Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-04-29
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


men at Wichita recently, all for the
cavalry.
The bond bill before the Connecticut
legislature which boycotted Kansas
bonds has been killed
For over forty years Y. Guittard has
been postmaster of Guittard Station.
hamlet in Marshall county.
cofeyville will get that sorghum
factory provided the promoter has the
assurance that the farmers of that
vicinity will put in at least 80 acres
of cane for delivery at the mill.
A 2s-pound buffalo was caught in
the Marias des Cygnes near Ottawa
few nights ago A stream that sports
fish of that size ought to be able to
get into the river and harbor bill.
Kansas farmers are busy just now
with their corn planting. The ground
is in splendid condition for corn plant
ing Most of the wheat throughout
the state is coming out nicely, and the
general prospects are good.
The examination at Fort Leaven-
worth of applications for lieutenacy in
the regular army has been practically
completed and it is known that at
least four of the thirty-two applicants
have passed. Among them is Charles
Doster, son of the chief justice of Kan
sas
1t has been claimed all along that
the United States has been prosecut-
ing the war in the Philippines in
humane manner, but the fact has leak
ed out that the Kansas boys have been
IL the habit of singing Comrades"
over there within hearing of the
enemy.
Galena set the Kansas pace for rapid
action courtship last Tuesday when,
after spOoning period of but five
hours, a young lady of that town mar
ried well known commercial man.
A man capable of making a dash like
that ought to be a cracking good
salesman.
Work has commenced at Wellington
on a new elevator which will have a
capacity of $4,000 bushels. Yelling
ton. it will be remembered, is in a four
million bushel wheat country, and in
each of the three Kansas counties
which border Sumner-Harper. Sedg-
wick and Cowley-the production of
winter wheat exceed one million BUSH
els both in '97 and 90.
News of an abduction or kidnapping
case has just been received from the
northwest part of Pratt county. A
young man named Moody Kearns was
paying attention to a young lady, Miss
Carrie King, who did not receive his
attentions favorably. He asked her
company to church and she refused.
She went to spend the evening with
friend, and it is said that young
Kearns drove up and called her out of
the house, and that neither of them
have been seen since.
Secretary Coburn says that there
have been various reasons put forth in
explanation of the non-appearance of
a report on the condition of Kansas
wheat until now. Some have said that
the secretary was scared that the
condition of the fields were so bad
that he was afraid to investigate. 9th
ers have claimed that the matter was
work involved in getting data: but it
goes without saying that parties MAX
ing this absurd claim are short on
knowledge of the work of the depart
ment and its indefatigable secretary.
Mayors OF Kansas towns are issuing
their spring "clean up orders. An
early cleanup checks the microbes of
disease and trouble.
The Cooper Hollow plant at Galena
made turn-in of 81, 900 worth of zinc
ore. last week, and they would have
done better had it not been for a
breal1age in the machinery, which de-
layed them some They received S4s
per ton for their ore. This not only
beats the record of the Missours- Kan
sas zinc district, but of the entire
world.
are equipped with libraries
When the new city officials of Beat
tie, all ladies, assumed their duties.
they were sworn in in the presence of
crowd of citizens and local minis
ter presented each one of the ladies
with a bouquet as a tokes of esteem
and confidence. Now if the ladies will
only SO manage affairs that at the con-
clusion of their term the citizens will
feel like expressing their esteem and
confidence in this manner all will be
we'll.
Receipts of the Independence post
Office have increased to such point
that the Office has been pushed into
the second class. This means raise
in salary for the postmaster. besides
additional allowances which make it a
great deal better for him
All the side tracks in Downs have
been measured for the purpose of re
laying them with steel rails The
Times is willing for the parties who
have been prophesying that Downs i.
to lose the division to get all the com