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

soap day.
Some trouble hunter in Lyon coun-
ty has been dynamiting fish in the
Cottonwood
The broom corn over the state is be-
ginning to look fine, with prospects of
q good yield
A number of cattle and horses have
been killed in Greenwood county by
being bitten by snakes.
Kansas papers are laughing at New
Yorv, which has been visited with the
worst drouth known in years.
Bale Waggener, who lost money On
Klondike expedition, will more than
make it back out of lead and zinc
mines.
In Harvey county there are 2s7 peo-
pie who are over seventy years of
age. OF these 152 are men and 1875
women.
Of course it isn't right, but it is
fact that the men who collect dog tax
and poll tax are regarded as public
enemies
There are several hail insurance
companies which have organized in
Kansas of late. They are all doing
good business
It isn't much of day when the boys
| who work on the papers in the mining
district cant corral the story of a
shooting scrape.
The Kansas boys, after several
months hard fighting on the firing
line of the Philippines, have been sent
to the rear. When they retired they
had an effective force of but $50 men
out of an original strength of 1900
good men. Kansans are conceded to
be all right.
| No war hero gets to go through Kan
sas without being called out on the
platform at every station. The rail
road that brings Funston home should
add a fiat car to the train and build a
pedestal on it for the General. Peo-
pie along the line will expect con-
tinuous exhibition and will make
trouble if they don't get it.
81. Van Leeuwen has been appointed
instructor in the cheese department at
the Manhattan dairy school. and just
about the time he received this APP
pointment he received notice that he
had been appointed instructor at the
dairy school at Madison, Wisconsin.
and at the dairy school at Columbia,
Mo. Here is man with more ap-
pointment on his hands than he knows
what to do with. Mr. Van Leeuwen
is seriously considering which APP
pointment to accept, but has not yet
decided.
John Kelly, who lives on the old
Blue farm near Ottumwa, is generally
one Of the most successful wheat
growers of Coffey county, but this year
he gives it up and admits that wheat
is failure so far as he is concerned
He had about ninety-five acres sown
and plowed up all but thirty, and now
says that if he gets all his seed back
his expectations will be fulfilled. An
other farmer has reported to the State
Board of Agriculture that rs per cent
of the wheat sown in Coffey county
, will not be harvested, and that which
is harvested will yield only about &C
per cent of a full crop. The unadorn-
ed fact is that the wheat crop is gen
orally failure in Coffey county thi:
! year. The early fall, unusually HARD
. winter and numerous chinch bugs il
the spring were the cause.
The house flies in Kansas are les
, bothersome this summer than the,
q have been for years. The extrem,
z cold last winter killed off some of tn,
O old dodgers who have been filing tn,
place of grand-dad for good man,
. years
n After years of experience it has beel
t decided at Wheeling, w. Va, tina
d brick pavements are the most satisfac
J. tory that can be laid; and no state il
e the Union, be it remembered, can pro
e duce better paving brick than can b
made right here in Kansas
Is Billy Edwards is genuine Kansa
e boomer, and he will never get over ii
q He is now predicting that an unprece
denied number of immigrants vii
= come to Kansas this fall to settle.
n It costs something TO get canno
:. for ornamental purposes even if tn
IS old guns are donated by the govern
is ment The Leavenworth Standar
N says that it is estimated that it wi
l. cost $500 to get cannon from tn
1t Mare Island navy yard to Leaver
n worth. The gun was presented by tn
5. government to Custer Post No. 6.
lie The usual roar about the scarcity {
10 harvest hands is being heard.
lie The hen has no husband to assis
re her in bringi ng. up her family; she nc
re only takes all the care of her offsprin
at night and during the day, br
D. makes the living. A hen will fight
N dog or man N defense of her brood
a hen fresh from her nest, followed by
" lot of little chickens, is nearly starvet
lg but SIS never eats bite until the Ii