Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-04-08
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Grand millinery openings are all the
rage in Kansas this week.
Already some men are announcing
their candidacy for county offices
A Falls City man has had time to
white violin out of curly maple
board.
At Arkansas City there are 2,4s0
people registered in all; ,474 men and
1,oo6 women.
Some nice new steel cages have been
put up for the accommodation of those
who go jailward at Cawker.
The real truth about the wheat in
southern Kansas is that about fifty
per cent of it is complete failure, it
is said.
Wells-Fargo Express company will
establish an office at Salina and go af-
ter share of the business which goes
to the Pacific.
Topeka is in great trouble again
Charlotte Cranes beauty did not cap
ture the War department sufficiently
to save her lover.
Major Hood sends cattle to Kansas
City which top the market. There's a
heap of the genuine brand of satisfac-
ton in that for man.
summer preserved in cans corn on the
cob. She served the corn the other
day and it was excellent
There is a $50 pattern hat on exhib-
ition in the window of a Fort Scott
snilliner. which will be some white
mans burden before many days.
The Twentieth Kansas was in the
thick of the fight again, as brave a
regiment as is on the ground. Then
Twentieth is the pride of Kansas.
Just at the pocketbooks of the plain
people are recovering from the inroads
made by the sky-high price of eggs,
potatoes have commenced to assume
the frills of plutocracy.
Most merchants do their heaviest
advertising about holiday time, when
people are bound to purchase extern
sively anyhow; and mi1liners do their
bulk of advertising just prior to Eas-
ter, time of year when it would not
be possible to keep women out of their
stores with a club.
The county attorney of Wichita
county prints the following notice in
the Leoti Standard: 1.-The farmers are
warned not to let out any more fires
while burning trash off of their plow-
ed ground The stockmen have been
complaining to me regarding their
loss of feed and range. and will use the
law if any more occurs"
This is to be a good corn year, ac-
cording to the theory of Gus Rose and
other distinguished prophets They
base their prediction on the fact that
the wind was in a northern quarter on
March Fl. Had the wind blown from
the south on that day, destruction OF
the corn crop of 1899 by hot winds and
drouth would surely follow.
The Lake View school house in
Douglas county, was burned the other
night by tramp who had built a fire
to keep warm, and let it get away
neighborhood were aroused by the
fire, and at once started in pursuit OF
the tramp He was caught at Fall
Leaf and taken to Lawrence and
placed in Jail He plead guilty to the
charge of arson, and was bound over
for trial at the May term of the dis
trict court He gave his name of Jas
Morton.
The grass is getting green in south
ern Kansas
A Pittsburg firm reports that it has
sold more real estate in the three
months of 1899 than in any eight
months of any previous year: and it is
a firm which has long been established
too.
The EInbree incident has started
war against the slot machines at To
peka.
The biggest controversy on in Kan
sas Just now is whether or not the
wheat crop is ruined.
Kansas farmers have begun blowing
in the southern part of the state. 9th
ers will follow in few days A bis
corn crop will be planted this spring
larger than usual.
William Freeman, the express mes
senger, who was killed in the Rocl
Island wreck at Volland. had workeG
baggage and express for eighteen
years. and during that period he ha,
host less than months time. He wa
the second messenger to go over tn
Rock Island lines west of the Missis
sippi river.
A person can read over Prophe
Hicks predictions for April and picl
out any kind of weather ever known
Hicks aims To please them all.
At the last meeting of the board O
Leavenworth county commissioner
the following resolution was adopted
Resolved, that reward of 500
hereby offered for the capture an
conviction of any one who steals
horse or mule within the boundarie
of Leavenworth county, provided tn