Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-10-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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new depot at Galena.
The Forty-fourth regiment has it's
full quota enlisted, and they are in
camp.
There are three Kansas men on the
University of Pennsylvania football
team this year.
Topeka sold its new auditorium bonds
to the state school fund They are
per cent bonds.
Rural free delivery service will be es-
tablished on October 9, at Pittsburg,
with two carriers
Grain Inspector Clark of Atchison has
been inspecting an average Of 20 cars a
day for some time.
A Topeka dealer says his sales amount
to 700 pianos this year, $50 being sold
In Shawnee county.
A corn stalk on exhibition at the Os-
borne county fair measured ten feet
from the ground to the first ear.
Peter Staabof Catherine, Ellis county,
says that the grasshoppers have taken
most of his 275 acres of new wheat.
The board of managers of the Nation
al Military Homes is at Leavenworth
looking into the K1ondilze matter.
George R. Peck, our George, is being
mentioned by Chicago papers as pos
sib1e candidate for governorof Illinois.
Leavenworth proposes to hold cele-
bration when the trolley line between
there and Kansas City is opened for
traffic.
Kansas hay stacks appear to be more
sociable this year than usual. At least,
they are standing closer together in the
fields than is customary.
There wasn't the rush to the Kansas
City show this fail that has formerly
been noticeable in Kansas; too many
good shows at home this season
There was a public sale in Wilson
county recently which amounted to
s1,10O, and only one note was given;
just tone little dinl1y note for s35.
1t is said that in 1880 corn was 80
cents bushel in Kansas; in 1890 it was
so cents, and a great many people ex-
pect to see the price high again in
1900.
The secretary of the state board of
horticulture has issued a report III
which it is shown that the apple crop
in Kansas this year will amount to AZ
per cent, per cent less than half a
crop.
Leavenworth, Kan, stands at the
head of American cities in the shipment
OF apples. Indeed more apples are
shipped from Leavenworth than from
any other point on either side of the
Atlantic ocean.
The Lydon Current Remark tells of a
man who recently sold 1,OOs head of
steers, receiving Sc per cwt. at home.
The stock filed fifty-nine cars and was
shipped direct to Europe, the total
value being $50, 900.
The banquet to be given to the Twen-
tieth Kansas will be held in the new
state library room in the capitol, the
handsomest room in the West. and
large enough to accommodate the entire
regiment and more.
The material is on the ground and
work has already commenced at the
Rock Island shops at Horton ON 800
new box cars which constitute the ad-
vance delivery of the order of 1 900 new
cars placed with these shops few days
ago.
Wichita's public schools opened with
3,04O, gain of 40 over the first month
of 1898.
James j. McEarlan, former postmas-
ter of Clyde, Kan, was arrested at his
home in Chicago, charged with embez-
element of government funds amount
ing to $465, for which he was recently
indicted by federal grand jury at To-
peLa.
The register at Kansas University
shows total 352 of native birds in
Kansas. OF this number Chancellor
Frank Snow has put Its of record
The people of Morland, Graham coun-
", give barbecue dinner to all visi-
Aors on the 10th Of October, the date be-
ing the twelfth birthday,of the place.
In many Kansas towns the board OF
education is kept rustling to keep up
with the increase in the juvenile popu-
lation in the matter of school facili-
ties.
Clowns may not be generally consid-
cred great railroad CENTER remarks
the Times, ''but forty-four trains went
in and out of town last Friday and Sat
urday."
State Bank Commissioner Brieden-
thai advises building and loan assOcia-
tions which cannot find borrowers for
their money now, to start savings banks
on a profit sharing basis. He says
there is nothing to prevent them from
loaning their funds on the monthly
payment plan.
It is expected that Andrew Carnegie
will soon give $4,000 for library
building for EmporiA College, and $50
900 for an endowment for special reli.
gious library for the use of Calvanistic
ministers all over the West