Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-06-10
Home grown Strawberries are on tho

A company has been formed at Dex-
ter for the purpose of going after gas
Judge Hook is to decide whether the
court of visitation is constitutional or
not.
One of the drinlsy Indians who rob
bed a Brown county man is named
Min-Ne-Hah.
The assessed valuation of Brown
county is just SIS greater this year
than il 1898.
They say that out in western Kan
strong it blew the sun back three
hours
Hail this season is doing as much
for the GLACIERS as the extremely cold
weather last winter did for the
plumbers
The Humboldt brick company is
shipping out an average of three car
loads day, but is still behind orders
over half million.
Bob Wright, state forestry commits
s1oner, inspected the station at Ogal-
lab recently and found it looking like
a last years birds nest.
Atchison is talking about two days
Corn Carnival and street fair this fall.
Only the very swiftest will be enabled
to maintain Corn Carnival gait for
two days.
In southern Kansas no more rain is
needed to mature the wheat The rains
have been so heavy the wheat would
have rusted had it rot been for the
drying winds.
A Hiawatha lad, after studying
some of the new-fang1ed kites which
were on exhibition in the show win
dow of local store, went home and
made several himself that flew all
right.
J. C. Byers has accepted the federal
position of Constable on the Usage
reservation, with headquarters near
Elgin, Kansas. Captain Bill Painter
holds a similar position at Gray
horse.
The Indians who recently held up a
man on the Iowa reservation in Brown
county were fined SO each and given
60 days in Jail. That's the way it is
thrown under Poor Lo when he gets
gay in Kansas
On May 20 another splendid rain fell
throughout Sheridan county, doing
great good to wheat, which is gener-
ally good, but backward on account OF
the cold weather. The prospects now
are that Sheridan county will raise a
good wheat crop. Corn planting is
progressing favorably, and a large
acreage is being put in. The general
crop prospects are better than for sew
eral years, while the acreage is fully
as large as the biggest years in the
history of the county.
Cheap Rates to Pacific Coast via Santa Fee
The Santa Fe are selling tickets tc
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
and other California points at the very
cheap rate OF $40. so.
To Portland and points in Idaho and
Oregon $28 IS. For particulars cal
on or address, L. r. DELANEY, Agt.,
Wichita, Kans
Route.
On June the goth, the Santa Fe
will sell round trip tickets at the very
cheap rate of one fare for the rounc
| trip plus So. 90 to all points in Arkan
sas, Arizona, Indian territory and New
| Mexico. These tickets will bear going
| limit with stopover privileges of ffteer
| days; final return limit twenty-ont
days from date of sale. Before pur
| chasing tickets you will do we'll to cal
on some representative of the road
reaches all points of i1nportance-Tht
| Great Santa Fe.
L R. DELANEY, Agt.
! The prettiest sight in the world i
dawn in Kansas just at this period o
| the year. 1t is not as comfortable
but it is a whole lot more artistic thar
a morning snooze.
It is not generally known but tn
most extensive cabbage grower in tn
state lives in Atchison county. Hi
name is Conrad Voell1er, and he ha
| 10000 cabbage plants in the groun,
and the patch, which is immense,
without a weed. He has raised cat
bage for thirty years and has neve
had a failure with early varieties
In Kansas this year there were no
only the old graves of the old soldier
to decorate, but the new graves of tn
new soldiers At Lawrence the gray
of the late Lieutenant Afford was in
Guided in the usual Memorial day ex
ercises.
The Montana boys in the Philip
pines are getting jealous of the Kan
sas regiment The Montana boy
write home that they took Chimes
cemetery which is greater feat tina
anything the Kansans have yet pei
formed.
The fleece sheared from a yearlin
sheep in Usage county recently weigh
ed seventeen pounds.
The grounds of the cemetery i