Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-01-12
The Alton city Jail has never had an

load of alfalfa seed and got $1,000 for
it
The state treasury received ss7, 900
from county treasurers in one day re-
Gently.
J. A. Newman, chairman of the Santa
Fe telegraphers, has moved to his farm
in Oklahoma
A perceptible shock of earthquake
was felt at Mound City at o'clock of
January 3rd.
Osawatomie voted bonds to the
amount of $40, 900 to build waterworks,
by vote of 216 to LOG.
Assistant Secretary of State Hill P.
Wilson is about to publish a book of
biography of Kansas men.
out of debt and is able to raise the
pastors salary another 500.
The Elks of Kansas, Oklahoma, In
dian Territory, Missouri and Arkansas,
held joint gathering in Joplin, Mo-,
on January 8.
Fort Scott and Bourbon county Off
Gals divide the revenues from liquor
sellers between the city and the coun-
ty treasures.
The Armour Packing company pro-
poses to put poultry and produce
houses in number of southern Kan
sas and Oklahoma towns.
Attorneys will ask the legislature to
extend the term of the appellate court
another year, for the exclusive work of
closing the cases in hand
Topeka is to have a plant for the
manufacture of portable x-ray ma
chimes, static machines and lightning
rods Thirty men will be employed.
Columbus sends out a denial of a
smallpox tale sent from there 1t is
now claimed that there are are only
25 cases in Cherokee county instead of
200.
r. T. Morrow, son of Bob Morrow,
the older hotel man, and his father-in
law, J. J. O'Rourk; both of Lawrence,
have purchased the Throop hotel in
! Topeka for $50, 900.
The supreme court has decided that
the officials of penal institutions have
full authority for transferring convicts
| from the Hutchinson reformatory to
the Lansing prison.
| Hereafter the state will not pay for
the keeping of insane patients at their
homes or in comfy jails unless they
have been refused admission to the
asylum for lack of room.
! B. f. Williams, who has been con-
| nected with the Santa Fe freight de-
partment for nearly 10 years, has re-
signed the place of chief clerk to As
sistant Freight Agent Maegley.
BY decision of the supreme court
where a pro tenn Judge is appointed to
try case at a certain term of court
and the case is continued to the next
term the Judge pro tenn has jurisdic-
! ton.
| A poor man in Auburndale, who has
been helped by charitable people fo1
many years, has this year bought five
or six lots and built house He paid
for it with his own earnings while his
wife worked for neigh bors to make the
living.
| The death of Judge NJ. S. Adams,
who was speaker of the house of the
Kansas legislature of 1862, brings uI
"reminiscences of that session. Nearly
| all the members of both house and
senate in 1862 have died. Among them
were John ]. Ingalls,, P. B. Plumb, So
Miller, c. X. Holiday, Sam Lappin
Thos. A. Osborn, G. w. Smith, C. "
Eskridge, P. B. Maxon and Geo. A
Reynolds. Of the survivors are F. P
Baker, d. NJ Valentine. Alex Banks
who was chief clerk, still lives. Nc
other survivor is just now recalled tt
memory, if there be any.
December 20 was the heaviest in Wich
tia in point of receipts of hogs at tn,
stockyards this season. About thirty
carloads, or in the neighborhood O
1000 hogs were unloaded and sold.
Judge NJ. S. Adams recently died a
his home in Cannon City, Colorado
He was member from Leavenwortl
o: the Kansas legislature, and speake
of the house, in the sessions in 1862 AM
1868. He was later a candidate TO
member of congress, at the time of Sid
ney Clarkes last nomination and cleo
| ton.
At the regular monthly meeting G
the ministers of Wichita a resolution
commencing the action of Mrs. Natiol
was defeated by large majority.
Fort Scott has had an Electric Ligh
and Power company, Street Railwa
company. and a Steam Heating CON
pany, but they are now consolidate
under the name Consolidated Suppl
company.
Sheriff Sughrue died at his home
Ashland January 2. By his request
national flag was placed in his hand
and held there when he died.
Captain j. H. Wing, of Coolidge,
said to have taken eight tons of hone
. from his bee stands and that the bee
consumed two tons.