Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are enough coming Kansas
events to fill more than a column OF
solid type in the Topeka Capital.
Nothing seems to have been shrivel-
ed in Kansas this year but the delin-
quent tax lists
This year in Kansas patch of corn
fifteen feet long and fifteen feet wide
forms perfect cube.
No one can doubt that it pays to be
pious, since q clergyman won quilt
at rattle in Leavenworth.
Since the day of the first record in
Kansas there has never been time
when Kansas was as green on August
1e as it is today.
The jointists at Topeka are becom-
ing bold, but no enough so to keep
their beer on ice and serve it in a pro-
fessional manner
The state superintendent of public
instruction in Kansas actually had to
be taught how to carry his new baby
without dropping it.
A sensitive woman in Jackson coun-
ty horsewhipped a man who COM
planned of the way she was running
farm which she rented to him
Engineers all over Kansas are pick
ing from corn fields extraordinarily
large ears of corn and tying them at
the side of the locomotive headlight.
Leavenworth Pythians are prepar-
ing to show visiting members a good
time during the encampment and
brigade meeting there September 1914.
Former residents of Ohio now living
in Franklin held reunion at Ottawa
recently. The association was organ
lied in 1897, and now has LOO mem
bera
The managers OF the state tennis
tournament in Topeka are out 81. SO,
which means that there will never be
another meeting of that kind at the
state capitol
Many old veterans at the Leave1,-
worth Soldiers home are cultivating
little gardens which bring them in
small sums for onions, cucumb ers, to-
matoes and melons
For the benefit of the solicitors and
er to state that the name of the Atch-
ison man who recently bought 116
bulldogs, Is John Stein.
In addition to all of the other COM
plants that have been lodged against
the state house at Topeka, it is now
charged that young men and young
women meet there to carry on firta-
tons in violation Of social ethics
At Coffeyville the construction of
the new -four warehouse of the Nc
Grew Milling company connects the
mill building proper with the cooper
shop building and makes one solid
brick building ao4 feet long and so
feet wide.
A Jewell county farmer says: 81
have lived in Jewell county for thirty
years, and / never saw such a corn
crop in all those years as we have at
present Heretofore when we walked
off with the corn banner, we have had
from 10 to 20 per cent of the county
badly damaged This year there is
not quarter section in the county but
what is in fine shape. Jewell county
will raise from IL, 500, 600 to Is, GOO, 600
bushels this year, which is 500 bushels
for each inhabitant, or $120 for each
man, woman and child in the county
at Is cents per bushel. The county
that takes the banner from US this
year will be a Joe Dandy"
The trouble which the family club
1t Topeka is having to find name is a
very small matter as compared with
the time it will have when it begins
to hunt around for a cook.
Three nieces Of a man who was lost
when the Bourgogne went down have
offered a purse of $50, 600 to the person
who invents the best method Of say.
memorial to their uncle, and it would
just be like some one out here on the
Kansas prairies to walk off with the
prize.
A Topeka attorney has inherited the
entire estate of one of his clients
amounting to $50, 600 The 1egatee i,
in double luck, for he will not have t.
hire a lawyer to defend the will
against the relatives of the testator
The county commissioners at For
Scott have ruled that there is no pro
vision of law that the county shall
turn fees growing out of the prosecu
ton of the violations of the liquo
law, into the county. The county at
torney at Fort Scott has collected
1000 in fees which he will keep.
The school teachers in this state ar,
feeling good. Their salaries have beel
increased in nearly every county from
i've to twenty per cent.
After charge near San Fernando
the Kansas boys returned to camp t
find that all their surplus clothing
and blankets had been stolen iron
them.
The Kansas grapes are now comm,