Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-08-02

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Mra James Hindman, aged wife of
= Sumner county farmer, has disap-
peazed.
: The Santa Fe depot at Ness City to-
kether with two cars Of coal, are de-
stFoyeA by fire.
Seymour Christy, farmer at Meri-
den, was out OF luck financially and
eaded his own life.
Kansas people last year spent 81, $685.
e07 for hfe insurance, and most Of 1t
went out Of the state
: State Superintendent Nelson is sick
ut his home In Topeka He has an at
tack Of naAlarial fever.
Southern Kansas received a heavy
fainstorm on July 81. 1t extended
over the state line south.
Topeka will also make a proposition
TO secure the Lane university. Hutch
inson has made a bid for it
Reports como from Dexter, on the
southern border of the state that Texas
foyer is killing many cattle.
Fifteen girl operators have tied up
The Atchison telephone system by stri-
king. They want IS raise
A terrific rain and hail storm swept
over Abilene on July 81 soaking most
Of the country, but doing no serious
damage
Otto Kuehne says he will move his
picking plant from Topeka to Kansas
City after this years crop is worked
up because he can secure hotter freight
rates from that point.
Canon BywRter, Of Grace cathedral
Of Topeka, having gone to Colorado as
ArchdescOn of that diocese, Rev De
Lou Burke, of Vincennes, Indiana, has
been elected to succeed him.
An interstate convention of Kansas,
Missouri and Indian Territory miners
Is called to meet at Topeka on Septem-
Der 1. The general feeling among the
miners is IN opposition to strike.
There are sixty barrels of cream
shipped from the Windhorst and Spear
vile Swimming stations weekly. Each
barrel Is valued at about $14, making
y total value Of $40 for a weeks ship
tnents.
Editor NJ. f. Amrine, of the Council
Grove Guard, and Miss Lou Becht were
out riding when their team was fright
ened at an automobile and ran away.
Miss Becht was thought to be fatally
injured.
Mrs. Jenny Sherman Grierson, who
went to China several years ago as
Miss Jenny Sherman, and married
there, has come to her old home at OF
tawa to visit her parents and to remain
a year.
An unusually large amount of bust
ness has been done by the Topeka en-
ployment agency of late. Demand for
labor of all kinds has been good, al
though farm hands are still most fire.
quently in demand.
L. w. Carter, 4 railroad mail clerk
whose run is from Newton south, has
been quite badly hurt While he was
1t work his car was being switched
about the Newton yards and he was
thrown against the stove.
The Emporia Chautauqua had re-
ceipts of about 81, 500 and had balance
of 5000 in the treasury at the end
This is said to be the first instance of
the kind in the history of Chautauqua
assemblies at their first meetings.
A letter mailed in 1864 by Centralia
banker, while in the Confederate army,
has just been returned to him from the
dead letter office.
The State Soldiers home at Fort
Dodge has a beautiful new chapel
which will soon be complete and ready
for the old veterans use with their
wives
An unusually large number of school
houses are being erected during the
present summer, Mcpherson county
alone expanding over $4,000 for the
purpose.
Senator VIM. A. Harris is to go to
Europe in the interest of the ST. Louis
exposition, and will be away during
August and September.
A report comes from Detroit, Dick
inson county, of the loss of a number
of horses from pink eye, and that one
farmer lost eight milch cows from the
same disease.
Manager d. NJ. Galusha, of the West
ern Newspaper Union, after the fire il
the Unions building, sent the Wichita
fire department a check for S25 with 6
supply of cigars for the fire boys.
F. Rockefeller, of Belvidere, has in
Horned the secretary of the interior
that he is the owner of three full
bloOded and grown buffaloes and two
calves. The government is securing
data on the number of these animal
now in existence in this country.
ID. j. Roberts, foreman of the frs
division of the government printing
Office in Washington, has come hom
to Emporia to rest, after his work o
having charge of printing bills AM
laws during the long session of con
gress.