Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-07-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


corn crop
Nearly every town in central Kan
sas is going to have a street fair this
fall.
ming to have stories about enormous
wheat yields.
The Crawford opera house at Leav-
enworth has been ordered sold for the
mortgage
= 1t is said that the prettiest home in
the town of Sedgwick is occupied by
an old bachelor
I One Crawford county man has put
up more than four hundred tons of
hay this season.
Sumner county has surplus in its
treasury and is investing the money
in township bonds.
It is estimated that the recent wreck
on the Salina & Oakley branch will
cost the Union Pacific $40, OOO
The state of Kansas will produce
tons of lucious grapes The vines are
trembling beneath their great weight,
and no one has yet ventured an esti-
nation of the yield.
II. S. Landis, who recently gave up
the Office of warden of the penitentiary,
has taken his family and removed
from Lansing 80 Galena where he will
engage in mining and prospecting
Mr.. Lands formerly lived in Barber
county but the probabilities are that
he will made his future home in south
eastern Kansas. Lands and ex-gov-
ernor Leedy have some mining inter
ests together in the mining district of
Kansas
The business men of Lebanon will
soon commence active preparations for
their annual celebration and picnic,
October 1, which they have kept up
ever since the completion of the Rock
Island road to the town. Improve
ments aggregating about $25, 900 have
been made during the first six months
of the year. Many other improvements
will follow the last half of the year,
as the prospects for a corn crop are the
best in the history of Smith county.
Anderson Smith, prominent and
well to do stockman living five miles
northwest of Erie, accidentally shot
Killed himself on the morning of July
IL. He had been shooting some vel
low hammers that had been botherina
around his barns, and had started tc
the house to put away his shot gun
When going through the gate his CUR
was discharged in some manner, the
load taking effect in his side, killing
him instantly and setting his clothe:
on fire.
In order to determine how much
water the herd of thirteen calves a.
the Kansas agricultural college would
drink, the water given them for {
week was weighed, and put in barre
with an attachment for letting it ou
as fast as needed. In the seven day.
the thirteen calves drank S6S pound:
of water, or an average of eight lbs {
day. The weather during this time
was warm for the first three days ant
cooler the last four days In addition
to the water, the calves got an aver
age of IA pounds of skimmilk beside.
grain and hay. This experiment show.
that calves need water in addition tt
their milk ration; it also shows tha
they like it often and not so much a
time. Always see that it is fresh
and clean.
B. P. Scott, assistant secretary o
the state labor bureau, has returned
from Lawrence, where he notified con
tractors engaged on the Kansas uni
versity chemistry building to permi
no further violations of the eight hou
law.
Home grown pears are going to b
very cheap this season. The trees ar
loaded with all they can bear, and tn
quality of the fruit will be frst-class
This is the first season in many year
than Kansas has produced a good GRO
of pears
The assessors in the different cour
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value of personal property by who'll
lot. In Stafford county new bugg
is worth 81. 95, according to the asses
sor, while in Leavenworth county
is held at S1s.75.
The kissing bug has reached Kansa
and every man should be on his guard
An eastern Kansas man is carryin
around large juicy lump over his Ii
which marks the spot where the kis.
ing bug got in its work one night las
week.
According to the last statement {
Kansas banks, the total of deposit
was "a, 063, ago 90. This is an increas
over the. corresponding period la
year of So, 500, 900.
When Kansas town strikes gas fl
the first time all the fireworks on han
are gathered up and discharged, tt
anvils begin to boom and the peop
hold the same kind of jubilee TIL
was common ten or dozen years ae
when the count showed that the pro
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