Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-01-28

missioners may put price on their
scalps.
A new row is imminent The stock
breeders are going to ask for state
fair and half the large towns in the
state will be fighting for it.
The poor farm in Osborne county is
money maker for the county. The
humble hog is largely responsible for
the showing on the right side of the
ledger.
Hodgeman county has twenty thous-
and dollars in the treasury and IS try
| ing to get it into circulation by pay
! ing a bounty of one dollar on wolf
| scalps.
| A southern Kansas congregation was
| suffering terribly with the grip. The
! bark was SO great that the minister
could hardly continue with his sermon
for the noise. But after the contribu-
! ton basket had been around and reach
| ed him, he gazed into it and remarked
audibly: II would have thought this
congregation could have coughed up
more than that.
| There has been a great deal of dis
cussion in the Kansas papers for the
| past few weeks as to when the new
century begins, and columns of space
| have been devoted to it. The Chicago
Daily News suggests to those in doubt
that they borrow money, giving a note
payable on the first day of the new
century, and the bank will let them
know when the time arrives.
| In the last issue of the Topeka Mail
and Breeze there is story about Al
| bert Reid, an artist on the Kansas
! City Star, who furnishes the excellent
cartoons which appear in the former
paper. Reid is a Kansas boy-a west
reer is watched with great interest
| and satisfaction by many friends in
| his native state.
| Something unusual is on the tapis
down at Westphalia. The postmaster
| is going to give up his job. More than
that, he is going out on his farm.
where he thinks he can do better. The
| spectacle of Kansan letting go his
| grip on an Office simply because he can
| do better in some other occupation is
enough to make the average mans
| eyes bug out wildly.
On Sept. 20, 1906, Lieut.. Pike found
the Spanish flag flying over Pawnee
village in Republic county. By the
T IL
States acquired the sovereignty of the
territory in which the village was 10
Gated. The Spanish flag had no right
| to be there and on the same day that
| Lieutenant Pike discovered it he re
| placed it with the American emblem
of liberty.
! Senator Anderson Of Shawnee coun-
| ty, in b bill he introduced last week
/ Corns, whose husband was killed by a
| fall into an uncovered grain chute at
| the state asylum for the insane in Sep
TENDER, 1896. A second bill calls for
an appropriation of S., 600 to the widow
and children of Milton Dwelly. He
!
room of the state reform school in
June, 1896.
A Sheridan county farmer came into
HoXie the other day for the purpose of
paying off notes to the amount of 1920
that he had given for having about $40
worth Of lightning rods put up on his
place. He takes the joshing of his
neighbors good-naturedly, and is not
saying much; but the next lightning
rod agent who ever tackles him with
an eye to doing business will be hor-
rible wreck before he has an oppor-
tunity to get fairly started on his
spiel.
A peculiar suit will come up before
the Lyon county court this term,
brought by man against his daugh-
ter. The girls mother died some
months ago, and since then she has
acted as her fathers housekeeper, in
consideration of which he decided to
her house and lot in Americas. He
now brings suit to compel her to re
turn the property to him 1t is said
that the prime reason for the bringing
of the suit is that the plaintiff is again
contemplating marriage.
In 1870 Charles Hertig arrived in
northern Ottawa county as poor as
any of the pioneers who We're coming
into the state at that time Last week
he decided to each of his three sons q
2OO-acre tract of land southwest OF
Delphos. After deciding away the GOO
; acres lie has 16O left for himself, be-
: sides lots of good American coin and
personal property. And land in that
portion of the Solomon Valley can not
be bought for a song, either. This
| land given the boys and which IS free
of any incum brance is estimated to be
worth $751;
The seven-year itch has broken out
in district school in Atchison county.
) An old saying is that when a person
| has the itch for seven years he catches
it from himself and has it seven years
{ longer.
a Wathena citizen who recently re