Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The Forty-fourth regiment has its
full quota enlisted, and they are la
camp.
There are Ghree Kansas men on the
University of Pennsylvania football
team this gear.
Topekasold its new auditorium bonds
TO the state school fund. They are 4
per cent bonds.
Rural free delivery service viii be es-
tablished on October 9, at Eittsbury;,
with two carriers.
Grain Inspector Clark of Atchison has
been inspecting an average of 7O'cars a.
day for some time.
A Topeka dealer says his sales amount
to 7eo pianos this year, $50 being sold
in Ehawneeeoounty
A corn Stalk on exhibition at the Os-
borne County fair measured ten feet
from the ground to the first ear.
Peter SsRab of Catherine, Ellis county,
says that7the grasshoppers have taken
most of kas 275 acres of new wheat.
The bSard of managers Of the Nation
al Military Homes is at Leavenworth
looking into the Klondike'nsatter.
George R. Peck, our George, is being
mentioned by Chicago papers as apos-
sible candidate for governor of Illinois.
Leavenworth proposesfto ho1d'a oele
bration when the trolley line between
there and Kansas City rs opened for
traffic
Kansas hay stacks appear to be more
sodable this year than usual. At least,
they are standing closer together in the
feids than is customary.
There wasn't the rush to the Kansas
City show this fall that has formerly
been noticeable in Kansas; too many
good shows at home this season.
There was public sale in Wilson
county recently which amounted to
: 81 100, and only one mote was given;
Just one little 6inl1y note for $35.
It is said that IN 1880 corn was 80
= cents bushel in Kansas; in 1890 it was
so cents, and a great many people ex-
pect to see the price high again in
1900.
The secretary of tine state board of
horticulture has issued IA report il,
which it is shown that the apple crop
in Kansas this year will amount to AZ
per cent, per cent less than half a
crop.
Leavenworth, Kan, stands at the
head Of American citiesi in the shipment
of apples. Indeed more apples are
shipped from Leavenwo rth than from
any other point on either side of. the
Atlantic ocean.
The Lydon Current Remark tells of a
man who recently sold zoos head Oh
steers, receiving Sc per ewt. at home
The stock filed fifty-nine cars and was
shipped direct to Europe, the total
value being $50, 1000.
The banquet to be given to the Tween.
+tieth Kansas VIII be held in the new
state library room in 'bhe capitol, the
FAandsomest room in the West an6
large enough to accommodate the entire
regiment and mere.
The material is on the ground ant
work has already commenced at the
Rock Island shops at Horton on 3O(
NEW box cars which constitute the ad
vance delivery of the order of 1 900 new
cars placed with THESE shops few day:
ago.
Wichita's public schools.opened with
3,94O, gain of IS over, the first month
of 1898.
James J. McFarlan, former postmas
ter of Clyde, Kan, was arrested at hi:
home in Chicago, charged with embez
element of government funds. amount
ing 10 $465, for which he was recently
indicted by federal grand jury at To
peka.
The register at Kansas iUniversity
shows&a total 352 of native birds il
Kansas. Of this nunrber Chancellos
Frank Snow has put IFS of record.
The people of Morland, Graham coun
", give a barbecue dinner to ali visi
tors on the 10th of October, the date be
ing the twelfth birthday OF the place.
In many Kansas towns the board o
education as kept rustling to keep ul
.Svith the increase in the juvenile popu
lation in the matter of school faciii
ties.
downs may not be generally .eonsid
eBed great railroad CENTER" remark
the Times, ''balt forty-four trains wen
in end out of town last Friday and Sat
urday."
State Bank Commissioner Brieden
thai advises building and loan assoeia
tions (which cannot find borrowers TO
their money now, to start savings bank
on profit sharing basis. He say
there is nothing to prevent them from
loaning their funds on the MONTH,
payment plan.
1t is expected that andrew Carnegi
will soon give $500 for a ibrar7
building for Emporia College, and $50,
600 for an endowment for a special reli
giOus library for the use OF Calvanisti
ministers all over the West.