Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-05-06
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


an unusual lot of petty thievery.
Secretary Coburn thinks there vii
be three-fourths Of a wheat crop,
which isn't SO bad.
Since the recent rains the wheat is
making rapid growth and the farm
ers are well pleased with the present
outlook.
This late spring will compel the
farmers of Kansas to crowd a big lot
of work within mighty small space
of time
Beloit will have rock pile with the
usual ball and chain attachment for
the hoboes who strike town, or the
erring ones who transgress the law eff
the land.
Holton will make the strongest kind
of pull to get the grand army en-
campment for next year; and the town
would no doubt take care of it in
creditable way.
Superintendent Church has admit
ted r2ia Boston Fire Insurance COM
pany to do 2-siness in the state of
Kansas This company has capital
stock of 81 900, OOO1 This is it's first
application for a Kansas license and
it has neSHr done Dizziness in the state
before.
Osborne county lost S426. Is recently
by the deG:h of jointist who had
fines standing against him aggregat-
Ing that sum. He had been released
from Jail on his promise to pay $25
month until the score was cleared up,
but before the first payment was due
he was on his death bed.
A large acreage of broomcorn will
be put out in few days; much larger
than was raised last year. Broomcorn
has been very scarce article during
the past few months and has sold as
high as 500 . ton. This encouraged
the farmers Throughout the state to in
crease the acreage of this product.
Dickinson county is making great
record for morality these days. On
April IS Judge Moore rescinded the
order for jury for the May term of
the district court, there not being
single criminal case for trial Two
eases were on the docket, but one
minor offender has jumped his bond
and the other will plead guilty. 1t is
the first time in years that no criminal
eases have been tried.
At Beloit recently the school board
offered prize of $40 to the person
who would present by the fast of May
the best landscape plat for identifying
the grounds. There will probably be
numerous responses, but the people
who really know how to do such work
will show up after the completion of
the plan and begin to criticise and
show how it should have been proper
ty done. 1t is so much easier to criti-
rise the work of others than to exc
rute plan yourself
Warden Lands has returned from
his trip with the board of penitentiary
directors from saltwater, Mimi, where
they had gone to investigate the Irvine
plant The trip, the warden states,
was very hard one. Every moment
of the visit at the Minnesota peniten-
tiary was occupied in securing infor-
nation covering the Irvine manufac-
turing business Advertisements for
bids will at once be prepared by the
board and published. 1t will be sew
eraI weeks before the machinery can
be secured, and months before the
plant will be in operation.
On April 81 the quartermaster at
Fort Riley was notified that 1000
mules would be shipped to that place
TO be grazed this summer on the big
reservation there. The reservation
scntains nearly 20, 900 acres.
Originally we crossed the prairies as
Of old, the pilgrims crossed the sea, to
make the west, as they the east the
homestead of the free. Now Kansas is
pressing another sea to make the east
IS they have the west the homestead
of the free. We are nearly around the
world.
Eskridge is to have a lady band AS
a rule lady band looks lot better
than it plays.
''The ammunition train and reserves
Of the goth Kansas volunteers, Colonel
Frederick Funston, marching through
Caloocan at night after the battle of
February TO-" This is the line be-
meath spirited, double-page illustra-
ton in the last issue of Harper's
Weekly. The whole world will be-
come familiar with the exploits of
these boys of the prairie, and they
are worthy of the fame that is theirs
Woodson county will spend some
thing in excess of S22,OOO in the con-
struction of court house and county
Jail
Pottawatomie county has demon
strated that prohibition can be made
to pay. 1t has just cleaned up 1870. 20,
above all costs and expenses, by the
collection of fines and costs in thirteen
liquor prosecutions Any sucker who
wants to run up against the prohibi-
tory law up there viii be warmly wei
coined by the Taxpayers of the ccnn-