Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1901-08-17

Labette county man has been fined
$50 for taking fish with net.
The old soldiers reunions at both FL
Dorado and lola have been abandoned
The last 40 acres of government land
in Jewell county was taken lasteTeek.
1t is stated that every sheriff of Nor
ris county who has served during the
past 40 years SIS still alive.
The crop of dwarf broom corn in the
vicinity of Sterling is reported by farm
ers to be damaged so per cent.
John w. Corey, of Montgomery coun-
ty. has 40 acres of com which he ex-
poets to yield so bushels to the acre.
David Nation has commenced suit
for divorce from his wife Carrie Ma
ton. in the district court at Medicine
Dodge.
During July the Santa Fe and Mis-
souri, Pacific each handled 200 cars
loaded with the products of the cement
mill at lola.
Along the Neosho and Verdigris
rivers there are corn fields that will
yield rs bushels to the acre. Few will
yield under 20 bushels.
The Kansas knights Templar viii go
| in a body to the Louisville encampment
! August 21. MarshaIl's band of Topeka
| has been selected to accompany them.
The Kansas & Texas Coal Company,
Topeka concern, has placed an order
/ ton drill for
| oil in the shale district of Western Kan
sas.
The new Santa Fe machine shop at
| Topeka which is being stalzed out, is to
be $50 feet long and 154 feet wide.
Preparations are being made to lay the
foundations.
| Labor day. September 2, will be OBJ
served in Pittsburg with jubilee in
celebrating Industrial peace. Thirty
thousand miners and laborers of every
craft will assemble.
John Domain, of Edwards county,
bought quarter section for $500, with
AZ acres of growing wheat. He has
threshed 5000 worth of wheat from the
AZ acres and has pastured the rest of
the quarter.
The delay in clearing the title to the
Fort Hays reservation causes a years
delay in planting the branch normal
and agricultural and experiment station
there. No work viii be done until the
title is perfected.
o. V. Gringrass, of Harvey county,
discharged a farm hand. Later there
were five of his fine steers missing. It
was found that the farm hand had sold
them in Newton and Immediately taken
the fast mail train east.
Reports of fine rains come from the
southwest and grass was never better
at this time of year. Many cattle have
been taken there to pasture during the
fall and winter. The stocIzmen seem
to pay little attention to the order re-
quiring the removal of fences.
w. c. Edwards, ex-secretary of state
has wintered cattle in Western Kansas
many years. He says wheat straw is
worth So ton; that he builds stacks
with alternate layers of straw and
kafir corn. He says that the saccharine
matter is absorbed from the corn by
the straw and the cattle eat the straw
first
Superintendent Nelson, of the Wichita
! trolley lines is figuring on an electric
/ line from Wichita to Geuda Springs,
down the west side of the Arkansas
river, striking Belle PLANE and Oxford.
a i
5 sixty minute run and could be made
, profitable at the rate of so cents for the
round trip.
A general conference of insurance
' agents of Kansas held two days ses
l sion at Mcpherson.
Thieves in the southern part of Sa
t line county kill cattle in pastures and
D haul them away in wagons
a When the picnic dinner of the ole
settlers reunion at Halstead was ove1
: and E. w. Hoch was introduced as tn,
: principal speaker, there We're 1000 PEG
: pie in the park. Mr.. Hoch's address
: was noted by his cheerful turning o
t the bright side of everything TO tn
front.
n An Arkansas City carpenter claims t,
# have been offered SO day to work a
Lawton.
$ G. n. Tucker raised 1924 bushels O
s wheat on 81 acres of his Dickinson
% county farm.
is In the southeastern counties the mos
h of the wheat will be sown this year il
n August and will begin to provide pas
d tut age in September and keep dom;
Il the same until January. Nearly ever
S farm has field of kafr corn, of sol
re ghum and of mi1let; ali of them goo
crops.
n Corn in Allen county is expected t
&c turn out from one-third to one-fourt
w a crop. The wheat crop is the best tn
! county ever had. The rains have r,
be vived the grass and there will h
ty enough of forage.
Il, In 1881 there was practically Ho raj
e. from June Is until September Il
Wheat and apple crops failed Cor
as was worth S1.Oo a bushel and no or
ID bought Sny because they could no