Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-05-31
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

sisted of two boys and two girls.
Dickinson county has 81 postoffices
all connected by telephone with Abb
lene, the county seat.
The EmporiS school board, has de-
cided to add manual training depart
ment to the city schools.
John Tearney, of Neosho Rapids,
was shot by two tramps. Officers are
on the trail of the tramps.
A $500 building is to be erected in
Lawrence for the general offices of the
Fraternal Aid Association.
Three boys, aged from - to Il years,
were drowned in the Kaw at Kansas
City, Kansas, within a week.
Lincoln Reese, rich farmer near
Chase, is building an opera house in the
village, 80 by As feet in size.
The history of the United States
selected by the the text book commits
sion was written by Prof Davidson, of
Topeka.
The enrolment at Kansas university
on the first of May was 1890, which
was sc more than on the same date
last year.
Miss Emma Ellington, of Chetopa,
received double fracture of the thigh
and lost her house, both from the wind
storm of last week
The Wilson, Kansas w. r. c. has
erected s., 900 monument to the sol
diers buried there, which is to be dedi-
Gated on Memorial day.
John Thorp, u tenant farmer near
Portland, Sumner county, was found
dead in an elevator at Portland, with
a. bullet hole in his head.
Congressman Charles Curtis is ex-
pected to attend the state convention
of his party at Wichita and to deliver
memorial address at Topeka.
C. w. Goodlander, of Fort Scott has
been stricken with apoplexy and the
chances of his recovery are slight. Mr.
Goodlander is the heaviest capitalist in
that city.
c. G. Rodgers, of Douglas county,
walked on the track ahead of the linn
tied at Topeka; did not hear the train
thought to be fatal.
Prof. Samuels, of Topeka, has dona-
ted large lot on College Hill in the
eastern part of Wichita TO be used for
band concerts. The lot is a high ter
raced tract carpeted with grass.
The G. A. r. State encampment
elected II. c. Loomis of Winfield as de-
partment commander. The next en-
campment will be held at Mcpherson
and the reunion will be held at Wich-
tia.
About twenty-five book men, who
were in Topeka trying to get their
books adopted by the Kansas commits
sion, left there for Utah. where the
commission of that state begins its ses-
sion this week
Allen Reed, aged 60, of Marshall
county, is dead. He was member of
the Kansas Legislature when Pomeroy
was politically buried. Mr.. Reed made
three tours around the world during
his eventful life.
S. A. Mccoy, resident engineer for
his position and will probably go to
Montana to engage in mining en-
gineering. Mr.. Mccoy has had charge
of all the work in his department re-
lating to all the betterments which
have been going on on the cut off.
A. NJ. Horner, of Londale, Pratt
county, has farm of $500 acres, of
which 1000 acres is in wheat and 200
acres in oats. He says that both his
wheat and his oats give promise of as
large a crop as last year, which was
the banner season.
c. A. Ousler, of Circleville, one of
the first to bring a stock of merchandise
into Jackson county and for many
years the banker of his town, died the
other day. Old settlers of Jackson and
Nemaha counties mourn the loss of an
early and true friend
Four Kansas congressman deliver
Decoration day orations; Long at
Wichita, Curtis at Topeka, Miller at
Wamego and Calderhead at Marysville
Emporia business men have raised
" OCSlh tue WOTk OF
prospecting for oil and gas. The drill
is to be sunk eight miles southeast of
town.
James 5. Clark, of Downs, was shot
in his own door as he opened it. with
pail in hand to go for water The
charge of bucl1shot riddled the back of
his head.
JAS +. Legate has suffered stroke
of paralysis He has served in Il ses-
sions of the Kansas legislature as
member of the senate or the house
The millers of Southern Kansas met
in Wichita, May 81. There was a joint
meeting between the millers and the
grain dealers, who asked the millers to
buy exclusively of them. Both COM
binations were anxious to make friends
of the Farmers Cooperative associa-
tons The sentiment among the mill
lers was to buy where they could get
the lowest prices.