Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-06-24
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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UT Scott is going to present each
Of its Philippine soldiers with a medal
Kansas corn is growing so rapidly
now that it is probable it will pull the
state up foot or two above its proper
level
A Clay county woman Matched 31s
chicks from 336 eggs. She did not
leave the task to her hens, but used an
incubator.
Ellis county raises enough wheat
each year to feed 300, 600 persons. The
population of the county is only seven
thousand.
There is no protest against the wolf
bounty in Marion county, where the
measley coyotes are killing the stock
mems calves
The sky in Kansas this last week
has been in condition where it would
start in and rain if farmer merely
sneezed hard
It may be joke, but the Ravens
vile Torchlight says that seventeen
men are after the position of sheriff of
Pottawatomie county.
While a church social was being
held in Downs recently some one stole
a lot of the ice cream. Some of these
days the offender will be imploring
some of the good ladies from whom he
stole the cream to please let fall just
one little drop of it on the tip of his
tongue
A factory is to be built either in To-
peka, Leavenworth, or Fort Scott,
Kans., for the manufacture of corn
stalk pith into cellulose, to be used as
part of the equipment of battleships.
The projectors will pay probably 81
ton for stalks. Land that will grow
fifty bushels of corn to the acre will
produce two tons of stalk.
During May one Downs produce firm
shipped out seven car loads of eggs.
The Times figures that there were in
the lot ZOOS, 900 eggs. It is a good
thing that the Helpful Hen cannot
appreciate all the good things that
are said of her efforts. Otherwise she
would get swelled up and refuse to do
her share in pushing the old state
along.
1t has been found in the preparation
of statistics by the Santa Fe engineer
ing department that there is sufficient
steel in the company sidetracks in
Kansas to build a second track along
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of the state to the other. The amount
of Santa Fe sidetrack in the state is
$50 miles, probably more than any one
line in any other state can boast. The
many Santa Fe branch lines in Kansas
are responsible for the several hun
dred miles of sidetrack.
AS there is no money available to
replace the buildings at the state re-
form school, which were destroyed by
fire last week, the board of charities
is considering the advisability of con
ferring with some of the business men
of Topeka to ascertain if the public
spirited citizens will not raise and
loan to the state until the Legislature
convenes, at 6 per cent interest, S10,-
600, the amount which will be neces
sary to replace the buildings. Wher
one of the university buildings burned
the citizens of Lawrence advanced the
money to rebuild it. The last legisla
ture REIN bursed them.
It is trife queer Several day:
have elapsed since Jeffries knocked
10,
yet bobbed up to claim Relationship
with the champion.
Wheat prospects are greatly i'm
proved in the Arkansas valley. Farm
ers are regretting that they plowed VI
some of the wheat fields early in tn
spring. Excessive rains have retarde'
cultivation of corn. Pasturage is sup
erb. The river is still high. but n
further damage is expected. Rus
may damage oats
Henry Mehl, of Leavenworth county
appointed by the state board of pha1
macy as inspector of pharmacy i
Kansas is out on tour of the state t
look after the observance of the pha,
macy laws
During the past few days heav
rains are reported all over the wester
part of the state, where rain was neet
ed so badly. In some sections, in tn
extreme western part of the state,
came to late to save the wheat, but
will greatly benefit corn, rye, oats an
all vegetables
Thirty-three prisoners from the II
dian territory arrived at the FEEDER,
prison at Leavenworth last week; tt
biggest batch ever received at or
time, The federal prison now hi
tbs inmates
Lists of prostrations from heat a
found regularly now in the papers
eastern states Just how pleasant Il
weather is in Kansas may be gathers
from the fact that the people out he
have not yet commenced to kick {
the small pieces of ice left for the T
frigerator.
A Rocks county man was sent
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