Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-05-20
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREsH

A Republic county lady found a
chicken with four legs and four wings
In a brood Matched out last week.
Some of the people of Topeka, when
asked to contribute to fund to buy
Fred Funston a sword, whacked up
cents
Westmoreland's railroad will be
open on the first of July. They ought
to make it the Fourth and break the
the record with celebration.
On one street in Ga1ena nine busf-
ness buildings are in course of con-
struction. This is the way the towns
in the mining district are marching
ahead.
On the 18th of this month the old
settlers of northwest Sumner, south
east Kingman and southwest Sedg-
wick counties will hold their annual
reunion.
The Scandal Journal has discovered
that some fellows who are too poor to
pay for their home paper manage to
dig up dollar or so a week which
they blow n at the joints
Narka's city council purchased $50
trees for the purpose of identifying
the city park. A good move. It is not
necessary to wait for a town to get
big before taking steps to make it
beautiful.
At Pleasanton a man was fined SO
and sent to Jail for thirty days for
throwing hot coffee on his mother-in-
law. It is not stated what line of de-
Tense he adopted, but he probably
alleged that his mother-in-law kept
him in hot water.
This is the time of year when the
unwise small boy ties the rope attach
ed to the family cow to his body and
gets dragged to death. It is also the
season for the foolish little girl to
pass in her checks as the result of try
ing to skip the rope 275 times with
out stopping.
Beattie has fire engine and hose
cart, but no organized department of
fire fighters. A few nights ago there
was an alarm of fire. Everybody lit
out for the scene of fire, forgetting all
about the fire apparatus. The Palla-
dunn calls loudly for the organization
Of volunteer fire department.
The season of land work for horses
is well begun and will continue on the
majority of farms until the first of
next November. Unless this season is
an exception to the rule, the majority
of the horses will begin the years
work in good flesh and spirits, but be-
fore the season is over, thousands of
them will be so poor as to be almost
literally nothing but skin and bones
and will require winter of high feed
ing to make them able to begin anoth-
er years work. This method of treat
ing horses is ruinous to the horse as
well as expensive to the owner. Horses
so treated are weak at time when
the heaviest work is required of them.
Their bones protrude in such a way as
vent the harness from CALLING them
and we almost invariably find them
with shoulders covered with collar
boils, with sore backs, and with large
patches of skin rubbed off their hip
and stihe joints. Such conditions are
work as they are to lack of the proper
kind and amount of food All animals
require different kinds of food in pro.
portions which vary according to the
conditions under which they are fed.
Company E, of the Twentieth Kan.
sas, has had hard work. For one per.
iod, covering five weeks, not a man il
the regiment had his clothes off.
A suggestion has been made BY the
Topeka Capital that a subscription be
raised to buy handsome sword fol
Brigadier General Funston to be pre-
scented to him at the reception which
= will be held in Topeka when the
Twentieth Kansas returns The plar
hearty response from the citizens o:
Kansas
The Kansas university board of re
gents has completed its work leaving
three places on the faculty untitled
those of assistant professorships il
sociology and political economy
French and forge and foundry work.
Peaches are nearly all killed." say.
the Sedgwick Paragraph. ''Tht
strawberry crop is short and there il
little prospect for good apple crop
If anything should happen to the wa
termelons we will probably begin t.
hear something about the black man.
burden. ,"
The gardens all over the state are il
good shape and much homegrown
truck are on the markets
The internal revenue collections fo
the Kansas district, comprising 1ndiar
and Oklahoma territories for Apri
amounted to S57, 926 80. This is NOR,
than double the amount collected 70
April of last year. OF the collections
$1s,749 was on the sale of oleomargar
inc stamps and 1904. 10 for docu