Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-05
,ocery peddlers are working Usage

Everybody in Topeka is buying shale
land in Trego county. but nobody viii
admit it
The Kansas women who were sought
by Colonel Ingersoll and who refused
him are now beginning to be heard
from.
From here and there in Kansas come
reports of fields of wheat that meas
ured 80 bushels to the acre: not many,
though.
The wounded Kansas soldiers are in
San Francisco. on their way home
They will be given a grand reception
when they arrive.
The difference between the corn
crop of this year and of 1889 is that
the farmers this year have granaries
in which to store it.
It is estimated by some toiling stat
istician that it will take railroad
train 1, 900 miles long to haul out Kan
sas' corn crop this fall.
The Dickinson county child who
swallowed glass of kerosene by mis-
take is not likely to be troubled with
mosquitoes for the remainder of the
season.
State Senator R. T. Andrews of Par
dee has adopted four children from
the Soldiers Orphan home-two boys
and two girls, and he says he wants
few more.
The state house grounds at Topeka
have been made to blossom like the
rose, and the inside of the capitol
looks a good deal Less like junk shop
than it used to.
The Leavenworth woman who ask
ed the court to grant her separation
from her husband and to restore to
her the name of Costing must have
been very unhappy.
Bob Ingersol1 may be having an ex-
perience with extreme temperature,
but it is nothing compared to the man
who one of these days is compelled to
ride ten miles between two hedge rows
on country road in Kansas.
A Kansas soldier by way of illus
trating the civilizing influences that
are at work in Manila, says that when
the city surrendered to the Americans
there was not a saloon on the main
street of the city, but that five months
later he counted 432.
Several Fort Scott boys who left
there a year and a half ago for the
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are bringing back no gold, but feel
thankful that they are permitted to
get away alive, as they went through
some terrible experiences in their
| hunt for wealth.
The Independence brick plant is now
giving employment, directly and in
| directly, to about one hundred men in
working at the plant and getting out
commence in a few days on another
permanent up-draft kiln with a capac-
ity of ESQ, 900 brick This will be the
third kiln of this kind
Near Admire and Allen many hogs
are dying and it is thought they
are suffer- ng with fever, but to the
southwark six or seven miles the dis
ease is pronounced hog cholera, and is
increasing rapidly. Several farmers,
not understanding the disease, in
stead of burying the animals, have
carried them to rayines or woods and
left them. Other hogs carried the
disease from place to place, scattering
it in hog yards over large territory.
Cheap Rates to Pacific Coast via Santa Fe
The Santa Fe are selling tickets tc
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
cheap rate OF $50. so.
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon S28. s.. For particulars call
on or address, l. r. DELANEY, Agt,
Wichita, Kans
The various committees of the Ole
Settlers association of Marshall coun-
ty, are preparing for grand reunion
August 16, II, Is and 10 They viii
celebrate the twenty-irst birthday o:
the association this year.
| IL Is Nv GnaG d1E-Sldck
ed lime, sprinlzled around a field O
corn, will deter the chinch bugs from
invading it. It only takes about +;
bushel to go around quarter, and i
it accomplishes the work as well as i
is claimed, it is cheap shut-out fo
pests.
} The rainy season seems to have in
terfered with the congressional hostil
tiles in the First Kansas district
State Treasurer Grimes has issued
call for the state warrants outstanding
and marked mot paid for want o
funds" There are about $500, 600 o
them held by outstanding parties am
the treasurer now proposes to tax
them up. He has enough money to d
: it He will not have to go to stamp
: ing warrants again until about Octo
) ber There is certain to be a defcien
CIV by that time, however.
: The corn crop IN Kansas this yea
: will compel the farmers to exchang
: their cabinet organs for Steinwa