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


jubilees simultaneously this year.
There were washouts on the railroads
west of Salina by the recent rains
Rain flooded the stores at Strong City
and one house was struck by lightning
The internal revenue receipts for the
district of Kansas for May were S47,-
4I745.
The ice factory at Coffeyville is
burned at loss of $50, 900, with $40 900
insurance.
Elias Hahn, of Minnesota, has given
$1,000 to the Western Theological sem
mary at Atchison.
Prof. c. E. Arnold, president of the
Mcpherson college, is dead from an
operation for cancer.
Governor Stanley has pardoned Car
RE Nation ont of jail upon payment of
her fine of 500 and costs.
Very heavy rains occurred on June
at Reading, Emporia and Arkansas
City. Wichita got sprinkle.
At the close of the revival in Con-
cordia the Blade said: sit looks
mighty forlorn down on saloon row
these days"
The new G. A. R. commander, H. c.
LOOMS, is trying to make up a big
delegation to the national encampment
at Washington.
At the 5Sth commencement day at
the Kansas State Normal 152 persons
received diplomas as post graduates
and 10 finished the course
Reading, which is near the head of
the Marias Des Cygnes river, reports
great damage to crops in the valley.
Many fields were under water.
Three 40 foot steel bridges over Half
Day creek near Elmont north of To-
peka, were washed out. The water
was four feet over the bridges.
Doniphan, once on the Missouri
river, with steamboat landing, is
now three miles from the river and
much of the bottom land of that tn ee
miles is in wheat this year.
Emporia has raised ST. 900 in cash,
leased the necessary grounds and ar
ranged for required supplies; all to Sc
cure the annual encampment of the
Kansas National guard in the fall
At Florence the storm of June badly
damaged the Santa Fe round house,
carrying away a section of the roof and
moving out a wall. The hail leveled
wheat and corn and broke slzylights.
Frank Myers, who enlisted at Fort
Scott where his mother still lives, is
sick and penniless in Denver He
served three years in the Philippines
in Company f, 18th infantry. He was
on his way home when taken sick.
The Denver Relief Corps is caring for
him.
John Henry Barrows, president of
Oberlin college, who died the other
day, was once superintendent of the
schools of Usage county, Kansas. Later
he was pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Chicago He organized the
Worlds Congress of Religions during
the Columbian Fair
Judge T. B. Wall, of Wichita, has
sold 2, 900 acres in the north part of
Seward county to j. b. Rhoads, of Ok
lahoma, for So an acre. Mr.. Rhoads
is now establishing ranch on the
land. 1t is located in the section of
the country known as buffalo flats
and it is thought that at some ancient
time it was under water. Wheat has
been successfully grown ON the land.
The land is not enclosed.
The Topeka school board decides to
employ no married woman as teacher.
Mrs. Mary Fisk, of Newton, had just
finished decorating her husbands grave
on Memorial day and had climbed into
the buggy, when, without a moments
and fell against her stepson's shoulder.
She was taken from the carriage and
laid on the ground. The efforts of
physician failed to restore conscious
ness She had died while in the buggy.
Mrs. Fisk was 6s years old and had
lived in Newton 20 years.
There is a bargain being negotiated
for the sale of the Topeka waterworlks
to the city; $3.50, 900 being asked. The
city had previously offered $3.50, 900.
During the cloudburt ut st. Marvs
water enough fell to leave the streets
flooded with from eight inches to two
and half feet of water. The Union
Pacific tracks were washed out and
most of the stores were flooded There
was four feet of water in the basement
of st. Mary's college. Besides the loss
of much other property considerable
stock was drowned.
Contract has been let at 1915 for
repairing the north and west steps of
the Kansas capitol also a contract at
$5,615. 20 for marble skirtings for the
stairways in the building.
The executive council received bids
for paper to be supplied to the state
and awarded contracts to Game Bros,
of Chicago, for binding material and to
the Rutler Paper company for paper.
The Moore Book and Stationey COM
pany, of Topeka, got the contracts for