Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-05-06

The wheat fields in Kansas are look
ing mighty fine, with fattering pros
poets.
One fruit tree agent delivered $500
worth of goods in Westmoreland re-
Gently.
At she last count eight Rocks county
men had their eyes on the nomination
for sheriff
Kansas, especially the eastern part,
is becoming known as an extensive
mining district.
! Mound Valley, down in Labette
county, has voted bonds to the amount
of So, 600 and will prospect for oil, gas
or coal.
Fort Scott has received a large ship
ment of sugar beet seeds and prize
will be given to the farmer who raises
! the best beets.
Mr.. Kyzzanouski farms out in Phil
lips county. A farmer with d name
like that is perfectly independent of
these new-fangled, patent corn cut
/ tiers.
! The colonel, the lieutenant colonel
a major, three captains and four lieu
tenants of the only Kansas regiment
| that saw any fighting are State Uni
versity men.
From a point five miles south of
| Wellington, Kansas, the wheat is in
| tip-top shape. This includes Oklaho-
- ol,
in it's existence
The wheat fields in southern Kansas
are looking much better than at this
season last year. There is a good
stand and very little shows damage
from the hard winter.
The Hutchinson reformatory has
been in operation something like four
years with inmates averaging more
than 100. In the entire time there
have been but two death.
Within less than As hours last week
a Barber county cattleman lost 80
head of stock, and it has been impossi-
BILE to locate the cause. 1t is either a
new disease or foul play has been per-
pSJfaLeO Oy somebody.
An Atchison county young woman
wants credit for industry because she
has just finished ''piecing" a quilt
which is made up of 5000 pieces. Just
as like as not, though, her little broth
err has to resort to the use of horse
shoe nails, string and fish hooks in or
der to keep his pants in position.
| Prof L. 1. Blake, head of the cleo
trical engineering department of Kan
sas university, has returned from
trip to Champaign. Ill, where the
University of Illinois is located. While
away Prof. Blake was formally offered
the place of head of the electrical en-
cheering department. He has not
accepted the place, but was given only
short time in which to give his an
swer.
| George w. James, the United States
Indian agent who lives on the Pot
| tawatomie reservation, has rendered
his resignation to the department at
! Washington, and will retire from the
service. A severe attack of the grip
and Pneumonia during the winter
shattered his health and left him in
physical condition inadequate, as he
and his family thought, to perform
the constant and arduous work of the
agency.
! Bucket shops continue to run wide
open at independence, notwithstand
] L. -
of the legislature making the business
felony. The better element at indie
pendence is much worked up over the
refusal of the local officers to inforce
the law, and a petition will probably
be presented to Attorney General
GODDARD asking him to appoint an as
sistant attorney general for Mont
gomery county to suppress the evil.
The executive council, it is said, has
decided to abolish the Office of state
newly created places for architects,
one at each state institution.
When the commissioners of Nemaha
county met last week they were con-
J IL OhCCo WIN OAAAo oOAhS
so incurred in dealing with the small
poxs cases, which prevailed there re-
Gently. The total of the claims dazed
the commissioners and they deferred
action on them until the next meet
ing.
The past week has been splendid
growing weather in Kansas Good
showers nearly every night and the
hot sun during the day has a tendency
to make things pop right out of moth.
er earth.
For some time two ranchmen on the
Medicine river, in Pratt county, have
been losing cattle and in order TO find
the reason, bored small holes in the
hoofs of some of their cattle Last
week two of these were found bearing
the brand of another cattleman who
has a ranch in that neighborhood.
The Mormon missionary who was
working Gaylord recently evidently
didn't jar matters much. The Meth
odists intend to go right ahead with
the work of constructing their new