Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-05-27
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

twenty-five people are in the en-
ploy of the Kansas Cracker company
an independence institution.
What Kansas wants to know is if
eastern dollars will follow on the
heels of eastern compliments.
Oliver Ewell of Kiowa county, has
one thousand acres of upland planted
to sorghum and lzaffiir corn, and the
crop looks well.
Judge Hook, at Fort Scott this week,
took the strong stand of refusing to
dismiss any case in which the costs
had not been paid
. While Columbus man was attend
ing services in the Baptist church some
unregenerate sinner made off with his
horse and buggy.
Some of the Kansas towns are call
ing the attention of visitors to the fact
that the town has not suffered bust
ness failure since '93.
That colony of 20, 200 Kansans in
Kansas City must feel cheap for hav-
ing left Kansas. They can take no
share in the glory now.
People should feel sorry for the
school teachers. The hottest weather
of the year is coming on now, and
with it comes the time for holding the
county normals.
The Scandia Journal has discovered
that some fellows who are too poor to
pay for their home paper manage to
dig up dollar or SO week which
they blow N at the joints.
The continued dry, windy weather
is not favorable to growing crops and
the improvement in wheat, oats, barley
and grass this week is generally con-
fined to portions of counties ia which
good local showers occurred. Rye is
beginning to head in Trego county.
This is the time of year when the
unwise small boy ties the rope attach
ed to the family COW to his body and
gets dragged to death 1t is also the
season for the foolish little girl to
pass in her checks as the result of try
ing to ''skip the rope 275 times with
put stopping.
It is terrible to contemplate the IN
relenting manner with which hard
luck will camp on the trail of some
people. In Linn county man was
sentenced to serve term in the coun-
ty Jail, and before he had been there
long enough to feel at home his moth
in-law became an inmate of the same
institution. On complaint of her hus-
band she had been convicted of dis
turbing the peace.
A well eighteen inches in diameter
was bored at the artificial ice plant in
Atchison, and at a depth of As feet be-
low a flow of water was struck almost
artesian in nature. 1t does not force
itself above the surface, as is the case
with most artesian wells, but water
has been pumped from it at the rate
of ninety gallons a minute without
; exhausting it. The instant the pumps
stop the water rushes almost to the
top of the well.
And now an astronomer comes forth
with the prediction that Biela's comet
will meet up with the earth on the nth
of next November and cause no end of
trouble. If Mr.. Bielas comet expects
to do any business in Kansas it will
ember 18th is already taken. That is
election day, and no firey-tailed tramp
of inter-stellar space will be able to
divert attention from 1.-The situation
and the ballot-box.
People complain great deal on ac-
count of hand organs They should
cease complaining long enough once
In a while to feel pity for the poor
grinder who has to listen to his own
music ale the time, day in and day
out.
A Kiowa county man fell in fit one
day last week and hasn't recovered
constituencies yet. He talked for
half an hour with man he thought
was cattle buyer before he caught
on to the fact that he was the town
ship assessor
At Pleasanton a man was fined SIC
and sent to Jail for thirty days for
throwing hot coffee on his mother-in-
law. 1t is not stated what line of de-
Tense he adopted, but he probably
alleged that his mother-in-law kept
him in hot water.
Dickinson county prisoner an
nounced that he intended to cease eat
ing and drinking. He tried it fol
about four days, but as the practice
became little wearing on the consti
tuition, he has decided to again take
nourishment.
The proposition to vote bonds for {
county high school in Norris county
last week failed. The vote just can
vassed shows I,02I for and 1,420 vote.
against. The country precincts de
feated it.
Beattie has fire engine and a hos,
cart but no organized department o
fire fighters. A few nights ago Their,
was an alarm of fire Everybody Ii
out for the scene of FIRE, forgetting al
about the fire apparatus. The Palla