Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-01-05


Reports of horses being killed by
smutty corn stalks are quite frequent
The treasurer of Cowley county re-
ceived s45. $50. so for taxes in one day.
Work of building the st. PauTs Ca
thedral church in Olathe is completed
Winfield has newly organized com
pany to manufacture sash and doors
Inmates of all of the state institu.
tons were given big Christmas din
ner.
Farm; land in Graham county is sell
ing 25 to so per cent higher than last
year.
Cherokee won out over Girard in the
vote for the location of the county high
school.
Frank Morrill,, son of Ex-Governor
E n. Morrill,, will open law Office in
Boston.
Kansas law fixes the limit at five
years imprisonment for kidnappers
Change it,
VIM. Bauer has sold his farm of 175
acres in Shiloh township, Neosho coun-
ty, to Iowa parties for SIS, 900.
Twenty-six Chanute boys and girls
were home during holidays from vari-
GUS colleges which they attended.
]. L. Taylor, late of Decatur, Illinois,
is a new resident of FL Dorado. He
owns a Butler county ranch of 1920
acres.
Statements of the three national and
one state banks of Lawrence show that
the total amount on deposit is S1,215,-
646.6
Farms in Cherokee county are chang
ing hands rapidly, the purchasers be
ing farmers from Michigan, Illinois
and Iowa.
Jos. Mailer has sold his Kay county.
o. T., farm and will locate in Cowley
county. He sold the farm of 16O acres
for $3.50.
Miss Lillian Forsee, who is now So
prano soloist at Oakland Methodist
Episcopal church, in Chicago, was born
in Salina in 1878.
A girl only eleven years old, of Has
kel county, caught large coyote in a
trap, killed and skinned it herself, and
received the bounty.
The Kansas State Teachers associa-
ton elected w. NJ. Sinclair, FL Dorado,
president; Miss NJ. E. Dolphin, Leaven-
worth, vice president.
Or. A. H Hull, father of Congress-
man Hull, of Iowa and Milton Hull,
editor of the Kiowa, Ks, Review, died
at kiowa on December 80.
The business men of Florence pre-
sented the night marshal of that place,
A. B. Baker, as Christmas present, a
complete policeman's outfit
II. NJ. Hollowa, proprietor of the
Keystone mills at Larned, presented
each of his employees with a five dollar
gold piece as a Christmas gift.
Mrs. Daniel BunneIs large residence
in Arkansas City was burned down
December %. 1t was beyond the water
limits. The loss is about 81 900.
A. ]. Rice, of Graham county has 300,
acres in alfalfa and will sow as much
more. He has already started several
orchards and has large acreage OF
wheat out.
w. r. Barnes was elected by the
Kansas Horticultural Society to sue
coed himself as secretary. Mr.. Chan
dler, of Wyandotte, made a good race
but was beaten. Other officers elected
are: Fred Wellhouse, Topeka, presi
dent: ]. W. Robinson, FL Dorado, vice
president; Frank Hoisington, Rosedale
| treasurer.
At the golden wedding of Mr.. ant
Mrs u. N. Jackson, of Olathe, there
were among the guests five couples
four of them living within block O.
the jackson home. who had been mar
ried respectively 55, 81, so, 80 and s.
years.
The NJ. E. church at Ellsworth pait
off its entire debt; the result of tia
work of the women. A jubilee wa
had at which the men gave banquet
doing all the work themselves. The,
did it in recognition of the labors o
the women.
A company has been organized il
Franklin county who propose to max
the run for land when the Kiowa coun
try is opened. They are accommodating
| funds for the trip.
II. R. Irvine, general roadmaster @
the Rock Island, is selected to hav
charge of the extension from Liberal
w. II. Davidson, division engineer a
Des Moines, will become general road
| master.
| During the past two years five Kan
sas banks have failed and all of ther
owe depositCrs only $500
The big stables at Bismarl1 Grove
Lawrence. have just filed an order TO
500 horses for the English government
Out in Western Kansas coyote hunt
ing gives a return of from one to tire
dollars a day. The bounty is one do
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