Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-08-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

oougnt 10 take the enormous corn crop
Of Kansas this year.
The Farmers Grain & Livestock as
ISOLATION commenced last week to ship
grain out of Wichita.
Phillips county, where corn had been
suffering, had general heavy down
pour for over two hours on July 20.
Adding new switches in railroad
yards is avery common thing in the
busting shipping towns of the state
The shipment of new wheat to mar
ket has commenced. The Santa Fe
made the first reports of such shipments
There is a proposition up for the
Frisco line to put in a branch to To-
pelka from somewhere on it's main line
south of Kansas City.
At Independence Harry Feltz, the
12-year old son OF u retired farmer,
was drowned in the Verdigrih river
while bathing. He was alone.
A secret committee from the strikers
at Cleburne, Texas, has been in Topeka
to get the men in the Santa Fe shops
to go out on a sympathy strike.
A fire in the shoe shop of the peni-
tertiary at Lansing caused SEQ, 900
loss to the state. The fire ragged two
hours before it was under control.
The new Masonic hall at Russell of
which the corner stone was laid last
week will be a credit to the city and
one of the finest buildings in the town.
Oliver c. Davis, a member of the Sal
vation army, is under arrest at Port
land, Oregon, charged with embezzling
$500 from a school district in Decatur
county, Kansas.
Farmers about Wellsville expect to
ship within the next few weeks about
40 carloads of blue grass seed. The
price is AZ cents a pound and their
crop figures at S45, 600.
The Texas fever among cattle along
the southern state line is rapidly being
checked and only "a few new cases are
reported. Quarantine regulations are
being strictly enforced.
A. NJ. Campbell, jr., of Saline county,
had eight acres of the imported Rus
sian wheat which threshed out 23s
bushels, or an average of nearly 30
bushels to the acre, of So pound wheat.
The numb Der of hogs in Kansas on
March l, this year was 80 per cent less
than the number on March last year.
Last year there were l ,O96 ,s7s assessed
and this. year the returns show only
7,4s7.
The supreme court judges decided to
sit through one session in banc instead
of in two divisions This is an expert
ment to ascertain by which method
business can be furthered the most
rapidly.
The third crop of alfalfa was cut last
week in eastern Kansas. Some fields
will yield five good crops. Last year
the 25 largest alfalfa COMMITTEES had 221,-
s75 acres; this year these coun ties have
$40, 1866 acres.
Pension Commissioner Ware informs
Judge Lawrence, of Winfield, that w.
u. Kramer, of Arkansas City, has been
disbarred from practicing in the pen
sion courts at Washington on account
of sharp practices"
In September there is to be opened
In Wichita, Catholic school of domes-
tic science. 1t is to be in the former
residence of Bishop Hennessy, and will
accommodate about 80 girls, who will
be taught all branches of housekeep-
ing.
A 2-year-old daughter of Carl Kurtz,
living southeast of Eureka, fell into a
tub of boiling water and was fatally
scalded, death resulting in few hours
Farmers about Cawlier City who fur
nish milk to the Swimming station,
compared notes and found that their
cows paid an average of SO each in so
days
A sanitarium after the Battle Creek
idea is established in Wichita. 1t is
the only one of the kind in the state
and the nearest one to il is at Lincoln,
Nebraska.
Abilene has abandoned its gas well.
In the second we'll put down the drill
SUCK al i, fOO 1ccJ anu COulu nut OC
taken out
Charles L. Vermillion, of Hiawatha,
Kansas, has been appointed book
keeper and Fred Lees, of Downs, Kan
sas, appointed typewriter in the agri-
cultural department at Washington.
Rev. Denese, who has been pastor of
the Clay Center Presbyterian church
for q number of years, has rendered his
resignation so as to accept call from
y church in a suburb of Pittsburg, Pa
The .Orient" hauled its first car of
freight from Waldron, Kansas TWAS
a car of 1900 pounds of wheat which
was turned over to the Missouri Pacific
Mt Anthony. Train service has been
instituted from Harper to Waldron.
Mrs Eugene McKibben, living near
Mayfield, jumped into a cistern and
saved her baby, just big enough to be-
gin to walk, from drowning. She
stood in the water which was up to her