Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-06-28

Anthony has telephone for every
ten inhabitants
The old style agricultural fair is to
be resurrected in "a Kansas towns this
year.
Oswego has put in mile of macad-
am from the Frisco depot into the
city.
The Masonic lodge of Conway Springs
has laid the cornerstone for their new
hall
| Kansas apples this year are large
and of fine quality although thin on
the trees.
J. P. Wharton, a travelling salesman
of Atchison, was accidentally shot and
killed at Leon, Iowa
A windstorm in Labette county on
June 90 scattered wheat shocks and
blew down standing wheat.
The safe in the Santa Fe station at
Minneapolis was blown open in the
night and few dollars taken.
A rare coin CRATER has been arrested
at Mcpherson He gave the name of
j. E. Mcdowell of Tonganoxie.
The Home Riverside coal mines at
Leavenworth have been attached by a
bank which holds claim of $34, 1s5.
The jury to try Jessie Morrison at
| Ell Dorado consists of eleven farmers
and one laborcr. The trial began on
June 90.
Kansas farmers are agitating the
abolishing of June terms of court.
They cannot afford to leave their farm
work in June.
S. r. Smith, who served in the civil
war in a New York regiment and came
to Emporia in 1865, dropped dead from
heart failure on June II.
Smith Center has a right to brag
over the statement made there that the
town fellows consume fewer cigarettes
than in any other town in the state
John Rutledge, of Kingman county,
was driving a binder when mis- five
! year-old daughter got in front and was
badly mangled and critically injured.
been awarded the contract to furnish
| all the state charitable institutions
with flour and corn meal for six
months.
The largest locomotive in the world
is Santa Fe engine No. s97, which
weighs 267, 500 pounds and has ten
! drive wheels. 1t made its first trial
run between Topeka and Emporia
Five special trains took the Santa Fe
shopmen to Atchison for their annual
outing and picnic. The fare was fifty
cents for the round trip Marshall's
band went along. The trains were
sent out 90 minutes apart
The tracklayers of the Orient and
workmen and watchers of the Choctaw
had contest lasting two or three days,
when the Orient gang laid tracks at
the crossing of the Choctaw south OF
Anthony, on the state line.
The census bulletin gives the average
price of farms in Kansas at So, 723 and
of Vermont at So, 500; but then Kansas
farms are larger ad their improvements
newer than those of Vermont. By the
way, Kansas has ia, ZOOS farms from
which this average is made up.
Two men were seen by policeman
carrying a box in Wichita alley. The
officer discovered that the box was full
of small insulated wire, used for inside
wires for electric lights The men
were locked up but inquiry did not To-
cate anyone who had lost such wire.
Richard L. Owens, who died the
other day near Circleville in Jackson
county was probably the last of John
c. Fremont's exploring expedition in
1913 and also the last of the pioneers
of the Rock Mountain region. His age
was 90 years. Owens settled in Jack
son county in 1872.
The Santa Fe depot at Ellinwood
was struck by lightning on June 20 and
destroyed. The storm on that day
was general in southwestern Kansas.
Mrs Elizabeth Brandenburger, who
came to Marshall county in 1860 died
recently. During her residence there
of AZ years she was not outside of the
county.
Coffeyville claims to be the greatest
wheat marl1et-for' one day, when the
records show that Chicago received 45
ears, Kansas City 30 cars and Coffey-
vile AZ ears.
Cowley county harvest is delayed by
the ground being too soft for machines
to work over it. The same conditions
extend over the state line into Kay
county, Oklahoma.
The 39th annual catalogue of the
state agricultural college at Manhat-
tan shows a total enrolment of 1896
students. OF these 1,136 are in the
four year course and $40 in the short
courses. This includes 50 twice count
ed. There are 90 Kansas counties rep
resented by 1884 students and 90 come
from II other states.
Commander Fl. c. Loomis and past
commander o. II. Coulter have gone to
a.