Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-08-11


wreck at Ottawa.
The Wellington Cape Nome crowd
are on their way home.
John Pratt recently died at Woodbine
at the age of 1O1 years.
w. L. Yaggy has a 50o-acre catalpa
plantation in Reno county.
The rotting of wheat in the stacks is
reported from Saline county.
Government agents have been stock
ing the Smoky Hill river with black.
bass.
Henry Brit, of Mitchell county, re
ceived over $1,000 for wheat from 81
acres.
Wichita bicycle riders held meeting
to devise plan to catch bicycle
thieves -
Dan1. stiger. farmer near Hume
well, was killed at railway crossing
July 81.
Joseph Brown, of Rock Creek, had
an arm torn off in threshing machine
and died.
A woman's club at Beloit is raising
funds to extend the water mains to the
cemetery.
For two weeks the average daily re-
ceipt of wheat at the elevators in
Downs was $500 bushels.
A Neosho county farmer has import
ed start of and is successfully raising
-
a black walnut tree and white oak
tree have been found near Atchison,
growing from the same stump.
It is said that seven Harper county
farmers have cleaned up, oiled and
carefully sheltered their harvesting
machines.
Kansas farmers, when they visit
their old homes in the east this year,
register at the hotels like this: ''H. j.
Graves, Farmer"
A Rocks county man ships st. Ber-
nard pups all over the country and re-
Gently received a good offer for an
entire litter from Mexico.
During July the sale of stamps and
postal supplies at the Topeka postofice
amounted to S1O,642.56, an increase
over July. 1899 of 81 ,5oOs
Montgomery county farmers have the
practicesof blowing their wheat land
in July; and have done SO to greater
extent than usual this year.
Henry Dorson, of Atchison county,
claims that he raised an average of 40
bushels of wheat to the acre on land
which has been farmed 40 years.
Kansas Agricultural college has re-
ceived a pure blood Guernsey bull, with
wonderful pedigree. It is about the
most valuable of dairy animals ever
brought to Kansas.
An eastern writer in an article on
Kansas spoke of the broad fields of
buffalo grass swaying and waving in
the wind like the waves of the ocean. -
Wouldn't that make a jackrabbit laugh?
The Wichita electric street car com
pany has fixed August % as the day
when it will turn over its entire system
to the Kings Daughters, giving them
the days revenue for the childrens'
home fund.
The medals which the G. A. R. will
give to the members of the Twentieth
Kansas contain the names of the fol
lowing battles: ''Bag-Bag," ''Caloo-
can" s'Apalit," ''Malolos, " ''Calumpit,'
''Marilao," polo"
The EARN and Preside warns it's
farmer friends from being worked by
the Belgian hare boomers. It declares
the flesh of the new rabbit is no better
than that of the common kind and
there never will be a greater demand
for it. The whole thing is a swindle
it says.
The annual picnic of the johnson
county Cooperative Association was
held at Olathe July %.
Most of the state boards are made
up of state officers. 1t transpires that
should the fusion state ticket be elect
ed the executive council would be tieG
with the governor as chairman and al
the boards would be controlled by
Democratic state officers as follows
railroad assessors, to 2; equalization
board, 2 to /; charter board to anC
the printing board by its whole mem
bership.
At recent country funeral in Mar
ion county there was a long line O
dozens of vehicles, and not a Wagon
amongst them; they were all buggie
and Surveys. Not many years ag'
such an event would have shown onl,
wagons.
Corn in Marshall county that wa
thought to be burned up three week
ago is now coming out in surprisingl,
good shape since the rains. OF coors
the crop will not be a full one, but i
, will be long way ahead of what wa
expected.
The Rock Islands southwestern .eS
tension from Liberal means cheape
coal for the southwestern counties o
Kansas.
County Clerk B. L. Barton, of Bou1