Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-07-29


the acre.
More building is going on in Saline
county this year than there has been
for the last five years
Oklahoma. is now shipping apples
and peaches to Kansas, Colorado and
other nearby states.
The main shaft of the penitentiary
coal mine has been closed. 1t has
been unsafe for months.
Distributing $500 census jobs in
Kansas is good deal like serving the
first mess of new Strawberries in big
boarding house
The experience of Mr.. Happy, who
tried to break out of the federal pris-
ON at Leavenworth, and was captured,
proves that there is nothing in name.
A regiment of army worms is COM
Ding northward into Kansas, having all
ready struck the southern portion of
the state. They prefer sorghum to
work in.
The county treasurer of Rice county
was caught by a surprise party of 100
Friends the other night, with his shoes
off and with his bare feet in the re-
frigerator.
| a Barton county farmer put big
mortgage on wheat he had already sold
and then lit out. His wife and sons,
believed to be implicated In the mat
ter are under arrest
The tallest corn stalk raised in the
United States this year will be exhib-
ited at Paris 1t will probably come
from Kansas. 1t ought to, anyhow,
and will, if only the pains are taken
to look it up.
Much fruit is being put up in Kan
sas this season. The early peaches
are very fine for canning purposes and
many are putting up a good supply
for winter use. Many berries have
also been putup
Ottawa's police judge has been treat
ing crap shooters rather leniently but
in a card addressed to the fraternity
khe announces that hereafter offenders
who are brought before him will be
stuck good and plenty.
! At Paola a chicken thief mortgaged
mis- scraggly old team for So. SO in order
to get the money with which to square
himself when his thievery was discov-
cred. This is an aggravated case of
chickens coming home to roost.
! A Topeka woman says that she does
not see how there can be any possible
risk run in raising hogs. She got her
experience in hog culture out in west
ern Kansas. Her father would give
her the young pigs; she fattened them
on feed belonging to the old gentle
man, and says that her hog ventures
were always profitable.
A Jefferson county man who chewed
20 cents worth of tobacco a week con-
cluded to try tobacco cure. In two
weeks he ate up 81. so worth of cure,
and for the next two weeks he used 10
cents worth of candy, cents worth of
peanuts and cents worth of cough
drops per day. During these two
weeks he also consumed two large rub
her erasers, ate the tips from fourteen
lead pencils, chewed up a dozen pen
holders and browsed off his mustache
as high as he could reach. He now
omy.
Some of the banks of Kansas are so
proud ofthe statements they can pro-
duee that they run them in the local
These bank statements put up good
talk for Kansas.
The offices of.the officials of Mitchell
county are scattered about town IN
seven different buildings The court
house is such an old trap that long
ago the presiding judge refused to
hold court in it, and it ought to be
given over entirely to the bats and
owls
There is good deal of roar in the
southwest on account of the depreda-
kions of cattle thieves. The cattlemen
are beginning tocfeel woolly about it,
and the offender who is caught at this
work is going TO find himself in mess
of trouble of the worst kind.
There is no truth in the old saying
that somnambulists never suffer in
Jury while prowling about at night.
A Dickinson county woman, walking
about the house in her sleep fell down
q fight of stairs and was all bruised
mp, although no bones were broken
It is said that forty-fve counties in
Kansas, NEARLY half, have no poor
houses, and that in thirty-seven coun-
ties there are no criminal cases Oh the
docket.
During April, May and June of 1896
the revenue of the Independence post
office amounted to 81 ,469. So; for the
same period of 1897, 81, 62a s5; for 1898
1,7S9, and for the same quarter of the
present year the figures reached s., 265.,
Al. No better testimony could be
brought forth to show the forward
movement of business in that town.
No one has ever seen such corn il
Kansas. A whole lot of people thinl