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


i beans are being planted to large ex-
1 tent in Linn county.
/ The Katy ticket sales at Parsons in
/ July amounted to Sc, 1912; more than
4 double the sales in July last year.
I Fredonia and Beloit have each seven
rural delivery routes. No other Kan
sas town has so many. Topeka has six.
W. H. Barnes state secretary of hor-
ticulture, is to speak on ''Orcharding in
Kansas" before the National Apple
Shippers convention at Toronto, Can
ada
Miami county has sold good many
cattle and hay is worth S12 ton. Good
crops have been the ale heretofore and
there will be no new mortgages result
ing from the drouth.
DR. Rafter. who was major surgeon
of the twentieth Kansas, has been re-
tired lom the hospital service at Man
lila and will return to Kansas, making
his home at Holton.
Miss Julia R. Pearce, a Kansas wo-
man. has been appointed an analysist
OF soil IN the department of agriculture,
Washington. She got the position be-
cause of her experience.
There is plenty of stock feed in Atchi-
son county. Many corn fields will
turn out 30 to 40 bushels to the acre,
and the crop of the county will average
10 bushels. E astures are renewed.
jackson county farmers are encour-
aged as their corn will make more grain
than was expected and an abundance
of fodder. Many of them are planting
beans, kafir corn and cow peas.
4 mass meeting at Fort Scott of $500
people adopted eblutions demanding
that Rev. Fraz' ~ others who are in
sisting upon t as enforcement of the
prohibitory law I've the city. Ar
rangemenfs were made for committee
of SO to see to me execution of the res
olution.
Both Calvin Titus and Albert Sonich-
son are orphans under the guardian
ship of the probate judge of oedgwick
county Titus scaled the wal Pelzin
and Sonichsoh was with ! utenant
Gilmore prisoners of FilipinOs. He es-
capped and Was the main feature in the
final rescue of the Gilmore party.
Three girls of Wellington, Terra Cor
der, Lillian and Clara French, were in
a buggy which was run into by a huck-
.ster wagon The runaway resulted in
very dangerously lnjuring Miss Corder,
md SauaraIu in Clara
Lillian French was thrown into the
air eight feet but was not injured.
Harper county is expected to have
this year 1900 to 4 1000 bushels of corn.
1T had bumper wheat crop Kafir
corn and cane are largely planted. The
general practice of grazing winter
wheat makes the demand for other
feed small. This is the most profitable
year for the farmers of Harper county
of the % years of it's history since SET
Element.
There are quite number of citizens
of Kansas who hold some office, who
have drawn claims in Oklahoma. There
are others who took notaries' commits
Aions while there and in applying for
them declared themselves citizens Oh
Oklahoma. They now have to meet
the legal opinion, which seems to be
undisputed, that, taking such commits
sions and maintaining the required res
.idence on claims, in either case ends
their citizenship in Kansas, and also
yacates their official positions.
The Wichita packing house is work
ing on extra time to supply the new
towns in Oklahoma with sausage anC
boiled ham.
The regular annual wheat jubilee a
Wellington will occur September "a tx
rs. Sumner county produced from
1889 to 1900, 3s, 1884 SIS bushels of wheat
For several years Sumner county, pro
duced one per cent of the crop of Amer
lea, and for the past ten years has pro
duced more wheat than any other coun
ty in the United States, and holds tina
record for 1901.
1t is said that lightning started tel
prairie fires in Gray county, three @
which did considerable damage.
Butler county had only 10000 acre
of wheat. 1t does not claim to rank a
wheat county. The county has 10, 90
acres of alfalfa. The corn acreage thi
season was 1861 acres, some of whic
viii make from IS to 4 crop. The
there is $4,000 acres of kafir corn an
10000 acres of sorghum which have a
held up well and will make good crop
Thousands of acres of wheat and ry
will be sown for pasturage.
There is plenty of forage in Wabau
see county. Farmers planted foras
crops in the dryest time which is no
coming on.
= Frank Milliken, of Santa Fe is to |
appointed register of the Dodge CT
land Office, says the Topeka Capita
and L. j. Pettijohn, of Garden City, I
ceiver.
Selling of stock is stopped in Dougl
county and even buying commence
Corn varies from a fair yield to on
good fodder. Forage crops are beil
generally planted.
One jointist in Topeka had separa