Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-07-22

Pastures are generally in good con-
dition throughout the state and stock
looking fine
A larger percentage of Kansas peo-
pie are out of debt today than ever be-
fore in the history of the state.
A coyote with hair only on one side
was captured in Pratt county recently.
This is said to be sign of a coming
warm winter.
Secretary Alger says that the Twen-
tieth Kansas will be the fourth in line
to leave the Philippines, and that it
will not be home before next Novem-
Der.
A prominent citizen of Greenwood
county recently took bull whip and
cruelty lashed his wife and grown
daughter. The neighbors have done
nothing, but they should.
At Moundridge, the other day, the
death of a man from an excessive use
of whisky led to a revulsion of public
sentiment and every joint in the place
was forthwith closed up as tight as
wax.
New business concerns have so en-
crouched on halls and other public
places in western Kansas lately that
in one town it is now proposed, for
lack of another place, to hold poul-
try show in the local Methodist
church.
In order to secure a thirty-dollar
Skyhigh, the average Kansas girl at
an examination has to tell what a
blood platelet is; astigmatism, pro-
teids, carbohydrates and hyhrocar-
bons and Corti's organ of the ear.
At meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the State Temperance Union
at Topeka last week. the time of the
next annual convention was fixed for
January and 10, provided that the
speakers from abroad which the COM
mittee desire can be secured for that
date.
The sole ration given the southern
negroes who are being shipped into
southeastern Kansas to take the places
of strikers, is bologna sausage and
bread and water. 1t is said that the
bologna is the first the southern ne
groes have ever tas' ed, and they eat
themsel YES blind on it.
Many farmers look upon poultry
raising as matter of small import
ance, but within the past few years
there has been an awakening. Sub
stantia1 and convenient poultry houses
have been built and more attention is
being given to incubators and brood
ers, which are necessary to best sue
cess.
During the past week good rains
have continued throughout the state
and the corn is in excellent condition.
It is said that all the early corn is
now insured, while the corn that was
planted where wheat was plowed uI
will require about three weeks more
of the present weather to make a full
crop
court of Shawnee county by Kate
Enrich against the Santa Fe, which
involves only a small amount of mon
ey, but is of great interest to grair
men as 1t involves the liza biiity of rail
roads for shortages on grain ship
ments. The plaintiff claims to have
shipped 666 bushels of wheat over the
Santa Fe from Lehigh, in Marion
county, to Topeka, but when the
grain arrived there was only SIS bush
els. The railroad is sued for thu
value of the difference. The question
| of shortages in grain and responsible
ity for them is one that has beer
much discussed by grain men and i.
| considered at every grainmens meet
ing. For that reason suits involving
the question will be watched with in
terest by them.
A woman in southern Kansas ha
five boys, each bearing the name of /;
different man, each of whom has beer
i her husband
The distance between Upton ant
Hunter, in Mitchell county, is onl,
seven miles, but a letter mailed a
Upton has to travel 200 miles to ge
to Hunter
The Doniphan county orchards ar
among the most extensive and fruitful
in the state. Buffalo" Jones brough
and planted the first orchard tree
into that locality.
An assay of the feelings of the aver
age man on the 9Th day of July viii
show more heartfelt regret to tn
thought than on any other day of tn
year.
The mine operators in eastern Kan
sas have issued an ultimatum in wl1icl
they state that no union man can &c
employment in their mines
! Robert Fleming, an Atchison color
ed man, has such large feet that b
has to have shoes made for himself !
number twelve is several inches to
small for him.
4 The attention of the Home Mission
airy society should be called to the cor
dition of things at Leavenworth.
A Kansas paper declares that KaT