Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-06-17


loaded at Fort Riley the other day.
In the east when band plays a na-
tional air the audience rise to their
feet In the west they do not.
It required 500 worth of glass to
replace that which was destroyed in
one Fort Scott skylight by the recent
hail storm.
An Ellsworth county farmer cashed
in fifteen coyote scalps at the county
clerks Office one day last week at
dollar each
Kansas will get two Spanish guns
They are not mounted Governor
Stanley is to designate where they
shall be located.
Mayor Elstun, of Moline, announces
that hereafter he will crack down on
the parties who find pleasure in dis
ate limits.
Algood, the man mixed up in the
New matter, has been convicted of
forgery in Greenwood county, and
will be sent to the penitentiary for a
term of five years.
Cowley county has gained nearly if
not quite 1000 in population during
the last year. About half of the gain
comes from the country and the rest
from the two cities.
Pojken Swennsson, a swede, was
drifting in a boat on the Smoky
river the other day, smoking pipe.
The boat went over dam and cap
sized. Swennsson kept his head above
water and swan to shore still smoking
his pipe.
William Muir, one of the best known
and wealthiest farmers of Saline coun
ty, was drowned on June 9th in the
Smoky river. Since the heavy rains
he feared that the river would over
flow and damage his crops. He went
to the river to watch its progress,
when the bank suddenly gave away,
letting him fall into the water.
At Wier City the Kansas and Texas
Coal company has posted notices at it's
mines that until further notice it will
pay 81 ton for screened lump, begin
ming June 1. The company is operat-
ing one mine, No IS, and few more
men are going to work every day.
The efforts of the union to get the
men at the Central Coal and Coke COM
pany's Nos. and IL to strike proved a
failure.
School teachers are having their an
nual scuttle after positions. This is a
part of the grief of a life of school
teacher. A man who is employed in
almost any kind of a bushes house
has reasonable certainty of keeping
his job as long as he is satisfactory;
but with the average teacher the end
of the term is the end of the job. and
he has to go after it again and fight
off others who have designs on his
place.
Cheap Rates to Pacific Coast via Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe are selling tickets to
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
and other California points at the very
cheap rate OF $40. SO.
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon S2s. IS. For particulars call
on or address, l.. r. DELANEY, Agt,
Wichita, Kans
Homeseekers' Excursion via Santa Fe
Route.
On June the goth, the Santa Fe
will sell round trip tickets at the very
cheap rate of one fare for the round
trip plus So. 90 to all points in Arkan-
sas, Arizona, Indian territory and New
| Mexico. These tickets will bear going
limit with stopover privileges of fifteen
| days; final return limit twenty-one
days from date of sale Before pur-
| chasing tickets you will do well to call
on some representative of the road
reaches all points of iJnportance-The
| Great Santa Ee.
L. r. DELANEY, Agt.
| A good many Kansas papers are
Dragging about the number of new
names they have added to their lists
since the last issue. It is a good sign.
There is a woman living out in
northwest Kansas who will probably
have a rugged time when it comes tc
! squaring accounts at the final judg-
ment bar. With her husband she is
living on a farm which was decided he1
| by her father. She afterwards chased
the old man from the place and some
years ago he died at the county poor
| farm.
At Spearville, out in Ford county, q
couple of men are engaged in the work
of making bicycle handle-bars out OF
horns Their scheme was patented
last month. They call their produc'
the ''Wild West" handle bar, and will
place the novelty on sale this season
All kinds of talent can be found in
Kansas Joseph Hill, Mitchell coun
ty farmer, is sculptor He recently
carved the figure of an American vol
unteer out of native Kansas stone and
it is said to be very creditable piect
of work.
A list of patents granted to Kansani
appeared a few days ago without 1