Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-04-08
lois gained 81 inhabitants the past

Mound City is discussing the plan of I
voting bonds for the purpose of pros .
pecting for natural gas
All the innocent people in the peni- /
tertiary have not been discovered yet
Justice is not just. always.
There is an instruction on at Pleas
onton caused by the proposed change
in the location of the postofice.
Residents of Ottawa have been kick
ing for more street lights for long
time, and their wishes are to be graft
fed soon.
Before long it will be possible to
take up tin pan and an old butcher
knife and go out after that mess of
green's
The Blue Rapids Creamery associa-
ton was organized this week with
capital of 81 500. Good farmers have
stock in this
Mr.. Vincent of the state board of
charities has secured places in the var
ious institutions for five citizens of
Washington county.
The Kansas regiment in the Philip
pines wants to be sent home by the
way Of the Suez canal, so that they
can say the went round the world.
This weather which causes the coal
man to smile so broadly isn't bringing
any comfort to the contractors. There
is raft of building in Kansas which
is being held back on account of the
weather.
Mad dogs have been stirring things
up in the northern part of the state
This is a good time OF the year to kill
dogs. A dead dog planted in the hole
when tree is set will really do some
good in the world.
a western Kansas paper says: Its
a queer sight to see a man on one
quarter section of land putting in
spri0g crops and his neighbor across
the way threshing his last years crop.
But then, queer sights may always be
seen in Kansas.
A western Kansas man offers So
ton for bones. In the early days of
western Kansas the prairies were
freckled with the bones of the buffalo
but now the supply depends on the
critters that die on the range or are
killed in the shambIes
It would doubtless surprise many
people if they could see the amount of
space the weekly papers of Kansas
have given to the trial of John Collins
and the talk that has grown out of the
matter. There was wonderful lot of
interest evinced in the case all over
the state.
A formerly of Montgomery county
couple have written from Pennsy1-
vania saying that the winter has been
an unusually cold one back there, that
| there is two feet of snow on the
ground. and they are coming back to
Kansas right away. They had better
bring their snow shoes with them.
| The discovery of natural gas on
| farm three miles west of Manhattan
raises the hopes that the natural gas
district" may include the territory of
Saline county. The old theory of the
state biologists as to the metes and
bounds of the coal and gas districts
seems to have been exploded recently,
says Kansas exchange.
The State Board of Education has
decided that under the Grattan bill,
passed by the late legislature, only
the State University is benefited. The
| law authorizes the issuing of three
years certificates to the graduates of
certain institutions of learning. Ac-
cording to the Interpretation put upon
it, only the State University is meant,
but other colleges may come in pro-
vided they submit detailed statement
of their courses to the board.
There is a young man in a southern
Kansas town who is being ioshed I'M
mercifully of late. On recent Sun
day he went to an adjoining city to
visit his girl and reached her home
just as the storks were paying it Wis
it.
4 Kansas exchange says that IAN
unprecedented man, after looking up
the records of the two candidates for
mayor will vote for the opposition
candidate. But who ever heard of an
appropriated man in Kansas at time
when an election was pending?
The farmers in north Dickinson
county are having extensive losses OF
horses, cattle and hogs from an cpl
demjc of hydrophobia, resulting from
several mad dogs. Efforts to stop it
have been unavailing.
There is quite an extensive brick
plant just short distance out OF
Atchison which is shut down on ac-
count of lack of fuel There is coal
mine within two rifle shots of the
place. but the condition of the roads
is such that it is impossible to haul
coal to the yard.
DR.. Frances Steers, pretty Topeka
girl, who is also an able physician, is
to be married in Edinburg to Scotch