Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-01-21


Grocery peddlers are dividing the
wealth of Marshall county husband
men.
Take the state over and the register
of deeds is the county officer who is
making the money these days.
The grip is now getting in its work
in the southwest part of the state
/ Wichita is having a particularly hard
/ tussle with it.
! Time appears to be hanging heavily
as wolf drives are the order of the day.
Once in a while they succeed in scar
! ing up wolf.
The Independence Tribune claims
that there is good road overseer in
Montgomery county; SO good that he
that capacity.
just as soon as the building season
opens up work will be commenced in
Kansas City, Kansas, on the 5000
high school building for which bonds
were voted at a recent special election.
Ottawa's new militia company was
called out the other day for the first
! time-for the purpose of having meas
ures taken for uniforms; and not
martial spirit failed to promptly heed
the call.
Congressman Broderick quiets the
fears of Leavenworth people by telling
them that he does not think there is
any reason at all for worrying over
the story that the post is to be removed
from there.
The chances are that the State poul-
try show will prove as secondary in
terest beside the legislature, because
Kansans are able to judge more intel
ligently concerning the good qualities
of a legislator than of bird.
W. Fl. Haskell, the Gaylord cattle
man, had bunch of cattle in Kansas
City the other day that topped the
market, being bought for export The
cattle averaged 1880 pounds and brought
him nearly SO a head.
The Northern Pacific railroad is ex-
hibiting a car load of Northwest pro-
ducts at points in Kansas. Kansas is
poor state in which to do this kind
of missionary work. Some tolerable
good things in the exhibit line are
raised right here in this state.
The town of Thayer, half way be-
tween Cherryvale and Chanute, will
vote on February 14th upon the propo-
sition to issue city bonds to the amount
of three thousand dollars for the pur-
pose of installing natural gas plant,
which is to be owned and operated by
the city.
The grip has appeared in another
form. This time it is attacking the
horses, and while it is epidemic in
Kentucky, it threatens to become so
in Saline county. One of the employees
of the Clark ranch, near Kipp, says
that the horses on the ranch had be-
come affected.
The vitrified interests of Montgom-
cry county have been consolidated and
will be known of the Coffeyville Wit
trificd Brick and Tile company. The
capital stock is eighty thousand dol
lars fully paid up. The plant at hide
pendenCe, the one at Coffeyville and
the one at Cherryvale will be owned
and operated by the same company.
It has been asserted by parties who
profess to speak from personal obser-
walton and experience that ripe null
berries will kill young chickens, and
as a great many farmers have mulber-
~ trees growing where the chickens
! can have access to them, ana the null
berries ripen and fall from the trees at
the season of the year when young
: chickens are most plentiful, this be-
comes an interesting and important
, question.
5 Cheap Excursions via Santa Fe Route.
Annual convention Missouri and
Kansas association of Lumber Dealers
held at Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 24-2s.
one lowest standard frst-class fare fol
the round trip. Tickets on sale Jan.
: 21, go and %, good to return until and
including Jan. %. 1899. Oklahoma
S Live Stock Association meeting held at
: Woodward, o. T., Feb. 14-15, one fare
: for the round trip. Ticlzsts on sale
} Feb. IL and IS, good to return seven
days from date of sale.
W. j. BLACK, G. P. A.,
Topeka, Kans.
When farmer sells $500 worth OF
S hay, he sends away from his Farm over
l $500 worth of fertilizers. When he
sells $500 worth of wheat he disposes
of S125 worth of fertilizers. But when
1 he sells $500 worth of dairy prod
3 he parts with less than $50 worth OF
e fertilizers. And when he sells $500
r worth of fruit he loses less in ferti1
r izers than with either of the others
4 because fruits are composed so largely
n of actual solids. This shows that the
y highest-priced products rob the farm
d the least, and is an argument in favor
of diversified and intensified farming
l. a man has been talking electri,
e lights at Oskaloosa.
o Take rood care of the work horses