Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-08-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

company.
The rains have been the most general
in the eastern part of the state where
it was most needed.
Shawnee county returned to the as
SCISSORS the most money on hand, with
Crawford county second.
Wind and hail did damage in the
vicinity of Bavaria, Saline county, dam
aging Ome wheat stacks.
The Santa Fe's libraries for its en-
employees at numbers of division sta
tions, contain 10, 900 books.
Atchison printers say that the tax
list they are setting now is the short
est Atchison county ever had.
The floods injured the foundation of
a new building in Topeka, being erect
ed for wholesale grocery firm.
Emporia cannot stand the odor and
has ordered the chicken killing estab-
lishment outside the city limits.
An Emporia man has been arrested
for killing fish in the river with I'M
Stacked lime. He was selling the fish.
E. Kirby, who has been running the
Park hotel at Dodge City, shot and
killed his wife, during dispute about
property.
Chas Hol wick, of Sedgwick county,
was one of the last to register at Ell
Reno and his name came out among
the first.
Ex-Congressman John Davis died at
the home of his daughter at Topeka.
He was "A years old and had been blind
for several years.
Farmers are planting forage crops
extensively; SO much SO that they call
upon the state employment agency to
send them men.
Mrs Elizabeth Burrowes, of Garnett.
has son visiting her after a separa-
tion of 25 years. The son is a Presby-
terrain minister.
Thad Payne, formerly with the Santa
Fe at Topeka, is now private secretary
to Russell Harding, general manager
Of the Missouri Pacific.
Orders which the stockmen had made
for cars to move Kansas cattle have
been quite generally countermanded
since the heavy rains.
Records kept at Kansas university
show that July, 1901, was the warmest
month during the "a years in which
record has been made.
The pavement in front of the Com
mercial bank of Independence, is a
single block - inches thick, % feet
long and 10 feet wide.
f. NJ. Benson's barn near Hackney
Cowley county, was destroyed by light.
ming, with its whole contents, includ
ing a horse and mule
Three men were injured by the Civ
ing way of scaffold at the ingalls,
school building in Wichita. They
were: julius Walters, contractor; Mr.
Shottle, bricklayer, and Cairo Owens
q negro.
A threshing crew spent Sunday al
Colwich and kept the place in an up
roar, during the 80 or 40 hours they
were there. They insulted ladies
fought among themselves and with the
men of Colwich.
The Rock Island purchased 500 acre.
at Mcfarland and is building hay
barns, sheds and corrals, also a water
tank 20 feet wide and so feet tall: al
for place to give sheep a rest an theil
Journey to market.
One hundred and twenty-three PEG
pie took examinations at the close O
the Sedgwicle county teachers insti
tute
J. III. Dow, the oldest citizen of Olathe
and for years the owner of the larges
store there, was found drowned 1t
believed to be a case of suicide. MI
Dow was bachelor
James R. Woods, the young ma,
from Kansas, drew two prizes in tn
new country; the first was wife, an
the next was the first choice of 100 acre
In the Lawton land district
p. w. Zimmerman of the Santa F
claims attorneys office, has been ar
pointed travelling claims adjuster wit
AcduIudrteFS at Albuquerque.
The Woodman's picnic at Circlevir
drew 5000 people. Governor Stanle
was there. There were two good bands
the Onaga band and the Girl band {
Wetmore.
The state board of medical registr:
ton has done something. 1t has turne
into the state treasury 81, 2s9. rs of co
1ected fees. What their own bills al
is not stated.
Evening dress suits fooled both Go,
ernor Stanley and Lieutenant Governc
Richter. They attended a weddin
and when they were On the trolley ca
going home they both found that the
pockets wouldn't give down a niclzl,
NJ. A. Low, of the Rock Island, saw
''There is no foundation in fact for til
report that we are going to build
track from Kansas City to Topek,
Our present arrangement is satisfa4
tory, and there is no necessity for
new track The local business dos
not justify it.
Grant Sidwell, former resident