Free press., 1901-08-31


There are fields of corn about Doni-
phan which viii make so bushels to the
acre.
L. NJ. Radley, deputy sheriff of Cher
olzee county, has been missing for
weeks
One township of Sedgwick county has
pest consisting of millions of black,
birds
Edward Berry has served thirteen
terms as county attorney in Marshall
county.
Two negroes held up two harvesters
at Saiina, robbed them and bruised
them up badly.
A ST, ,OO0 loss by fire occurred at Nc
Pherson. A lamp exploded in the hay
in livery barn.
The Lawrence canning factory is the
only one noticed in Kansas which ex-
peers 70 can corn z4---.ssa~
The Standard oil company has placed
tanks at Alma for supplying all of Wa
baunsee county. -ezsz.SsFseSSssszzer.95szsssss 5zs5ss
The Santa Fe has made reduction
of one third In rates on corn for feeding
purposes in Kansas. 90 szSssEEsa4s.;sss.s-
Topeka has less than half mile of
wooden sidewalks left. Brick has su-
perceded the boards
Creamery supplies are generally re-
ported as getting back to the usual
figure since the improvement in pas
lures. =ss:..-.-,.
During the past few years the west
ern Kansas counties have been prompt
in the payment of bonds issued since
the boom days. -
President Davis, OF the Chicago
union, who refused to order his men
out at the command of Shaffer, was
| raised in Usage county, Kansas.
1t is a truth worth hammering at
that Kansas farmers could raise just as
many and just as good or better pota-
toes as Colorado if they would irrigate.
A Russell county paper publishes as
a fact that a man who is worth SO, 900
tried to work the county into paying
the costs of sending his wife to the in
sane
j. 4, Mcclure died in Denver the
other day. He was an officer in the
| 18th Kansas in the civil war; lived in
Crawford county after the war, and
| was several times member of the Kan
sas legislature.
Ernest brewers, of Bently, marketed
load of alfalfa seed which he sold for
$361.67. He says that one acre of his
alfalfa produced Is bushels of seed,
which breaks the record. That acres
seed brought SOL.
The modern Woodmen of Doniphan
county held three days agricultural
exhibition and picnic at Highland Sta
ton. The sheriff gathered in five pris-
oners, two wagon loads of beer and a
wagon load of gambling outfits Fif
teen gamblers got away.
Many thousands of acres of Ffnney
county are covered with wonderful
crops, the result of irrigation. Garden
City is the center of the alfalfa fields in
Western Kansas. Alfalfa seed sells at
|
There never has been SO 1arge.a demand
for the seed.
An excellent quality of water-white
oil is said to be produced from the Kan
, sas petroleum During 1900 thirty
eight producing wells were drilled and
fourteen old wells abandoned, making
100 productive oil wells in Kansas at
; the close of the last year. Five dry
5 holes were drilled during the year
making the total number completed
43.
5 A powder company has purchased a
tract of land near Cherokee and it is
the intention to erect there one of the
largest of powder plants.
Mrs De Forrest is to have an So, 600
900 estate which Henry Dolan, of New
/ York, has left, she being his neice and
t only heir. She was employed as book
1 keeper for the Atchison Globe for long
time, but after her Erncle gave her $50 a
/, month she removed to Irving, Kas
Y where she still lives The fortune is in
d New York property. Mrs. DeForrest il
. ineredulOus concerning the report
:, Wichita is to hold a special election
t on September IL to vote upon issuing
a $50, 600 in bonds to assist in-the rebuild
S ing Of the burned Dold packing plant
In Ellis county, wm. Bemis' thre.
story barn was struck by lightning anG
|, burned, together with his farm ma
e chinery, 1000 bushels of wheat and p
Il tons of hay.
John B. Payne, formerly an .office1he,
S in the Santa Fe shops at Topeka, is nov
o commercial agent for the Texas & Pa
r cific railroad with headquarters a
Louisville, KY.
n Ellsworth Kelley, of Yates Center
e superintendent of Woodson count,
Y schools, is making a valuable reputa
'e ton as story writer, having one, a
i least, accepted by McClure's magazine
:, 1.-TWO of a Kind. in the July number
The people about CenterviIle, Bour
If bon county, meet every season at tn,