Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-11
KANEAs ITEMS oF INTEREST.

great sinner-saving record down in the
Indian territory.
Occasionally venison gets on the
market in towns in the southwest por
ton of the state
In a number of Kansas towns this
season measles trotted heat only sec
ond to the grip
Farmers in the southwest complain
that the loco weed is causing an un-
usual lot of trouble.
The supreme court at Washington
has held that sooner is sooner,
whether an old soldier or not.
Last summer at lawn social at
Wichita young man named Tanker
s1ey slashed Earl Evans with knife.
Last week he got four years in the
pen for it.
The recent magnificent donation to
the Kansas Wesleyan university at
Salina will place that institution on
its feet it is said. It is almost enough
to put it on wings.
The state of Kansas owes Leaven-
worth more than any other county for
care of insane; $50, 954.5O. The small
est sum, $24. 30, is due Wilson county.
About forty counties have no claim of
this. mature.
The Alma Enterprise announces that
this spring it will publish a list of all
the persons in Wabaunsee county who
pay personal taxes, together with the
amount on which they pay. 1t will,
indeed, make bit Of very interesting
reading.
man drifted into Wichita the other
day with a terrible tale of woe. He
said that he would not give half a dol
lar an acre for all the wheat he had
seen; that it was in terrible condition.
A farmer came into Atchison the other
day with similar tale. He said that
the wheat was gone up the fume and
that he would gladly sell all his grow
ing crop for SO an acre; but the Globe
says that when man showed up with
the price the discouraged farmer back
ed out of the deal
Nearly every mail brings letters
from farmers in various parts of the
state asking where soy bean can be
had, and saying they are going to try
this valuable new crop The recent
bulletin from the farm department on
this subject has been the source of the
first information about soy beans to
many farmers. This was a brief bull
letin. and cost but little; yet the value
OF the difference in Kansas agriculture
resulting from this bulletin alone,
saying nothing of others issued from
this station, my become greater every
year than the station has yet cost
Excursion Rates via Santa Fe Route.
On Jan. II and Feb. and 81, March
and 21, the Santa Fe will sell round
trip tickets at the very cheap rate of
one fare plus 81. 90 to all points in
Arkansas, Arizona, Indian Territory,
New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
These tickets will bear going limit,
with stop-over privileges of fifteen
days, final return limit 81 days from
date of sale. Before purchasing tick
cts, you will do well to call on some
representative of the road that reaches
all points of Importance "The Great
Santa Fe. 5"
W. j. BACK, G. P. A,
Topeka, Kan&
The Frisco will enlarge its yards at
Galena. Kansas is edging forward
rapidly, but there is no section of the
state that is getting there any more
rapidly or in better shape than the
mining district.
This is whooping season for the
secret societies. One at Abilene has
forty applications on file. Another al
Oberlin has thirty under considera.
ton; and at the last meeting of an or
der 1t Netawaka eleven candidate:
were initiated. From other towns al
over the state the same story comes.
Deposits in the two banks at juno
ton City at the time of making tbs
last statement, exceeded a quarter o
million dollars.
An exchange says: CDR. Algood, wht
is wintering 400 head of Alabama cat
tie at Luray, reports a loss of so pc
cent The winter has been too sever
for Southern cattle" Commenting OF
this item the Beloit Gazette says: ..Fo
the life of US we can't have much pit,
for the man who will buy Alabama O
any other Southern cattle. They ar
not fit to waste feed on.''
A new asylum for the insane may b
built, but it looks as if deciding it
location would make more peopl
crazy than it can possibly .accommo
date.
oberlin is great NJ. W. A. town
There are Ell members in good stand
ing in the Woodman lodge there, the
have a thousand dollars in the treas
ury, and are talking of building a hal
Osborne has lodge with member
ship of go, and these two lodges it
claimed are the largest ones in tn
state west of Salina-
Kansas creamery men have might
kindly feeling for Emil Grosser, Dicl