Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-08-12

while there, for the first time in his
life, saw apples on the trees.
The man who has a hundred-acre
corn field in Trego county will make
mere out of it this year than the man
will make who has a hundred-acre
gold field in the same county.
There is reason to believe that a
good many of the fnanciers who have
invested in the gold Iands in Trego
and Ellis counties have laughed at
little boys for trying to catch birds by
sprinkling salt on their tails
One of the county commissioners of
Sedgwick county harvested this sea-
son 1000 bushels of oats from twenty
acres. This pleased him so much that
he has decided to drop out of politics
and give all of his attention to farm
ing.
A western Kansas farmer who be-
I1eves that corn is going to be very
cheap sold his crop as it stands at 1913
cents a bushel. The Kansans who
make the good money out of their
corn fields feed cattle and hogs and
sell their corn on the hoof.
Mayor Frazier has notified the citi-
zens of Coffeyville that unless the
weeds are cut, as the ordinances of the
city direct, grief will be in store for
many of them. Weeds breed disease;
disease results in doctor bills and doc
tor bills breed trouble in the pocket
book. The cheaper plan is to kill the
weeds.
E. Waynant, superintendent of the
Missouri Pacific freight depot at
Leavenworth, has been doing little
figuring. He says that from all the
statistics he can gather about this
years corn crop in Kansas, it would
require the equipment of any western
railroad two years to move it out of
the state.
At Coffeyvi1le the marshal and his
assistants have been ordered to visit
every place suspected of being joint
twice in the forenoon, twice in the
afternoon and twice in the evening.
The people in southern Kansas are
| doing all they can to rid their towns of
the joints, and they are determined to
succeed
Some Twentieth Kansas boy, writ
ing home, says the army mule is the
most effective weapon Uncle Sam has
sent against the Filipinos. The only
thing of the mule kind the Filipinos
had ever seen before the advent of the
American was the diminutive island
pony, and when they saw these i'm
mense longeared brutes, and saw
what heavy loads they pulled, they
were filed with fear and awe.
Probably no message that ever came
from the soldier boys of the Twentieth
/ touched the mother hearts in Kansas
more quickly than that from George
Ferrel, the Montgomery county boy
who, in a letter to his folks, said that
he wanted his first meal on arriving
! home to consist of big lot of batter
cakes. good butter, and some ice cold
milk. 1t is simply fearful to think OF
the course of feeding" the good
mothers will expect their soldier boys
| to go through on their return home.
A Cowley county man has trouble
on his mind. He is the owner of fine
patch of tomatoes, and from some
cause or other, without any evidence
of human agency, they are rapidly
disappearing, the vanishing act al
ways being done at night. The owner
of the patch is of an investigating
turn of mind, and he is now setting
up nights with his patch of tomatoes
determined to run down the pheno
menon if possible He is also of q
practical turn of mind, and believes
that few dunn dunn bullets planted
where they will do the most good
will remove the hoodoo.
It cost a travelling doctor named
Higgins $500 to practice his profession
in Jewell county without diploma
| The attractions that are counted or
to keep the trolley line between Kan
sas City and Leavenworth busy are the
Soldiers home, the post and the peni
Tertiary.
| There have been other wet summers
in Kansas, other growing summers
but this is the states first summer
where it hasn't got hot enough tt
draw the nails up out of a board side
walk
Eskridge is now talking of getting
up street fair. The state of Kansa:
will be speckled with street fairs thi.
fall
The chinch bugs are having hare
time this year. They failed to get il
their work on the wheat, and the
farmers are laying for them will
Chancellor Shows infected bugs
Thirty years ago Fort Scott hat
1000 population and was reached BY
a stage line running from Paola- TIL,
Wilder house was a So hotel in thost
days and had plenty of patrons.
/ A convict from the federal prison a
Leavenworth made his escape, only t.