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

0UO Volumes.
The convention hall fund that the
ladies OF Parsons atarted has reached
5000 already.
A. o. Nelson, Lincoln county farm
er. fell from the tower of his windmill
and was killed.
Three gangs of men are at work on
the new long distance telephone line
from Wichita to Oklahoma City.
Pratt county claims its wheat crop
to be from % to IS bushels per acre
and that it is testing sixty pounds.
John Critics. of Jewell county,
brought to town shear of oats five
feet tall with heads fourteen inches
long.
The long distance telephone lines
now open in every direction from
Wichita, prove of value to trade in
terests
Douglas Walker was shot and killed
by his brother-in-law, Albert Boyle at
Kingman, as the result of a family
quarrel.
State Superintendent Frank Nelson
during June, travelled 1000 miles and
addressed 43 audiences on educational
subjects.
The harvest brought more than the
usual number of tramps into Kansas
and now trouble with them is reported
in many places.
Nineteen cattle broke out of a pas
ture in Jewell county and fed in a field
them were dead.
A Sedan dispatch says that 80 cattle
have died in the southern part of Chau-
tauqua county. A rigid quarantine
has been established.
Fred Stone, of Cedar Valley Neosho
county. was found dead, lying on his
face in small stream where he had
taken his horses to drink.
A high wind in Dickinson county
scattered wheat and oat stacks in all
directions and damage was done to
windows, trees and chimneys.
An electric storm, accompanied by
Of damage to Clay Center windows.
Fruit and shade trees were left bare.
There is 6O-acre field of wheat on
the federal prison farm at Leaven-
worth which is turning out 25 bushels
TO the acre. The oat crop will run just
about double the wheat yield.
A prominent miller was asked: ''Why
will the Kansas farmer get a good
price for his wheat this year, BE
cause the Kansas farmer has the wheat
End the other fellows haven't was
the prompt reply.
One hundred Firms, the advance
guard of an immigration which will be
immense. are headed for Sedgwicl1
county. where it is proposed by New
York gentlemen, who have them in
charge. to locate each of them.
At the Armour packing plant in Kan
sas City, Kan, 500 pounds of ammo
MIA escaped from bursted pipes. Many
women were at work in the building
all of whom were affected; some of
them so badly as to make it necessary
TO send them home in carriages.
The county superintendent of Nor
ton county has sent out circular let
ter offering $40 a month for thirty
teachers for six months term. 1t
appears that young people can do
better than that in other occupations
The state labor commissioner re-
ports that the strikes in Kansas during
1899 deprived the worlSmen of Al 500
days work.
Seven children of the Steiner family
in Burlington, were laid out by pto-
maine poisoning in buttermilk Three
of them were given up at first, but all
will probably recover.
Mrs. Fred Leseberg, of Marshall
county arose in the night and laid her
neck across railroad rail and her
head was cut Off When found the old
family dog was guarding the head
II. NJ. Wise, of Topeka, has been
sentenced to two years in prison for
taking 5000 from drunken man.
At the long distance telephone recep-
ton given by the Missouri and Kansas
Telephone company in the Carey hotel,
Wichita. people We're called and con
versed with in st. Louis, Mo-, Joplin.
Mo-. Kansas City, Mo-, lola, Kan.
Omaha, Lawrence: St. Joseph, Chicago
Lincoln, Neb.. Springfield, Topeka
Milwaukee. Detroit. Toledo, Cleveland
Davenport and many other places dur
ing the afternoon and evening
Seneca man whipped his wife and
was set to work on the rock pile. Hi.
wife held an umbrella over him to keeI
the sun off him while breaking rock.
J. c. Banta, of Douglas comfy, ha.
a crop of fine peaches from his As aer,
orchard with 100 trees to the acre. 81,
says the yield will be five bushels t,
the tree.
Drouth in Cloud county continued
: for more than a month and corn i
practically destroyed in many fields
Farmers are hurrying their cattle an.
hogs to market.