Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-04-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mound City claims a particularly
swift horse and mule market
Recruiting officers secured ffty-six
cavalry.
Cofeyville gained 4e9 Inhabitants
the past year. Most of the Kansas
towns are reporting increases
An epidemic of home buying is
sweeping over the state, judging from
the testimony of the many local pa
pers.
Pittsburg will make an effort to
put at thateplace whenever their term
Of service is over.
The Kansas Cotton Mill company of
independence has been chartered.
Sooner or later part of Kansas will be
cotton producing.
The Jefferson county banks have in
Individual deposits 50, AS, 6O5.27, or
compared to the population of the
county, Sos per capita, including in
fants
There is no provision for contest
In city election under the Australian
ballot law, but at Sa1ina one man is
contesting another for seat in the
connciL
As a rule, the Kansas towns treated
the colored boys on their return home
better than they did the boys of the
Twenty-first and Twenty-second regi-
ments
A Reno county man was convicted
of assault with intent to kill After
being sentenced, he slid out of the
court room and has disappeared. His
.bondsmen are looking for him.
The greatest sensation in the vicin-'
fly of Pleasanton was created April y
when the miners took out over 400
pounds of lead ore from one of the
mines which will run nearly 90 per
cent pure. The ore was found at a
depth of sixty feet and in a drift only
few feet from the way of the shaft.
The vein or deposit uncovered appears
to be large and the ore as fine as ever
seen. The find has caused great ex-
element and stock in the company
can not be had at any price.
T. 7. McCreary, the first settler in
Doniphan county, still lives there and
is hale and hearty. He located in Don
iphan county in 1914, his parents be-
ing induced to come west by his uncle,
who was missionary among the Sac
and Fox Indians near ST. Joseph. Mr..
McCreary has seen a great deal Of the
Indians in his time and says that in
his experience he never knew them to
kill but one white man and that was
with just provocation. In 1845, he
drove herd of cattle across the plains
TO Sacramento Mr.. McCreary is now
q well known stock raiser.
A large proportion of the trees that
are lost in resetting die because they
have been injured when they were
taken up. Without a good root OF
stem a tree can make but little pro.
gress in growth. In digging up trees
the surface soil should be removed to
the root system, then a trench dus
~
roots; then by cutting under the sol
with a sharp spade on each side, the
tree may be 1oosehed from the sol
with good supply of young growing
roots. If the tree is large, the trench
must be made around the roots to tn,
depth of the lowest, and the root
gradually 1oosened and freed from TIL
soil.
Every little town within a few hun
dred miles of Kansas City has the Con
vention hall fever. If all that are al
ter convention halls are successful
ganizing conventions
It has been claimed all along tina
the United States has been prosecut
ing the war in the Philippines in
humane manner, but the fact has leah
ed out that the Kansas boys have bee
IL the habit of singing Comrades
over there within hearing of tn
enemy.
On recent meeting night an A. {
e. W. lodge at Winfield initiated %
mem OerS. winch Is SdtO TO De the 1dFS
est number ever initiated by any on
lodge in the state of Kansas.
Sumner county officials are teelin
good over the prospect of an increas
in their salaries. If the returns of tt
township assessors keep up their pre-
ent average the population of tt
county will go past, the $4,000 mari
which will make possible the salal
advance. a gain of about 600 is a
that is necessary.
The editor of the Hamilton Pos
who evidently has been kept awake
nights of late, remarks that he car
see the necessity of a town of 800 i
.habitants having 500 dogs.
Railroad men will gladly WELDON
the return of warm weather, It w
not be necessary then for the hobo
to build fires in box cars in order
keep from freezing. Every winter t
roads have cars to repair which ha
been damaged by the fires of the /