Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-05-20


Harrison Bowker, a pioneer settler
Of MCPHERSON county, IS dead at the
age of IA years
specer, coal oil inspector, has turned
over his collections for the month of
April, amounting to S2,512.
In anticipation of the coming strike
of the miners, the Kansas railroads
are laying in large supply of coal
General Funston is small man. A
bullet or two more in his body may
make him SO heavy that he will be IN
able to swim.
A movement is on down at Garnett
to get that town into the natural gas
push. It is believed that natural gas
can be found there.
The need of more normal schools in
Kansas is illustrated by the fact that
many students from southern Kansas
are attending the Alva, Oklahoma nor
NAL.
A large humber of people are pro-
Emmett Dalton. the outlaw. Among
those protesting is Lyman .. Humph-
rey.
If Fred Funston knew that Ameri-
can rymesters were stringing the pub
lie with effusions in which he is made
to appear red-headed and as weighing
but 95 pounds it would worry him
more than the Filipinos do.
The indications now are that the eff
fort on the part of Governor Stanley to
secure reduced insurance premium
rates for Kansas through the co-opera-
ton of the companies engaged in fire
business will be abandoned.
The recent rains in Cow1ey coun.
ty have almost insured the wheat crop
of that section. In the three days
rain of last week nearly four inches of
water fell The rainfall for April this
year has exceeded that of any previous
April for several years.
State Grain Inspector Mckenzie en-
countered an obstacle of a serious ma
ture in Auditor Cole last week Mr..
Cole drew his blue pencil through an
item of $41s SO in Mr.. McKenzies claim
for the past month. The total amount
asked for expenses was $1,O17.94, in
which was included bill for $41s. SO
in favor Of the Kansas City Printing
company for printing. Auditor Cole
refused to allow the claim on the
ground that printing for state officers
must always be done by the state prin-
ter.
days ago a sea gull was shot by a
hunter near Fiat. Sea gulls are rare
birds in this section-in fact so rare
that the hunter who brought it down
didn't know what it was that he had
shot. So he brought it to town and
showed it to several who pronounced
it a sea gull of a rare species, now al
most extinct-the rose or roseate Arc
tic gull-known to science as Rhodes
theta Rosea- It attracted much at
tention by its beauty, its downy breast
being of a rare, delicate pink and its
wings OF a glossy black.
Since the formation of the Twentieth
Kansas regiment a year ago ffty-seven
Kansas soldiers have lost their lives.
Sickness attacked the camp soon after
it had been pitched in the sand lots
near Golden Gate park in San Fran
cisco. The health of the volunteers
improved after the camp had been re-
moved to the Preside, but in the
meantime several Kansans died. Dis
ease has caused twenty-eight deaths
since the regiment was mustered into
the United States service. Twenty
one men were killed in action-dead
before they were taken from the field
Eight soldiers died from wounds re-
ceived in battle, only one or two OF
these living more than a few days at
ter they were shot
The wheat fields throughout the
state are in prime condition and grow
ing nicely.
An endowment of 500, 600 has just
| been made to the Princeton university
for the establishment OF chair of pol
tiles, by some one who requested that
his name be not made public. The
man who takes that course and wants
to try his hand should come to Kansas
where homegrown talent would
skunk him at every stage of the game.
from township caucus to the state con.
vention.
It is said thai the Great Western
Stove company at Leavenworth will
| join stove trust which will be form
ed at Cincinnati this week.
Cattlemen of Oklahoma and western
Kansas are in dispute; some of them
claim that the heel fly has a singer
and others maintain that it has not
In order to settle this question before
the political conventions begin to en-
gross public attention the cattlemer
ought to appoint committee of one
to back up against a heel fly while il
action.
Something must be wrong up in
oketo township. Marshall county-one
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