Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-07-01
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

last month.
During the past few days the corn
has made a great improvement and is
growing rapidly.
Rural mail distribution has bean es-
tablished in Shawnee county and will
be given thorough trial
1t is said there is only one railroad,
and that small one, in the hands of
receiver in Kansas today.
The newspaper men at Topeka
wiped up the state house gang the
other day in a game of baseball
Andrew Carnegie has contributed
$500 to the support of the Ladies' Lii
brary association at Blue Rapids.
Assistant State Treasurer Tom Kel-
ly has been arrested for an assault
made upon a man nearly a year ago.
having local shoots The sports ought
to get together and have big state
shoot.
The people of the little town of Peo-
tone, after petitioning and petitioning
have at last had the name changed to
Viola.
The people of the state have at last
discovered what ''1obo" wolf is. It
seems that it is nothing but common
grey wolf.
The windows at the state house
were washed the other day, and the
officials have not yet recovered from
the shock.
The Atchison Globe, in celebration
of it's twenty-frst birthday, gave a
band concert which was attended by
5000 people.
In Marion county there are 500 dogs
and just four sheep. The newspapers
of that county do not mention the
fact with pride.
Judging from remarks found in pa
pers here and there over the state a
good many Kansas farmers are sorry
now that they plowed up their wheat.
A Mitchell county farmer is a sculp-
tor. He recently carved the figure of
a Kansas volunteer out of native stone
and it is said to be very creditable
piece of work.
John Collins, the Lawrence boy in
the state penitentiary charged with
numbering his father, is said to be a
model prisoner. John has long time
to stay there. He might as well be
good from the first.
It is almost the time of year now for
the farmers to commence bringing
their prize stalks of corn to town.
They are generally left on exhibition
at the local printing Office. A better
place for them would be at the rail
road stations. The railroads have
done a great deal to advertise Kansas,
her crops and her resources. A cheap
and effectual way of advertising the
country traversed by a railroad would
be to make a display at each station
of the cereals that are raised in its vi
cinity. 1t could be done with very
little trouble, and the traveller would
not fail to be deeply impressed by the
sight of the constant succession of
samples" at the different stations
In this manner tourists wouId be more
forcibly impressed with the crop
raised in Kansas than by a survey OF
the fields as the train goes whizzing
along.
Six Kansas sheriffs have lost theil
lives while performing their duty il
one year. It is said that this is
TO-, 3 - ! L,
total number of sheriffs than the Kan
sas regiment in the Philippines ha
sustained.
Within fifteen days Toronto raised
2,O1O which will be expended il
searching for gas. Toronto is tow
of but 700 people. and such an &C
speaks we'll for the enterprise of he
people. Work will be commenced i'm
mediately.
little orphan boy working for
farmer near Hutchinson found bridg
of the Hutchinson and Southern afr
and ran to the station and gave tn
alarm. The railroad officials sen
him a system pass and a nice ia
check.
A government irrigation inspecto
was at Hutchinson this week takin
measurement of the water in tn
Arkansas river. He had to get dow
there during the freshet season, c
there would have been nothing t
measure.
A northern Kansas exchange say
that the last thought of a woman in
time of great peril is how many PEI
pie will see the hole in her stockin
when she is dead.
A number of Hutchinson boys wei
having a sham battle the other da,
using twenty-five calibre revolve
with blank cartridges as weapons. f
some accident a loaded cartridge g
in with the rest, and one of the FL
pinos caught it in the leg. There wi
be no more sham battles in Hutchil
son for a while.
W. A. Kueny last week issued Il
first number of the News at Bake
Brown county is pretty well suppl,
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