Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-05-06

oregon S2SSo For particulars call
on or address, L. r. DELANEY, Agt-,
Wichita, Kans
Only S1.41! Only S1.41! Only S1.41!
Kansas Musical Jubilee, Kansas
State Sunday School Association,
Hutchinson, Kans- For these events
the Santa Fe will sell tickets to Hutch
for the round trip. Tickets on sale
May s, 10 and May Is and 10. Good to
return until May IL and May 20, 1899
/. r. DELANEY, Agent.
New Stories of Washington
Paul Leicester Ford, the historian
and novelist. has gathered together
from various sources a number of new
stories of Washington, and publishes
them in the May Ladies' Home Jour
nal as THE Anecdotal Side of George
Washington. All the stories are cap
italy told. and together they reveal
the characteristics of the great Ameri-
can in a most interesting and impress
sive manner.
Excursion to San Francisco, Cal, via the
Great Santa Fe Route
On May Is, 16, Il and Is the Santa
Fe will sell tickets to San Francisco
and return on account of the National
Baptist Societies meetings at the rate
of one fare for the round trip-$6O. o.
limited for return to July 18th, 1899.
The Santa Fe's California service is
unsurpassed, having two trains daily
from Wichita, leaving $50 a. m. and
7:1O P. ID. L. r. DELANEY, Agt.
Homeseekers' Excursion via Santa Fa
Route.
For this occasion on May I'd and 16,
and June 9th and goth, the Santa Fe
will sell round trip tickets at the very
cheap rate of one fare for the round
trip plus ST. 90 to all points in Arkan-
sas, Arizona. Indian territory and New
Mexico These tickets will bear going
limit with stopover privileges of fifteen
days; final return limit tweAty-one
days from date of sale. Before pur-
chasing tickets you will do well to call
on some representative of the road
reaches all points of importance-The
Great Santa Fe.
L. r. DELANEY. Agt.
A Minnesota insurance company
which wanted to do business in Kan
sas, claiming to insure against chinch-
bugs, drouth and hot winds, has been
barred from the state.
A special from Oberlin, Kans.. says:
Last year many new settlers came to
Northwestern Kansas This year, SO
far, many more have come. Many of
those who left during the dry years
just preceding 1895 are returning and
reestabl:shing themselves on their old
homesteads, which they then abandon.
ed
At Bendena, Doniphan county, the
pupils got mad at the teacher and all
quit school. The teacher goes to the
school house every day and rings the
bell, but no one comes The school
| board has offered him half pay to
quit but he won't do it.
Becoming tired of being worked"
the commissioners of Pottawatomie
county have decided that no aid will
| hereafter be given to paupers in the
various townships. Those unable to
care for themselves will be properly
cared:for at the county poor farm
The alumni of the school of exper-
fence known as Kansas is strictly mar
velous Mr.. Haines. the young man
! who last Fourth of July delivered the
main address at the American embassy
/ in Berlin, was from Kansas
| Kansas farmers say that there will
| be quite bit of fruit produced in the
| state this season, notwithstanding the
report to the contrary There will be
a full crop OF cherries, grapes and ber-
ries. and a good many apples. pears
and peaches. There will also be big
! crop of plums.
] lola believes now that the point has
been reached where it will not be nee
essary to put up bonus for the pur-
pose of landing new enterprises The
. town never did do much business On
this plan
Governor Stanley has refused to
consider the pardon of Willie Sells, an
| inmate of the state penitentiary, con-
victed of the murder of his father.
mother, brother and sister in Neosha
county The applications for pardon
carry with them no evidences of the
innocence OF Sells