Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-07-08

If the present prospects are fulfilled,
Kansas will this year produce the
largest corn crop in her history.
Fresh wind has recently been pump
ed into that old story about the ex-
tension of the Central Branch to Den
YER
At Ottawa few days ago young
lady was fined SIS and costs-about $12
altogether-for stealing 24-cent wire
hustle.
The alfalfa crop is good this year.
Most of the first crop has been cut
and the second crop is coming on with
fattering prospects
Kansas farmers are talking of dollar
wheat on the Kansas City market sold
for seventy-three cents.
Nortonvi1le has a city park. The
citizens were not satisfied with its APP
pearance, and last week turned out
en- masse and improved it.
Governor Stanley will not worry
pen have taken against him. He has
company. It is understood that most
of the inmates cherish the same hard
feelings against the judges and juries
which figured in the trials that result
ed in convictions and pen sentences
A man in Cove county by the name
of Clark was bitten by huge rattle
snake last week. He Immediately pro-
ceeded to fill his hide with Kansas
whisky and had the laugh on the
snake. A prominent exchange thinks
that if there is anything calculated to
make rattlesnake take to the woods
it is Whit of Kansas whisky.
That the majority of township as
SCISSORS in Kansas still fagrantly vio
late their oaths of Office is clearly evil
denced by the assessment returns now
coming to the state auditors office
from the various county clerks. The
state law provides that all personal
and real property shall be assessed at
its cash value, and the township as
SCISSORS are prohibited from getting
together each year and fixing a ficti-
tious valuation on personal property
of from 25 to 53 per cent of its actual
value. Yet the returns now coming
in show that the assessment laws have
been as openly violated during this
year as they every were before.
Wheat harvest has been completed
in southern Kansas, and never in the
history of the country did the farmers
have a better week to harvest their
wheat The wheat turned out much
better than was expected a few weeks
ago, and many fields that the farmers
intended to pillow under nave produced
| considerable wheat. The yield this
year will be up to the average. While
| it was not as heavy on the ground as
| it is some years, the heads were filed
better. Most of the wheat will be
threshed out of the shock because so
much of it has been injured in the past
| years, while in the stack, by the driv-
ing rains The oats harvest has COM
menced, and will be under full head
way all over Southern Kansas in few
| days The oats crop will be the larg-
est for several years. Corn has gener-
ally been laid by, and is higher than a
mans head in many fields. The rains
have done it a world of good, and it
promises big yield.
Cheap Rates TO Pacific Coast via Santa Fe
The Santa Fe are selling tickets tc
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 $2s. IS. For particulars cal
on or address, l. r. DELANEY, Agt,
Wichita, Kans
Residents along the Caney Valley
line want the Missouri Pacific to ex
tend the road south through tn,
Usage country and Oklahoma. 1
would open up section which need
railroad facilities.
Just as soon as 25, 600 library ticket
! are sold at Leavenworth the manager
of the enterprise will hold the concer
where the prizes will be given, out
Kansas City beat every other town t
this scheme, and succeeded in workin,
; it harder than it will ever be worke
again.
: A Kansas man last week sold 10
shorthorn cattle in Kansas City 70
export beef, and realized the neat sur
of SIS, 900.
A little boy was bitten by ma
i dog in Butler county some time age
: A maidstone was secured and apple
: but did no good. The child die,
| from hydrophobia about week after
Ishler, Rough Rider living at Hor
2 ton, was wounded in the arm at SaI
: tiago. The other day he fell out of
e buggy and broke this arm and it wi
have to be amputated.
f It is expected that the bindin
Irvine plant at the state penitentiar
{, will be in running order by Septembe
+ 1st
, In one respect every Kansan is ne
+ bIe-in the reverence he pays a sho1
a funeral procession with the baby