Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-10-24
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10 inc ICJioLicdH H'tLIOhtI conFcn tlOll.
a fire at Aberdeen, Wash, caused
four deaths and destroyed property
worth IL million dollars.
A second crop of straw berries is be-
ing marketed at Aurora, Mo- A few
crates are being shipped.
The Ohio state Doirrd of health is
to prevent the sale of TOY pistols and
other explosive appurtenances.'
Alvin Richards, of Des Moines, Iowa,
is OH his way to South America with
his fainily, travelling in a wagon.
Republican France gave royal re-
ceptiom to King Victor Emmanuel and
and Queen Margherita, of Italy.
The Missouri river is bisecting farms
in Iowa opposite Portsmouth, Neb.
One farm lost half its acreage, eighty
acres.
The largest gain in the country in
postoffiee receipts for the month of Sep
TENDER was made at the postofice in
Omaha, Ncb.
The federal grand jury at ST. Louis
is still wording on naturalization
frauds and seems to have plenty of
these cases.
The Illinois State Federation of
Labor convention has refused to adopt
Il resolution boyeotting the state mi
litia
Rev. J. J. Kahn, arch bishop of St.
] snI Of =:
Il sanitarium III that city,. where he had
been since May l..
1t is announced that the call for the
extraordinary session of congress to
meet November . will be issued prob
ably on the 20th instant
General Ian Hamilton, of the British
army, will attend the army maneuvers
at Fort Riley upon invitation of GEN
erals Corbin and Young.
The American board of commissioners
for foreign missions arc in annual ses-
sion at Manchester. New Hampshire,
planning for anotherye year.
grinding Kansas wheat and find it
profitable to openly sell the flour us
as the product of Kansas wheat. Here
tofore they called it Minnesota wheat
flour
The National Retail Liquor Dealers
association has adopted Il revised con-
stitution with provisions for raising
fund every year for defense of their in
terests in the state legislatures and in
congress.
The farmers and stocllmen say that
they arc being robbed by the packers;
that the packers pay less for cattle and
hogs, and at the slime time raise the
prices of meat to the retailers. The
stocllnen claim that the western states
stock producers have lost. by the
schening OF the packers, s1OO, zoe, 600
during the past three months.
L;cut. Col. w. II. Birlsbecl1 OF the
British army and Captain Dudley r.
DeChair of t}ic British, navy have been
especially detailed, to attend the mill
tary nl2neuyers at Fort Riley.
The DOSieitcs have closed a deal fol-.
80. 600 acres land in southwest North
Dakota. They propose to COLOMBO the
land and establish a Zion there.
The Farmers Cooperative Associa.
ton, commonly c;Clled The farmers
trust, which started in Kans IS has en-
tered Nebraska and is Incorporated
there.
During the strike of the employees Of
the Pacific Express company all jewels
and other v;,Iua5les, live stock ANA
perishable property was refused for
shipment.
The Cook Hotel and Excursion com
pany proposes to build on the St Louis
fair grounds a three story hotel 1900
by 100 feet, with ,. 800 rooms.
There were over 5000 in the line of
the parade of the Union Veterans
Union at Dayton, Ohio The occasiSn
was the eighteenth annual convention
of the Legion.
The Catholic Mutual Benefit associa-
ton, ~ its triennial meeting at Pitts
burg, Pa, recommended that saloon
keepers and bartcnders should be ex-
Guided from membership.
The Santa Fe is placing tr,o oil tanks
underground to furnish oil to the diff
ferent furnaces in the shops at Albu-
querqne- The oil is to be pumped by
air. and its use means less cost of fuel
and more work done at the FORCES.
General Ola. leader of the insurgent
armies in the province of AIbay. Luzon,
continues to turn out the guns of his
command to the American anthori-
ties,
Tile American Investment in religious
and educational institutions in Turkey
is Sc. 5oO,o