Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-05-13

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A Frankfort real estate dealer says
that within three weeks his aggregate
sales amounted to thirty-four thousand
dollars.
There is more than glory in being
promoted from colonel to brigadier
general The pay is $4,000 year bet
ter.
An Elk county man cashed in nine
wolf scalps just a few days before the
new bounty law went into effect, and
lost just 81. so by being in hurry, as
the scalps bring dollar now, against
so cents formerly.
Judging from the numerous adver-
tisements in the Kansas papers offer
ing money to loan the country is in no
danger of a lack Of money with which
to do business.
A Rossvil1e man has sent to the Phil
ippine islands for a swarm of bees. It
is said that the bees of the Philippines
up a particularly good brand of honey
at rapid rate.
If Mr. Curtis, of the Chicago Record,
could see all the nice things the Kan
sas papers are saying about him since
the Record began the publication of
his Kansas letters he would want to
come out here again.
Each week over car load of eggs is
shipped from Wilson, an Ellsworth
county town of less than l 200 inhabi-
tants. The business of Kansas town
can not be judged by its size. 1t all
depends on the country surrounding
it.
A Smith Center man who took a
good deal of pride in keeping an ac-
curate weather report has given it up
because he was continually being call
ed on to bring his records into court
for the purpose of showing just what
kind of weather prevailed on some
particular day.
Hereafter boys will not be obliged
to wear their young lives away turn
ing old grindstones. Barring the old
fashioned churn the grindstone
brought more grief into the life of a
farmer boy than anything else. But
now the grindstone has been fitted
with bicycle attachment. The boy
can sit il a regulation saddle, place
his feet on the pedals and pump away,
and if he will only close his eyes, he
can almost imagine that he is skim
ming along the road on a rubber-tired
flyer; almost, but not quite.
At the last conference of the miners
and operators of the Pittsburg district
several Of the operators agreed not to
ship any coal into the territory of the
stiking miners until settlement can
be effected. A resolution was adopted
that all miners, officials and operators
present at the the meeting ask the op-
orators whose miners are on a strike
in the Indian Territory, by a joint
letter, to meet the miners officials in a
conference in that city to discuss and
settle, if possible, the existing differ
enceS.
The members of the G. A. r. de-
partment of Kansas, living west of the
center of population of said state, feel
that in years past they have been
sighted by the department officers
and have been left to shift for them
selves And during all that time have
had the ''short grass" business heaped
upon them partly humorously-often-
er scandalously-and belonging to a
class who live by depending upon
them, have agreed that the only way
by which they can attend reunion is
to have one of their own and have con-
shall take in for its territory all that
part of Kansas lying west of a line
running north and south, east of
Dickinson county.
A great many of the spring gradu-
ates are taking whack at the expan-
sion problem
The fact that Galena man one day
this week fell to the bottom of fifty
foot shaft while carrying a GROWER of
beer and did not spill drop, will be
heralded to the world as an illustra-
ton of the tenacious grip a man in a
| prohibition state maintains on some
thing to drink when he gets it in his
possession; but the incident really IL
Illustrates the faculty that the man
from Kansas has of falling on his feet
Kansas can establish pretty stiff
! interstate commerce now if it wants
to, by shipping its surplus supply OF
cyclone cellars to Missouri.
A vast acreage of corn has been
planted this spring. The farmers ex-
pect big corn crop this year. Many
of the farmers expert big crop this
season.
Evidently that Kansas man accused
of operating a moonshiner's still is not
onto the ways of the state. A still is
not necessary in the manufacture OF
whisky which is sold in Kansas.
W. 81. Haskell, the Gaylord man
who feeds corn, ships cattle and makes
money in several different ways, has