Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-04-22

Fort Scott voted down a proposition
to issue s., 600 worth of bonds to pros
pect for gas
Chi1f Justice Doster-s family have
tired of Topeka and will move back to
Marion county.
In Mcpherson county the net de-
crease of m~-tgage Indebtedness for
the month Of March amounted to $685.
600.
The county commissioners of Ford
county recently had a bonfire of $780,
600 Cancelled bonds and warrants is
sued between the years 1877 and 1854.
In northern Kansas town the other
day man was fined $40 for beating
his wife and Immediately after paying
his fine he and his wife embraced and
went home happy.
Fort Scott is in trouble with its wa
ter company again. this time as to the
rate which shall be charged for water
furnished for street sprink1ing. The
franchise was granted by the city with
the understanding that not over $40
per sprinkler per month should be
charged Now the company demands
nearly $25. The city threatens suit to
revoke the charter.
The United States civil service COM
mission is DESTROYS of establishing an
eligible register for the position of
cook in the Indian service of the de-
! partment of the interior and has is
sued call for persons who desire to
compete to at once write to the com
mission at Washington for application
blanks. From the eligibles resulting
certification will be made to the posi-
|. ton of cook at the Pottawatomie
tschool, Kansas. at a salary of $500 per
annum.
| There is some damaged wheat in
Ford county. Mr.. Hoover's farm, in
that county, shows it. Of the 235
acres planted to wheat last fall not
more than 100 acres will make a stand,
! and this is N stubble ground. In plow
! ed ground the wheat died out during
/ the hard winter weather. Mr.. Clayton,
who has charge of the farm, is plow
|
barley. In few weeks some of the
| ground will be planted to corn and
| Kaffir corn.
Success never follows ignorance or
slip-shod methods There is a cream
ery up OF Beloit with branches in sew
eral different counties that is making
money hand over fist. Half a dozen
men went down in the effort to main
tain creamery at that point; lost
money right and left. But one day a
couple of young Danes, the Jensen
brothers, came along and took up the
work where others had made such dis
NAL failures. They succeeded. There
was no luck in it at all. They sim
ply understood their business. They
knew how to do things"
The county commissioners of Logan
county still hold out against any COM
promise with the railroad company in
the matter of delinquent taxes for
1896 and 1897. Ellis county compro-
missed in this matter of real estate
taxes by throwing off about % per
cent, and Russell county threw off all
: interest on lands that had been bid in
, by the county, at a loss of about 81, 90?
: or more of interest to the county, but
refusing any compromise on the lands.
5 certificates to which had been sold tc
, individuals Ellsworth county also
? refused to compromise. Doubtless the
f questions at issue will have to be de-
! cided in the higher state courts. if not
2 in the supreme court of the United
| States. The railroad Union Pacific
: contends that as the road was then in
i the hands of the receivers the land:
e could not be legally sold for taxes
S Probably the question will como NJ
c when tax deeds are issued to pur
chasers at tax sales.
: The body of Harry Odds, For
: Scott boy, has been sent from Manila
: and will be buried in the Nationa
i cemetery at Fort Scott.
: The wife of an Everest man stoot
trouble until her patience gave wa.
t and then swore out warrants agains
t. the jointists who had been selling Ii
a quor to her husband. Two of then
= were arrested. but third managed t,
n get out of town. The lady propose
)" to make it particularly warm for tn
e iointists. and will have the good wish
es of lot of sympathetic friends.
}. Since his breakup, life insurance O
20 Grant Gillett's to the amount to $50,
p 600 has been cancelled.
lie Sumner county, which raised 4, POS
834 bushels of winter wheat in 1s9
e produced in the same season 40 bush
Sc els of spring wheat The heavies
lie producing spring wheat counties ar
s. in the northwest, and Sherman wa
lie the banner county last year with
K, production of aO3, o67 bushels to he
" credit In 1897 Decatur led with 166
il $50 bushels, according to the report {
s Coburn.
It, The Axte1l Anchor says: .Who eve
at heard of ripe tomatoes being grow
1t in Kansas at this time of year? "
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