Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-08-02

The Catholic church at hutchinson
is burned. The fire started from can
dies which are always kept on the
altar.
The fifth in the string of banks being
instituted by John w. Breidenthal is
located at Mapleton. The fourth is at
Edna.
James O'Brien, 3 deaf and dumb
man of St Marys, was struck by
passenger train and received fatal in
jurieA
Farmers about Harper have organ
lied to build an elevator on the Orient
railway in that city and ship their own
grain.
The Wichita stock yards are to have
new barn to cost s., 900, for trading
and selling horses and mules and other
stock.
The twenty-second anniversary of
the Kansas State Grange was duly
celebrated at Olathe- A big crowd was
present
Senator Burton announced on Sun
day, July 81, his selection of w. H
Mackey, of Junction City, for y. s.
marshal
The Topeka street railway company
has arranged to give passengers trans
fers on the cars instead of at a central
station as now.
R. Fl. Cunningham, a pioneer resi-
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of the Kansas legislature is dead at
Garnett of paralysis.
Sheriff Swayze, of Ottawa county,
says he has not been called upon any
official service but twice this year. He
travels for an implement firm.
The assessed valuation of wellington
school district this year is 81, O6s, SOC;
last year S923, 6o6. OF the Caldwell
district, $500, sss; last year sses. 1913.
Coal has been discovered on Harvey
Fickenger's farm 12 miles southeast of
Topeka and some local capitalists are
organizing a company to open q mine.
M. A. Low, general attorney for the
Rock Island Railway company. is elect
ed president of the Kansas State Ex-
position company. The company is or
ganized for the purpose of giving state
fairs in Topeka
c. B. Buck, of Burlingame, bought
10 steers about ten months ago and
turned them into stalk fields and fed
them on roughness, sold them and
cleared sac head. A shipper bought
them and made another profit.
Topeka's police matron, Mrs. Thorpe,
and ]. E. Nissley, took 200 Topeka
newsboys to Mcfarland for a picnic.
They filed two Rock Island passenger
coaches The excursion left at $50
a. m. and returned at $50 p. m.
Pastor C. S. Sargent, of tho Ply
mouth Congregational church of Wich-
tia, has gone to Chicago, Boston and
other New England points for a six
weeks vacation. While away from
the city he will work in the interest OF
Paramount college.
The Wamego barrel factory operated
by j. II. Bennett, is constructing an
additional building, 80 by 43 feet to ac-
commodate ten more hands. The bar
rel-making enterprise has proved a
profitable one and has also furnished a
market for a few surplus cottonwo
trees.
Lyman D. Luke, of Ell Dorado, hav-
ing served one enlistment in the Phil
! ippines, has re-enlisted at Wichita and
was sent back to Manila at his own re-
| qnest. With him Charles u. Pettingill,
of Glendale, Ohio, re-enlisted. He
was one of the band which recaptured
Lieutenant Gilmore from the insur-
gents.
A Valley Center man has brought
suit for 81 900 damages against a dozen
or more young men who made up a
charivari party; doing damage and
! causing long sickness of his wife
Nineteen young women, most of
them Kansas university students, and
two of them visitors from Lawrence,
had picnic and wading party near
Hiawatha. They took dozen ears of
corn from field to roast, as an ele-
ment in their lark, and the farmer
swore out warrants for the girls for
stealing corn. Did you ever?
The Kansas City Red Men went to
Parsons to find the best place to hold a
picnic. 1t was an orderly crowd OF
about l 100 people.
A meeting of business men called tc
raise funds for the expenses of the en-
campment of the National Guard al
Emporia, was attended by only five
business men.
The Throop hotel in Topeka is tc
force water from well by electric
power to a reservoir in the top OF the
building. One object is to save the
cost of water.
A. S. McAllister, the Socialist candi
date for governor, is an engineer or
the Rock Island between Harrington
and Salina.
The people living in the southwest
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