Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-04-01

All of the insane of Harvey county
are now inmates of state institutions
Erie gas hunters were 1uckier than
most of the driliers- They struck gas ,
in the first hole sunk.
Arbor day will be here soon In
Kansas every day in the proper season
for tree planting should be considered
Arbor day.
Because'of the burning of the skat-
ing rink at Lawrence swell functions
will be held at one of the stock build
ings at Bismarck Grove.
Two decent Topeka girls, very young
and very pretty, were enticed away
from home by Kansas City woman of
notoriety. The old woman will be
prosecuted.
been small the past week. The farm
ers are holding on to what they have
in stock until something more defiEite
is known concerning that which is in
the ground.
This beef investigation has settled
one thing beyond dispute, and that
is that canned roast beef and canned
boiled beef are exactly the same, save
and except the label on the outside of
| the can, is the fled report of the Law
renee Journal.
The st. John Weekly News issued
an Easter number on March "a which
is deserving of high comment. The
edition contained six pages, including
a beautiful illustrated cover of fine
| book paper, which was printed in red
| ink. The number is a neat one and
bespeaks for its editor workmanship,
| taste and prosperity.
The Tuttle family near Window. in
Mcpherson county, has more small
pox. The two children now have the
disease. They are broken out with it
and very sick. The authorities have
| had some trouble in persuading Mr..
futile to obey the quarantine. He
went down to Window a few days
ago, and, when it was learned that
his children had taken sick, the re-
marks made about him were anything
but eulogistic.
An Enoch Arden story is stirring
Leavenworth. Three years ago +. E.
Harrison married a 2o-year-old Leav-
| enworth girl He stole and was sent
to prison She thought she was free
Harrison was let out the other day
and appeared at Wilson's home for his
wife She decided that she belonged
to Harrison, and left with him, though
Wilson was the better husband and
she says she loved him more than the
first man.
Sam Garland, an Osborne county ne
gro who was a cloak room guard dur
ing the session of the legislature, is
now trying to get colony of negroes
to settle out in Graham county. There
are a number of negro farmers out
there now, and Nicodemus has been
known for a long time as negro set
Element. Sam tells his co1ored friends
that a farm in Graham county beats
staying in Topeka and Kansas City
and depending on getting jobs from
day to day.
The democratic state executive COM
mittee who have charge of the big
state banquet which is to be held at
Topeka on March 80, have announced
that it is absolutely necessary for
those who wish to attend this ban
, quet to obtain their tickets immedi-
ately or they will be unable to get
, them. The committee has to have
, time to make arrangements and those
who wait until these arrangements
are completed. will positively be una
BILE to gain admission to the banquet
hall
The young man in Rice county, Cry
tus Taylor, who wrote all his friends
goodbye, attempted suicide and failed
must feel several degrees cheaper than
silver.
| The Signal says that work on the
: Westmoreland railroad will begin JUS
as soon as the weather is settled: anc
2 it can't settle too soon for the West
1 moreland people, who are as anxiou.
r to hear the toot of the first locomotive
$ as the hosts of the saved will be tt
1 hear Gabriels blast on the Resurrec
ton morn.
: A Fort Scott man who has entered
e the Kansas liars contest says thai
down in that country a cyclone once
held COW up against the side OF
2 barn until the chattel mortgage run
r out.
It is said that fly confidence men and
> crooks of all kinds from the large,
? cities in the east are f1ocking to tn,
/ towns in the mining districts of south
S ern Kansas, attracted there by thu
y stories of the plentitude of money
: which they will try to graft int
their own clothes.
o Every once in while new minera
L story comes from western Kansas
The gold find in Trego county stor,
4 got a fresh boost few days ago, an,
! about the same time it was reporte,
that a vein of copper had been discov
. ed in Russell county.