Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19

The army worms are doing no dam
age to growing crops.
Linn county has the kind of soil
that grows corn 16 feet high.
dozen or more girls of the Sol
diers' Orphans home in Atchison have
formed brass band.
Joe Longley, a Rocks county farmer,
last week marketed a hog ii months
and two days old, which weighed 545
pounds
The oldest inhabitant can hardly
remember the time when there was as
much water in the Cimarron as there
is at the present time When there is
a big flow of water in the Cimarron,
it means that Kansas will fly high.
Bill Huff, who jumped into Huron
with his nerve and shot bag full of
type and commenced printing a paper,
is getting out a good local sheet now,
and the advertising it carries indicates
that the home folks appreciate his
work
While serving as juror during the
January term of court Hamilton
county man was placed in room
without a fire. He caught cold, an
abscess formed back of the right ear,
and compete loss of hearing resulted.
As a result the sheriff has a damage
suit on his hands.
The county commissioners of Ed
wards county, at their July meeting,
paid out $500 bounty for coyote scalps
at 81 per scalp. This is at the rate of
50, 400 for sca1ps a year. It is charged
that many of the coyotes were killed
in other counties, and Edwards county
made to foot the bill
Have you ever noticed it? Whenever
person leaves his old home and
strikes a job anywhere it is always
said that he has secured good posi-
ton" He may be only holding down
a place as conductor on a garbage
wagon, but at his home it is said that
he has secured a good position
A metropolitan paper has long ed
itor1al pointing out the necessity and
opportunities for more big inventions.
1t is the little things that count. The
man who would present an appliance
to keep a fellows undershirt from
crawling up in the hot weather would
do more for humanity than the man
who would invent way for conquer
ing an army.
On August 14th general rain fell
| throughout the entire state, and as a
result all growing crops are assured.
The broom corn corp, which is about
the only growing crop that isn't made,
is reported to be in excellent condi-
ton. It is said that broom corn raisers
will have everything their own way
this season, and is is now claimed that
the market will open at 800 per ton.
The Wichita Eagle says: Farming
is a business. The man who under
stands farming succeeds. The men
who do not fail. You will find thous
ands and thousands of men in Kansas
| who have made fortunes farming A
man sat in the Eagle Office the Other
day and displayed a letter of credit
from his banker for S75. 600. Twenty.
five years ago he struck this country
with S.. He has made all his money
farming in Sedgwick county. His ex
plaEation for his success is simply
| that he knew how to farm.
] Over 100000 worth of cattle have
been shipped out of the southwes
part of Dickinson county in the pas
week by feeders and Atchison com
mission men of Kansas City. They
are feeders which will be put on the
corn of the northwest part of thu
state. The buyers are finding many
willing to sell, but the supply is likely
to be so much limited by the whole
sale disposal of this class of stock tina
local buyers are getting options OF
Texas cattle in order to make tn,
needed quantity for fall feeding.
The BARRIERS of southern Kansas hav,
gone into an agreement not to shaw,
the back of the neck without extri
pay.
Since he has been in Office, Probat
, Judge Rea of Brown county, has is
sued two marriage licenses to person
who decided afterwards that they di,
, not care to yoke up.
Wichita may try to have state re
5 union of the Ells in connection will
: her street fair. Wichita is going t.
put enough money in the street fai
to make it corker.
5 Another rain fell in the southwest
r few days ago ''just in the nick of time
it is stated Rains in Kansas have
faculty of hitting this nick
1 The oldest person ever sent to an in
: sane asylum in Kansas is Miss Mar
] Jenkins, who was recently taken t
i the asylum at osawatomie She is 9
n years old
An indignant crowd surrounded
n case of beer that had just been droI
t ped from the train on the Carbondal
e depot platform. But the owner n
fused to treat.
e A Fort Scott man who brought SUI
e against the city for IS, 900 damage o
l. account of defective sidewalk hs