Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-06-14

The Abilene school board has raised
the age for admission of pupils from 5
to years.
The city assessor of Coffeyville found
a population of 6,474; gain of 1925 in
one year.
Rain stopped the harvest in Sumner
and Cowley counties and in northern
Oklahoma
Several hundred feet of Santa Fe
track was washed out between Florence
and Marion.
The Greenwood county normal insti-
tute opened with 1o3 teachers in at
tendance.
At the Ness City high school % re-
ceived diplomas; fifteen of the number
were boys.
Mrs. Augusta erickson. of Usage City,
dropped dead while visiting relatives
at Butler, Mo.
Reub Neal has hauled his wheat into
Caldwell with the same pair of mules
ever since 1880.
Shawnee county has made quite an
extensive beginning in making macad
amized roads.
Parsons had a heavy rain lasting
two hours. The streams were all out
of their banks
At Ottawa the Marias Des Cygnes
reached the % feet mark some time be-
fore it stopped rising.
The capacity of the Clay Center
pressed brick plant has been increased
to 10000 brick per day.
John Doyle, IL years old, attempted
to jump on the pilot of an engine and
fell under the wheels.
The Santa Fe is about to build spur
to Fort Leavenworth for transmitting
army supplies to the post.
The Santa Fe shopmen of the Topeka
shops have subscribed over S., 1000 for
the new railroad Y. NJ. c. A. building
Salt water was found in a well near
Holton after going down 1O5 feet. A
company is being organized to develop
it.
An Eslridge merchant says he knows
of a farmer who brought eggs to town
to sell which had failed to hatch in an
incubator.
The Neosho river was % feet higher
than normal, flooding the bottoms.
Easements of stores in Burlington
were flooded.
The city meat inspector of Topeka
says that Topeka used 65, 900 pounds
less meat during May than during the
same month last year.
The Santa Fe is always doing things.
1t has just now presented the Wichita
park board ten carloads delivered of
crushed rock The rock comes from
Oklahoma.
The Rock Island tracks in the south
part of Dickinson county were washed
out for 1900 feet and many bridges
were weakened. Lexington had ten
feet of water in the lower part of the
town.
Edward L. Glasgow, formerly a cap
tain in the Twentieth Kansas, recently
appointed first lieutenant in the ar
tillery corps, has again been ordered
to take an examination for further
promotion.
Joe Bass, who was drowned in the
high waters near Salina, was to have
been married in a few days with Miss
Minnie Sullivan, of Madison, Wiscon-
sin, who arrived at Salina on the morn
ing that her lover was drowned.
Bailey in his home county at Seneca,
was attended by nine bands from Troy,
Fairview, Oneida, Hiawatha, Bern.
Seneca, Baileyvine, Marysville and the
famous girls band of Wetmore.
The Ellsworth company of National
Guards claims to have the finest armory
in the state. 1t has a floor space of so
by 100 feet, is lighted 10y electricity
and heated by steam.
The memory of some people is not to
be depended upon. 1t has gone the
rounds that Governor Osborne was the
only Kansas governor whose home was
in Topeka. Osborne's home was in
Leavenworth when he was elected gov
ernor, and was previously in Doniphan
county. No Topeka citizen was ever
governor of Kansas
james II. Watrous, veteran of the
civil war and much esteemed business
man of Burlington, was buried on
May 81.
Topeka, Parsons, Cherryvale, Salina,
Florence, Reading and Ell Dorado re-
port very heavy rains on June L. This
would indicate a wide and universal
soaking.
Bert Oaks who stabbed H. B. Raley,
Acommercial traveller, in front of the
Breton house at Winfield, has been
arrested and brought back from Santa
Rosa, New Mexico.
The blaelsmiths of La Cygne offer to
do free the work the farmers need who
suffered heavy loss from hail, if the
farmers will furnish the material.
Ellsworth had the heaviest rain of
the season on June 4. Many farmers
who plowed up their wheat regret it as
wheat left standing promises a half