Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-07-21

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Two sections of Saline county land
was sold by the sheriff for $4,000 last
week
The Halstead Touring mill made
100, 1926 barrels of -four during the last
year.
Rock Island surveyors are at work
on line from Liberal to Clayton, New
Mexico.
Charles Sullivan. of Meade county.
gets three months in Jail for tampering
with jurors.
The expenditure by the state for the
Dodge City Soldiers home for June
was 81, 400.
Patchen and Gentry, the two Kan
sas horses, have been on Canadian race
courses lately.
Mrs. Margaret Kincaid, of Topeka,
took concentrated lye, installing it for
I soda She died.
w. J. Bryan announces that he will
make one speech in Kansas IN Septem-
Der or October. ,
Fred Lindsay, an Atchison boy, 10
years old, ran rusty rake in his foot.
he died of 1ockjaw.
James F. Whitney is serving his elev-
enth term of two years each as county
! clerk of Pawnee county.
Chas. NJ. McCready, of Humboldt, is
| in Japan for the Standard Oil company,
drilling for oil and gas.
Jasper Williams. of Sumner county.
had dangerous encounter with mad
bull in pasture. He was seriously
hurt.
! A German woman in Newton took
out six money orders for 500 each and
sent them to her husband in Ger
many.
C. NJ. Cunningham, of Osborne coun-
ty, has just sold his crop of wheat
raised three years ago for 81 cents a
bushel
A smallpox patient was put off a
train at Hope and was promptly quar-
| antined. He had been in Salina and
Gypsum.
In Kansas the birth rate is 33.5O to
every 200 inhabitants and in the Uni
ted States 1924. The death rate is S.43
in Kansas.
1t is believed that Sumner county
has produced 6, 500, 900 bushels of wheat
of excellent quality testing from 50 to
CO pounds.
A special train ran from Newton to
Winfield on July 16, for the crowds
which attended the A. O. U. w inter
state picnic.
A member of the sanitary board in
forms the executive department at To-
peka that the Texas fever epidemic in
Chautauqua county is under control.
Montgomery county levied two
mills tax for the support of the county
high school. An appropriation of 5000
was made for the library and 5000 for
the laboratory of the school.
d. A Dabney and J. r. Schrock are
under bond charged with arson in the
burning of a store at Tyro, Montgom-
cry county. The anti-Horse Thief as
ISOLATION caused their arrest.
The Fall River band engaged to play
at Severy on the Fourth, but after the
contract was made Severy required the
the band members to sign a temperance
pledge and the band refused to go.
The legislature appropriated Sc, 900
for state printing for the fiscal year
ending June so. OF this amount.
$5,03S. 81 cents was used. The balance
S961.43, was turned back into the gen.
eral revenue fund.
State auditor Cole has counted up on
the assessors reports and finds that
Kansas has SIS, i'll wagons and 90, 639
buggies which have been listed
Bert Ford was sandbagged and
robbed in the railroad yards at Clay
Center. He says he stabbed one of the
two robbers, but after that remembers
nothing.
Senator Harris is bargaining the
sale of his estate at Linwood and the
purchase of ranch land in Ellis county.
He wants more room for his business
of breeding blooded cattle.
Andy Wilburn, of Ford county re-
ports that it required 80 pounds OF
Irvine to the acre in his wheat harvest
while Pa pounds is usually sufficient.
He claims 35 to 40 bushels to the acre.
A man at Corbip, Sumner county,
writes that fully one-fourth of the
wheat in shocks, in that section was
threshed out by hail Threshing will
be delayed probably ten days by the
rain.
A man has offered Salina $500 fol
the privilege of running a merry-go.
round during the street fair there.
The supreme court takes a vacation
5 until sometime in September.
The Kansas Agricultural college has
made dates for series Of agricultura
S picnic Institutes, at each of which al