Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-06-17
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Wheat straw will be short this year,
the farmers say.
A Leavenworth man Is years old
died of measles last week.
Topeka has begun its fight for dollar
gas and viii also buy the water works.
Ex-Governor Morril shipped 100 fat
steers to Kansas City one day last
week.
The rains during this month is just
what were needed to rush the crops
along.
Six Kansas sheriffs have lost their
lives while making arrests during the
past year.
Preparations are in progress at
27th of July.
1t has been found that the Kansas
chigger this year swims and carries a
sword and a bayonet.
1t took $4,000 worth of glass to re-
pair the damage done by the hail
storm in Marion and vicinity.
One teacher out of eighty-four ex-
amined at Blue Rapids succeeded in
securing a first grade certificate.
Nearly ton and a half of butter
was made at the Garnett creamery
last week; the largest weekly run yet
made.
Kansas has lost quite number OF
head of stock as we'll as other proper
ty during the past two weeks. Light
ming did it.
Fort Scott is after Spanish cannon,
and thinks it ought to have no trouble
In securing one, as it is one of the few
towns where a national cemetery is
located.
There was an increase of 1s1 in the
population of Ford county the past
year Ford county is we'll down on
the list. Its total population at the
last count was 4,501.
A $4,000 Catholic church is in course
of construction at Upton, settlement
in southwest Mitchell county, twenty
miles from a railroad. The corner
stone of the edifce was laid recently
This will be a magnificent structure
J. B. Lynch, live stock agent of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway
in Colorado and New Mexico, reports
great suffering among cattle in his
territory on account of the drouth.
There has been no rain out there for
twelve months and in consequence
cattlemen are without water on the
ranges In northern New Mexico cat
tie are dying and stockmen are ship
ping their herds out of the country.
Colorado stockmen also have begun to
ship their stock, the most of them to
Kansas
The corn fields in the vicinity OF
Manhattan are suffering greatly from
pest known as the corn worm that
has made its appearance this spring.
The worm is described as being three.
fourths of an inch in length, with a
very hard shining skin of a light
brown color. In fields that are badly
infected the worms are found from one
to half a dozen in n hill. They bur
row into the corn and in some in
stances completely devour the tender
sprouts. This pest is recognized as ar
exceedingly difficult one to combat
and the Kansas experiment station
recommends that the corn be plowe6
up and the ground replanted as the
best possible way to get rid of the
pest.
In southern Kansas no more rain i:
needed to mature the wheat The rain.
have been so heavy the wheat would
have -rusted had it rot been for tn,
drying winds
Governor Stanley has addressed +;
letter to Secretary Alger, of the wa
department, asking him for cannon
captured in the Spanish war for Wieh
tia. He has also indorsed the appliea
ton of the Kansas G. A R. for a can
non captured in the recent war b
make medals for the volunteers in To
Twentieth Kansas.
Postmaster Karr has made applica
ton to have a rural delivery route 9
about e5 miles established in Jefersol
county, to run out of Valley Falls.
One of the big. men of Missouri i
David. Ranlin' He is generally spo
ken of as the ttlnil1ionaire farmer.
He raises great crops and feeds man
head of stock Rankin says that 70
him there has always been an elevent
commandment. which it might
good policy for the Kansans to add t
the list Here it is: "Thou shalt nc
sell corn"
If the committee appointed to IL
cate an asylum and which located
is declared null and void, a rebellio
will start in southeastern Kansa
which would unwind the biggest c,
clone that ever dropped down to twis
Some one ought to report the reas
ing on the water guage in the Barto
county lake again. Is the lake film
up? Is Kansas going to have. a bi
bathing beach of her own, or are "