Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-02-11

less carriage.
| Following her usual cycles Kansas,
who was at her nadir in 1898, will be
glistening in the bowl of the zenith
about 1903.
Lutte Axline of Medicine Lodge points
| been discovered if it had not been for
the expansion idea.
The farmer who buys neighboring
quarter section in order to have more
pasture or corn land is an expansion
! ist, an imperialist and sensible bust
nessman.
There are several good towns in Kan
sas that are not in on the Asylum race
! yet, although, as the chuc-a-luck- man
calls, twenty can play as well as one,
gentlemen
Alfalfa is rapidly becoming popular
with Kansas farmers. The acreage of
this peculiar clover increased from
1884 acres in 1891 to III, 334 acres in
| 1885, 1t makes excellent feed for stock
The Missouri Pacific has torn down
its stations at Silverton and Carmi,
thus performing a most telling trick
against the thieves, who having al
ready carried off the platforms, will
| find now that the railroads have hid
den the buildings.
The Traveller tells of block in Ar
kansas City which contains eight fam
lilies. In teose families are five school
teachers, and they are permitted to do
all the talking because the other peo-
pie don't like to talk before them for
fear of making a mistake in grammar.
At an early duy at Muscotah, then
an Indian trading post, Fred Roach, a
stationary engineer, was on the witness
| stand, asked by Smith, now supreme
Judge in Kansas, what he (Roach) was
doing on certain day: "Runnin' an
injun," he replied. ''Ktckapoo or Pot
tawatomie?'' asked Smith.
A strong flow of gas was struck last
week in the gas well drilled on the
Bradshaw farm, five miles north of
town, on the Santa Fe. The depth of
the we'll is little greater than that of
the other wells in the neighborhood
and was found in the lower strata
Coffeyville journal.
The senate committee of agriculture
has recommended for passage Senator
Young's bill which will enable farm
ers to shoot and ship quail from their
| own premises. As the law now stands
a farmer could be prosecuted for shoot
| ing for home consumption or the mar
ket quail from his farm, but the pur-
pose of this new law is to amend the
existing statute.
A short time before harvest last year
F. C. Maxwell, of near Hutchinson,
purchased 16O acre farm. The pur-
chase price was 81 600, and there was
growing on the place rs acres of wheat,
the balance being pasture land. Mr..
Maxwell took possession of the farm
and in a short time harvested the
wheat. He recently sold the crop for
| 81, 200, almost enough to pay for the
entire farm. Aside from the wheat
land Mr.. Maxwell had the use of the
| So acres of pasture land.
Mrs. Krebs, the Junction City muir
deress, was taken to the penitentiary
last week. She has shown no signs of
breaking down. Now that the SEN
tence has been passed, she is the same
woman that she was before the trial
when her sons, husband and father-in-
law pleaded with her to tell every
thing and throw herself upon the
mercy of the court. assuring her that
they would do everything in their pow
er to help her. She gave the same an
swer now that she did then-that she
is innocent, that her conscience is
clear, and that she is willing to let
fate take its course.
Edwin Gould is negotiating for the
purchase of the Eaden ranch situated
in Ellsworth county. The ranch con-
tains II, 225 acres.
Aremarkable old lady died in bourbon
county last week at the age of IS. She
, was the last of a family of six sisters
who many years ago promised dying
mother that they would never marry.
All kept the VOW and lived together on
a farm till death took them off one by
one.
Excursion Rates via Santa Fe Route.
On Jan. II and Feb. ard 81, March
and 81, the Santa Fe will sell round
trip tickets at the very cheap rate OF
one fare plus 50. 90 to all points in
Arkansas, Arizona, Indian Territory,
New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
These tickets will bear going limit,
with stop-over privileges of fifteen
days, final return limit 81 days from
date of sale. Before purchasing tick
cts, you will do well to call on some
representative of the road that reaches
all points of Importance 1.-The Great
Santa Fe."
W. J. BLACK, G. P. A,
Topeka, Kans.
The curfew ordinance in many Kan
sas towns is enforced just about as
rigidly as the prohibition law.
The first settler of Lyon county came
| 1915 oud Il