Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-08-16
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREsT.


into her eyes by burglar.
Major Hood, of Emporia, has won
his suit, the one Martindale brought
against him charging fraud.
The new physical science building at
the state agricultural college at Man
haitian is completed. It's cost is S7o,-
600.
There is fierce scrap between the
Missouri and Kansas telephone COM
pany and an independent company at
Ottawa.
The first night that the new Jail at
Emporia was occupied, the two prison
ers in It broke out and left no address.
These two Jail birds were small, weak
women.
The American Book Company has
found it necessary to apply for Kan
sas charter. The action of the supreme
court settled the decision Of the COM
pany to do SO.
Henry Bailey, SO years old, not many
years since a leading merchant of Fort
Scott, recently died in small house
alone and penniless. He had been
city charge for some time.
Judge Hook, of Leavenworth, grant
ed an injunction enjoining G. w. Crane
and others from interfering with the
American Book company. The case is
to be heard in Wichita August Is.
A Topeka man who has made an
overland drive from Florence reports
corn west of Strong City as badly in
jured by the heat, but from that point
east the crop showed fine prospects.
The managers of the state fair at
Hutchinson, to be held Sept 1919, are
providing shelter for swine, cattle and
horses, TO accommodate the largest
number that can reasonably be expect
ed.
James Lake, an old conductor on the
L. X & Western railroad, whose home
is at Garrison, was seriously injured at
Valley Falls, while on duty, having a
leg broken and receiving serious
bruises.
The Modern Woodmen of Topeka
and surrounding towns held their first
annual logrolling at Topeka on Au-
gust .. There were all sorts of prize
drills and contests and u big street
parade.
Prof. and Mrs. d. A. Ellsworth of
the state normal at Emporia, are to
make 1000 mile voyage along the
coast of Labrador in the interest of the
department of geography of that
school.
1t is estimated that from five to six
hundred dollars will bring the Repub-
lican river back to its old channel at
Concordia; meantime the Touring mill
and electric light plant must wait or
use steam.
The Jacob Dold Packing Company
has received full carload of scales for
the Wichita packing house. There are
e. scales, all made on special order,
and their combined capacity is nearly
a million pounds.
Sam1 Oldham, Miami county farm
err sent Secretary Coburn a bunch of
timothy hay which measures five feet
in length, the heads being from five to
eight inches long. The sheaf will go
TO the st. Louis exposition
W. w. Woodruff, a goat ranchman
of Texas, was with carload of goats
which were yarded at Arkansas City to
be fed. In the yard huge hornets
II oh r.ff I,n
goats died from being stung.
Almost every candidate for import
ant Offices this year have newspaper
men for managers of their campaigns.
This is true of both political parties
+. r. Zacharias, OF Harper, has re-
signed from the Hutchinson reforma-
rory board and Charles Hull, of Kir-
win, has been appointed to succeed
him.
An addition is to be built to the
Santa Fe round house at Emporia, and
the yards extended by building new
tracks, for which the rails are on the
ground.
John w. Kirby and his wife were
found dead in bed with bullet holes
through their heads, and with pistol
with two chambers empty lying on
Kirby's beast. They were at their
home north of Burden, Cowley county.
Prof Haworth visited Sedgwiek
county to see if there is salt under
meath. He reports that the salt beds
come within Is miles of Wichita on the
west and perhaps within five miles.
He also told the people there that there
was no coal in that section except at q
very great depth.
Grant county has a population OF
about 500. There are many fine
ranches well stocked. Several $40, OoC
sales have been made this season.
The concentration camp for the fal
maneuvers at Fort Riley will be on the
Pawnee flats, near the site of the frs
capital of Kansas. Orders have beer
issued for troops to come from Jeffer
son barracks, Fort Leavenworth anC
the posts in Indian Territory and Okla
homa; besides the Kansas Nationa
GuarI ond 10 ,,,;l;t;a Of soma Otba,