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

Scott Burns of Smith county sold
his cattle at $50 a head, receiving
S12, 900 cash for the bunch.
Miss Edith Howell of Franklin coun-
ty, received a check of $3.50 from the
New York Weekly for her last story,
Aiken
w. A. McKeever resigned the super
intendency Of the Smith Center schools
to accept professorship in the Kansas
Agricultural college.
Heavy thunderstorms are reported
in Barton county and a number Of
stacks of wheat were struck by light
ming and burned. One man lost 500
bushels of wheat.
The Union Pacific has been starting
shipments of men to Wyoming to work
on the road, but greater part of the
men have skipped off the trains into
wheat fields in Kansas.
It is said that the demand for seed
ling trees at the state forestry station
at Ogallah is twice as great of last
year. Hail has injured the young
trees at the station this year
A little girl had leg cut off by
street car in Leavenworth. She was
following a long used path which
crossed the tracks. A suit for SIS, 900
damages has been commenced.
Two threshing outfits were received
at Wellington and the freight charges
were SO large that an investigation
was made. The boilers were full of
water and it weighed $50 in freight.
There are nine packing houses in
Kansas that report an aggregate in
yestment of more than a half million
dollars. The nine plants report sales
of their products for the year at S7s-,
las, 394. 81.
On the big Gorton ranch in Lincoln
county three sets of men worked in
harvest, each working eight hours
with the same machines. Many other
farmers adopted this plan of working
the whole "a hours during harvest.
There is scheme on in Central Kan
sas to organize Preachers and Ply
sicians' Mutual Protective association.
| The preachers are tired of seeing men
go around with box of cigars in each
hand setting 'em up" to the boys on
the strength of a marriage before the
wedding fee has been paid. The
| physicians are sore on the fellows who
do the same thing following a birth in
the family before the physician has
been paid.
Jackson county has Jew, a Catho-
lie and Presbyterian contesting for
the republican nomination for repre-
sentative.
Edward Collins, of Topeka, and his
cousin, Edward Fitzgerald, of New
York, who was visiting in Topeka,
both young men, were bathing in the
Kansas river and were drowned.
Real estate sales are numerous, but
very little money is being borrowed
for the payments. Eastern people are
hungry to invest money in Kansas farm
loans, but cannot place them.
The summer term of the state nor.
NAL school has 800 teachers in attend
ance and more are expected after the
close of the county institutes.
The state school fund holds locaI
Kansas bonds amounting to Sc, Col, 1868
Of this $3.50, 900 is in bonds of the state
; the rest of counties and school dis
tricts.
Three hundred Sunday school chill
dren paraded the streets of Wichita il
a long line of new farm wagons drawn
by traction engine. They were go
ing to picnic.
VIM. Follsche, of Doniphan county
died in an 80 foot well
Milk used in Kansas creameries i
, supplied by ID, 1859 persons. The mill
D comes from So, 1s2 COWS. The cream
{ cries belong to 1,49s firms who hav
an average investment therein o
? $685. A. The product of the industr,
3 in 1899 was 81, oO4, 49s. Their receipt
? from sales were 81, 500, $50. 43. The
: paid 81. 157, TAG for milk. Thirty-fou
e per cent of the products were markete
t in the state. The average amour
paid for milk, for each cow was S24.
a Kansas was the first state to CON
! plete the decoration of the rooms OF it
t delegation to the Kansas City CONVEX
i ton. They are in the annex OF tn
; Baltimore hotel.
Mcpherson county owes nothing an
: The other 10 townships, with the cite
I and school districts have bonded del
of about $3.50, 900.
e The Kansas millers have pretty ger
IS orally called in their purchasing agen'
o until the market settles down to MOI
5 firm basis.