Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-09-23
Jewell county is yelling for cars

the bridge of the ship while far out at
sea.
Jewell county is yelling for cars to
carry away the corn on hand.
Republic county is to have a corn
jubilee at Belleville the first week in
October.
The registration at the Kansas uni
versity has already passed the 800
mark
Secretary Luther Nellis of the Sons
of the American Revolution is at work
on history of the Kansas branch of
the order.
The book of Kansas biography which
Fill p. Wilson and Frank c. Montgom-
cry are getting up will be published
about January /.
Twelve counties produced one-third
of all the beef cattle in the state last
year. They were Butler, Chase, Green
wood, Jewell, Lyon, Marshall, Nema-
ha, Usage, Ottawa, Pottawatomie, Wa
baunsee and Washington.
Jacob II. Close of Phillipsburg has
discovered what he believes to be
rich deposit of fire clay and emery
near that place and is making scien-
tific investigation concerning the min
eral.
E. b. Human, of Pittsburg, has re
ceived from his old home a trunk made
by his father and carried by him &c
California and back in the days of 40.
The trunk is covered with untanned
salfskin and lined with copies of the
"Anti-Masonic Intelligence" of the
date of 1929.
The new shelving for the state liz
brarY in the state house in Topeka,
will accommodate $50, 900 books. There
are now in the library about $4,000
volumes of all kinds, besides 2,7OO vol
umes in the travelling library; so it is
seen that, as contemplated, the Kan
sas state library will have room to
grow in its new quarters.
The returns of assessors to the Kan
sas board of agriculture show the acre
age of kaffir corn to be At, 152 acres, or
about 9per cent greater than last year.
Milo maize and Jerusalem corn, nom
saccharine sOrghums near kin to kiffir
corn and of no mean value, have for
four years past steadily declined in
acreage, the former about one-half and
the latter from $4,000 to 3,715 acres.
C. w. Southwark is a heavy sheep
feeder. He will feed 16, OOO. head this
year near Derby. During the six
months when feeding will be in pro-
gress he expects to use the immense to-
tai of between 10000 and 10000 bush
els of Sedgwick county corn. In addi-
ton he will feed fully 500 tons of hay,
kaftir corn and sorghum in fattening
his sheep. In March he will market
them at Kansas City and Chicago.
A Scandal councilman recently sent
In his resignation and accompanied it
with a check for $25 with which to pay
the expenses of an election to fill the
vacanc%
The Twenty-frst Kansas regiment
will probably invest in tablet bearing
the names of the dead of the regiment,
and place it in the state house. The
regiment has $500 left of the funds con
tributed by the people of Kansas fol-
the sick of the regiment, and this mon
ey will probably be used for the tab
let.
The commissioners of Jewell county
will put in fourteen new steel bridges
in that county this fall.
Central and northern Kansas is be
coming net work of telephone wires
Almost every town has it's exchange
and is connected with all the surround
ing towns.
When the Boyd cadets of Topeka re
turned from the Philadelphia encamp
ment, they were met at the Rock Island
depot by 5000 people and escorted tc
Lincoln post hall, where reception
was held.
Superintendent Williams of the Kan
sas institute for the education of the
blind, with q corps of mechanics, ha:
been at work for month making re
pairs to the institute. The ground:
and buildings have been put in first
Class condition. The sanitary condi
ton of the buildings has been greatly
improved
The board of regents of the State
agricultural College has practically de
cided to let E. &. Nichols, the temper
airy president of the college. run the in
stitution this coming school year.
Among the noted speakers who viii
be present at the Kansas state reunion
is General Albert D. Shaw of New
York, the newly elected commander
in-chief. He is said to be one of tn,
most able speakers in the country.
The Friends University at WIGHT;
has opened its second year with tire
times the number of students it ha'
last year.
The bonded indebtedness OF the Ellis
y~orth county school districts has beel
reduced in the past four years from $40,
go to 81, 100.