Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-06-10

caught on at Girard-
A bad girl dressed up in male attire
and paraded the streets of Fort Scott.
1t cost her SIC.
Everything is making very rapid
growth in Kansas and the ground is
filed with moisture.
There may be no deluge'in sight but
Noah Cline is building a forty-foot
boat for the Solomon river.
A Neosho county farmer last week
marketed couple of hogs, one weigh
ing $50 and the other $50 pounds
After a severe hai1storm in Doni-
phan county the other day there was a
foot of cobbled ice in some places.
This is the proper time to attend
church strawberry socials" Berries
are cheap and the dishes are generally
large.
Coffeyvi11e felt very proud before of
her paper mill and her pottery; but
now the capacity Of both plants are to
be doubled.
Since Frank Grimes was elected
state treasurer Leoti has blossomed
out with a brass band; the only one in
Wichita county.
Four Indians robbed man in Brown
county. Watch for story in the
eastern papers concerning the Indian
uprising in Kansas"
A Cloud county woman is 90 years
old and has seventy-four grandchild-
rem. She was born lit days after
George Washington died.
Sergeant Hull, recently discharged
from the Seventh cavalry, has pur-
chased a plantation in Cuba and will
be joined soon by his wife who is now
at Fort Riley.
What is science when it comes to
law? West, assistant Encouragement
al, has thrown CONSERVATION among
the scientists by announcing that
natural gas is not mineral. It is gas
An Osborne county man who weighs
only 135 pounds won $50 last week by
carrying $50 pounds of -four three
miles without putting it down. And
then ne offered to bet $40 more that
he could go another mile without any
rest.
A Sedgwick county bred America
merino's fleece of twelve months and
sixteen days growth weighed ffty-two
pounds, and surpassed the worlds
record of seven and one-half pounds
The sheep sheared as two-year-old
thirty-seven and onehalf pounds.
1t is said that the recent hail storm
out in Saline county moved one farm
er's alfalfa crop down SO neatly that
he raked it and put it up with as little
trouble as though he had cut it with
his own machine. Probably if the
storm had lasted little while longer
it would have finished the job and
stored the hay as we'll.
The increase in the countys popula-
ton to over 25, 200, as shown by the
assessors returns, puts Sumner in a
higher class as regards the salaries OF
county officers under the general fee
and salary act Of the last legislature.
Heretofore the county has been rated
in the class of $50, 900 population and
less than 25, 5000" for whose officers
certain salaries are prescribed. By
getting into the class above nearly al
the county officers get the benefit of {
raise of from 800 to $3.50 in pay, anG
in addition a nice increase in clerk
hire goes to the county clerk anC
treasurer.
A great deal of the corn N Kansa:
has already been plowed over once
this season. 1t is said to be in GOOD
condition.
There is roar in Kansas on account
of lack of workmen. It is better
than the roar of few years ago OF
account of lack of work.
The New York papers, poor credu
lous souls, are now running picture
of handsome Kansas girls p1oughins
in the fields to fill the places left va
cant by their brothers, fighting in the
Philippines.
In Grant county last week a lob
wolf killed two calves John Stuar
and Howard Maxwell took out ate
it and after chase of seven miles
killed the wolf and received SIS for it
scalp.
After the question as to where tn
Twentieth Kansas is to be mustere,
out is settled the ring will be cleare
and Everest, Fairview, Morrill,, Rob
inson and Powhattan will be allowe
to fight it out and decide which O
these places is the third town fror
the head in Brown county.
A Lincoln county man offers a re
ward to anyone who will reveal t
him the identity of the fellow VIII
poisoned his little daughters pet dog
In Washington Curtis is regarded a
the only Kansas congressman 70
Sherman for speaker. The other 81
Kansas republican congressman ar
for Hopkins
It is said that the hotel expenses {
the average Kansan, waiting in Wasl
ington for federal appointment
amounts, before he succeeds or fails