Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-11-15
KANSAS COMMENT.

4S years cOnSecutlVely IN the same pre-
cinct.
LADIES PARADE-The Ladies Cornet
band of Smith Center paraded the
streets and dispensed music in honor
of the result of the election.
CARRIED SEVEN COUNTIES. II.
Craddoclx, candidate for governor, car
ried the counties of Decatur, Ellis,
Leavenworth, Lincoln, Rush, Stevens,
and Thomas; seven in all.
TOTAL VoTE WAS SMALL.-The total
vote cast in the state scarcely exceeds
200, 900, which is $4,000 to 200 short
of the expectations of those who were
supposed to be best able to make the
estimate.
CONGRESSIONAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
bers of congress elected received ma
jorities as follows: Campbell, 1000;
Reeder, 1900; Miller, 5000; Calderhead,
5000; Curtis, 5000; Bowersocll, 5000;
Long, about Z, 900.
MORE RURAL DELIvERY.-Twon new
routes have been esta blished at Kir
win, making eight routes in Phillips
county, the others being two from
Long Island, three from Phillipsburg
and one from Agra.
MOVING TO WICHITA.-The material
in the Missouri Pacific shops ut FL
Dorado is being moved to Wichita.
Ten families go with the shops When
the shops are completed IS more fam
lilies will be transferred to Wichita.
MAKES MONEY AT IT.-AIiss Nellie
Morrison, of Salina, is laying up large
sums of money which represents her
profits on the business of making dolls
from corn cobs and corn huslxs. She
sells thousands CT them IN this country
and in Germany, France and England.
WAsHBURN STUDENTS. other
Halloween pranks played by Wash
burn students was the burning of an
old and unsightly frame building on
the campus. The loss is $500. The
faculty is trying to find out what stu
dents committed the crime. Expulsion
from college and criminal prosecutions
await the perpetrators if they are dis
covered.
UNIVERSITY FooT BALL.-The stand
the publication of athletics has borne
fruit this year in the remarkably clean
grade of foot ball being put up by the
University team. Not once in all the
games played SO far this year hrs there
been a single complaint for uusports-
man like conduct upon the part of the
players.
Two LEAvENwoRTH GIRLs.-Miss
Blanche McGonigle, daughter of James
McGonigle, the government contractor
and one of the wealthiest citizens of
Leavenworth, will be married on No
vember 90 to DIR. Powell Fauntelroy,
u. S. A, and early in December Miss
Matte Stone, daughter of ex-senator
James G. Stone, will be married to
Lieutenant Sidney s. Burbank, of the
Sixth infantry.
MORE Rock ISLAND CHANGEs.-C. L.
Nichols, formerly superintendent of
the Illinois division of the Rock Island,
has been made superintendent of the
Nebraska division of the road, with
headquarters at Fairbury. The APP
pointment is already effective. e. o.
Melcher, of the Boston and Maine road,
will take Nichols place. H. .. Sworth-
wood has been made assistant superin-
tendcnt of telegraph of the Rock Island
in place of A. L. Lingafelt, resigned.
FooT BALL INDIGNITIEs.-Mem bers
of the Holton foot ball eleven complain
that they narrowly escaped being
mobbed in Sabetha, after defeating
the Sabetha team by a score of to O..
At the conclusion of the game the Wis
itors had hard work to get to the rail
road station and say that they were
obliged to submit to all kinds of in
suits and indignities.
TEXAS HoGs-KANsAs CoRN.-H. X.
Eberly, of Sedgwicl1 county, received
three carloads of stock hogs from Texas
to be fed on Kansas corn.
KANSAS BANK RoBBED.-The Tam
pa State bank of Tampa was dynamited
and robbed of So, 500. The robbers
escaped on a hand car 10 Ramona on
the Santa Fe, where it is believed they
got aboard a passenger train. The
building was partially destroyed by
the explosion.
FIVE Tons FOR BALLoTs.-It took
about that amount to print the Shaw
nee county ballots and about two tons
of that was used in reserve ballots that
will go into scratch pads after the cleo
ton.
A GOLDEN WEDDING.-Samuel Ben
der and his wife Angelina, of Kimball,
Neosho county, were married in East
Liverpool, Ohio, on October 90, 1882
They celebrated their golden wedding
with relatives present, to wit: five
children, eighteen grand children and
one great grandchild. Other relatives
were present
A PROUD CoUNTY.-Reno county is
IN arrears for personal taxes only $500
and the people about the court house
claim that no county in the state can
make as good a showing.
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