Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-09-13

Using the Banda Rosa for the same
dates.
The war college at Leavcnworth
opened with 100 lieutenants as students
enrolled.
The new federal building at Kansas
City, Kas. was forally opened on Sep
TENDER !.
Benedict, Wilson county, holds an
"Old Settlers day on Wednesday, Sep
TENDER 10.
Winfield is going after oil by the
bond route to the tune of $4,000 if the
people do the voting that way.
The Santa Fe's Topeka shops have
fitted up two wood burning locomo-
tives for the Orient railway.
Orient trains will be running into
Wichita in the last week of September
over the Missouri Pacific tracks
The Kansas legislature will he asked
to provide for the examination of
threshing machine engineers.
The 10th annual meeting of the Kan
at Manhattan ending last Sunday.
Baxter Springs had 20 passenger
trains every day to handle the reunion
crowds; IL carded trains and IA spe-
Gals.
Near Ottawa a horse in pasture
backed up to wire fence and at a
flash of lightning had both hind legs
broken.
The Dickinson county high school
opened with an enrolment of 10, the
largest enrolment for the first day for
ten years.
Lane university at Lecompton. has
started upon its 37th year with an un-
usually large number of students, both
new and old.
Miss Ida Scott. of Hays City, was
burned to death from the explosion of
a can of oil from which she was pour
ing oil upon a fire.
Thomas Black, of Valley Center. was
unloading lumber and run a silver into
his hand. Lockjaw resulted and the
case became serious.
VIM. Tuell, d farmer near Maize,
was unloading straw and fell off his
wagon on an upturned pitchforlI, and
almost bled to death.
The attendance of the reunion of the
Southwestern Veterans association at
Dodge City was the greatest in the
history of the association.
All the car hogs coming to the Wich-
tia market are extra and OF good
weight The wagon deliveries are also
better than they have been.
Mount Vernon cemetery at Atchison,
now contains the remains of United
States senator, a governor and chief
justice of the supreme court.
The present county attorney of Lo-
gan county, w. II. Wagner, was born
in Coffeyville. and is graduate of the
Kansas university law school
Commissioner Eugene F. Ware is at
Topeka to spend two weeks with his
family. Mrs Ware and two daughters
will be with him on his return to Wash
ington.
Miss Mae Scott, the nominee for state
superintendent of schools of Idaho,
was born and raised in Allen county,
! and graduated from the Emporia nor
NAL in 1892
Allan C. Caster. a merchant of Kipp,
| Saline county, was sentenced to a pris-
on term of two years for obtaining
| FOL
| lenses, hung himself with a towel in
| the Jail.
| The Rock Island will send three ex-
! cursion trains from Kansas and Okla
| at Washington on October Gil. The
three trains will be made up at Topeka,
Harrington and Oklahoma.
| The Hecllaman family of Harvey
county held reunion and had five
generations represented The great
great grandfather is so years old.
Fred l.. Benedict died of typhoid
fever at Chanute. He was 90 years old
! and was well-llnown in the gram trade,
operating with his father, Charles F..
| Benedict
Junction City reports rainfall in
Geary county during August of nearly
eleven inches. Much hay and alfalfa
was spoiled after cutting. 1t is still
| impossible to cut corn.
Henry Pagler, of Pottawatomie
county, has threshed two acres of
wheat raised from Russian seed i'm
ported last year. 1t went so bushels
to the acre.
The owner. of an eighty lying just
north of the Lanyon Zine company
smelters in lola, has sued the company
for damages to the amount of $50, 6S2.
The land used to be in clover and
yielded fine crop. Now the gas and
smoke from the roasting kilns of the
smelter sweep over it and all vegeta.
ton is ruined.
Irene Langley, IL years old, saved
her brothers life by jumping into the
Kansas river at Topeka and pulling
him out by the back of his shirt as he
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