Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-05-24

The club women of Topeka have de-
clared war on slot machines.
The rains of this moon cut the price
of hay SO on the ton in Topeka
On Jan. /, 1903, Justice w. A. John
ston becomes chief justice of the SUI
preme court.
Several carloads of doors and win
dows have arrived for the new Santa
Fe shops in Topeka.
During the downpour of rain light
ming shattered the steeple of the court
house at Mound City.
Entire orchards in Leavenworth
county have been stripped of their TO-
hage by canker worms.
The meeting of the State Sunday
School convention at Salina opened
with 600 delegates present.
During the thunderstorm of May Is
at Mcpherson Ed Williams, a young
farmer, was killed by lightning.
The state executive council has let
the contract for vault in the Office of
the state superintendent of schools.
A racing circuit has been formed in
the northwest, taking in Logan, Nor
ton, Stockton, Cawlher City and Os-
borne.
Anthony was as happy as boy with
his first pants over the completion of
the first mile of track in Kansas of the
Orient railroad.
Robert Stone, stonemason of Read
ing had been drinking heavily of late,
and then shot himself with a shotgun.
The wound was considered fatal
The Union Pacific Land Company is
reported as having raised the price of
its land along the Smoky and Saline
rivers, in Western Kansas, to SO an
acre. The demand for gold shale land
is said to be the cause.
Henry Laboda, a Pole, aged SO years,
and Harvey Clay, colored, aged "a
years, were killed instantly at Leaven-
worth by coming in contact with
barbed wire fence across which a bro
ken electric light wire had fallen.
Mike Shooter, a cowboy from the
Moseley ranch in the territory, was
killed at Arkansas City by his horse
throwing him, his head striking a tele-
phone pole. He was drunk and was
riding recllessly to escape arrest.
The pupils of the Kansas Wesleyan
business college at Salina, made up
$50 which was forwarded to the treas
urer of the relief fund at New York,
for Martinique sufferers. This is the
first contribution reported from any
Kansas school.
Stephen Thomas, a farmer living
near Lawrence, was killed in a runa-
way. He was sitting in his buggy
talking to friend when a pigeon
which was under the horse suddenly
flew with whirr. Mr.. Thomas was
kicked over the heart
The salaries of the following post
masters in Kansas have been increased
500 q year: Clifton, Colby, Columbus,
Concordia, Downs, Ellinwood, Ellis,
Enterprise, Erie, Fredonia. The sal
airy of the postmaster at Florence, Kas.,
has been decreased 500.
NJ. C. Campbell, member of the state
livestock sanitary commission, says
that the reports to and Investigations
of the sanitary commission show that
there are more good live stock in Kan
sas now than ever before, and that they
are in healthy, profitable condition.
Brown county orchardists report
their trees being killed by canl1er
worms. Frank Glenn has a plum or
chard of 3, 900 trees, one third of which
were killed in a few days. Chase and
Son, of Padonia, think they have killed
by spraying about all the worms in
their 100 acre orchard.
Major E. R. Powell an old and much
respected citizen of Wichita, died six
hours after being injured in runaway
accident Mr.. Powell would have been
- years old in June of this year.
Eggleston post of the G. A. R. at
| Wichita, has bought an eighty-two
foot flag pole to erect on its lot at High
land cemetery. Surmounting the flag
| pole will be a bronze eagle with out
stretched wings. The pole, which is
made of galvanized iron, was erected
under the direction of the Ladies of
| the q. \. r.
j. +. Enterline and II. d. Washburn,
of Downs, have returned from their
trip around the world. Their expenses
| during the four months of their absence
was about 81, 600 each.
John Fry, n farmer near Neosho
Falls, has invested SO, 600 in tractic::
engine of 1S-horse power, and a gang
of eight 16-inch plows. With this com
bination he can pillow from 80 to 81
acres day at a less cost than in the
old way; besides the advantage of turn
ing over a field just when the soil is in
the best condition for it.
DR.. Eva Harding, of Topeka, has
started in gathering pictures for the
play rooms at the state reform school