Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-06-30
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

prospect for record beating potato
crop.
John @. Boyce of Kansas is one of
the secretaries of the Philadelphia con-
vention.
A fire at Leroy destroyed all of the
city records except some of the treas
urers books.
The Woman's relief corps at Peabody
is arranging for monument to veter-
ans buried there.
c. M. Scott, an early newspaper man,
has donated twenty lots to Arkansas
City for park purposes.
The deposits of the bank at Randall,
Jewell county, are four times larger
than the capital stock.
Barton county has 10, 900 inhabitants
and not one pauper. 1t is among the
big four wheat counties.
William Gorham, near Russell, has
1000 acres of wheat, from which he ex-
poets to harvest 12O, 900 bushels.
The farmers of Ness county have
dubbed together and bought large
quantity of bisulphide of carbon to be
used against prairie dogs.
Grant Belts, of Jewell county, fed a
100 pound shoat with soaked corn and
buttermilk thirty days, during which
time he gained five pounds per day.
The president of the W. c. T. U. of
Barber county charged the county at
Il or l. e.
each of the joints, and he has sued her
for SANDER.
sub insurance solicitor for hail in
surance who has been working in the
central part of the state, is wanted for
drawing money on forged checks His
name is w. L. Newly.
Kansas sent for relief of India
through its general committee 10000
bushels of corn and Sc, 900 in cash.
How much has been sent by churches,
etc, cannot be known.
VIM. Parker, city marshal of Galena,
was killed by a live wire. He had let
go of his little daughters hand an in
slant before receiving the shock. A
VIM. Marshall, of Lawrence, is prob
ably the only man living in Kansas
who was delegate to the Pittsburg
convention which nominated General
Fremont. He is 80 years old.
During the month of May the Belle
vile National bank cashed stock checks
to the amount of s37. 500; paid out to
employees of the Rock Island So, 900 and
cashed So, 800 worth of pension checks.
AS soon as the nomination of Roose.
welt became known one town claimed
to have secured promise from him to
make stop there. 1t was not ten
seiged the nominee with invitations by
wire.
VIM. Mayer came to Marshall county
eight years ago with small capital
He now has fine farm with an elegant
residence, with orchards and a vine
yard. Not long since he gave a son q
well improved 100 acre farm and die
not miss it's cost.
Swan Blex, a Fawn Creek farmer
Montgomery county, took a claim il
1871 and sold half of it for 5000 to be
able to get title to the other 80. He
now has fine farm, with all kinds o.
fruit, has fine horses and cattle, ant
owns two other good farms.
New stucco beds have been found il
the east part of Dickinson county.
President Shive of Burton stat,
bank lives on his farm and PERSONAL,
conducts his farming and stock raising
with his bank, which is five miles from
his farm, and is consulted about tn.
most important business of the bank
He came to Harry y county in the earl,
'7Os and took claim, with not mucl
but his hands to use in making hom
of it, and that claim has made hi
wealth.
A man was shot dead in a saloon il
Usage City kept by three Twentieth
Kansas soldiers. The dead man wa
not identified.
The $4,000 mortgage on Levi
academy, in Wichita is to be raised
Colonel Lewis gives SIS, 900 and tn
Presbyterian aid board for academic
will pay the rest of it.
A. c. Mcdonald has been investiRa
ting the wheat for Chicago grail
firm. He says that Kansas and Okla
homa will furnish the bulk of tn
wheat supply this year.
A son of VIM. Palmer, near Cheney
was bitten by a rattlesnake After
week or more, he was taken to a Wict
ita hospital and his leg was amputate6
There are many farmers in Kansa
whose wheat crop at 60 cents bushe
will bring them more money than thei
farms are worth at current prices fo
land.
G. W. Smith, of Anderson count,
has marketed thirteen shoats tia
showed an average gro-'th of thre
pounds day from the time they WEI
narrowed.
The original manuscript of the speec
made by William Il. Seward in fave