Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-07-01

CACCSC AdCGOEy
There is talk of having two tele-
phone systems in Lawrence.
Within six months telephone ex-
change will be in operation at Phil
ipsburg.
The cost of the new Jail at Yelling
ton, exclusive of plumbing and cell
work, will be s12,457
Church members at Ottawa are pre-
pairing to stir up renewed interest in
the cause of temperance.
During the month of May Lindsborg
handled 179 car loads of freight. not
counting over 200 tons which was il
less than car lots.
The court of visitation has nothing
to do. Yet six months ago the rail-
roads were scared to death for fear the
court would do them.
Even if the boys of the Twentieth
there will be hot time in the old
state when they do arrive.
A special agent of the postoffice de-
partment will visit Ellsworth county
soon, and a rural free mail delivery
route may be put in operation.
A real estate dealer from Iowa who
visited Jewell county recently was
greatly mashed on the country. Moth
ing strange about it, though.
The merchants of Spring Hill have
arranged for weekly band concerts
this summer; and Spring Hill is only
a small place of six or seven hundred
inhabitants.
Prof. Dyche will soon start for the
Pacific coast, where he Will put in a
couple of months collecting sea birds.
The birds may just as well come down.
They're gone, sure.
The Cudahys have placed an order
with the Coffeyville Brick and Tile
company for nine million brick to be
used in the construction of their new
packing plant at Kansas City.
Kansas is so big that people in one
end of the state pay very little atten-
ton TO the people in the other end.
Western Kansas is scarcely aware of
the strike that is going on in eastern
Kansas.
Another whack at the liberties Of
man: At Randall the council passed
an ordinance designed to put a quietus
on the boxing club that was carried
h. s h.
of that town.
Notices of deaths by drowning have
| been quite frequent in the Kansas ex-
changes of late. There is a facination
about swimming during time of high
water, but a harvest of deaths is al
ways the result.
Coffeyville's paper mill now has a
capacity of five tons day. The man
agement will expend SO, COO in making
additions and improvements, and when
! this work is comp eted the capacity of
| the plant will be doubled
| Fort Scott will probably be able to
show more cash from dog tax payments
| than any other town in the state. The
amount now is 1925. One man down
there is going into court to test the
validity of the ordinance He says
that Re has a right to keep a dog as
| protection against burglars; that his
taxes amount to S130 a year, and he
has no police protection, as he is new
er able to get policeman when he
| teleDhOnes for one
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 $40. so.
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon S28. IS. For particulars call
on or address, L. R DELANEY, Agt.,
Wichita, Kans
postponed their picnic and drawing
from June 81 and 2s to July and 4,
and will unite with the citizens il
celebrating the Fourth by having
their drawing at that time.
An attempt is being made at How
ard to raise fund with which to hire
the band to give concerts this summer
Other Kansas towns are trying to dc
the same thing. The scheme should
carry AS a rule the pleasure band
affords its town is away beyond the
encouragement it gets for its efforts.
A young man living at Bentley tool
his girl out riding the other day. She
fell out of the buggy and he drove OF
, a mile before he missed her. He mus
have been fearfully in love with the
young lady.
At Phillipsburg the city council
. passed an ordinance fixing the licens'
/ of merry-go-rounds at from 81 to SIS
| day. The proprietor of one of thes
: whirling machines who is doing an,
t kind CT bushes at all can pay the lat
ter figure and then not be obliged t,
miss any meals.
l a band has been organized at tn
! state penitentiary. 1t ought to be
good one in time as none of its mem
t bers will move away.