Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-05
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Not state bank failed in Kansas
CAST year.
Good rains are reported throughout
the state
The board of equalization has raised
the assessment of Cow1ey county near
ly 25 per cent
There is one corn stalk in Atchison
present corn crop is the greatest the
state has ever had.
The Topeka negro who was struck
on the head with a monkey wrench is
getting better, but the wrench will
neve be any good again.
There is lots of talk in Florida over
the discovery of gypsum bed. There
is enough gypsum in Kansas to white
wash all the territorial planets.
Most of the letters from Kansas men
in Cuba and Porto Rico make a kick
because of the custom which compels
a man when calling on a young woman
to stand the presence of the whole
family.
Corn stalks are being used for tele-
graph poles in some parts of the state.
1t is said that they are superior to the
old poles, as the projecting leaves do
away with the necessity of using
climbers.
In Kansas hop tea is said to be non
Intoxicating. A man got one hundred
days in Jail for selling the stuff to
Indians in the Indian territory. The
hard hearted United States judge
called it beer.
Kansas is now growing her greatest
apple crop beyond all question. Trees
which hitherto have born only a cat
erpillar and half dozen leaves are so
full of apples that they droop like
weeping willows.
Kansas from a frontier state has
grown to domain of great delicacy
and decorum. One prisoner in the
Atchison jail threshed another last
week because the latter insisted on
splitting on the floor.
At baby show held at Victor, Col
orado, recently, a medal valued at $40
was hung up for the prettiest girl I'M
der two years of age. 1t went to little
Miss Nellie Baker She is a Kansas
girl; formerly of Gaylord.
An immigration agent is working in
Kansas to secure people to move to
Canada. He has got a mighty cold
reception thus far The people have
to be shown when a man says there is
better country than Kansas.
There never was a year in Kansas
easier than the present one on finance
committees. This is shown by the
rapidity with which funds for street
fairs, carnivals and fall festivals are
up in various towns throughout the
state.
Some time ago William Hall, La
bette county farmer, discovered in d
clay deposit on his farm, mineral
some of which was sent to an assayel
in Denver, who pronounced it gold an6
silver assaying $3.50 to the ton. The
clay in which the mineral was found
proves to be fire clay of fine quality
and some excellent tests of it have
since been made. Jack and lead have
also been found on the farm, and there
is every indication that the latter
minerals will be developed in paying
quantities. The fire clay is four fee
thick and is found within two feet O
the surface. The farm has been leas
ed to a mining expert who will at once
begin the work of prospecting TO
mineral
If salt will drive away feas, as al
agricultural paper claims, there oughr
to be very few of those insects il
Hutchinson.
Blackberries are unusually plentiful
in Douglas county this year and ar
being canned in great quantities TO
the nourishment of university student
next winter
One of the boys at Luzon has no
forgotten he is from Kansas. Hi
name is Ozias, and he has collected
lot of Filipino relics and sent them t
the Kansas Historical society.
In Clifton, Dickinson county, live
an old gentleman who beguiles his de
Ginning years ny SSIIiAS Ao1A anu Idih
ing Dickens.
Business men of Howard have raise
purse of $50 which will be given t
any ball team within a radius of :
miles of that town that out-plays tn
home team.
Fireworks were substituted for rio
and old shoes when young coupl
started away from Lawrence on thei
wedding journey. This is an innov;
ton that deserves encouragement.
The new Jail at Mankato will doub
less be a jewell.
Jim Hackey lives in Decatur count
and has lived there for twenty year
He is a farmer and has many broa
acres of land, cattle and hogs by tt
hundreds, wheat and corn and an
amount of all kinds of stuff a farms
raises and big pile of money in tt
bank. Until few days ago he hs
never seen an electric light or sire