Free press., 1903-08-08

home he handed each check Tor y, ,OuO
the gift amounting to $4,000 in. all.
Ike Peck owns COO acres of land near
Halls Station. His children are in
dustrious and deserving.
WILL LAY HIM UP-Ed Key. who
has been in the railroad business for
fifteen years and never received an in
jury, fell from street car in Wichita
while going to work and suffered a
severe sprain of the tendon of his left
wrist that will put him off duty for at
least two months. He is employed by
the Missouri Pacific.
A RIVAL FOR GEUDA.-The. Interur-
ban Hallway company is said to have
purchased the mineral springs in Sum-
ner county, about three miles. from
Geuda Springs and of the same cura-
tive waters. With the springs a quar-
ter section of land has been purchased
on which town of unique design is
to be laid off.
CHANGE IN SCHOOL CENSUS. st for
merly included all who would reach
five years during the coming school
and also those who had been twenty
one during the year past. The result
was that the numbers were llrge. The
new law requires the exact birth date
and cuts out all not of the required age.
WANT AN ADv4NCE.-Rock Island
telegraphcrs throughout Kansas have
united in presenting ii demand to the
| general manager in Chicago for an adj
vance of $5 per month in pay with a
nine-hour day. The operators now re-
ceive from $40 to SIS Il month for ten
hours work day.
GATHERING TIES FROM FLOoD.-The
! sheriff of Riley county and railroad
officials have been locating railroad
ties and other material that drifted
from the Blue Valley road during the
recent flood. In driving through the
woods along the Blue river hundreds
| of railroad ties were found.
ALMOST A RECIUsE.-Mrs. C. H. Bag
! ley, one of Abilcne's oldest residents,
is dead. For twenty-five years, though
! able to do her work, she has never
been to the business part of town and
had never seen any of the buildings or
railways constructed in the last quar-
ter of a century.
| ToPEKAs FIRST DIRECToRY.-D. G.
Millison, who has been an honored cit
izen of Wichita for many years, was,
| in II SOS and 1860 book and job printer
in Topeka. 1t was he who published
the first city directory of the capital
city.
For A RESIDENCE. E.-The Methodists
of Abilene arc endeavoring to change
the headquarters of that district from
Junction City to Abilene and have
raised 81, 900 for presiding elders
residence.
A New BoUNTY.-There is a new
law of Kansas which gives to the per-
son who kills ground squirrel or a
gopher - cents for the scalp, provided
it is turned over to the township trus-
tee.
LARGR PRICE PER AcRE.--Mr Han.
son living four miles southwest of lola
sold quarter section of land for $l27
per acre. Two years ago he purchased
the;land for $40 an acre.
SHOWERS IN PRArr-After sever
weeks of drouth Pratt county has had
several good showers and prospec
for more. This will be of value to al
kinds of feed.
GENERAL. RAINs.-The rains of July
so and 81 were general over the stat,
and were heaviest in the corn bel
, where rains were most needed.
t ELEVATOR BURNED. -Cheatum's ele
: vator and 5000 bushels of wheat wer
consumed by fire ut Cleveland, King
man county.
e CARRIED 5000, 600 PEOPLE lola
: La Harpe electric railway is 81 mile
= long. 1t has larger ears than any il
: Kansas except the Topeka line an,
a during last year carried 600, 600 passen
{ gers The lola cars run from thirty t.
: forty miles an hour and cover dis
e tance of nearly 600 miles every day
Y The ears on the line are fifty-one fee
# long, seating sixtyfour persons an
I they carry motors of fifty horsepower
5 MADE ST., 500. The Winfield Chau
e tauqua balanced up with 81, 500 to In
away.
I. WILSON RETURNS. Attorne
t of Sumner County Emory Z. Wilson
I who disappeared from Kansas City o
] July 4. was found in his own door var
e NJ Belle Plain, on July 90. He was dc
!. firious, ennaeiated, ragged and filthy
s He recognized no one of his family o
l. neighbors.
e BONDS TAKEN 1T HoME.-The $780,
bonds voted by Junction City for
e high school have been taken by HON
N men and the school board has pm
II chased site. The building will /
put up this year.
l. GRAIN DEALERS Cor BUsY.-Th
i grain dealers of Wichita are doin
d more business than ever before. Or
% firm is handling 100000 bushels
d wheat day. Buyers are there froi
N Minneapolis, Mimi, and have alread