Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-05-24
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the Wichita stocl1yards.
The rain of May 10 was especially
heavy in the wheat belt.
Fred Roster is fattening l, 800 cattle
at Miltonvale f0z INC market.
Fire at Pomona destroyed general
store and contents; loss, total.
According to assessors reports the
population of Leavenworth is 81 500.
The Santa Fe railroad company has
bought the Harvey hotel at Florence.
The business section of Carbonate
was burned on May II. The cause of
the fire is unknown.
The late heavy rain took out a bridge
at Onaga, and train from Leaven-
worth was tied up. No one was hurt.
Forty people of Dickinson county
left in a special car to attend the an
nual Dunkard conference in Pennsyl-
vania.
Carrie Nation has just been jailed
for 80 days and fined 500 for her con-
duct in one case in February, 1901, in
Topeka.
During the last year no travelling
man of Kansas or Oklahoma has been
killed in an accident and only four
have been injured.
The Woodmen and Royal Neighbors
of northwestern Kansas will hold their
fourth annual log rolling at Hill City
on September Gil.
The $50, 600 Carnegie library build
ing at Leavenworth has been finally
opened. The building is of the Grecian
style of architecture
The state board of charities has
planted orchards at all of the state in
situations except those for the blind
and for the deaf and dumb.
Concordia had a three-inch rainfall.
The streets were flooded, cellars filled,
culverts washed out and much damage
done to railroad tracks and sidewalks.
Two thousand of the Santa FEES shop
men in Topeka have joined in boy
colt of the beef trust, pledging them
selves to buy no dressed beef for 80
days.
| A large general store at Quenemo is
burned. Over the store Miss DelIie
Rankin, the Quenemo school teacher,
lived. She lost everything, including
q $500 piano.
The Kansas commissioners for the
Louisiana Purchase exposition are Wis
iting the manufacturing towns of the
state to inspire the making of exhibits
at st. Louis.
The state board of assessors has fixed
a basis for the assessment of all tele-
graph lines in Kansas. The first wire
and poles assessed at 500 a mile, and
each additional wire at $40 a mile.
Reports to the Kansas Sunday school
convention at Salina show that the
state has 4,9s9 Sunday schools, with
$685. scholars and s., 200 teachers.
One hundred counties reported S,sS2
conversions
The judicial district embracing the
counties of Douglas, Franklin and An
derson, has not had conviction for
murder in the first degree for seven
teen years, until the late conviction of
Shane, the Lawrence photogra pher, for
killing n young man.
Some foolish, fiendish fellow took the
taps from one hind wheel of each of
three carriages in which Baker univer-
sity girls rode to party in the coun-
try. Three girls were severely injured,
one of them dangerously, when the
wheels came off.
T. B. Gerow, state employment agent,
thinks an injury has been done by
sending out reports that from Il, 900
to 900 harvest hands from outside
the state will be needed this year.
There is, he thinks, full quota in the
state.
Rains affected the track on the Lin
causing an engine to be tipped over.
Geo. Rugier was pinned between the
tender and the boiler. He died. The
engineer and two brallemen were badly
scalded.
Rain fell in every county in Kansas
during last week, varying from three.
tenths of an inch to two inches and
over. The lightest rainfall was in
Morton county an d the heaviest in Eli
county.
There are six candidates in the fielc
for department commander of the G.
A. X. of Kansas-Colonel Anthony o.
Leavenworth, Charles Harris of EN-
poria, j. b. Remington of Osawatomie
Colonel Loomis of Winfield, l.. C
Weldy of Galena, and r. A Campbell
of Hutchinson.
Thirty years ago Major Powell, o
Wichita, was given a valuable watcl
by the Masonic fraternity, which Ii,
was wearing at the time he met deatl
in runaway. The watch has no
been found.
Talk in group in Topeka the othe
day turned on the question of tn
''well-fxed" men of Northwest Kansas
1t was finally decided that Elmer Anne
of Norton leads in the treasures of thi
earth with Joe Burrow of Smith Cen