Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-02-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Inc Elks OF AtchlSon propose 10 erect
a $50, 600 clubhouse
Smith Center women gave the joints
one days notice to leave town.
Albert Moon, of Bazaar. caught
very large eagle IN wolf trap.
The state auditor collected fees in
January amounting to S132.5 so.
The Wichita Country club has com
menced work on a new club house on
the College Hill Golf links.
A Salina mill employs coopers to
make barrels in which to pack -four
for the New England trade.
The NJ. h & T. shops at Parsons
have turned out S25, 900 private car
for the president of the road.
a farmer near Sedgwick has received
notice that his house will escape dyna-
mite by the payment of $500.
A commission signed by George
Washington. when president, has come
to light in lawsuit at Atchison.
The ladies of Enterprise have estab-
lished fine reading room in the place
where joint was recently smashed.
The cities of Topeka. Atchison and
Manhattan were all incorporated dur
Sng st. Valentines week, "A years ago.
A Pennsylvania man proposes to con-
meet the mineral cities Of Crawford and
Cherokee counties with trolley line.
Jas. Stewart, veteran of the 55th
Massachusetts, volunteers, was run
over by train at Sterling and killed
The Prohibitionists of Topeka de-
clare that Mrs. Nations practices had
nothing to do with the movement to
close the joints.
A block of one of the zinc shelters
at lola, containing 600 retorts, was de-
stroyed by fire which was caused by
the ignition of gas.
Two hundred and ffty-eight women
Of Eureka have petitioned the probate
judge to refuse liquor licenses to the
druggists of Eureka.
A committee of ten men is appointed
from each of the churches of Emporia
with orders to close the joints. The
women are ready to do their part.
Besides A. w Smith there are others.
Ma or T. J. Anderson and Senator S.
j. Stewart are candidates for Cyrus
Leland's place. that of pension agent.
Robbers entered the Grand Island
depot at Beattie, emptied the money
drawers and cut open and rifed three
mail sacks of registered letters. Blood
hounds were put upon their trail.
Mrs Achman owns the building in
Inman which has billiard hall up
stairs; she suspected that a joint was
there also and demanded admittance
Being refused she broke down the door
and smashed the outfit.
A man with smallpox took the trair
at Colorado Springs, with his face anC
hands covered. When the trair
reached Philipsburg it was found VIVA
allied him. The car was sidetracket
and converted into a pest house.
Quarantine in Wichita is a riddle
A child had mild case of scarlet feve
ohA '" Go "OAA IA SSA OoJSs O0
the household was shut up behind tn.
big red card for ~ days. A case O
smallpox occurred in big block witt
hundreds of people in it. The patien
was promptly taken out and the to
floor of the block was quarantined
was declared off in less than a week
while the other case was treated differ
emily.
At Olpe the ministers and wome
gave the joints fifteen minutes to Close
When time was called every one wa
shut up tight. The same process wa
repeated at Cottonwood Fails.
Clifford Brown has been in one {
the hospitals in Wichita ten or lively
weeks with a broken thigh and wit
his jaw broken in four places. Tn
case which was placed on his face hs
been taken off and his features are Nc
altered. After long, doubtful figl
for life he now has prospects of bein
we'll man soon.
During the past four years Rus
county has produced 6.2SO,694 bushe
of wheat and all that time La Cross
the county seat, has been wanting
mill. Now there are prospects of the
being two mills built there.
Leading ladies of Harper visited tt
saloons there and insisted that they
closed; to be followed by destructi
acts.
A trip to the Kiowa-Comanche. cou
try is proposed for the Seventh distri
editors after their annual meeting
March.
There is rumor afloat that Genel
J. X. Hudson Will return to Topel
and start an afternoon republican r
per.
Numerous Atchison saloon keeper
including the proprietor of the be
outfit in the city, have notified the
landlords that if the crusade continu
they will vacate their premises.
w. ". Wall1ey, who is said to be t
oldest teacher in the state, conuene
his life work in Wisconsin in 1910 a