Free press., 1903-07-25

is % years old, 1t measures ten feet
and seven inches around the TRUNK one
foot from the ground and measures
through the foliage from north 70
south sixty-nine feet, and from east to
west sixty two feet. This is Il beauti
fully shaped tree. in perfect health,
with wood as hard as hickory and
leaves as soft as velvet.
AEMoUEDALE Still. DEsoLATE. E.-The
place looks almost as desolate as it did
a few days after the Hood. Shawnee
park Is filled with u mass of houses,
another mass IS piled against the old
viaduct, all the streets, except Kansas
avenue, are blocked with houses sitting
n all angles and lying upside down.
Alleys, streets, lawns. back yards, eel
lars ana houses are piled high with
black, foul mud.
STATE MII.L:sRs' AssooIArIo,-A
meeting held III Topeka elected the fol-
lowing officers for the coming year;
C. V. Brinllman, Great Bend, president:
George NJ Randall, Wichita, secretary;
David Bowie, Topeka treasurer. A. j.
Hunt, of Arkansas City, and Herbert
Hackney, OF Topeka, were chosen as
delegates to the Millers' National Fed
GRAFTON which meets this year in Chi
cago.
Rapids, with perhaps the finest water
power in the state of Kansas, was de-
serted by the Big Blue river during
food time; but the citizens changed the
channel, and the wheels of six manu-
featuring establishments and the elec-
tric light and waterworlls plants are
whirriHg again.
ASSESSORS CATTLE VALUATION. In
LeavenwOrth county cattle are valued
for taxation at $lS.13; in Ncmaha AZ
$3.50. and in Montgomery at So. "a.
Only eight counties in the state value
their cattle at over $40 each.
CoLoRED K. OF P.-The grand lodge
of the world of colored Knights of
Pythias, and the Ladies' Auxiliary, the
1. o. .. c., will meet in Wichita on July
% for a three days session.
FARMERS RoARED-At Mound City
farmers made such roar over being
drawn for jury duty that the court
postponed all jury cases until the next
term of court.
ASSESSMENT OF HoRsEs.-In Wyan
dotte county horses are valued by the
assessors at $13. 66;in Nemaha, $40; in
Stevens S547, and in Anderson at
S26.4S
PENSIONERS DYING-There have
been ], 300 pensioners stricken from the
rolls of the Topeka u. 5. pension
agency by death during the past Eve
months
RIVERS Or; RAMrAGE.-The Rcpubli-
can and Solomon rivers have been
again sending down floods of water
into the Kansas river at Junction City.
VOTERS MUST PAY POLL TAX -
Many students of the Salina colleges
who voted last spring have to pay
poll tax or work it out on the street.
MANUAL. TEAINING. is
larger demand for mpnual training
teachers in Kansas than the state will
be able to supply for year or two.
SHOWERS AT ToPEKA-Two pretty
heavy showers at Topeka caused North
Topeka people to fear another flood.
There is no danger of it however
WHEAT FIELD BURHED.-A. Barton.
four miles west of Pratt, had fifteen
acres of wheat burned. The fire start
ed by sparks from passing engine.
CHUI:N 100, 900 POUNDS A DAY.-One
OF the Topeka creameries has ten
churns that each make 1000 pounds of
butter an hour.
WESTERN CoLoEED PREss.-On Au-
gust 3-5 the Western Colo~ed Press as
sociation viii hold It's annual session
in Wichita.
FORD COUNTY CRoPs.-The whea:,
rye, barley and oats crops in Ford
county will represent IA value of $780,
0Oo, or about $1@5 for each man, woman
and child in the county. The wheat
area alone aggregates 60, 600 acres. and
the yield viii average about twenty
bushels to the acre.
WASTED WHEAT.--The loss to Pratt
county, Kansas, in wasted wheat, ow-
ing 10 the inability of the farmers to
secure adequate harvest help. will be
-, 900 bushels This is the estimate of
d. w. Blaine, of Pratt.
FIRE AT DODGE CI1Y-It destroyed
the T. T. Garner livery barn, the H.
b. Bell livery barn, the Lybran board
ing house and numerous sheds. The
buildings We're covered by light insur-
ancc. The Dodge City Telephone COM
pany suffered considerable Joss.
BoNDs FOR DEFICIENCY.-The board
of commissioners of Sedgwicll county
have resolved to issue bonds to fill the
$40, 600 gap in the general fund. A
new law gives the commissioners power
to do this without submitting the mat
ter to "a vote by the people.
WHEfE ARE Hrs RELATIVES
Reifor was found dead in chair, in a
house near Greensburg which lie occu-