 160 negroes, four Mexican ar
one Chinaman.
Mayor Messan, of Concordia, favo
high license. The council are the san
way. However. petition came in
have the law executed, which the cou
Gil could not we'll refuse. resolutit
for closing the saloons was passed al
the mayor has commenced the wo
with determination.
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