Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-08-30

senger train.
It has been decided at Cottonwood
Falls to hold fall festivities in grove
on October and 4.
A Cimarron jointist was fined $1,000
and sent to Jail $50 days, having been
convicted on IS counts
st. Francis, way out in the 'short
grass" country is said to have weeds on
the townsite 1917 feet high
The hotel and livery barn at Sylvia,
Reno county, is burned and the entire
town came near being swept away.
The fifth annual Ohio picnic was
held at Waverly. The attendance was
good considering the rain and Maud.
A War dance will celebrate the open
ing of the Pottawatomie Indian school
at Nadeau, Kansas, on September 9.
Lieutenant Ralph Mcdowell, of Man
haitian, Kan, was drowned at Fort
Clark, Texas, where he was stationed,
DR.. Francis M. Phillips is dead ut
kildare, o. 7. He was the son of Col
pnel William A. Phillips, the foRader
Of Salina.
The government has completed a
telephone system of its own at Fort
Riley. 1t connects with all tho offices
at tho fort.
The express agent at CfnArron re-
ports his c. @. D. receipts on TASKS and
cases double the receipts from any
other single source.
Rich Broolens (coloredJ of Topeka,
served 80 years in tho reguleIr army
and Is asking for place as jani6or i'm
the war department.
A letter mailed in France and I'D
dressed to Hays City, America, reached
the old town on Big Creek alongside
the sub-normal school.
John Geehan, an NJ. K & T. switch
man at Parsons, was killed while
working in Regards, lay being Thrown
from the top OF a stock car while set
ting a brake, and two carsran over him.
The express companies are taking
out of Wichita daily over Geo baskets
of tomatoes and ], 200 baskets of grapes
Shipment of grapes does not last long
while the demand Tor tomatoes never
lets up.
The Haskell institute will open in
the fall with an enrolment of $50. In
actual attendance, property and equip
ment, the Lawrence World states that
this Indian school is~ahead of the one
at Carlisle, Pa.
Working in one section gang for the
Missouri Pacific atG4eRoy is Mexican,
an Italian, a Frenchman, A Boer, a
Irfshman, Welshman, an Ethiopian
and q Missourian.
IAN Overlook girl acquired the habit
of pulling out single hairs from her
head and chewing and swallowing
them. It required a surgical operation
to take bunch of hair five inches
long from her insides.
w. 81. Maclkey, the new United
States marshal for Kansas, will con-
tinue to live at junction City. It will
be remembered that he is a recent ap-
pointee as postmaster OF has home town
which position he now vacates.
A notice came to Lola from the pen.
sion commissioner stating that a pen
sion of S12 a month had been granted
to Samuel O'Hara, q Twentieth Kansas
soldier, and the date OF the notice was
the same as that when O'Hara died.
General Frederick Funston says he
will visit the Veterans Association al
Ottawa at their reunion on October 1-3
provided he Is not asked to talk.
superintendent Nelson rules that
under the law authorizing consolida
ton of school districts, parents car
draw pay for taking their children t.
school
President Nichols, of the Kansa.
Agricultural college, has declined the
presidency of the Rhode Island colleg,
of agriculture and will remain at Man
haitian.
,Ex-Congressman 8. S. Kirkpatrick
'ofFredonia, has taken charter fol
q $4,000 brick plant at his HON,
town.
Counties in Central Kansas are sell
ing boom lots at private sale on which
taxes are three and fourth years il
arrears, under the law which was mad,
to apply todead lots
The Topeka insane asylum turneC
into the state treasury 81, 1877. 80 in fee
collected during the past quarter 70
the care of patients who have propert,
of their own or rich relatives
Rocky Ford canteloupes are nov
coming to market. They are raised il
the Arkansas river valley from Dodg
City west into Colorado.
Over leo persons of independence
were poisoned by eating ice cream soda
Doctors have been kept busy. Tn
poison was ptomaine which was in tn
milk used
Members of school boards in frs
and second class cities do not com
under the law prohibiting the employ
ment of teacher who is relative c