Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-07-29

there are prisoners in that institu-
tion.
Enough Kansas soldiers have been
wounded in the Philippines to I'LL
one Office in each county in the state
of Kansas
The letters from the Kansas boys in
Manila were not being withheld. They
are now arriving, and are printed in
large numbers
If there is anything in good wishes,
Mrs. Hanback, will make great sue
cess as superintendent of the Indus
trial school at Beloit
While excavating for the foundas
lions for bridge in Russell county,
workmen ran across vein of camel
coal foot in thickness
Wathena is literally advertising the
first annual assembly of her midsum-
mer Chautauqua 1t will be in pro-
gress July % to August 6.
The people of Labette county paid
$3.50 for feeding prisoners in the
county Jail during the month of June,
and 1924 to run the poor farm.
One argument in favor of mastering
the Kansas boys out of service at San
Francisco is that General Funstons
travel pay would be 81, 525. &c.
Nobody will doubt that Ottawa is
just the place for Cbautauqua since
a baker at that place filed an order
for 500 cookies in forty-fve minutes.
It is proper for the towns in Kansas
to initiate Kansas City in everything,
with the exception of permitting the
growth of weeds within the municipal
limits.
It has been discovered that IA of the
ordinances of the city of Marquette
are void for the reason that errors
were made in preparing them for pub
LEGATION.
It will be all right to hold a celebra-
ton at Topeka in 1904 in honor of tho
fftieth anniversary of the organize
tion of the state of Kansas, but it will
take money,
Captain Cuchan, of Shawnee county,
who recently passed an examination
for commission in the regular army
made good grades His general aver
age was 95 per cent.
An Atchison bride went to see sick
man who couldn't come to her we'd
ding, before she changed her bridal
gown. The invalid was almost as
glad to see the wedding fnery as the
bride was to display it.
Cheap Rates to Pacific Coast via Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe are selling tickets to
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
and other California points at the very
cheap rate OF $50. so.
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon S28. IS. For particulars call
on or address, l. R DELANEY, Agt.,
Wichita, Kans,
There is chance for some Kansas
town to get scoop on ali the others
by laying off a golf course. At pres
ent Kansas is almost entirely without
''hazards,' but few could easily be
made.
The increase in the deposits in the
367 Kansas state and private banks
since last March is y million dollars.
The national bank deposits have in
erased an equal amount. This is the
heaviest increase in bank deposits in
the history of the state.
Kansas pays the warden of her pen
itentiary So. 500 per annum out of
which comes his living expenses, and
her penitent1ary contains $40 convicts.
Illinois pays the warden of the Joliet
penitentiary, with 1900 prisoners in
his keeping, So, 500 and provides his
living. Minnesota, with $50 convicts,
gives the warden of the saltwater
prison a salary of $1,000 and his liY-
ing.
Work has been commenced on Vest
moreland's railroad There have been
SO many discouragemeHts connected
with this enterprise that there will be
genuine ha1lelujah time when the
road reaches the capital of Pottawa-
tonne county.
Nearly every Kansas man who sits
out on the back porch and watches a
thunderstorm with the ragged light
ming tearing the air all around him,
believes that if he is going to be struck
he will be struck and that's an end to
it
A Cherokee county youth lost 81 on
the paddock graft few days ago. This
is the same old scheme that nearly
caused riot in the ark the third day
out from port, but it seems to work
pretty well yet.
If the Marshall county farmer who
found big balloon in his cornfeld
| will con7esG il into tarpaulin to COW
er over his threshing machine, and
| will not yield to the overwhelming
temptation to give exhibitions in
aerial navigation, no harm will be
done.
The free mail delivery at Manhattan
will do away with the excuse which
the girls and boys have hitherto had