Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-07-05

very few buns among the imported
harvest hands this year.
Henry Robbins, of Sedgwick county,
| harvested 534 bushels of wheat off of
90 acres; over &c bushels to the acre.
Clay Center is now about rid Of the
cotton bearing trees. The battle to ex-
ti-pate them has been going on for
scl1e years
Captain and Mrs. B. Rockwell, of
Junction City, with their daughter and
Miss Chaffee, have gone to Manila for
visit 10 friends.
One-sixth OF the total tax levied in
Kansas this year will be paid by the
railroad, Pullman, telegraph and tele-
phone companies
The race for supremacy between
Great Bend and Dodge City is close.
Dodge City is now only 60 behind Great
Bend in population.
Parsons lodge, A. o. U. w. No. /,
the first lodge of the Worl1men organ
lied in Kansas, will celebrate its 25th
anniversary on August 10.
Third Vice President Kendrick, it is
announced, will remain with the Santa
Fe, declining the position of European
agent of the Westinghouse company.
job c. Lowe, who shot his wife at
the reform school near Topeka, is held
for murder by the coroner. Mrs. Lowe
was matEon there and Lowe was an
employee.
Barber county has furnished two
Kansas congressmen-Long and Simp-
son, and Representative Overstreet, of
Indiana, and Delegate Flynn used to
live in that county.
Mrs w. v. church, wife of superin-
tendent of Insurance Church, was
thrown from her carriage while driving
and probably quite severely injured.
The horse ran away.
Allen Green Campbell, the founder
of Campbell unive rsity, at Holton, left
by his will $25, 900 to be used for the
needs of the poor of Jackson county.
He recently died in Utah.
OAO ~ viz SONNA ACCAOSO
scientists is Miss NJ E. Pierce, former
ly of Manhattan, Kansas. Miss Pierce
is a chemist of high repute, and is the
soil analyst of the department of ag-
riculture
c. s. Hoffman, wealthy farmer of
Dickinson county, hung himself in his
barn. He was was worth $40, 900 his
farm being among the best in the coun-
ty, 1900 acres, well improved. He had
been sick.
Governor Stanley has appointed DIR.
M. II. Gardner, of Greenleaf, a mem
Der of the state board of health. The
board has reelected j. NJ. Minnicl1, of
Wichita, as president, and w. B. Swan,
of Topeka, as secretary.
State Superintendent Frank Nelson
has received request from an Aus
trian official for copies of the school re-
ports of this state and also plans and
descriptions of the country and city
school houses of Kansas.
DIR. Sarah e. Greenfield, q young
woman physician of Hiawatha, has
BEEN appointed bacteriologist of the
state board of health. The board has
furnished her 81, 900 worth of instru-
ments and she will examine the germs
of all contagious diseases.
Assessors report the valuation of
farms and improvements of Saline
county at 1873, 735. The farmers of
the county had on hand $50, 564 bushels
of old wheat and 6,557 bushels of old
corn. The value of poultry and eggs
sold during the year was $77, 159, and
2s1, S94 pounds of butter was made on
the farms.
The following Kansas postmasters
have been appointed: Geo. b. Crooke=,
Anthony; james A Arment, Dodge
City; George w. Watson, Kinsley;
Frank G. Davis, Larned; Martin L.
Grimes, Lyons; Benjamin A. Bond,
Sterling.
Captain A. S. Rowan, of the Nine
teenth infantry, who carried the mes
sage to Garcia" has obtained a leave
of absence and will be in Atchison in
few days to visit his family. Captain
Rowan has been in the Philippines
during the past three years and is now
at Angle island off the California coast
Edward w. Eskridge son of the late
C. ". Eskridge, of Emporia, and Fred
E. Potter son of Thomas NJ. Potter. of
Peabody, graduates from the law de-
partment of Ann Arbor college, have
arrived at their homes in Kansas
A slick thief robbed three young lady
stenographers in one building in Wich-
tia. The thief watched for the ste
nographer to be alone, then telephoned
to her that she was wanted at an Office
a story below. While each girl was
away to meet the call their purses
were robbed.
Col. Charles F. Hills, who with Sam
Wood founded Cottonwood Falls almost
so years ago, is dead. He had become
a millionaire in the wholesale tobacco
business in st. Louis.
Mother Superior Bernard at the