Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-03-11


Everybody seems anxiously await
the coming of spring.
The Kansas colored troops will soon
be quartered at Fort Leavenworuh
again.
A Dickinson county man manufac-
lures merry-go-rounds and shooting
gallery outfits.
A Ness county man last week caught
a big bald eagle in a trap he had set
out for coyotes.
Il il very seldom you see snow
in this state in the month of March,
but we got one this year.
A number of residents of hutchinson
will take a trip through Europe next
summer. The project is being steered
by men who have covered the ground
before.
Kansas is further south than most
people suppose. It is gradually in the
southern part taking on southern
dishes Chilli is used extensively in
southern Kansas, as are tamales-
Louis Strohle, a single man living
near Manchester, o. T., has committed
suicide on his claim. His mind was
disordered and he claimed that his
neighbors had poisoned his we'll He
shot himself in the temple. His par
ents live at Nickerson, Kan.
The collection of bills for threshing
wheat, after the product has been mar
keted, is one of the problems which
ern part of the state To remedy this
difficulty Representative Beezley pre-
sented a bill providing that charges
for threshing should constitute a. lien
upon the grain
A man at Hutchinson is attempting
to establish wagon yard and the
farmers are bowling. The wagon
yard is southern. Farmers are expect
ed to drive into the yard and pay for
the use of it. It has crept northward
through Oklahoma. into Kansas. In
Kansas the custom has been to tie in
front of the grocery store.
Twelve prominent citizens of Els
worth county have returned from
Wyoming where they were inspecting
copper mine in which they interest
ed. Owing to the snow and stormy
weather they were compelled to
abandon an inspection of their proper
ty but will return north again soon.
They are confident of making rich
strike
Orders have been received by the
officials of the United States peniten-
tiary at Fort Leavcnworth not to adj
nit any more prisoners from Indian
and Oklahoma territories while small
pox exists in that country. Prisoners
sentenced to the federal penitentiary
will be held in the territories until all
danger of the dreadful disease is over
before being transferred.
Mankato wants to have public Ii
brary. The people of that town think
that if Cawker can support one, they
certainly ought to be able to do SO. If
there are as many hustling ladies in
Mankato as there are in Cawker the
project will go all right. The bulk of
| the credit for maintaining the excel
| lent library which for years has been
| the boast of Cawker belongs to the
ladies of that town.
A western Kansas man melted his
rollers while trying to warm them
into condition for use during the cold
spell. The ordinary reader may not
appreciate what an accident like this
amounts to in country print shop.
| A printer with his rollers melted has
the same cheerful layout in view that
/ confronts a shipwrecked sailor cast
ashore on a barren crag with no grub.
no clothes, no whisky, no hope.
The Advocate claims that Mankate
is freer from cigarettes than any othe2
town of its size in the state. Be is said
to the everlasting credit of the plaza
Clinton Irwin, the new judge Of Oh.
lahoma is fat and Irish. He viii
probably get into the swim at oncs,
remarks prominent Kansas newsro-
per.
The Twentieth kans as, which h2s
been doing the butt of the fighting
around Manila, got the butt end of tie
joshing given the troops before they
left this county.
A Brown county man says thct
chickens that roost in catalpa trees
will not be troubled with mites The
man who volunteers this information
has catalpa trees to sell.
Letters from Kansas boys telling OF
the fight in the Philippines ought to
begin to show up before long. There
have been some mighty interesting
letters from there published in the
Kansas papers, but those telling of the
fight in which the lads of the Tween.
tieth were mixed up will be the ban.
ner ones of all.
A man struck Alton last week fol
the purpose of opening a joint. He
complains, however, that it is useless