Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-06-01
THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

Buchanan county, Missouri.
Farm laborers of AndaIusia SPAIN
are striking and ready to fight.
The Hillmon case goes to the United
States supreme court for the third or
fourth time.
The president and party started
from San Francisco at 10 a. m. of May
25, homeward bound.
L. Miller succeeds c. S. Sutton as
auditor of the Santa Fe for it's Califor-
MIA line temporarily.
Iowa prohibitionists have nominated
a full state ticket and have raised
$1,000 campaign fund.
Peter Postell, rich negro at Hop
kinsville, KY, is dead. He made
$500, 200 in the grocery trade.
Pennsylvania has received from the
United States S1Oa. 313 o6, for money
expended by the state in the civil and
Spanish wars.
The British government is in har-
mOny with the government of the Uni
ted States, in opposing joint guaranty
of Chinese bonds.
Chief of Police Broder, of st. Joseph,
Mo. is 20 years old and wants to re-
sign. but the city authorities are not
willing that he should
Colonel R. T. Van Horn, who estab-
lished the Kansas City Journal, and is
an ex-member of congress, celebrated
his nth birthday recently.
The Rock Island railroad manage
ment has named Miss Annette McCrea
to have charge of the work of beau
flying the stations on its lines
The Mexican government has made
the boring for petroleum exempt from
| taxation, also granted free importa-
ton for drills and machinery.
Aguinaldo desires to spend next win
ter in Washington to study American
institutions SO as to be more useful to
his own people in the future.
The Colorado supreme court decides
that the city of Leadville owns the
| mineral rights under the land trans
ferred to the city for streets and alleys
The q. S. Department of Agricul-
ture will furnish it's correspondents in
Kansas with copies of Secretary f. D.
COburn's reports, and advises them to
| study the reports care ully.
Owing to discussions in the Texas
! Legislature a statement has been pre-
pared showing the relief work. 1t
shows the total cash received at Gal
weston was 81, 243.495. There is bal
ance on hand of SIS. $50
1t is stated by those who know that
the money is ready for the building of
the projected railroad from FIT Smith,
Ark, to Arkansas City, Kansas.
The Santa Fee will open an EN- ploy-
| ment agency in Kansas City and will
send out harvest workers only where
employment is certain to be given
them.
The founder of ''Texas Siftings" and
humorist of national reputation, a.
Sweet, is dead at the age 90 years.
His pen names were Colonel Bill
Sweet, and REV. Whangdoodle.
Shamrock II and Shamrock 1 have
had another race and this time the new
craft was victorious going out but lost
| by half minute coming in.
| The Turkish government has ordered
| all typev riters out of the country be-
cause seditious writings on typewriters
| preclude the Identification of the wri-
! ter.
! Vice President Roosevelt will attend
the meeting of the Rough Riders al
| Colorado Springs, which opens on June
! %. He proposes to make a tour of the
| Cripple Creek district.
When all but the legation guards OF
American troops left Pezin they were
escorted out of the city by all the band:
OF all the British troops A japanese
band joined the troops on theway.
Edward VII has changed the cele
bration of his birthday, which occur.
in November, to May "a. which wa.
his mothers natal day. He did thu
to inspire the making of the day EN-
pire Day.
Miss Mary Emma woolley has JUS
been installed as president of Mount
HolyolSe college, Massachusetts,
The Western Union Telegraph Co.'S
Kansas City Office employs more thar
200 men.
Excursion trains filled with home
seekers are quite common. One o
these passed through Kansas over thu
Rock Island on May % which had L
coaches filed with them and wa
drawn by two locomotives
The total cash receipts of the relic
association of Jacksonville, Fla. up t.
May 10, was SOL, 745- The number o
people still being fed at that date wa
a.lss.