Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-02-25
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

LHd6 BIC was SIdO 10 see Lie 4SSlSld-
ture had come out for prohibition
The eloquent Senator Beveridge of
Indiana is not the only'one of that
name who can lift up his voice and
get the people to coming his way. An
auctioneer by the name of Beveridge
lives in Marshall county, and he has
similar success.
Leavenworth is contemplating a new
plan for dealing with the bad pupils
at the public school who play hockey.
disobey orders, steal and cause trouble
in other ways. All such pupils will be
sent to school by themselves, under
one teacher, and to be known as a
school for incorrigibles. The plan
will cost the board about $50 month
extra, but will weed out all the bad
pupils in Other rooms and remove bad
examples from pupils naturally in
:iined to be good.
Excursion Rates via Santa Fe Route.
On Jan. II and Feb. and 81, March
2 and 81, the Santa Fe will sell round
trip tickets at the very cheap rate OF
one fare plus 81. 100 to all points in
Arkansas, Arizona, Indian Territory,
New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
These tickets will bear going limit,
with stop-over privileges of fifteen
days, final return limit 81 days from
date of sale. Before purchasing tick
do, To
representative of the road that reaches
all points of Importance 1.-The Great
Santa Fe."
w. j. BLACK, 6. P. A,
Topeka, Kans.
In the fruit industry the waste Of
ten consumes the profits. An inoppor-
tune rain or wind at the time when
the fruit Is just ripening often ruins
the hopes and anticipations of whole
year. The failure to use the right
kind of a package and to make the
fruit look its best in it often degrades
the quality in the estimation of the
buyer from first to second class with
the corresponding reduction of price.
The crowded market of Saturday Of
ten leaves on hand of the grower few
crates of berries which are worthless
when the me- rl1et ripens on the follow
ing week. The insects somehow find
their way to the fruit and just at the
time when it should ripen we find that
1t is ruined. Nine cases out of ten of
failure in the fruit business comes
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Reduced Rates via Santa Fe Route.
For annual meetings Grand Lodge
A. F. & A. NJ, Grand Chapter r. A. NJ.
and Grand Council, r. & S. NJ. of Kan
sas, held at Leavenworth, Kans., Feb.
1918, 1899. The Santa Fe will sell
tickets at one fare for the round trip.
Tickets on sale Feb. Ills, good to re-
turn until Feb. IS, 1899.
Annual convention Kansas State
Temperance Union held at Topeka,
Kans, Feb. rs. Fare and one-third
Route, certificate to be signed by Mr..
Z. e. Stephens, secretary, 7O3 jackson
street, Topeka, Kans.
Annual meeting Kansas Common
wealth Institute held at Topeka, Kan.
Feb. 5-13. Fare and one-third on GER
tifcate plan from points in Kansas,
certificate to be signed by Mrs. Annie
L. Diggs, State Librarian, Topeka, Ks
w. ]. BLACK, G. P. A,
Topeka, Kansas
Some one has started the green-eyed
rumor that the Santa Fe will soon re-
place its present workmen on the
western division with japanese labor.
Newton will enter the contest for
the location of a branch insane asy
lum. The Commercial club has taken
up the matter and has appointed a
committee which will go to Topeka
and look over the situation and deter.
mine what steps should be taken.
The committee will urge the central
location of Newton and it's excellent
railroad connection.
The present Kansas legislature will
appropriate something like four mil
lion dollars. All Wichita asks is a lit
tie old $50, 900 for Normal school and
is liable to be turned down.
1t is officially announced that the
Missouri Pacific railway company has
purchased the Central Branch lines
west of Waterville. There has been
considerable talk that the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe company had
bought the property. The Missouri
Pacific has been operating the lines
for IS years under lease.
Tomlinson was suppose to have been
selected for warden for the peniten-
tiary. Something has happened, the
turntab1e has revolved and it is now
said that Skinner of Cowley county is
in the race again with chance to sue
coed.
The cuttings of many of the plant:
to be used in the flower garden sh oul6
be rooted during the months of Feb
ruary and March. Geraniums mad,
during these months should be cover
ed with blooms during the summe
months if they are given proper care
Hereafter whenever an American
expedition is being fitted out to go t.