Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-03-17

Pleasanton may have sailing sta
ton for one of the great picking COM
panies.
Public libraries are increasing. Ster-
ling is greatly interested in the matter
just now.
Western Kansas farmers are shipping
baled alfalfa to Texas at the net price
Of Sc per ton.
The 322 state banks and Ga private
banks of Kansas had on deposit on Feb
ruary 10 s27, 229, 51747.
There is talk of calling grand jury
In Sumner county, where there has not
been one for thirteen years.
The establishment of the binding
Irvine plant at the Kansas penitentiary
took 100 men out of the mine.
The State Normal Mandolin club is
negotiating for five months service at
Manitou Springs this summer.
The largest COW in Kansas is owned
by Dick Claclz, of Gaylord. She weighs
1000 pounds and is six feet high.
The management of the Hutchinson
free library has received one hundred
volumes from Miss Helen Gould.
The penitentiary officials have fixed
the price of binding Irvine at 10 cents
a pound; sold direct to the farmers
Frank Harvey, one of the gang that
robbed the Citizens bank at Altoona
has been placed in the penitentiary on
a ten years sentence
Horses are still being shipped from
Dickinson county. Buyers are paying
25 per cent more for horses than year
ago, and find it hard to find them.
Fred Now, living near Emporia, held
piece of iron to a track to see the
passing train cut it in two. The wheels
also appropriated two of his fingers.
The state bank commissioner went
to Edgerton, Kas., to superintend the
opening of new bank, the State Bank
OF Edgerton, with capital of $4,000.
George Thompson, of Atchison, who
has been planting wheat in Kansas for
forty-five years, thinks a crop is certain
this year. He says that wheat was
killed after March 1 but once in this
state, in 1878.
The Chanute Prospecting and Brick
Manufacturing company have struck
both gas and oil in their first well
southwest of town. The strike is con-
sidered unusually important as the field
is an entirely new one and heretofore
thought to be several miles away from
both the oil and gas belt. Chanute
now has good, paying wells on both
sides of her. Several other companies
that have been waiting for results now
intend to commence prospecting at
once.
]. w. Robson, president of the Kan
sas Cattlemen. S association, has in
formed Attorney General GODDARD that
the cattlemen of the state expect the
suit now pending in the supreme court
to test the validity of the court of Wis
itation law to go on to a finish, not
withstanding the recent readjustment
of the rates by the railroads. Attorney
General GODDARD had heard that the at
torney for the cattlemen, T. T. Carver
had said that the readjustment carried
with it dismissal of the case, and he
wrote to President Robson for direct
information.
Frank Cooper, of Jewell county, re-
Gently bought 5000 head of sheep il
New Mexico. He drove them to Kan
sas, fed them a few months and dis
posed of them the other day at prof
of $4,000.
Building associations are thinning
out somewhat, but there are 80 doing
more organizing.
quarantine on dairy and breedin.
cattle has been established by Kansa
against most of the eastern states. TIL
idea is to keep tuberculosis out.
Money orders from the Philippine
reach Kansas postoffices quite often.
The helpful hen nets Lincoln count
an income of $500 year The out
put of eggs aggregates two carloads
week or 1O4 carloads a year. Each cal
load contains 400 cases, which mean
the laying, shipment and u1timatel
the consumption Oh 41,OOV cases, OF !
PAS, 900 dozen eggs. The average pric
of eggs the year round is about cent
dozen, which means an annual il
come from Lincoln county hens of SIS
COO
Butler county produced corn alon
last year, amounting to nearly Sc, O00
600. Its lands are in great deman
this spring.
A reward of SO has been offered fl
evidence which will convict the Parti
who defaced monuments in the Norto
vile cemetery.
The county commissioners of Atch
son county advertised for bids fro
banks wishing the county deposit
Only one bid was received. The E
change National offered ? per cent f
the first $4,000.
Smith Center boys are subject to
fine of S25 if found on the streets aft
9p. m,
Tba ;,,5,raS for tho annual daho