Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-01-21

Kansas City method.
No criminal eases on the Ellsworth
court docket this Term
A Junction City firm will put in the
waterworks system for Wamego,
Three Clifton crap shooters turned
Is13 each into the city treasury the 9th
er day.
The superintendent of the Morris
county poor farm draws a salary of
$500 year.
The ice harvest in Kansas this sea-
son is as satisfactory as the grain har-
vest of the past year.
The net reduction of mortgage in
debtedness in Ellsworth county for the
year 1898 amounted to S198, 964.
An Ottawa man is the owner of a pin
of common size on the head of which
every letter of the alphabet is en-
graved
For fifteen years Miss Jennie Mar
shall has taught the school in District
No. 1, in Cloud county, school in
The poor farm in Osborne county is
a money maker for the county. The
humble hog is largely responsible for
the showing on the right side of the
ledger.
There is considerable county print
ing trouble in the air just at present.
It will lash away for few weeks and
then die down until the time rolls
around for the contracts to be let
again.
BARRIERS of Ellsworth have refused
to work on Sunday. There is really
no reason why barber should be ex-
pected to work on this day which is to
the great majority of the people day
of rest.
The same rain that will swell up a
tub will shrink steer. A paper print
ed out in the cattle district is authori
ty for the statement that big rain
will sometimes cause a steer to lose
100 pounds.
An exchange says: Deaths are men
toned in Kansas papers with remark
able frequency of late. In the, first
seven papers picked up of the issue Of
the present week there were seventeen
death notices.
In compliance with a request from
the members of the Anti-Horse Thief
ner county have raised the reward Of
fered for the apprehension and conv1c-
ton of horse thieves from SIS to $50.
Regent Dodge says that the big
revert to the State Normal, as the
back interest and taxes due have been
paid up. The Cross ranch is the big
gest thing out doors in Mitchell coun-
| ty.
There was a time, and it wasn't very
| long ago, either, when a Kansas town
with a, telephone system was consider
ed very hot thing They are getting
to be so common now that they are
hardly considered worth Dragging
about.
| A Kansas paper puts up dolorous
wall to the effect that many Kansas
merchants are seriously considering
the ACCESSIBILITY of remaining in bust
ness another year. This is a false
note in the harmony of humping bust
ness, which is in evidence the state
! and nation over.
Council Grove is town that at the
Loot an1rnorofio0 xvac oradifod-xuifb
2,5O6 inhabitants At the close of bus
mess on December 81, there was on
deposit in the two banks of the town
1865, 34s. A. Of this sum it is said that
about four-ffths belongs to the farm
ers of Morris county.
Ex-Register of Deeds Newbold, OF
Sumner county, has brought suit
against the county commissioners to
recover something over So, 600 in fees
which he turned over in 1895 and 1896
He bases his suit on the alleged dis
covery that the law reducing fees OF
county officers was not properly pass
ed.
Orville Parker, one of the boys of the
Twentieth Kansas, writing from Ma
Mia to his folks at Coffeyville, say:
that he pays five cents a. dozen for ban
anas, gets six oranges for a nickel. fif
teen or twenty cigarettes for two
cents, while cigars are rated at hal
cent, or cent apiece; and the cigars
and cigarettes, he says, are made Out
of real tobacco.
One of the Kansas Creamery patron.
had two heifer calves in succession
from an old red COW. one by Hol
stein and the other by Short-horn
t In a seven days test tn Holster
; heifer with her third calf produced 9.
pounds of butter per day, and for tn,
same time the Short-horn with he
calf produced LIZ pounds of butter pc
S day; the Holstein giving milk clever
? months of the year and the Short-hor1
: only five months This speaks yer.
y emphatically as to the value of a goo'
sire in raising dairy cows.
: Clay Center's school board has EN-
a ployed teacher of vocal music for tn
balance of the term. He will give tw