Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


are declared to be fake. Chemists
say there is no gold in the shale. If
this if true lots of Topeka people have
been worked for good-sized chunks of
coin
Corn stalks are being used for tele-
graph poles in some parts of Oklahoma
1t is said that they are superior to the
old poles, as the projecting leaves do
away with the necessity of using
climbers
The most valuable single service the
Kansas newspapers do is their constant
attempt to educate the people of their
communities to beware of peddlers and
fakirs and buy only of reputab BILE mer-
chants
Ed Learned, of Cowley county, sold
his farm for 81 900 and has taken the
hard, bright, tickle cash to Arizona
with him to prospect for gold. Some
body should chain him up and appoint
a guardian.
While the young men in Hutchinson
are neglecting their privileges and
frittering away their chances, some of
finest young women in the town are
going off to act as missionaries to
China and India.
There never was a year in Oklahoma
easier than the present one on finance
committees. This is shown by the
rapidity with which funds for street
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up in varioUe i6ons throughout the
Oklahoma.
A herd of $50 cattle from Clarendon,
Tex, have been quarantined on the
Holmes ranch at Clements, Kan, on
the advice of the state sanitary board
on the claim that f'Texas fever" has
been found among them. These are
the first Texas fever cases found in
Kansas this year.
Merchants at Council Grove have
raised the price, and hereafter the
band will give weekly concerts. Many
Kansas towns have taken similar &C
tions this summer; more than ever be-
fore in the history of the state. It is
a good scheme and one that is bound
to grow. 1t is getting rather late to
fall into line for this season, but next
spring every town in the state should
take steps to secure public concerts.
The annual old soldiers reunion at
Washington, Kansas, will be held
August 80, 81 and September l, 1899.
Elaborate preparations are being made
to have big time. Many prominent
speakers, camp fires every night, plen-
ty of tents, free wood, straw and wa
ter, ample accommodations for all.
Old soldiers and sailors of every war
and everybody else are cordially in
vited
Three-fourths of the entire acreage
of corn planted in Lincoln county this
year will yield very heavy crop. In
some favored locations the corn will
be immense, and nowhere will there
be less than good paying crop. Pro-
fuse rains during the past few days
insure the maturity of every stock
and ear, and has started fall blowing
In the Pleasant Vale church, nine
miles southeast of Lincoln, there is a
cornstalk cut green which measures
173z feet in length, nine feet to the
first ear, eleven feet to the second and
two ears above that yet. 1t was
grown by John Pitcher, in the open
field, without any special attention
whatever.
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ed in the park at Hiawatha A gun IA
feet long, weighing $500 pounds, will
be mounted upon it.
In Dickinson county last week the
county commissioners passed resolu-
ton instructing the county treasurer
to buy in all delinquent taxes for the
county under the law Several years
ago the county followed this plan I'M
der the old law but gave it up as too
expensive. 1t is believed that it will
save the county money under the new
regime.
Kansas papers are noting a great
many sales of real estate; farm prop
erty, especially.
SOmeOOoy III Inc CLOUDS IS playing
with Kansas Last week things look
ed dangerous. The screws of hot
weather began to creep down on Kan
sas. Kansas never squeaked. 1t look
ed like the cornswas gone sure if it
didn't rain. Nc: a soul croaked.
Something in the sky saw that Kansas
was going to stand the thing without
protest, pulled the lid and let it rain
like thunder
Farmers in western Kansas have q
new way to relieve bloat in cows.
They run five feet of hose down the
animals throat and the gas readily
escapes. But it must make the COW
take on an injured air.
The Kansas boy who went to wal
and gets back alive will be ahead OF
every college graduate who stayed al
home. The wanderer has broader
views, a world of self-reliance and {
recognition of an essential discipline
in life, without which success is no
possible.
A Harvey county man has an appl,