Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-09-06

Manila.
A half million dollars in gold has
been shipped from New York to Buenos
Ayres-
Wichita has Confederate Veterans
post; the only organization of the kind
in Kansas
The CoffeyviIle glass factory received
twenty melting pots, each one weigh
ing ton.
A sub-station of the Wichita post
Office is to be esta blished near the
packing houses
w. II. Smith, secretary to the state
railroad commission, is sick, and in a
serious condition.
Three children in a Piainville family
have died with diphtheria, and others
are dangerously ILL
1t is announced that the Santa Fe
will establish shops for more than a
1000 miles of road at Amarillo.
Miss Margaret o. Heinz, of Oakley,
has been appointed to a position at
The five leading alfalfa counties, in
the order of their rank are: Jewell,
Norton, Republic, Smith and Phillips
A stranger was killed near Cimarron
snppoted to bear the name of Thomas
Hearnes. He was run over by train.
The 18th annual convention of the
society met at Burlington on August
&c.
Otis Parish took Carbolic acid and
died in the Soldiers home at Leaven-
worth. He served in the Goth Ohio
infantry.
Three boys in a buggy plunged over
a thirty-foot embankment into the
river at Topeka. The horses were
killed; the boys unhurt.
Several school districts about Frank
fort VIII vote on Sept. on the propo-
sition to consolidate and build a school
house in Frankfort large enough for
them all.
James Kittner, prominent farmer
of Bourbon county, Sc years old, was
drowned in the Marmaton river while
driving home in drunken condition
His horse and buggy are both dead
loss.
mule went into the penitentiary
coal mine 20 years ago, when st. John
was governor. The convicts named
him John Peter. He was last week
brought to the surface for the first
time.
Lyon county reports wheat and rye
sprouting in the stacks to such an ex-
tent that the stacks look like huge
green mounds IN the fields. The
growing wheat blades cover the stacks
from six to ten inches deep.
The condition of Judge Albert Hor-
ton on the night of Aug. 80 was very
alarming. His physicians say he is
sinking rapidly and is liable to die at
any moment. The change in the pa
TENTS condition came suddenly in the
morning. He family is at the bed
side.
Superintendent Edwin c. Jones, of
the government printing Office at Ma
Mia went from Emporia to the Wash
ington printing department. His
letters are inducing others to go to
Manila; among them number of Kan
sas men now working in the depart
ment at Washington.
The Santa Fe to meet the competi-
ton of the Rock Island, proposes to
construct short line from the Pecos
Valley system to FL Paso. 1t will start
from Amarillo or Roswell, probably
the latter. This cut off will give the
Santa Fe the shortest line between
Kansas City and FL Paso. A new line
is also proposed between Roswell and
Albuquerque.
Contract has been let for the Carne-
gle library in Salina.
The following twenty cities of Kan
sas head the state list in population:
Kansas City, 53.625; Topeka, $500;
Wichita, IS, 1853; Leavenworth, %, All;
Atchison, 1851; Pittsburg, 1874;
Fort Scott, 2,s92; Lawrence, 1910;
Hutchinson, 10, 256; Emporia, 9,619;
Parsons, 9,365; lola, s,2s2; o ttawa
1917; Salina, 1885; Arkansas City,
1858; Newton, 6,727; Winfield, $500;
Galena, 6,6s4; Coffeyville, 6,673; Argen-
tine, 6,5I5.
Missouri Reed, a farmer near
Wellsville, Kansas, received a propo-
sition recently. A neighbor offered to
cut, husk and crib Reeds corn crop
and to take as his pay all the corn over
100 bushels to the acre. The offer
was rejected.
Mrs. Manda Clark, an aged colored
woman of Salina, received a pension
of IS a month with back pay amount
ing to S32o Some one asked her if
she would get married now. Law,
no, honey" she replied; Uncle Sam is
the bestest husban' want"
Governor Stanley has refused to
honor a requisition from Gov. Savage,
of Nebraska, for L. c. Fitch, a Jewell
county farmer, who, it is charged,
stole herd of cattle in Nebraska and