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

Cigarette smoking is prohibited in
the postofice building at Beloit.
Wellsville Baptists raised $3.50 at the
recent dedication of their church and
are out Of debt.
The Kansas papers had better run
of Christmas advertising this year
than ever before.
It is difficult in the whole state to
find single woman who believes that
John Collins was guilty.
The up-to-date Presbyterians of Bur
lingame had Ferris wheel in place Of
the old fashioned Christmas tree.
W. b. Haskell of Gaylord feeds
daily 500 worth of corn to cattle and
hogs he is fitting up for the market a
little later on.
The people of Humboldt have a
grievance. The claim is made that the
town is persistently misrepresented by
every other town within the limits of
the gas district
An Ellsworth county stock man was
the streets Of the county seat the other
day an eighteen months old bull that
weighed 1885 pounds.
Christmas day there was rumor all
over Kansas. that John Collins had
committed suicide. The rumor was
broadcast simply because it occurred
to people in widely distanced places to
tell the same lie.
1t is all right, of course. to class
Kansas as a prairie state, but in the
vicinity of Cummings, a small town in
Atchison county, three saw mills are
in operation, and they are not working
on sunflowers either.
The insurance companies are now
fighting against putting up the money
on the policies of Kimmel, the Arkan-
sas City banker who completely disap-
peared. Do the insurance companies
ever pay WITHOUT a growl?
j. C. Lewis, of Santa Fe, is another
man who will agree that there are too
many worthless dogs in Kansas. He
had a valuable brood SOW that was
chased, worried and bitten by dogs I'M
til she died from the effects of it.
The able old sport of the Ellsworth
Reporter notes as another evidence of
prosperity that the ante in Kansas
poker games is higher this year than
for long time. This, however, will
not appeal with any great degree of
. I.
kind of spots on his cards
Harry Allen advises the young man
who is tempted to become an Office
seeker to take trip to Topeka and
watch the surging crowd who are
'safter something" 1t is fact that
the sight of this push has a tendency
to cause the man who has job he can
hold to feel contented with his lot.
The hog has received great many
kicks and curses in his day but he has
gone right along peacefully grunting
and converting almost any kind of old
cast off and refuse food into pork and
the pork into money to pay mortgages,
build houses and barns and buy pianos
and other 1uxuries for his numerous
friends.
Thanks to the generosity of the peo-
pie of Atchison, says the Globe, the
inmates of the Orphans Home had the
most successful Christmas treat this
year in the history of the institution
There are 228 children in the home
and each one received at least three
presents, aside from almost unlimited
amounts of nuts, candy and pop corn.
Out in western Kansas it is not an
uncommon thing for residents of the
country to put their horses up at a
livery stable, and then take their own
nights rest in a burrow in the hay
now A 1iveryman at Hoxie says that
he has no objections to this plan, but
he does think it is a shanty trick for a
man to put up his team at a rival barn
and then come to his place for hay
NOW lodging.
A great deal of roaring has been
heard in Kansas on account of 'shard
times" On account of two crop fail
ures in succession in a province in
China, thousands and thousands OF
people are dying of starvation, the
death rate having reached $50 in one
day from this cause. Kansans should
thank the Lord that never yet have
they been up against hard times OF
this nature The inability to get the
best there is in the market, with thea
ter tickets at will, starts the cry o:
.'hard times" with two many Kan
sans.
A lot of ''hard-working" men, bar.
tenders, etc, have been thrown out OF
employment in Allen county recently
by their employers being placed in
Jail Thus the cruel arm of the Law
takes bread out of the mouth of the
'spoor but honest" man.
The Wichita Eagle says: Collins die
not FIRE the shots which killed hi:
father No mans brain is constructed
IN a way to allow him to kill another
for the assination of whom he had at
tempted to hire others who had proved
themselves tn him unreliable