Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-06-07

! Der of the lodge.
Cherokee gets the Crawford county
high school after tedious controversy
over it's location.
The town marshal of Lyndon is given
$50 a month; all fees taken to be turned
over to the treasury.
Lon Altman shot and killed Charles
| RETAINER at Paola. They are both
of well known families.
A local firm at Olathe has offered
prizes of SIS and $40 for the best and
second best kept lawn in the city.
An Atchison county township trustee
utilities old boilers. He takes out the
flues and uses the shells for culvertS
The total value of farms in Sedgwick
| county is estimated at S15,o25, 555,
which is % per cent more than last year
Santa Fe and Rock Island officials
report that the trouble over high water
in Western Kansas was over late last
week.
Rain, amounting to a cloudburst,
fell north and east of Wamego on May
81. Some fields were three feet under
water.
st. Johns military school at Salina
has paid $50, 900 of its debts in the
past two years, leaving only a mort
gage of 81, 900.
The Topeka city assessors found S3,-
99S, $50 invested in manufacturing in
dustries, with an annual output footing
up SIC, s9s, 163.
The old soldiers of Topeka gave Pen
sion Commissioner Eugene f. Ware a
reception on the night of May 81, at
Lincoln Post hall.
E. Sample is the prosecuting attor-
ney in Osborne county. Another E.
Sample is candidate for the same
Office in Barber county.
Marion Rogers has sold his 500 acre
sheep ranch near Cheney for $40, 900.
Two Iowa men bought the land and
will use it for general farming.
The largest representation of the
colored people of Kansas in a state
convention, was at Wichica last week,
where there were forty of them.
Thomas Hensley, of Kearney county,
was drowned in the Arkansas river.
He was on a bridge watching the flood
when the bridge was swept away.
1t appears that the successful candi-
dates at the republican state conven-
tion belong to the Kansas Day club.
Well! What else was the club made
for?
The miners convention at Pittsburg,
Kansas, telegraphed to President
Mitchell approving the anthracite
strike and giving promise of moral and
financial support.
Superintendent Hancy, of the Fort
Hays experiment station of the agri-
cultural college, has cleaned 400 acres
of the reservation of prairie dogs at a
cost of $40 81, or less than cents an
acre.
The president of the Epworth League
of Washington is a young man from
Wichita, now in the employ of the gov
eminent His name is Edwin S. La
Fetra. He is the proprietor of a hotel
in Washington.
VIM d. Crawford, of Marion county,
lost leg in Cripple Creek mine. He
secured verdict of SIS, 900 damages
againt the mining company. The case
was appealed and the verdict was sus-
tanned, with interest on the amount SO
that he now has ST., 200 coming.
Sheriff Daniels, of Cowley county,
was arrested on two counts. One count
was in connection with the arrest of
G.. w. Miller; the other was a charge
of misuse of 14-year-old girl whom he
was taking to the reform school, stop
ping over night with her on the way.
The state meeting of the federation
of women's clubs at Salina selected
Wichita as the place of meeting in May
1903.
The Catholic church at Hutchinson
has purchased property near their
church which is to be remodeled for n
school building. The school viii be
opened about Sept l.
Colonel Loomis, the new department
commander of the G.. a. R., says that
he will work especially for the up
building of the Sons of Veterans or
ganization in Kansas.
The people of Liberal are petitioning
the secretary of the interior to rescind
his order to remove the fences around
government land in Seward county.
Eastern parties have contracted to
establish a rug factory at Coffeyville;
to build three story brick, 40 by $50
feet. The plant is expected to employ
1875 men.
Among the relatives of General
Leavenworth who attended the re-
burial of his remains at Fort Leaven-
worth was Mrs. Mary L. Smith, of Eu-
reka, Kansas.
Wind has damaged orchards about
about Wamego, and many sheds and
outbuildings were tumbled about. A
5000 bushel corn crib was wrecked
Farmers about Solomon are unable
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