Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-01-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Cofeyville has just put $500 more
into additional efficiency for its volun-
teer fire department.
The Santa ~Fe had twelve freight
crews running out of Emporia at this
time last year. Now it has nineteen.
Leavenworth has worry. Some
body in sheet and false face has
told Leavenworth that it may lose it's
military post.
The total net reduction of real es-
tate mortgage Indebtedness in Elk
county for 1898 came very close to the
hundred thousand dollar mark.
Wichita is having dream about eH-
tending the st. Louis, Kansas & South
ern railroad into the Usage country
and making the Usage country buy all
its supplies at Wichita.
commenced within two weeks on the
railroad which will give it connection
with the outside world The town
ship bond election carried four to one
in favor of the road.
Speaking OF push and progress, a
Horton Chinaman will put in a steam
laundry in the spring. Even the
plodding Chinaman finds it impossible
TO stay in the old rut after getting next
to rustling Americanism.
A large force of men are at work re-
pairing the Santa Fe depot platforms
along the Salina branch They will
also repair and remodel the stock
yards of the company at Salina. A
general order of improvement has
been made all along the line
Doubtless there are many people in
Kansas who do not know that there
is in the state a paper which is the or
gan of the Kansas State Grange, and
which is devoted principally to that
order. This is the function of the
Kansas Patron, weekly paper print
ed at Olathe.
4 WOodSon county man was hand
ling target rife the other day, when
it was discharged, the bullet entering
one of the legs of his wife. The wound
inflicted did not amount to much. An
Osborne county man was guilty of a
similar piece of foolishness a couple of
years ago. The result was that his
wife's leg was amputated at the knee.
Ottawa's commercial club is pulling
on string for the purpose of getting
big hotel for the town so that it will
be in shape to make bids for conven-
tons of respectable size. The Kansas
City scheme, with variations, is being
considered. That Kansas City scheme
is worse than the loco weed. One man
has already thrown a hundred dollar
government bond into the pot.
Lindsborg is in an Industrious COM
munity, and the people there have no
use for drones. lot of hoboes ap-
peared there the other day, and the
Record says that ''they were met by a
reception committee of Marshal Wall
estedt and hickory club and given a
good start out of town" This style OF
reception committee ought to be made
fashionable.
The editor of the Jewell Republican
has lived in the banner corn county of
Kansas long enough to catch on to q
good many things regarding that pro
duct. He says: 1.-The great lesson is
again being rubbed in on the Kansas
farmer that he is fool to ever sell
corn at less than % cents per bushel.
If man takes care of his corn the
time always comes when it will bring
him good price. This is hard to be-
lieve sometimes when corn is d drug at
IL and Is cents a bushel, but it is al
ways true"
The fact that peach trees produce a
full crop only on occasional years has
caused such little planting of trees in
Kansas that good peaches are always
scarce, and some years not produced al
all in the state. The uncertainty OF
this crop is due to the changeableness
of the climate. Peach buds can stand
intense cold if it comes when they are
mature and dormant. We say, the
cold weather in February kills the
buds, when, in reality, the warm spell
in January was as much the cause. A
well-ripened bean will endure the
most extreme cold, but is quickly kill
ed if frozen before it ripens or after il
has germinated. The case is the Same
with peach buds. The crop may bt
ruined in the fall before the buds have
matured; warm weather may star
growth in mid-winter, and subsequent
cold kills the buds, or they may en-
dure the winter, start properly il
spring and be killed by late colo
spells.
A Natoma man divides time between
barber work and watch repairing. 4
number of years ago the local harnes.
maker acted as the village barber il
that town.
a couple of years ago Will Logan o
the State University Geological survey
made careful investigation and re
ported that there was no Indication o
the presence of valuable minerals il
General Artz's burrows out in Treg,