Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-08-16

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the Kansas capitol grounds are look
ing fine.
Chetopa will hold its tenth annual
reunion of soldiers and sailors Septem-
Der 1920.
Travelling men have started a fund
to appeal the case of Jessie Morrison,
of FL Dorado.
The 22nd regiment Kansas volun-
teers, will hold reunion at Hiawatha
on August p.
The merchants of Junction City have
all cut out the premium stamp from
their business.
Assessors returns give Geary county
1O,625 people; over half of them living
in junction City.
President Harris has appointed Craig
Harris, son of Senator Harris, as a
cadet at West Point.
A shirt factory in Wichita has built
up a trade of between thirty and forty
thousand dollars year.
And the Santa Fe has also done
away with class rates between Wichita
and the Mississippi river.
The Rock Island has followed the
Missouri Pacific in granting a reduc-
ton on packing house products.
C. Rohrer has been elected as trustee
of the Dillon schools in Dickinson
county to serve the 31st year consecu-
lively.
The school boards of Geary county
are contracting to pay teachers higher
wages this year than have been paid
since 1889.
The old settlers of Reno county held
their annual picnic at Hutchinson on
the eth, upon the 3Oth anniversary of
the creation of Reno county.
The Brown county fair. C. A. r.
reunion of veterans of the first district
and a reunion of the 22nd Kansas vol
unteers are all to be held at Hiawatha
on August 27-29.
A. q. Bennett, 65 years old, is
blacksmith of Norton. The other day
he won $500 by running six miles in an
hour, The actual time he used to do
the stint was SO minutes and 10 seconds.
+. r. Zacharias, a banker at Harper,
has resigned as member of the board
of managers of the Hutchinson reform
atory. Governor Stanley appointed
Charles Hull, of Kirwin, to fill the va
cancy.
The first county auditor of Sedgwicll
county turns down claims for rewards
offered by the county commissioners
for the capture of horsethieves on the
ground that there is no law authorizing
the commissioners to offer such re-
wards.
VIM. r. Power, after working two
years for the Withita Railroad and
Light company, has gone to Science
tady, n. Y, as general foreman of the
General Electric company. He has
worked his way up through all of the
departments
Engineer Charles Singleton, of the
Missouri Pacific, has disappeared. He
left the dinner table at his boarding
house and went out and has not been
seen since. This occurred sometime
since. He left all his personal effects
at the boarding house.
The Kings Daughters have fitted up
room in the city building in Wichita
for the use of the working young
women to spend their noon hour and
bring their lunches The room is nicely
Will nd
the latest magazines are provided.
The Retail Clerks union of Yelling
ton are boycotting certain merchants
who refuse to close their stores early.
They are under the leadership of a
walking delegate from Wichita The
city authorities say the disturbance
must stop.
At Council Grove ''Jacl1 the Pepper"
had been around Robert Ashburn's
house and Mrs Ashburn heard a noise
and got up while her husband was
asleep, and while lac was still half
awake he shot her in the head, but the
wound is not dangerous.
Chas Lloyd Preston, two months old,
has made deposit of $40 in Wichita
savings bank, with instructions for it
to remain there until he is 81 years old
Two prisoners broke from the Leav-
| enworth county Jail and secured a pis-
toll from a farmer by telling him they
were officers in pursuit of escaped con-
victs- They tried to get another pistol
from Carl Deitsch and upon being re-
fused threatened to rob the house.
Deitsch's l3-year-old son then shot one
| of them dead with a shotgun and the
other got away
The weather over the state remained
around the 100 degree point, but hot
winds were not prevailing to the in
| jury of the corn crop, up to August 4.
Kansas has had fourteen United
States senators in the Al years during
which it has been state. Lane and
Pomeroy have been succeeded in the
following line- Lane successiOn-Lane.
| Ross, Caldwell, Crozier, Harvey,
| Plumb, Perkins, Martin, Baker. Bur
| ton. Ten in all. Pomeroy succession
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