Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-04-29

Kansas papers are Dragging now OF
the gilt-edged showing made by the
baEks
p Kansas man who deals in harness
advertises it as horse and mule mil
linery.
1t must make physician terribly
hot under the collar to see man who
owes him paying cash to some wander
ing fakir for bottle of dope.
One of the boys of the Twentieth in
a letter home says that as far as grub
is concerned there is not a day here
that we do not fare better than any
day at Camp Merritt"
Cherryvale feels particularly friend
ly to the smelter people because they
intend to macademize the streets in
their addition; and they are planting
shade trees along them, also.
Cheap Rates to Pacific Coast via Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe are selling tickets to
San Francisco. Los Angeles, San Diego
cheap rate OF s32. so.
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon SOS. s.. For particulars call
on or address, l. r. DELANEY, Agt.,
Wichita, Kans
Cheap Excursion Rates via Santa Fe Route.
State Encampment, G. a. r., Sons of
Veterans, Woman's Relief Corps, La
dies of G. A R. and Ladies Aid Socie-
ties, held at Hutchinson, Kansas, April
24-3O; one fare for the round trip
Tickets on sale April 24-97, good to re-
turn on and including May 1st
L. r. DELANEY, Agent.
Only S1.41. Only s1.41! Only s1.41!
Kansas Musical Jubilee, Kansas
State Sunday School Association,
Hutchinson, Kans. For these events
the Santa Fe will sell tickets to Hutch
inson and return for one fare-S1. Al
for the round trip. Tickets on sale
May s, 10 and May ID and 10. Good to
return until May 10 and May 90, 1899.
L. r. DELANEY, Agent.
Il
Great Santa Fe Route
On May Is, 16, Il and IS the Santa
Fe will sell tickets to San Francisco
and return on account of the National
Baptist Societies meetings at the rate
of one fare for the round trip-S60 90
limited for return to July 18th, 1899
The Santa Fe's California service is
unsurpassed, having two trains daily
from Wichita, leaving $3.50 a. m. and
7:1O p. m. L. r. DELANEY. Agt.
HOmeseekers' Excursion via Santa Fe
Route
For this occasion on May I'd and 16,
and June 9th and goth, the Santa Fe
will sell round trip tickets at the very
cheap rate of one fare for the round
trip plus 81. 90 to all points in Arlzan-
sas, Arizona, Indian territory and New
Mexico. These tickets will bear going
limit with stopover privileges of fifteen
days; final return limit twenty-one
days from date of sale. Before pur-
chasing tickets you will do well to call
on some representative of the road
reaches all points of importance-The
Great Santa Fe.
L r. DELANEY, Agt.
The wheat report shows that for the
state, the proportion sown, which from
the severe winter, long protracted de
lay of spring and other causes, now
seems failure and likely to be plow-
ed up or devoted to other crops, is &c
per cent. The conditions of the re-
mainder, or about 3, SIS, 216 acres, is 6S
per cent, 100 per cent being considered
perfect The area sown for 1899 was
about per cent greater than that for
1898. The report says: While on the
whole conditions might be more IA
vorable, they could be now, and have
been in other years, decided worse and
there is no occasion at this date for
fearing that Kansas will not in the
aggregate have a large output of win
ter wheat.
Every once in a while in reading the
papers of Kansas one sees an account
of the work done by some threshiDg
OuGuG CI1dG IL SIl1L RT1uuluS along LII
is almost time to begin to get the ma
chinery in readiness for the coming
harvest.
It is the deep wisdom of experience
which leads Kansas to keep her mouth
smut about crop prospects. For a good
many years Kansas cut monkey shines
for the amusement of the nation and
entirely forgot that she was injuring
herself
If the Kansas Wesleyan at Salina
succeeds in raising $40, 900 it will bring
them a gift of clean hundred thou
sand dollars; and the members of the
faculty believe that it can be done
Present conditions are favorable for
tasks of this nature.
Even if Erie does not get gas in the
quantity desired it is ahead of where
it stood before the drilling commenced.
In sinking the second well the drill
went through As feet of potter's clay
which the dril1er saws Is as fine as any