Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-09-20


following is list of the first twenty
cities with the population of each:
Kansas City, 53,6e5; Topeka, 80, 500,
gain, s42; Wichita, IS, l63, gain 1851;
Leavenworth, %, AL. gain 40; Atchison,
1867: Pittsburg, 1874, gain LOSS;
Fort Scott, 1882, gain !, 141; Lawrence,
lotto, loss SIS; Hutchinson, 10, $50 gain
@47; Emporia, 9,619, gain 142; Parsons,
1905, gain SO; lola, s,2s2, gain 1,495;
Ottawa, 1917, loss 1870; Salina, 1855,
gain SOS; Arkansas City, 7,O5s, gain IL;
New ton, 6,727, gain 2O2; Winfield, o.
69O, gain l19; Galcn, 1854, loss 1888;
Cofeyville, 6,673, gain I,414: Argen-
tine, 6,5l5.
FIRST Frost ITEMS The first frost
of the season was noticed at Dodge
City on September ID On the same
morning there was a light frost at
Florence. In Doniphan county along
the Missouri river bottoms all the green
leaves we're nipped. Abilene reported
a heavy frost. but it was too late to
injure corn. There was ice formed at
Ottawa. No damage to crops. Atchi-
son reports green stuff killed in the
bottoms. Lawrence reports heavy
white frost, with ice in exposed places
Salina had light frost with no dam
age, while Chetopa reports heavy
frost without damage.
ITynEKA REsT-NTnN --TNIGA ~
81 to '65 held a reunion at Eureka last
week which was largely attended by
the old boys, their families and friends
There was not a minute of time that
the management were lacking in en-
tertatnment of the crowds in attend
ance. Noted speakers, musicians. clo-
cutionists and vocalists were on call
from Tuesday morning until Friday
night. Charles Curtis and J. 6. Wood,
from Topeka, were speakers.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH CONVENTION
The convention of the Christian church
of Kansas, held at Topeka, elected the
Milton Brown; superintendent of mis-
siOns, w. S. Lowe: woman's depart
ment, Libby F. Ingels; department of
Sunday schools, c. A Fink; depart
ment of young people, r. A. Rosen-
stein; childreu's department, Eveline
Moore.
Hiawatha academy, whose endowment
has recently been increased $25, 900 by
Rockefeller and Brown county patrons,
and which is now under the control of
the Baptist educational association.
opened its fall term with a good at
tendance. A large number of students
will enter during the irst weeks ard it
is thought that all accommodations
win be crowded.
AN OLD FLIST-LoCK.-G Carver
of Wichita, has received from his
mother, in Ohio, an old fiint-locle rifle
carried by an ancestor of his in the
war of 1912. The gun is 7vdirr,yI' heavy
and the bayonet is Very hong: Y Itia in
good working order and loeRsi liz il It It
might dc execution even now. i5fhe
stamp on it is simply the word "4ollio''
imprinted in the barrel.
TWENTY-FIVE FOR COLLEGEs.-M
neapolis sends it's share of young peo-
pie to-the various schools and colleges
of the state Twenty-Five girls and
boys went away last week for the win
ter's college work. K. U. has the larg-
est number of them.
A METHoEIsT ExcURsroN.-The Meth
odist church people of Sabetha ran an
excursion train, which took them to
Leavenworth, the Soldiers Home and
the state penitentiary at Lansing.
About 500 people made the trip, re-
turning late in the evening.
KANSAS BANKERS. -Group two of the
Kansas Bankers association will meet
at Enporia on October % This group
includes Shawnee, Wabaunsee, Doug
lass, johnson, Morris, Chase, Lyon,
Usage, Franklin, Miami, Anderson and
Linn counties.
HIS HEAD CRUSHED. ingram,
of Coffey county, was working his cane
mill when his S-year-old son who was
playing about the mill, caught his
head between the sweep to which the
horse was attached, and some other
part of the mill. His head was
crushed
DROPPED HIS GuN.-While Peter
Peters, of Ellis county, was returning
from hunting he accidentally dropped
his gun, discharging it, killing one
neicc years old, and mortaiiy wound
ing another years old.
N WICHITA SEVERAL HOURS. Paul
Morton of the Santa Fe, one of the
great railroad men of the United
States, was in Wichita several hours
the other morning. He and his broth
er, George Morton, had been down in
the Panhandle hunting.
WROTE A CHEcK.-Before his death
Judge Horton wrote out a check and
told his family to keep his funeral ex-
penses within the sum. He asked that
his funeral be without undue parade.
and selected the hymns which he