Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Sas corn crop is very much better than
the jokes it has suggested.
In the early days there were cattle
men in the west who contended that
cows could not be taught to drink out
of trough.
Twenty-nine Indians from the Chip
pewa reservation in North Dakota
have arrived at the Haskell institute
at Lawrence where the will attend
school.
One thing that makes it so terrible
for woman to grow old in Kansas IS
the habit which many of the newspa-
pers of the state have of speaking of
every woman past 60 as grandma
Lumber men are hustling this year
to keep up with the demands made on
brick plant in the state is behind it's
orders. This is a great building year
for Kansas
A officer is at Fort Scott this week
after recruits for the TT irty-third
regiment, which is being licked into
shape at Fort Sam Houston, San An
tonic, Texas This regiment will go
to the Philippines.
A farmer near the Agricultural col
lege has fled charges against the new
regents Governor Stanley says he
will pay no attention to them as they
were filed to get the author of them
newspaper notriety.
AS result OF Governor Stanley's
plan of shutting off the granting of
pardons, there are fewer applications
for pardons on file than there have
been for fifteen years. The convicts
have quit fling them.
There has been considerable news
paper comment concerning the Kansas
girl who sacrificed $50, 900 in order to
marry one of Funston's men. Will
some one please give the name and
postoffice address of said girl?
Old soldiers at the Leavenworth
steal fish from the lines that are set
over night. There is certain gang
in and around Leavenworth, the mem
bers of which feel that they have a
right to anything they are smooth
enough to steal.
In the western division of Kansas
the ground generally is in fine condi-
ton. Early corn is hardening and
the late corn is coming into roasting
ears. The corn is fine, though in the
northern counties grasshoppers are in
juring it and forage crops Hay, for
age crops and range grass are making
a fine growth. Haying has begun.
Dampness delays threshing; what lit
tie has been done discloses very poor
yield. The Russian thistle is ripening
in Trego county.
A reaction from the excessive heat
of the last few days came August 9th
when rain came to the relief of swell
tering people and scorched vegetation.
The rains were largely local and they
ranged from light showers to three
hour downpours. All southern Kan.
sas came in for share of the rain. AS
a result of the rain. conservative grain
men say, that corn yield far above
the average is reasonably certain in
nearly all that district embracing be-
tween Rice county on the north, the
state line on the south, Cowley county
on the east and Pratt county in the
west.
There were only 1000 head of cattle
in Barbour county when it was called
the cattlemen's paradise. Now there
are $4,000.
Canadian immigration agents arr
trying to induce Kansas farmers tt
move to John Bulls territory. TIL.
devil might just as well try to entics
the angels of the heavenly choir int
his dominions
The announcement for a cattlemen'
picnic in Kingman county bears tn
hearty invitation to Come and SCI
our smolzer'
Hutchinson is feeling good. It i
confidently believed that at least fou
big wholesale houses will soon estab
lish branches there.
Secretary of Agriculture Coburl
may visit Wichita without fear of be
ing lynched, since he has correcte
the figures in his report which shove
that that town had lost in population
last year.
Will somebody explain what ONE
is involved in the circumstance s tina
most of the sunfiowers in Kansas ar
double this year.
It would be waste of time for tn
preachers to talk of heaven to tn
Kansas man who has held Office cor
tinuously for forty years
A Kansas man claims to have di
covered that the average length of tn
natural life of q fly is thirty days, NJ
counting those which come to an III
timely end by falling into the grav
dish.
There is a great deal of malari'
fever in southern Kansas and the do
tors are expecting more of it late tn
summer and early in the fall.
Herington now owns ground for
public park, the money, which w