Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-01-14

Three Kansas counties, Grant, Nor
ton and Stanton, cast less than one
hundred votes.
A Wilson county man while carrying
a jag was held up while on the road
home and relieved of S1OO
A court of common pleas has been
created for Crawford and Cherokee
counties, to relieve the district court,
and get lawyer job as Judge
It is not believed that Gi1lett is in
Old Mexico at all 1t is thought that
he is in Texas and will in time return
to Kansas and try to help distribute
the salvage.
Many ice houses are being filed in
Kansas this year. The qality is said
to be better than for several years.
If the cold weather continues ice will
be cheap next summer.
The new railroad law says that
while man is a member of the court
of visitation he can not practice law.
The lawyers take this to mean that no
one but lawyers are eligible.
Many improvements are being made
just at the present Good substantial
sheds and shelters are being put up to
protect the stock from the coming win
ter. Generally, the stock is looking
we'll
Blood hounds were placed on the
trail of a sin-soaked wretch of Pleas
| anton who stole case of hop tea, but
they failed to locate the loot. The
authorities put the wrong kind of g
smelling committee in the field.
The collections of the Office of inter
nal revenue for December show a fall
| ing off as compared with the previous
month. The collections for November
aggregated S72, 219s7. Last month
the aggregate was $40, 932 90, showing
decrease of $1,2s6. 95. The falling
off was principally in oleomargarine
and documentary stamps. The bust
ness of the Office for the past year in
collections amounted to 1925, 1897.
A Mound City butcher says that on
the Saturday before Christmas he sold
more beef roasts to people living in
the country than he ever sold before
in single day, and he has been butch
ering for a number of years. The
| farmers sold their turkeys and bought
beef, and showed good judgment in so
doing. good, juicy piece of roast
| beef is better than turkey on Christ
mas or any other day in the year.
Broom corn is one of the products in
which central Kansas excels. Some of
the finest broom corn in the world is
raised in the vicinity of Sterling.
/ There was a shortage of the broom
corn crop in 1898 and the Kansas pro-
duct more than held the balance of
power. Some speculative gentlemen
discovered the fact of a shortage and
quietly bought all the broom corn in
sight and it is claimed that they have
most effectually cornered the market
50 that brooms, and especially whisk
broomS made from the dwarf broom
corn, will be materially higher in
price than they have been for many
years. Sterling, Kan, seems to be the
storm center of this corner and the
| Kansas farmers who still have broom
corn will be likely to get high price
for it.
{ The Kansas Horticultural Society
recently held, unanimously adopted a
resolution requesting the legislature
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laws for the protection and preserva-
ton of the quails. The legislature
should act upon this suggestion and
prohibit the destruction of the quails.
Pot hunters and ruthless boys kill
great quantities of them every year.
Quails are among the farmers best
friends. They are constantly working
for the farmer by destroying the in
sect enemies of the farmer. In return
the farmer should protect the quails-
They are innocent and beautiful birds,
and so tame that it is a very easy mat
ter to snare or shoot them. They live
very largely upon insects that are de-
structive to the farmers crops and they
should have every protection that the
law can give them.
There is revival of the agitation
for county ownership of bloodhounds
in Franklin county. It has been most
satisfactorily demonstrated that trail
ers of this character are of great value
to the constabulary; whenever they
are used the most satisfactory results
are had. The chief objection, or OBJ
stacle in the way, has been the high
price at which good dogs could be pur-
chased, but this difficulty has been re-
moved. The sheriff of Franklin coun-
ty has had correspondence on the sub
ject and says that he can now procure
a pair of year old dogs for not to ex-
ceed $40. 1t has been suggested that
a portion of the surplus in the treas
ury of the Anti-Horse Thief associa-
ton might be applied to this purpose.
It certainly would not be misappli-
cation of funds as this money was col
lected with the very object of appre-
hending criminals and will probably
be used