Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-12

severe.
The Rev. c. NJ. Sheldon's father puts
in typewriting all the manuscripts of
his son.
Someone who has kept tab says that
in Kansas there were only six clear
days in June.
. The state school fund holds S642. SOS
of Shawnee county bonds and S64S, 900
of state bonds.
1t is not unusual for good wheat
land in Sumner county to sell at from
$40 to $50 an acre.
The dome of the state house at To-
peLa has been closed because of van
dalism by visitors.
The postal receipts at Junction City
have reached the limit which will
bring free delivery of mail.
The Salina postoffice during the past
year had receipts amounting to S32,-
ss7.91. The Office employs 25 persons.
Attorney General GODDARD holds that
school boards cannot deduct pay for
holidays from the wages of school
teachers.
Sheriff Seitz, of Mcpherson, lighted
n cannon cracker and was slow in
throwing it. He lost his forefnger
and thumb.
II. N. Grafton has harvested his po-
tato crop off two Wichita city lots and
it produced at the rate of 367 bush
els to the acre.
Mrs. Thorpe, police matron of To
peka, has founded an industrial school
for young children which has an at
tendance of Isl.
Eugene +. Ware, commissioner of
pensions, has been invited to address
the annual state encampment at Wich-
tia in september.
The Delaware river at Valley Falls
was higher one day last week than the
railroadmen ever saw it. At Atchison
the Missouri river was not far from
the draw bridge.
Independence Dav opened in Central
Kansas with the Smoky river higher
than in seve-l years. Gypsum City was
under water and reports of damage to
crops came from several places.
farmer six miles southeast of To-
pela picked ! ,2TO quarts of strawber-
ries in ono afternoon last week on a
two acre tract. He has another patch
of four acres of straw berries. Thie
will yield $500 worth of the berries.
Mrs. Emily +. Conway, widow of
Martin +. Conway. once a member of
congress from Kansas, died in Wash
ington recently. She had been in the
treasury department for several years.
The interment was made at Baltimore,
her native city.
At Argentine last week the tracks
were under water. Fires were pat out
in engines of the Rock Island and
Union Pacific by the high water. There
were places between Topeka and Man
haitian where the Union Pacific tracks
were covered by water.
WIN b. Keeling a graduate of Baker
university, has started to go to Alaska,
where he will have charge of the Uni
ted States magnetic observatory at
-Sitl<a. There are only four such OBJ
servatories on American soil and three
of them are in charge of men from
Baker University.
Ellis county women, Russians, did
the larger part of the work in the
wheat fields last year and the county
produced $40 bushels for each inhab-
liant of the county, old and young.
The Russians who came there almost
empty handed now o, about one
| third of the tillable land in the county
A hundred or more Kansas school
teachers leave Topeka on Sunday, July
6, to attend the national teachers
meeting at Minneapolis, held July Sill.
| Many will take side trips and be gone u
month.
! The Rock Island proposes to move
its general freight Office from Topeka
to Kansas City when a suitable build
ing is secured there.
The Topeka city railway company
proposes to spend 500, 900 in improv-
ing the system provided no franchise is
given competing company.
Miss Anna Horn, of Girard, % years
old, shot herself through The heart.
| 1t is thought she did the rash act be.
cause two of her former girl chums had
committed suicide in February, 1899.
! The Orient has purchased S25, 769. 80
worth of land, consisting of 495 lots,
a little more than 40 acres in one piece,
and lot of about IL acres, at Wichita
for terminal facilities and shops. The
deeds were made on January 81 last,
but were withheld until condemnation
proceedings were completed on another
4 tract.
When President Roosevelt gave Cal
vim Titus, the young Wichita soldier
who scaled the wall of Pekin, a medal
/ at West Point, the president said &c
him, Cadet Titus. please don't get the
big head now and spoil it ALL Titus
tells this himself.
The local fraternal lodges of Kansas
are seemingly much interested in the
plans for a Temple of Fraternity to be