Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-26
KANSAS IrrH1s OF INTEREST.

Blue Rapids proposes to use water
power from the rapids to run electric
lights in the city.
Ex-State Treasurer Otis L. Alberton
is slated for one of the places of the
Wakeeny land Office.
The citizens of Ports, Smith county,
offer reward of $50 for the arrest and
conviction of bootlegger.
Pottawatomie county lost IA iron
bridges in the first food in July. Re-
turns from the last food are not in.
A movement is started to construct a
trolley line from Beloit to Mankato via
the new coal shaft in Jewell county.
Two Mormon elders are at Concordia
and they propose to work for several
weeks to secure converts to their faith.
The average number of appealed
cases in the Kansas supreme court
which are reversed is As per cent of all
Z Charles zoe, of Independence, sue
ceeds Edwin Snyder, of Osl1aloosa, as a
member of the state board of charities.
The Orient Townsite and Land COM
pany has 1000 acres in the vicinity of
the Orient shops site, and adjoining
Wichita, which will be plated into
town lots.
Mrs. N. c. Blood, who died recently
at Des Moines, Iowa, was the wife of
Thomas w. Barber, the free state
martyr of 1855, and for whom Barber
county was named.
H. G. Adams, of Maple Hill, has con-
tracted for ZOO steers which are in
the Panhandle of Texas, and will full
feed" at Maple Hill. The steers are to
come north in the fall.
The postmaster general has allowed
the postmaster at Wichita three addi-
tional letter carriers on September 1
for the extension O: service to Fair
mount and the stock yards
George Burlington, who shot and
killed Ode Willard, near Langley, has
given himself up and is now in Jail at
Ellsworth. Burlington is quite wealthy
and controls a ranch in Ellsworth
county.
]. v. Clymer, who was the first city
attorney of Hutchinson and a member
of the legislature in the '7O's, Is dead
at the age of 65 years. He served in
the civil war as captain in an Indiana
regiment
The boiler of threshing machine
exploded near Mound Ridge, killing
Arson Crippen and seriously. injuring
Charles Nippleton and John Friesen,
farm hands. Crippen was literally
roasted alive.
The Kingman Leader-Courier tells of
"Orient' Edwards visiting Kingman
and mapping out new railroad,
branch of the Orient from a point near
Norwich, northwest through Kingman
toward Denver.
have elected Harmon j. Hoover, of the
class of 's7, to the chair of philosophy
and history. Mr.. Hoover graduated
from Boston university in 1891. Since
that time he has been preaching.
August Dietrich, of Dickinson county,
has wheat which turned out 3615 bush
els an acre. 1t was late sowed; the
early sowed wheat will yield less. He
also threshed a field of oats which
turned out IS bushels to the acre.
John Seaton is nominated by acclaim
alton to represent Atchison county in
the legislature again. This will give
him ten consecutive terms, if he is
elected, as he has been a member of
nine legislatures, or for eighteen years
continuously.
The postoffice at Holy Cross, Jackson
county, has been in n country store
for several years. The postmaster be-
gan to sell liquor and the Office has
been removed half mile away and
Miss Kate O'Ferren appointed to the
postmastership.
Two and one-half tons of silver in
gots lay on a truck on the Emporia
depot platform the other day. The
ingots were worth $20,T and was a
shipment from smclter in Omaha to
the Hong-Kong-Shanghai Banking Co.,
of Bombay India
The assessors returns show Fort
Scott to have gained in population
2,23s in the past year, making the pop
ulation 10, s92.
The Parsons yards of the NJ. X. & I.
road are in the city and because of &C
cidents the yards are to be moved out
side as soon as a suitable site can be
secured.
Mrs. Charles Marsh, of Peabody, was
using her gasoline stove when it ex-
ploded and set fire to the house. Every
thing in the house was burned except
an organ and few chairs
Robert Harvey, of Finney county,
has five acres of sugar beets growing
without irrigation, from which he ex-
poets an S1oo an acre crop.
The Newton Republican tells of n
reunion of the Ely family in Newton.
Mr.. and Mrs ]. L. Ely are each 73
years old, and all of their seven chill
dren were present, the eldest 4s and
the youngest 80 years old. In this