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THE FREE PftESS.
HABBT FBEEZE, Pal.
HAYS CITY,
KANSAS.
BAMS AS JTEM8 OF INTEREST.
house west of
lightning and
The building
teacher in the
has accepted a
A S600 piano, bought in Kansas City,
has been installed in the official home
of the governor of Kansas.
'Ha 1891'Kansas ha'd 34,484 acres of al
falfa; in 1901 there were 319,000 acres
, of this forage crop in the state. -
The number "of 'new students in
Washburn college is greater at this
' opening season than ever before.
J. T. Eyan, a wealthy farmer of Mont
gomery county, is mysteriously missing.
Mr. Ryan's age is 67 years, lie owns a
farm of 240 acres.
Miss Jessie Morrison, went from the
penitentiary to Excqlsior Springs with
the hope of. regaining her health. She
gave a $7G,00Q bond. ; : .
John T. Galley, of Clearwater, is be
lieved to be one of five ' men , who were
killed' in a railroad collision at James
town. South Dakota. -
The Uichland school
Pratt was struck by
. burned, with fixtures
was valued at 51,000.
Miss Edith Davis, a
Topeka high school,
81,200 position in the territorial agri
cultural college of New Mexico,
t While Miss Morrison was in the pen
itentiary, she made a good deal of
fancy work which brought a consider
able revenue to the library fund.
Blue Rapids has a commercial club
which is reaching out for the extension
the Missouri Pacific north from To
peka to connect with the Central
Branch.
The State Sheriffs' association pro
poses to contest the claim that they
must'vacate at the end of their second
terms, and that a successor must be ap
pointed. They have employed attor
neys. George A. Braunraider. a member of
the Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth,
was dishonorably discharged and
drummed out of camp for expressing
satisfaction at the shooting of the pres
ident." -
F..EI Register, "a ' delivery wagon
driver of Topeka, said he was glad Mr.
McKinley " was shot, and was dis
charged."., A "committee went to his
house to order ;him ' to leave the city
but '.did not find 1iimV"'-'
Cdurtland Fleming,' a member of the
Twentseth Kansas,' was shot through
the stomach, the ball passing through
it and lodging in his back; a case sim
ilar to that of President McKinley. lie
is now a strong,, sound man.
At Redfield, Bourbon county, when
the news from Buffalo came, A. F.
Smith, a barber, said it was a "damned
good thing." The entire population
became infuriated and he was given
-ttniil -5gH to g-et put of town.
On September 12 the balance in the
general revenue, in the state treasury
was 8191,398, while the surplus money
in the permanent school fund was $290,-
661. For the latter strenuous efforts
are being made to find investments.
Chas. Lake and C. A. Lewis, Missouri
Pacific men, were standing inside the
Paola depot when a fight among ne
groes occurred on the platform. The
bullets passed through the side of the
depot and hit both of the white men
Oberlin, Decatur and Jennings have
been flooded by a three inch rain fall
it uecatur tne county records were
damaged. Along Sapp Creek hay and
other stacked feed was swept away and
cul verts and bridges were washed out.
A Greenwood county jury in the dis
trict court found the mayor of Eureka
not guilty on the charge of disobeying
ing the law in appointing a civilian
as street commissioner when an old
soidier was an applicant for the place.
Less than two years ago Marshal
Hatfield bought the John Gapen 80
acres in Harmon, township, Sumner
county, for SSS0. His first crop was
1,200 bushels of oats and 400 bushels of
corn. This year he threshed 1,071
bushels of wheat and on Tuesday he
fcold the land for SI, 700.
There are 100 cars of bridge material
at Liberal for the Rock Island bridge
over the Canadian on the El Paso ex
tension. The bridge will be 800 feet
long and 135 feet high.
It is told that the Rev. Mr. Breed, of
Burlingame, who is a K. N. G. mem
ber, was at the depot wearing his uni
form, when he was approached by a
man who said: "Say, pard, we've got a
little game over here and some booze.
If you want in, it's all right." The
preacher told about it in his Sunday
sermon.
II. E. Conly has been changed from
Joplin, Mo., and has taken the place of
Mr. Frank at Wichita as district freight
. agent of the Frisco line. He has lived
in Kansas the greater part of his life.
Richard Chambers has sold Ids 260
acre farm east of alley Center, to
John A. Buflington for 813,000 cash in
hand.
A jointist of Eudora took ten cases of
beer to a Woodmen's picnic While he
was getting away with two cases the
Woodmen smashed eight with axes and
things. -
J. P.. Butterly , of Topeka, has
young pear tree which bore 90 pears
this season. He exhibited a branch of
the tree with eight immense Bartlett
pears oh it. - -
Frank Nelson, state superintendent
of public instruction, is endeavoring to
" have a uniform course of study adopted
by the high schools of the state. If
this is done it will be possible for the
graduate of any high school in the state
to enter either the state university or
- the state normal school without exam
ination.
The penitentiary binding twine plant ;
made $7,000 profit this season.
The Ohio association of- Wichita are
to have a picnic on September 26.
Summer thunder showers visit, much
of southern Kansas frequently now.
The Rock Island is putting heavy
steel rails between Wichita and Hering
ton. Two Santa Fe employes at Emporia
were discharged for smoking in the oil
house. .
The heavy showers of Friday and
Saturday, September 13 and 14, wert
general in Kansas.
Cattlemen at the Wichita stock yards
pay SO a ton for prairie -hay. Alfalfa
is held at 812 a ton.
New York men propose to sink shafts
and build a power house at Little River
to work the salt mines.
The new law requiring prescriptions
for morphine and the like seems to be
easily evaded in Kansas.
Curtis Monical succeeds Chas. J. Webb
aschief clerk for Superintendent Mc
Lellan, of the Santa Fe. .
; J. W. Robison, a Butler county farm
er, has COO acres of alfalfa and intends
to make it 1,000 this year.
Superintendent Nelson suggests
changes in the school tax laws to make
them more equitable to the smaller dis
tricts. .
Major J. W. Bolus, of Fort Scott, is
dead. He had a remarkable war
record. Major Bolus had lived at Fort
Scott since 18G6.
T. K. Thompson, of Dover, Shawnee
county, took 13 of the 18 first prizes
awarded at the Nebraska state fair,
lie had no cattle in the other five
clesses.
Miss Amanda O'Conner, formerly of
St. Marys, has accepted the place of
first assistant in the piano department
of the territorial university at Norman,
Oklahoma.
A bridge being built east of Caldwell
collapsed from the action of a rushing
flood. Several men who were strength
ening the false work fell among the
twisted timbers 35 feet below and were
injured.
Judge Henry C. Sluss, who has been
judge of the United States court of
private land claims, will have served in
that capacity for ten years next July.
He will probably resume the practice
of law in Wichita next summer.
W m. Bastain and Chas. Roth, two
Santa Fe water service men, were over
come by gas while working in an oil
tank at the Topeka shops and death re
sulted before they could be helped, or
even before their predicament was
known.
The pipe organ - presente d to the
Presbyterian church of Junction City
by Andrew Carnegie in memory of Col
onel John B. Anderson, was recently
set up and a recital conducted. Mrs.
Anderson heard the recital at her home
in Manhattan by telephone.
A young soldier of the Kansas
Twentieth named Miles, whipped
Topeka socialist who was bawling
against the government. The next
day Secretary Hawk, of the socialist
organization, got out a handbill calling
Miles an anarchist. Miles went to the
Capital office for a reporter to go along
and get the straight seory of how he
was going to lick Hawks. The lickinsr
went off according to time card.
It is noted that General J. C. Cald
well, who has been consul in a port of
the Gulf of Mexico for four years, has
never sent home "a piece to be printed."
The general has a record as a leader in
the battle of Gettysburg, succeeding
Hancock in command when .the latter
was wounded, and is best liked by his
closest acquaintances, yet he does not
parade before the public. General
Caldwell's home has been in Topeka
for many years.
The city schools of Wichita opened
with an enrollment on the first morn
ing of 3,634 pupils of which number
there were 342 in the high school.
Attorney General Godard decides
that county clerks must turn over the
81 taken for registering doctor's cer
tificates, into the general funds of the
county.
After celebrating their sixty-second
wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Spicer, of Neosho Falls started t
see the sights at the Pan-American exposition.
State Superintendent Nelson favors
adopting the savings bank system in
the schools in this state which some
other states have found valuable.
Prof. Landson, of the Fort Scott
schools says that in 25 years but one
boy addicted to the cigarette smoking
habit has graduated from the schools
of Fort Scott.
Dr. E. M. Wood, who has been at
the head of the department of mathe
matics at Baker university for 14 years.
has accepted the same position in Al
bion college, at Albion, Michigan.
Hail at Freeport broke glass in pas
senger coaches of a -Missouri Pacific
train and made dents on iron roofs.
The hail came along with a heavy rain.
The two negroes who robbed two
harvest hands at Salina have been
found guilty by a district court jury
and will probably go to prison for ten
years. .
The 15,000 bushels of seed wheat im
ported by the. Kansas millers has been
distributed in Kansas and Oklahma
with some as far away as Ohio and
Oregon.
xnesantare is appealing trie case
between that road and the Orient con
cerning track crossing in Emporia tc
the supreme court.
Train crews of the Missouri Pacilic
have been overworked of late and at
Garnett one of them turned a switch
while in a state of somnambulism which
wrecked two engines and hurt a fire
man. . .
When J. M. Simpson assumes , the
collectorship of U. S. internal revenues
he will probably remove the revenue
ojfice from Leavenworth to Topeka.
3
Hzillet Fired hy Asain Csolgos& Com
pleter If Kotit Minion.
"COD'S WILL -BE VOffE. JVOT OWRS"
HIS LAST WOUVS.
The Entire World Mourns the
Fate of the Victim of
an Anarchist.
After every resource was exhausted
for over tweuty-four hours, after the
sinking spell early on Friday morning,
death came to William McKinley,- the
twenty-fifth president of the United
States, at 2:15 o'clock Saturday morn
ing at the Milburn residence, Buffalo,
N. Y.
other members of the family. Mrs. Ab
ner McKinley, a sister-in-law; Miss
ilsry Barber, the President's favorite
niece; Mrs. Mc Williams of Chicago, a
cousin; Lieutenant James McKinley, a
nephew; John Barber, a nephew; Mrs.
Baer, a niece; with Mr. Baer, and Sec-
during the night broke up, coming
down the walk singly and in pairs.
Men Weep aa They Leave.
Everybody was deeply affected. Sev
eral of the men were sobbing aloud
as they passed on their way to their
carriages.
Secretary Wilson says that the party
will go first to Washington, where the
body will lie in state in the Capitol,
but Interment will be in Canton, O.
The details of the President's funeral
retaries Root. Wilson, and Hitchcock, wl e m charge of the Secretary of
and Attorney General Knox. The lat- ) State. - Througli him notices and in
ter, with Secretary Long, had arrived
only a few minutes before midnight,
and Secretary Long left about 10
WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
not only the people of Buffalo indig
nant at the disgrace to their city, but
strangers, who had no neighborly re
spect for the local authorities.
Gov. Odell pacted promptly and gave
orders to protect the jail.' Thus the
assassin was safe from penalty for
the miserable death he had dealt out
to the President.
COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS
For many hours the President's hold
on life was so slight that the work of
the surgeons was confined to watch
ing the flickering spark without at
tempting to fan it into life artificially.
Hope Abandoned at Midnight.
Practically all medicines and oxygen
treatments were abandoned a consider
able time before midnight. All hope
was abandoned then, and the only
thing left to do was to wait for the
worn out machinery to run down.
Mrs. McKinley had been with the
President twice during the early part
of the evening.
Just before the President lost con
sciousness Mrs. McKinley knelt at his
side. He knew her and said: "Good
by all; good-by. It is God's way; not
eur will, but Thine be done."
Los of Consciousness.
The life of President McKinley,
which had been sustained with power-
McKINLEY AS A RAW RECRUIT.
(At the time of his enlistment in the
Army.)
ful drafts of oxygen, seemed to fade
away soon" after 10 o'clock, and con
sciousness was lost permanently.
Around what was. supposed to be the
actual deathbed, besides .the surgeons
in the case, were Abner McKinley, Miss
Helen McKinley, and Mrs. Duncan, the
brother and sisters of the President.
They were hurriedly called to witness
the passing of a brother and a Presi
dent. Yet an hour seemed to be de
layed from one brief moment to' an
other. Members of Family Gathered.
Down-stairs and in the hall were the
ASS ASS IN SHOOTS
Code of
UNDER OBDEBS
Instructions Given to Man
Chosen t Murder.
Superintendent of Police Bull of
Buffalo now has in his possession the
AT BUFFALO POLICE HEAD
QUARTERS. -(Newspaper
men interviewing Police
- Captain Reagan.)
code of instructions imparted to the
selected assassin, Czolgosz.
The platform of the Free k Society
has also been ad&sd to the cumulative
o'clock, so that he was not present
when the end came.
Officials See the End.
Next in official importance among
the watchers 'were Senator Hanna.
Controller Dawes, Senator Fairbanks,
Governor Yates of Illinois, J. H. Mil
burn. President of the exposition, in
whose house the President died; Col
onel Myron T. Herrick, with his wife;
and half a score of others who came
and went. Included among these were
Colonel W. C. Brown, Abner McKin
Iey's law partner; Russell B. Harrison,
son of a former President; Webb C.
Hayes, son of a former President; and
many others whose figures could
scarcely be distinguished in the
gloom.
The Straggle With Death.
The President's turn for the worse
came at 2 o'clock on Friday morning,
and it was almost exactly cwenty-four
hours later before the last flicker of
life had died away. It was the heart
which failed early in the morning fol
lowing upon the partial collapse on
Thursday- night, and all through the
terrible day into the night the heart of
the good President beat with irregular
throbs which told of the Inevitable
end.
Mrs. McKinley Informed.
Mrs. McKinley wa3 warned that it
was only a question of minutes before
the end came, but as these minutes
drifted into hours her strength failed
completely and she was forced to re
tire, under the commands of the physi
cians, who alone could tell whether
life was extinct or not.
Final Deathbed Scene.
The result was that when the end
really came, at 2:15 o'clock in the
gray, foggy morning, those present In
the death chamber were only Miss Hel
en McKinley, Mrs. Duncan, Abner Mc
Kinley. James McKinley, John Barber,
and Dr. Rixey. The other physicians
had left the room when it was decided
that human sk:ll could not save the
President.
Sad News Given to Public.
Secretary Cortelyou came out of the
Milburn house about 2:20 a. m., and
in a voice that trembled with emotion
announced:
"The President died at 2:15."
He then gave the names of the fam
ily- and friends present at the bedside
when the end came and returned to
the house.
Immediately thereafter the party
that had been assembled in the house
evidence of the anarchist conspiracy.
This document binds its members to
gether to advocate and work for the
destruction of the existing social order,
and continues:
"As in former times no- privileged
class ever -relinquished its tyranny,
no more can we take it for granted
that the capitalists of the present day
will forego their privileges "and their
authority without compulsion. It is,
therefore, self-evident that the fight or
the proletarian against the upper and
middle classes must be of a violent
character and that mere wage con
flicts can never lead to the goaL
- Cr& - Force as Only Remedy.
"We show by numerous illustrations
that all attempts which have been
made in the past to do away with the
existing monstrous . social system
through peaceful meansr-for example,
the ballot box hare been useless, and
will be so in the future. J
"Force is the only remedy. -"We
know, therefore, that the rul
ing class will not voluntarily relin
quish its prerogatives and will make
no concessions to us. ; Under all these
vitations to distinguished foreign rep
resentatives will be extended.
Congress May Attend Funeral.
The wishes of the members of the
President's family will be observed
and the character of the services will
depend entirely on them. Congress
will attend in a body, if the services
are held at the national capital, but
if they are performed at Canton this
arrangement may be changed.
The House is not organized, and the
oath has not been administered to the
members elect, but they will be in
charge of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the
last House, who holds over in office.
The "Senate, being a continuous body,
will be present officially, with Presi
dent Pro Tern Frye at its head, and
the Sergeant-at-Arms in charge of the
details.
Secretary Root and Secretary Long
will detail suitable bodies of military
and naval forces to be present at the j
funeral.
Death Caused by Heart Trouble.
The President s heart gave trouble i
from the beginning, but its erratic ac
tion was at first thought to be due to
the shock of the wound, but when the
would had begun to progress favorably
the heart gave more trouble and anxi
ety than ever. Its action became feeble
and finally gave out altogether.
The President's death was due to
heart exhaustion, but some of the
physicians do not believe there was
organic heart trouble. The theory of
at least one of the physicians is that
the original shock of the first bullet
over the heart had much to do with
the trouble which caused death.
Slayer Saved by' Darkness.
A noticeable theme of comment was
occasioned by the hour at which the
death occurred. It partook somewhat
of the providential that the event
should have come in the dead of
night instead of the early evening,
when the thousands who gathered on
the streets of the city were in no ten
der mood.- Had the death come ear
lier it is possible that the authorities
would have had to cope with more or
less violence.
Crowds Surround .Tall.
During the early part of the evening
crowds began to gather about the station-house,
where the assassin, Czol
gosz, was confined, and the purpose of
tneir gathering was at no time mys
terious. People gathered rapidly,
who openly declared they intended to
lynch the assassin, if the President
died.
The authorities were fully alive to
the situation and agents of the secret
service reported tnat the people were
excited beyond measure. There were
All the World Mourns.
All Friday and Friday night 80,000.
000 of Americans stood in thought and
heart at the bedside of their dying
President. A simple people, devoid of
the arts which in other lf.nds are used
to decorate the emotions, they -knew
only how to sorrow In silence and hope
that -the impending blow would be
spared.
In his daily life the President of the
United States is mere.y its first citi
zen a plain man in plain clothes, ac
cessible to other plain men in plain
clothes. By virtue of his office he is
only the foremost among his equals,
and as such he meets his fellow citi
zens without claiming or expecting
from them the studied deference or os
tentatious affection which is so sedu
lously displayed in the caoitals of
! other lands.
Yet for days, rhile this man of the
people lay stricken by the assassin,
bound down by wounds, and hovering
between life and death, 80,000.000 men,
women, and children turned from tha
tasks of a crowded life, forgot their
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personal strivings and personal griefs,
and in dire suspense reached out for
the least word of comfort, cf courage.
or of cheer from their Presiaeut's bed
side.
Sorrow, affection, and anxiety were
written across the face of the whole
nation, throughout the days and
throughout the nights, and now, with
the blow fallen and the watching done,
the land eives itself over to the
mourning which no crown or scepte
could command, which no throne could
gather to it, and now the civilized
world has joined us in grief over our
calamity.
The republic may appear at times
ungrateful, for its heart is deep, but
he who finds that heart has not lived
or died in vain. Chicago Inter Ocoan
A Perfect Roy.
"I never heard of but one p2rfect
boy," said Johnny, pensively, as he
sat in the corner doing penance. "And
who was that" asked mamma. "Papa
when he was little.", was the answer.
And silence reigned for the space
five minutes.
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THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.
circumstances there is only one rem
edy left force.
Gives Platform of Six Plank.
"Our platform is simple and divide!
as follows:
"1. Destruction of existing- class
domination through Inexorable revo
lution in international activity.
"2. The building of a free society on
communistic organizations or produc
tions. "3. Free exchange of equivalent
products through the productive or
ganization without jobbing and profit
making. "4. Organization of the educational
system upon non-religious and a scien- '
tine and an equal basis for both sexes.
"5. Equal rights for all without dis
tinction of sex or race.
"6. Regulation of public affair
through agreement between the inde
pendent communes and confederacies."
- Cleveland. O., telegram:' In a frame
building on Broadway, the Cleveland
detectives have discovered evidence
which, while not tending to prove the
existence of an anarchist plot against
President McKinley, will at least serve
to hold one of the rata who was ar
rested in Chicago.
As soon as information was received
EMERGENCY HOSPITAL,
(Where the President was first takea
after the shooting.)
here of the arrest of Edward Wol
cizynski, of this city, la Chicago, Serst
nnran nnfi Det wtive Schmunk werf
detailed to search the house in whicfc J Buffalo assassin-
he lived at 1870 Broadway. The
found stored away on top of a cup-J
board fifty feet of fuse, such a3 is or-
dinarily used in the manufacture o! .
dynamite bombs. The informatics
was at once telegrapjed to the Chica
go authorities.
The Santa Fe is taking east 25 to 30
carloads of canteloupes daily.
W. P. Sullivan, of Christian county, '
Mo., sold his apple crop for S4G,OO0.
Polish day" at the Buffalo exposi
tion has been postponed indefinitely.
A number of Iowa and Nebraska
creameries have combined and have
headquarters in Omaha.
There are 3,000 delegates including"
300 women, at the 21st National Colored
Baptist Convention at Cincinnati.
The Atlanta Constitution asserts that
while there are 30,000 grist mills in the
United States, there are 40,000 breweries.
Ex-Governor Eaton, of Colorado,
leases 16,000 acres of land and his cash
income from it is over a half million
dollars a rear.
A new 10,000 Congregational church
at Joplin, Mo., a stone edifice, is sink
ing and has been abandoned. It is
built over zinc mines.
Congress will have a bill before it
making an attack upon the president
with intent to murder cognizable to
United States courts and punishable
by death.
American preachers who are negroes
and in attendance upon the Ecumeni
cal council are in demand to preach
while in Lrondon, in many of the prom
inent churches.
Those writers and speakers who
sowed the seed by denoucing the presi
dent as a tyrant and a would-be em
peror are condemning the harvest they
so industriously prepared for and plant
ed. Consul General Stowe has arrived at
Washington from Cape Town. He says
that six years ago the trade of the
United States in South Africa was
000,000, and that it is now 20,000,000 a
year.
The New York Tribune says: "Only
two voices seem to have broken the
common outpouring of regret and hor
ror over the tragedy at Buffalo. One.
is that of Senator George A. Welling
ton, of Maryland; the other that of
Mrs. Carrie Nation.
. The Canadian soldiers who served in
South Africa have been barred from
the parade at the reception of the Duke
of York unless they appear uniformed
as are the militia. The soldiers de
cided that they would not appear to
receive their South African medals
except in their old uniforms.
The payroll for the work being done
upon the St. Louis exposition grounds
will amount to 27,500 a day for the
next 18 months.
Lucy Parsons, one of the first and
the worst of anarchists, now says that
the attempt to murder the president
causes her to abandon anarchy.
A cotton storage warehouse in Brook
lyn, which has three compartments
each 100 feet long, took fire in one fo
the three which contained 30,000 bales
of cotton. The damage is half a mil
lion dollars.
The state of Mississippi owns 13 large
farms where convicts are kept at work.
The plan in general has proven profit
able. ; The Union League of Maryland has
expelled U. S. Senator Wellington from
its membership. The order says that
the league looks upon Wellington and
his countenancing the act of a traitor
with shame and loathing. -
At Casper, Wyoming, Hans Wagner
was tarred and feathered and beaten
for expressing sympathy with Czol
gosz. There are 23,916 printing establish
ments in the United States, over one
third of which have been established
within ten years.
Deputy Sheriff Malone, of Portland,
Oregon, was suspended for asserting
"President McKinley ought to have
been shot long ago." Suspension by
the neck instead would have been welL
A plan has been started to secure
small amounts from all - towns in the
country for a fund to be given to James
Benjamin Parker, the negro that saved .
President McKinley's life.
Three inmates of the national sol
diers home at Marion, Indiana, are in
the guard house for expressing sympa
thy with the attack on the president.
Some foolish and some serious mis
takes have been made in ' the assaults
upon alleged sympathizers with the
It is better to be
sure.
The Grand Army of the Eepublve
gained 30,019 members in the pa,t year
and lost 37,172. The number on the
rolls June SO, 1901, was S?5,057 includ
ing 25,550 suspended
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