Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-08-03
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

lair to be held August 2I-23.
The Civic League of Fort Scott has
all the joints there corked up.
On August 8 the old soldiers of Har-
vey county will picnic at Ha1stead.
Milkmen in Topeka have raised the
price of milk to seven cents quart.
Colin Fl. Ball, of Kansas, is made
second lieutenant in the regular army.
The Osborne Woodmen took an all
night sweat in initiating 81 candidates
The Farmers Grain and livestock
association of Butler county has been
incorporated.
A Bourbon county man claims that
IL three days he cut and marketed $500
worth of hay.
Texas fever is reported from Edna,
Labette county. Ben. Jarboe has lost
20 head of cattle.
There is complaint in Western Kan
sas that too many cattle are shipped
there for pasturing.
On July 20 there were four deaths
from heat in Kansas City, Ks, and
two on the Missouri side.
S. N. Harper had Is acres of wheat
near Menoken, Shawnee county, which
threshed out Cos bushels.
The controlling interest in the We'll
lington National bank has passed from
John L. Stewart by way of sale.
The retail clerks of Horton struck
for early closing and the state labor
commissioner went there to fix things.
The commercial club of Anthony is
is wide awake in connection with the
northern extension of the Chectaw
railroad.
Some fellow figures that the crop
loss in Kansas this year will reach
$3.50, 600, 900, but Kansas is rich enough
to stand it.
The influx of slot machines from
Missouri, since they were prohibited
over there, is causing Kansas towns
much pilakea.
In Topeka the cracking of the earth
under brick sidewalks drains away the
sand the bricks are laid in and dam
ages the walks.
A well-6xed Douglas county farmer
took his first ride on a railroad train
along with a bunch of cattle he was
taking to market.
The Santa Fe uses from 5000 to s, ZOO
tons OF coal month at Topeka. At
Argentine the consumption runs from
5000 to 1000 tons.
Will R. Spillman, of Manhattan, has
been appointed private secretary to
Joe L. Bristow. Spillman has been in
Washington since 1897.
The Moran Herald has discovered that
putting ice cream in a glass and pour
ing pop over it is right to the front to-
gether with ice cream soda.
The News says that the strongest
temperance lecture ever exhibited in
Hutchinson was the taking of drunk
en- woman from train to the Jail.
An Oakland, Shawnee county. nur-
seryman will use a steam rotary pump
with his 5000 irrigation plant, for the
benefit of twenty acres of young nur-
sery stock.
Red tape killed man in a coal mine
near Topeka. He fell down a shaft
and long course of rigmarole among
the county health officers caused him
to lie there five hours before the coun-
ty relief authorities sent out to bring
him to town.
Rev. Richard Cordley, of Lawrence,
married couple by the name of Bacon
in 1859, in that city. Twelve years ago
Rev. Mr.. Cordley attended the funeral
OF Mr.. Bacon and has now attended
that of Mrs. Bacon.
Charles Hoffman, of Lyon county, an
ex-Confederate soldier, had a brother
in the Union army. He attempted to
personate his brother in an application
for pension and is now in jail, with a
prospect OF five years in the peniten-
tiary. Uncle Sam shows no lenieney
to such frauds.
The Rock Islaed depot at Lebanon is
hONs ANOGhAuS was SeSFcO except
the freight bills and books. Consider.
able freight was burned.
1t is said that one Caldwell man sold
daily a carload of beer to the home.
seekers The trains stopped there &c
minutes only. At Wichita the time
between most of the connecting trains
was about two hours and all that time
daily procession of people with bas
kets of bottled beer was vending Its
way direct from beer cars to the big
gest crowds.
A Kansas farmer read about New
York farmer whose wheat crop wa.
two bushels to the acre, and he at ono.
offered to start movement to hell
the farmers back there.
DIR. Eliphalet Patee, of Manhattan
has deposited with the state historical
society powder horn carried by hi
great-grandfather, Edmund Pattee
and bearing his name and the dat
1774. Edmund Patee, tradition says
was the soldier who executed Majo
Andre, the British spy who conspire,
with Benedict Arnold.
OF the S63, 600, 900 deposited in tn