Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-06-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Oil and Gas company is to drill for oil
at Oberlin at once.
Zinc. workers at Cherryvale struck
because of the 81 a month assessment
for medical services.
The fifth district log rolling of the
Modern Woodmen win be held at Abb
lene on August %.
President J. d. Drake of Lane uni
versity at Lecompton, has resigned on
account of his poor health.
Pittsburg shows up with a popula-
ton of II, 463. Last year the city as
SCISSORS found only 19, 676.
On June 10 the Missouri Pacific was
under water at lola, and passengers
were transferred in boats.
Four men of Arkansas City are float
ing down the river in boat and they
plan to fish and hunt for two weeks.
The state board of charities are pur-
chasing supplies to last to the end of
the year. 1t will require SOS, 900 worth.
Riley county harvesters could not
stand it to have a good harvest day go
to waste, so they kept their reapers
going on Sunday.
At Council Grove the Neosho river
beat its record and for time the cur
rent of the river was flowing through
tho principal streets.
At the 10th commencement at Kan
sas university 224 students were grad
mated. There was an unusually large
attendance of alumni
Water reached the pump houses at
Independence and put out the fires
under the boilers, leaving the city
without water service.
H. A. McConaughey, living north of
Concordia, lost by lightning five horses,
600 bushels of corn, 400 bushels of oats
and 90 tons of alfalfa.
Thirty-eight of the years graduating
class at Ksnsas university have been
admitted to practice in the supreme
court. Four of them are ball players.
1t was Calvin Titus, of Wichita who
Point and presented with medal by
the president for being the first to
scale the wall at Pel1in.
At wedding at Jewell City some of
the guests slipped out, put on old
clothes and started charivari. The
town marshal gathered in two of the
crowd and found that he had the mayor
and the police judge.
Sedgwicll county having attained the
required population, county auditor
has been appointed. This makes four
in the state which have more than 10,
600 of population-Wyan Leaven-
worth, Shawnee and Sedgwicl1
Near Hays City the Capucian fathers
are building monastery. They had
100 barrels of lime stored in building.
The rain came through aud Stacked
the lime and set the building on fire
and burned up big lot of property.
Arrangements for the revival of the
state fair at Topeka are being carried
forward with success. Stock and cat
tie men throughout the state are being
interested in the fair project AID stock
in the company is being sold to them.
w. H. Parsons, agent for the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific road at Holton,
Kan, died at the home of his parents
at Lamont, Mo-, of diabetes He was
to have been married to Miss Martha
Drake, of Holton, on the day following
that of his death.
The assessors count gives Wichita
s,163 people, an increase of 1851 over
1000 figures. The total assessed valua-
tion of the city is So, 2s2, $50.
The Fredonia Citizen tells of cy-
clone that destroyed two barns tore up
fifty young apple trees, broke porch,
lifted third barn from its foundation
and killed cow.
Mrs l. V. +. Kennedy, of Fort Scott,
while telling her husband that she was
feeling better than for year, fell over
into his arms and died in less than a
minute. Heart trouble was the cause.
The oats crop in central Kansas is
the finest in years and the corn acreage
is very large. Fruit is light but pas
ture and hay are in fine condition.
The enrolment of the normal school
at Emporia has, the past year, been %
per cent greater than ever before. The
graduating class is composed of Is men
and four women.
John E. Martin, of Whiting, sold sc
hogs on the Kansas City market fol
$7.65 cents hundred pounds. Mr.
Martin bred them and they were in
prime condition.
The food did not reach lola at it.
greatest volume until June o. Mucl
growing grain was destroyed The
city waterworl1s plant was surrounded
The Neosho river was from five t.
seven miles wide at Chetopa on June 2
The lowland crops are destroyed ant
S100, 900 is the figure placed on the los.
ofwheat alone.
A sale Of unclaimed freight at tn,
Santa Fe freight house at Topeka
lasted a week or more. There wer'
Is carloads of it gathered up at station
along the line.
Red ants ire said tO he eating mn n I