Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-01-21
KANsxs ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An early spring is looked for this
year.
Much improvement is still going on
in Kansas
= The Kansas State MALTA is being
recognized.
4 number of poultry shows have
been held in Kansas.
Kansas farmers are feeding lots of
hogs for the market.
All the Kansas papers of the last
week are full of grip.
There arp now twenty-five inmates
in the Mother Bickerdyke home at To
peka.
Since Atchison got the division more
than seventy families have moved to
the town.
A Pittsburg constable levied on the
overcoat of man VINO had been sued
on a labor account.
Seventy-one real estate transfers
were recorded in Osborne county for
the month of December
The helpful hen is beginning to lay
on schedule time again, and the mar
ket reports have eggs on the toboggan
slide.
State Auditor Cole has refused to
pay warrants for salaries in the last
special session, and will wait for an
opinion.
Tho Would hot NicSo71ri paoifio
freight crews have been forbidden to
eat in Hiawatha because the men
waste too much time visiting their
home folks.
The three best Convention Hall
prizes were drawn by Kansans. Can
it be possible that more of these lot
terry tickets were unloaded in Kansas
than in Kansas City?
In Republic county there were %
more marriage licenses issued in 1897
than in 1898. The Scandal Journal
accounts for this by saying that people
were too busy during the past year
thinking of the war to get married.
The Judgment of the gentleman who
has been printing the Razoo, at Agra,
a little village in Phillips county, has
been criticised considerably by some
of his brethren of the press, but he is
evidently all right. He has traded the
outfit for Mitchell county farm.
The Ottawa Indians living in the
northeastern part of the Cherokee ma
ton, have held council and employed
attorneys to look after their interests
in Washington this winter. About
$4,000 is due the tribe from the Unit
ed States. An effort also will be made
to have the Baldwins declared intru-
ders and removed from their holdings
in the reservation.
As forecasters of the weather bees
never make a mistake. They know
what the weather for the day will be
without consulting the direction of
the wind or markings of the barome-
ter. If there is going to be a rain they
will not go to work, no matter how
fair the sun may shine in the morning
and if the weather is going to be fair,
not keep them at home.
Excursions Rates via Santa Fe Route.
On Jan. II and Feb. and 81. March
and 21, the Santa Fe will sell round
"trip tickets at the very cheap rate of
one one fare plus So. 90 to all points in
Arkansas, Arizona, Indian Territory,
New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
These tickets will bear going limit,
with stop-over privileges of fifteen
days, final return limit 81 days from
date of sale. Before purchasing tick.
cts, you will do well to call on some
representative of the road that reaches
all points of Importance 1.-THE Great
Santa Re
w. j. BLACK, G. p. A.,
Topeka, Kans-
Good things are still coming lola.
way. Work commenced there thi:
week on the biggest enterprise thai
has yet been inaugurated in the towr
"a Portlend cement factory which
will give steady employment to 15t
men, and which will turn out trair
load of cement daily. 1t will be
branch OF the Michigan Portland &c
ment company, big concern which
has all Xxi nds of capital back of it 1
is expecf ed that from two to thre
hundred men will be employed al
summer in erecting the buildings TO
the rec option of the plant. Natura
gas, that great lodestone which ha
worked such wonders for Allen count
within the past two years, was the al
traction that drew this new industr
to lola
r. Ruehl, former resident of Ellis
worth, was killed last month in q
avalanche on the Chilkoot Pass.
Alfalfa hay is worth $500 per to
when fed with Kaffir corn TO fatten
ing hogs, according to the result c
experiments now under way. To oh
taia fue4her information on Kaffir cor
as pig food and ascertain to what e,
tent alfalfa hay could be used to ba
ance up the ration of fattening hog
0uifa exfenSive rsr feadinr ovDer