Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-04-29
Ihis is Busy season for the fruit

IoFgoI 70 grow, there Is settlement
called Sawlog.
Charles Griffin of Kansas, has been
appointed to the chair OF economics in
the University OF Japan.
About every paper printed in west
ern Kansas has something to say about
damages caused by prairie fires
0 Congressman Curtis of the Chicago
Record, who came to Kansas for the
purpose of writing series of pros
perity letters" for his paper, says that
he found plenty of material to work
on.
a Johnson county man has sounded
the note of warning and farmers down
that way are keeping their weather
eye open. The lightning rod agents
are on the wing. Forewarned is fore
armed.
An unknown dog poisoner is getting
in his work in Labette county.
great many dogs are utterly worthless
and ornery. but the man who will dis
criminately set out poison hasn't any
great lead over the ours.
The alumni of the school of exper-
fence known as Kansas is strictly mar
velous Mr.. Haines. the young man
who last Fourth of July delivered the
main address at the American embassy
in Berlin, was from Kansas.
A bankrupt stock was moved to
tel fnr In of
being auctioned off, and the members
of the local clerks union led the own
ers of the concern a dogs life until
they complied with the early closing
custom.
A person who has wandered around
through the unfinished portions of the
Kansas State house can keenly appre-
ciate the descriptions travellers give of
explorations through the musty, dusty
gloominess of the Pyramids.
In western Kansas the hens have
been so busily engaged in laying eggs
that the incubators have beaten them
incub ator has no cackle of supremacy
over the hen coming until it makes
something of a record in the egg-pro-
ducing line.
It took four months Of hard labor to
get the enterprise under way, but the
Pittsburg Creamery company has been
organized and work on the plant will
be commenced Immediately. The work
of construction will not be one-half as
hard as that done by the promoters of
the project who met encouragement
at every turn of the road in their eff
forts to win favor for the plant.
Congressman Reeder announces that
an examination will be held at Beloit
June 6, and the high man out will be
appointed a cadet at the Military
Academy at West Point. Candidates
for this position, he says, must be res
idents of the Sixth district, unmarried,
at least feet 3 inches in height; and
unless person is we'll versed in read
ing, writing, photography, arithmetic,
English grammar, descriptive geogra-
ply and the history of the United
States, it will be useless for him to at
tempt to take the examination.
T. L. Ball, leading catt1eman of
Dickinson county, went to the Pan
handle recently to buy several hun
dred head of stock cattle, but return
ed without them He says: 1.-The cat
tie on the Panhandle ranges are too
high to ship north-in fact. they are
higher than they are in Kansas, their
condition considered. There were
large losses on the ranches and the big
shipments during the past year have
made the owners stiff on prices. They
hold the stock at figures which sur
prise the northerner They look for
boom in cattle and think they will
get their price after awhile"
Southern Cowley county wants to
get into the Kansas mineral push and
some prospect holes will be sunk at
once.
The death of Eli Thayer of Massas;
chusetts, recalls the remark of Charles
Sumner that he would rather have the
VI CoAG 0uO " OAlS hduSdS
work than to be the hero of the battle
of New Orleans. It was Thayer who
devised the plan of emigrant aid by
which the free sellers finally outnum-
bered the incoming slave holders, and
so made Kansas free state.
A recruiting office will be opened at
Fort Scott soon.
The Phoenix Mill and Elevator COM
pany, with capital of $40. 1000, is a
new institution at Coffeyville. Just
as soon as the weather will permit
work will be commenced on the con-
struction of IS, 600 bushel elevator
which will be run in connection with
the Phoenix mill, which has just been
overhauled and now has a capacity of
300 barrels daily. Judging from the
many improvements recorded, south
ern Kansas towns are strictly in it.
Leroy Rattan. IL years old, ran
away from home in Leavenworth the
other day and his father offers $500 to
any one who will return him.