Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-04-15
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

April 4th Kansas was visited by a
general rain.
P. c. Phelps, living in the neignbor-
hood of Irving, has 40 tons of broom
corn-something very few men in this
country hold-which he will soon put
on the market.
Major Metcalf of the twentieth Kan
sas, has been wounded. Metcalf was
good soldier in time of pace, and it
seems he is keeping up his reputation
in time of war.
There is an apiary at Syracuse from
which ten to fifteen tons of honey are
taken annually. The bees who do
this work must get their supply from
alfalfa fields.
A farmer in Barton county put out
some poisoned corn for the purpose of
killing prairie dogs A pigeon ate
some of the doped stuff and died.
Then performing dog belonging to a
show devoured the pigeon and the
show is short dog valued at one hun
dred dollars.
The Atchison Globe says that al
legged fatal errors have been found in
the city court laws. which, it is said
will make them valid, The word
county is used where court is in
tended. authorizing the governor to
appoint a Judge and d clerk of the
county instead of the court.
Archie Hogg, a graduate of the
Marysville high school, class of 90
afterwards a graduate of the state
university. and for some time private
secretary to the chancellor of the uni
versity, has been appointed assistant
professor of philosophy and will teach
psychology and logic at the state uni
versity.l
Superintendent Church of the insur
ance department has admitted to do
business in this state the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance company which
was barred from Kansas by Webb Nc
Nall because the company refused to
settle it's part of the Hillmon claims.
The company paid $3.50 fees and taxes
before being accorded license by the
department.
Many of the Kansas lads in writing
from Manila speak with feelings of
mingled shame. sorrow and disgust of
the California volunteer who deserted
and was killed on the field of battle
with lot of Filipino comrades of his
own choosing. His conduct is hard
for them to understand. There will
be no stain of this kind on the record
of the boys OF the Twentieth.
Aspecial from Newton, Kansas, says:
A large amount of cotton is being
transferred in this city. 1t is shipped
here from southern Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas, and is transferred here
into empty refrigerator cars and sent
to San Francisco, where it is loaded
on the steamers and shipped to Japan.
During the past winter months 4se
cars of cotton have been transferred
here.
A fine old piopeer woman died il
Sumner county the other day at the
age of So, after living with her hus
band just siXty-one years. Her name
was Mary Peters Pennington. Sht
was the mother of fifteen children, o
whom fourteen lived to maturity anC
en- now survive her. She leaves il
Kansas thirty-one grandchildren an'
sixteen great grandchildren. In tn
war of the rebellion her husband AM
three sons carried Union muskets, ant
two of the sons were left dead upol
the battlefield.
Seven hundred guests were expected
at the recent democratic banquet, ant
eleven hundred attended. This seem
to be genuine case of ''seven conn
eleven
The state board of charities ha
practically decided to make Mrs. Lew
is Hanback,. of Argentine, matron Q
the Topeka insane asylum. This plac
pays $1,000 year. Mrs. Han back
the widow of Lewis Hanback,, one O
the loyal Kansans identified with tn
early settlement and development @
the state.
y DonipflaE county farmer is Gale
Hobson because when his wagon GO
stuck in the mud at narrow place i
the road he unhitched his mules an
allowed his craft to sink down to har
pan.
The different kinds of grief on thi
earth have never yet been enumerated
but one of the most poignant is tina
which steals over man who hs
plowed up field of wheat thought
be winter-kiiled, and then sees h
neighbors' fields come out in goo
shape.
Every town in Kansas has a ma
who claims to have kept count of til
number of snow storms of the winte
but no two within twenty miles
each other have the same record.
Mrs. Phoebe Ber, the superinten
ent of the girls industrial school
Beloit, has not been disturbed sin,
the new administration took chare
of affairs, and there is a rumor tn;
she will be retained, for some time
least, if not permanently. She is sa