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Newspaper
The Hays Free Press
Location
Hays, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1902
Page
2
A chaotic Kansas page compiles a flood of short items from the Free Press era. Mentions include state figures debating legislative salaries, a Topeka church incident, a new well prospect near Winfield, a Rock Island employee honored, and university lectures in Kansas, plus various town updates on coal, gas finds, building booms, and rail towns forming in Cowley County.
Kansas notes on cattle hardy in cold wave and pasture health. political tallies compare Kansas and South Carolina votes. liquor license proposals. state budget figures for 1904 06 and university football histories. local crimes and appointments. real estate oil land purchases near Neodesha. various obituaries and community events in Topeka Manhattan and Wichita reports.
Col Thomas P. Ochiltree, veteran Texas congressman and noted wit, died in Hot Springs Virginia last week from heart trouble. He was born in Texas and was the first native elected to the U.S. House. A Confederate veteran, he later served as U.S. marshal of Texas and held a long political and literary career with wide international fame.
Mrs. Ellen Gore, studying music in Paris, was shot in the head in a Russian musician's rooms. Early belief of murder shifted to accidental discharge from the man's revolver after an autopsy by American and French physicians.
J. M. Gudger, elected to Congress from North Carolina's Tenth District, faced no active foe beyond his brother, the United States consul at Panama. The consul took leave to aid Republican candidate Moody's bid for reelection.
A deaf and dumb boy arrested for stealing a neighbor’s gosling explained he hatched the gosling from an egg after his chicken sat in the yard. He argued a claim to the gosling based on his hatchling story. The piece also notes Jusbio, the Russian singer, has a contract with a European firm guaranteeing payment if his voice is lost or impaired.
Septimus Winner, famed author of Listen to the Mocking Bird, died in Philadelphia last week at age 76. He sold the song fifty years ago for 35, publishers later netting about 2,100,000. He also wrote Listen to me Mockingbird and What Is Home Without a Mother under the pen name Alice Hawthorne, derived from his mother’s name.
Col John Jacob Astor offers to subscribe 10000 toward the New York Chicago Road aims if the proposed automobile highway route shifts from the west bank to the east bank of the Hudson river. He cites denser potential contributions from wealthy New Yorkers with country properties along the east bank.
Imports largely for manufacturers. Oregon short line to pension 20 years’ service. Buck dies in Yokohama. Butler named reporter of the US Supreme Court. Lineln hotel in Chicago burned with loss of life. Supreme Court sustains Colorado stock quarantine law. Texans fire at Hampton target practice. two guns explode. New York syndicate offers $50 million to Mexico for gold basis. Omaha grand jury to indict partimen and war widows in land-entry frauds. Chinese officials in indemnity bid excuse further merchant robberies. Zinc export agreement signed to halt price drop. DC Court of Appeals: post office no authority for mail class. Sleet and frost in Arkansas and Texas. Frosts heavy in Galveston, Houston, Beaumont. Western Louisiana flood danger. 15 Philippine regiments to be exchanged for same number of U.S. troops. Home troops leave San Francisco Feb. 1. Moore: half of silver dollars in circulation counterfeit. Banks report deposits up 100% in ten years. Cannon introduces $50,000 bill for stamp act inquiry. Appropriations panel passes pension bill. Hale moves naval academy age change. Studebaker burial marks gift to Epworth Hospital. Seattle police curb brothels and mule plots. State of New York overexpenses in aiding Spanish war. comptroller cites $3,873. South Africa orders 18,000 eight-horn plows to U.S. Oil market rises three cents. Vienna says Austro-Serbian talks aim to end Macedonian question. Havana cigar strike, factories operating under strain.
The piece blends social satire on career choices with assorted brief items. It notes a Chicago law student aiming to self fund through varied work, comments on German postal stages, a transit of Venus detail, and a church moving pictures initiative. It also covers poison distribution in Australia, a Rheumatism of the Heart testimonial for Dodd’s Kidney Pills, Barrow engineers prizes, and assorted humorous vignettes.
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