Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-05-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


failed to convict.
1t is now stated that the Orient road
will miss FL Dorado on account of
grades on that route.
The last list of regular army lieuten-
ants has nine Kansas names; all of
them popular at home.
telephone war between the two
telephone companies in Emporia has
reached the stage of wire cutting.
Secretary Coburn is the author of a
book on alfalfa which is being pub
1ished by the Orange Judd company.
Topeka has had PA fires in the past
year; of which 40 were incendiary, &C
cording to the opinion of the fire chief.
Judge Hazen has hard knot to I'M
ravel and has taken time to make mp
his decision on the mayoralty contest
in Topeka.
Agents for the purchase of cavalry
horses for the British army visited
Wichita making selections They want
1000 of them.
Senator Burton will not interfere
In the appointment OF pOstmasters in
Kansas except in the Third congress
sional district.
The general store at Ransomville,
Franklin county, was looted of much
goods. The robbery was done in the
night. No clue.
Mrs. Wiley Trother, aged %. of
Hutchinson, made attempts to take
her own life: first with aconite and
second with razor.
Prof Chrisman, of the Emporia Nor
NAL failed in reelection to his position
for the reason that in his lectures he
argues that a man never loves.
J. NJ. Whitaker, the Labette county
cattleman came back from Mexico to
attend his daughters wedding and will
remain at his home at Montana
Topeka is to pave thirty-one blocks
with vitrifed brick this year. That
number has already been contracted
for. Last year 81 blocks were paved.
The Union Pacific railroad company
has filed an application to increase it's
capital stock from S196, 600, 900 one mil
lion dollars more. The filing fee is the
largest ever received by the state of
Kansas, being $40, 200.
q. A. Parker, first vice president
and general manager, and w. E. Oau
chy, general engineer of the Rock ISL
and are on trip of inspection be-
tween Chicago and Fort Worth. They
worked through Kansas. entering the
state on the 22nd of April
Ex-Congressman Melvin A Baldwin,
who killed himself in Seattle, came to
Lawrence after the civil war and was
assistant Uperiutendent of the Leav-
enworth, Lawrence K Galveston r. r.
and when J. S. Kalloch resigned the
place of superintendent Baldwin sue
ceeded him, and held the place until
the Santa Fe absorbed the road.
VIM. Edwards, of Jewell county,
started for Hot Springs to recruit his
health. On his way he switched into
the Kansas City stockyards and stumb-
led on to good bargains, as he believed.
At any rate he bought fine jack: also
carload of horses which caught his
attention. While the horses were be-
ing loaded he saw thirteen Belgian
hares and took the lot. By the time
he reached home he was as well as he
we'll as he ever was in his life.
The women members of the churches
of Topeka for colored people are start
ing a movement for colored orphans
home.
Joseph CLANCY, near Burns, Marion
county, was run over and killed while
attempting to stop a runaway team
with two women in the buggy. His
back was broken.
The State Sunday School association
is to meet in Topeka on May 14-16
The program for the meeting will be
printed by the commercial club. The
association includes all denominations
The tax commissioner of the Frisco
line starts on Sunday after church
with all the state officers, taking then
to Arkansas on fishing excursion.
The agatite works near Mulvant
have suspended operations because the
raw material near the surface is ex
hausted, that is near enough to be
worked profitably.
Waverley suffered from a fire OF
April %, which destroyed a millinery
store, two restaurants, a feed store anC
the Office of the Waverley Gazette. Los
mostly covered by insurance.
Salaries of certain of the city officer
in Wichita have been fixed as follows
Mayor, $1,000; city attorney, 81, 200
chief of police. 81, 200; fire marshal
$1,000; police judge, s79O; special de
tectives, $40; patrolmen, S7a0.
Mrs. Carrie Nation had leased he
furnished house in Medicine Lodge t
the pastor of the Baptist church
While at home on her late visit sh
turned the minister out of doors an
forcibly removed the furniture. bla.
phemously declaring that God had toll
her to do it.
The Missouri river at st. Joseph
cutting away land from the Kansas sid
vr,0ro nidly than avar ha(0ra E,,lI