Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-19

condition n Kansas.
There is a business block in Law
renee that is held at s25, 600.
The late pears will soon be on the
market The trees are loaded and the
quality fine
Homegrown grapes are now on the
market and in another week they will
be very cheap.
The farmer near BeIoit who has a
Sc, 600 barn and $500 house must have
come from Lancaster county, Pa
Lawrence, which is hunting gas, has
prospect hole down three hundred
feet and pretty good vein of coal has
been pierced.
All the farmers are going to be
''plutes@ this fall There will be a
great migration to the Paris exposi-
ton next summer.
Nine is the lucky number instead of
eleven. In 1869. 1879, 1889 and 1899
there have been immense crops of
both wheat and corn.
Plenty of delicious grapes are now
on the Kansas markets. Kansas has
seen some big grape years, but this
year beats them all.
Edward Gi1lett. an eighteen-year-o1d
boy, was found dead in Pratt county
was kicked by horse.
No new political parties will be or
ganized in Kansas this fall. The
farmers will be too busily engaged in
the corn fields to give ear to the agi
tators.
Fred Buchan passed the regular
army examination with the highest
grades ever attained by a candidate
for a commission at Fort Leaven-
worth. His standing was ninety-eight
per cent.
Ed Learned, of Cowley county, sold
his farm for 81, 900 and has taken the
hard, bright, tickle cash to Arizona
with him to prospect for gold. Some
| body should chain him up and appoint
guardian.
A tenant on a farm in Franklin
| county who was given permission to
fell all the timber he wished, cut 600
walnut trees into props and sold them
at two cents apiece to the Usage coun-
ty coal miners.
A Hiawatha man has farm that he
has rented for sixteen years straight
at $3.50 a year without falling to re-
ceive every cent of the rent The
farm has more than paid for itself
with good interest.
The industrial commissioner of the
Santa Fe railroad says that Kansas
today is attracting more attention
than any other state in the union. In
this particular Kansas is the same yes
terday, today and forever.
It Is Kansas legend that annually
at this season Queen Victoria PAGES up
and down the ancestral halls of Wind
SCR castle demanding angrily to know
if her regular supply of Leavenworth,
Kansas, apples have arrived yet.
Too many cattle and horses are kill
ed by lightning while standing near
wire fences Why not prevent all this
loss and really make the pasture safer
with the wire than without? Connect
each wire at intervals to the ground
by a wire reaching the moist soil
The ground wire will conduct the
electricity during q thunder storm
from the fence to the ground. A fence
wire well grounded is as much proven.
ton as lightning rod is to a build
ing.
czeap 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 $40. So
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon S2s So. For particulars call
on or address, L. r DELANEY, Agt,
Wichita, Kans
Some of the papers along the line OF
the Central Branch are clamoring fol
a night passenger train, and the more
hopeful among them hint that il
would be the proper caper to include
a sleeper in the equipment
The general conditions of the wealth
er during the week have been warm
with good rains across the state, ex
> tending from the Southwestern
to the northeastern counties. DRY
weather continues in the southern
counties east of Clark, and in some O.
the central counties
The summers practice in the dia
mond is not altogether lost. So mucl
training of the muscles ought to in
crease the daily corn output in shuclz
ing time at least five bushels per day
: A prominent Kansas exchange truth
} fully remarks: A $50 teacher in tn,
district school is cheaper than the So
teacher. The $50 teacher works t.
/ earn the salary paid and the pupi
: reaps the reward. The S25 teache
2 has no salary to earn and as a conse
: quence does but little real work an,
the pupil does not advance.
The Santa Fe is equipping it's lin
4 with electric headlights, and will
s the first road in the United States t