Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-05-20
This is splendid weather for young


,orn.
The towns in Kansas show a steady
just at the present time everything
IS quite prosperous looking in Ian
sas
The rains during this month is just
what were needed to rush the crops
along.
Merchants are enjoying a splendid
trade, and mechanics are generally
busy.
By the way of prismatic lie. ". E
Curtis writes to Chicago that the
women Of Kansas ride their bicycles
in sunbonnetS
A poor stand of any crop may il
most instances be traced to poor seed.
1t may be immature or too old Most
seed deteriorates rapidly after from
one to three years Immature seed is
most often met within the so-ca11ed
hay crops as alfalfa, millet and timo-
thy, for in these it is impossible to
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seeds matured and at the same time
avoid shattering.
There is no penitentiary in Oklaho-
ma, and there are no poorhouses OF
poorfarms IN the territory. The need
Of such things has never been felt.
Although there is an impression in the
east that this is lawless country, the
reports of the criminal courts show
that the penitentiary population is
only 155, and that there was only one
convict last year for every 2, $50 of the
inhabitants while in the good state of
Ohio the ratio was one for every 300;
IN Kansas, one to every ], 600, and in
Indiana one to every 1850. There are
jails, or coolers as the people kindly
call them in all of the larger towns,
but in the smaller places when man
has committed an offense against So
ciety the sheriff locks him up in va
cant room until he gets time to take
him to court.
Cheap Rates to Pacific Coast via Santa Fe.
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
and other California points at the very
cheap rate OF $32 SO.
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon S2S. So. For particulars call
on or address, L. R. DELANEY, Agt,
Wichita, Kans
Only s1.A1: Only S1.41! Only Sill!
Kansas Musical Jubilee; Kansas
State Sunday School Association,
Hutchinson, Kans For these events
the Santa Fe will sell tickets to Hutch
inson and return for one fare-SL Al
for the round trip. Tickets on sale
May 8, 10 and May Is and 10. Good to
return until May IL and May 20, 1899.
I. R. DELANEY, Agent.
Excursion to San Francisco, Cal, via the
Great Santa Fe Route.
On May Is, 10, II and 10 the Santa
Fe will sell tickets to San Francisco
and return on account of the National
Baptist Societies meetings at the rate
of one fare for the round trip-S6O. 90
limited for return to July 18th, 1899.
The Santa Fe's California service is
unsurpassed, having two trains daily
from Wichita, leaving $3.50 a. m. and
7:10 p. m L r. DELANEY, Agt
Homeseekers' Excursion via Santa Fe
Route.
For this occasion on May 10th
and June 9Th and Goth, the Santa Fe
will sell round trip tickets at the very
cheap rate of one fare for the round
trip plus So. 90 TO all points in Arkan-
sas, Arizona, Indian territory and New
Mexico These tickets will bear going
limit with stopover privileges of fifteen
days; final return limit twenty-one
days from date of sale. Before pur-
chasing tickets you will do well to call
on some representative of the road
reaches all points of importance-Th
Great Santa Fe.
L. R DELANEY, Agt
If there are no delays it is believed
that the waterworlzs plant at Wamego
will DE completed by July.
An Atchison man is in trouble His
children have passed the measles an6
whooping cough age, and just as he
was looking forward to uninterrupted
rest at night, the boys have begun to
hang around. This courtship bust
ness takes great deal of time, cou-
sidiring how often it results in fail
ure. Not so much time and attention
are put in any other venture.
Business is picking up in all branch
es and very few idle men can be found
in Kansas
Kansas farmers will plant large
acreage of broomcorn this season
There is good money is raising broom
corn.
A Dickinson county man who manu-.
features merry-go-rounds has enlarged
his factory and expects soon to have
the largest institution of that kind in
the United States. He also makes the
organs which grind out the music
which accompanies the giddy whirl
We don't have to rake up uncles and
aunts and cousins of war heroes in