Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1902-09-27
KANSAS COMMENT.

the city clerk of Pittsburg that the coal
company wants thirty miners, and will
pay their railroad fare to Notation.
Boys FOR THE NAvY.-Twenty-tw
Topeka boys enlisted in the United
States navy last week. Those who en-
listed as landsmen were sent to San
Francisco and the apprentices to New
port.
KANSAS HAS CATTLE. beats me
how Kansas can afford to send in so
many cattle" said railroad agent
anyone would naturally think that
with all the corn and forage that is
being raised in the state there would
not be cattle enough to consume it
But there is world of cattle in the
West and Kansas always has her
share"
WoMEN WILL MANAGE IT.-The club
women of Abilene who constitute the
public library association and have
raised 81 900 as a start for the library,
have unanimously voted not TO consoli-
date the library with the high school
library as was arranged Il few months
ago. They will take their money and
start the library themselves, being
their own managers.
TwENTIETH's REUNIoN.-The Tween
tieth Kansas reunion at Burlington
closed with banquet, after which the
annual business meeting was held.
Colonel Metcalf and the other officers
were reelected. Walter p. Hull and
Mr.. Conlev, of Iol ;, were made presi-
dent and secretary of the entertain-
ment committee for next years meet
ing which will / { held at lola
STREET CAR WALK-oUT.-The lola
street car service was stopped by
walk-out. The men were refused their
request for {, raise of wages from IL TO
is cents an hour. This, they claim, is
the nature of the work. The cars be-
gin running about three o'clock in the
morning and continue until Il o'clock
at night. One set of men does not
work all those II hours but there are
two shifts who divide the time.
RAISES HEREFoRDs.-On his Kansas
ranch Mr.. sherman, of Geneseo raises
Shorthorn cattle, but ne has a ranch
in Mexico on which Hereford cattle are
bred. TheSe cattle are shipped to ten
eseo and fattened for the market. Mr.
Sherman owns about %, 600 acres of
land and leases about $4,000 acres,
which extends for sixteen miles along
the Missouri Pacific railway and
south.
FEEDS 5000 CATTLE.-N. NJ. Sher-
man, is proprietor of the sherman
ranch at Geneseo, comprising 40, 900
acres which is considered the finest
ranch in the state, if not in the south
west. Some 5000 acres of the land is in
cultivation, and the other is for hay
and pasture lands for the :, 200 head of
cattle on the property. Every year
Mr.. Sherman feeds in the neighbor-
many hogs.
INDIAN MATCH GANiE.-The Potta-
watOmie Indians, on their reservation
near HoltOn, played q match game OF
ball with the Sac and Fox Indians,
who live on q reservation in the north
ern part of Brown county. A big
crowd of Indian fans witnessed the
game, which was Il close one, the Sac
and Fox team winning by score of
to 1. large party of braves and
l,a f,si,N
county reservation to witness the
game.
INSPECTIONS ARE pRoFITABIE.-State
Oil Inspector Spencer turned 81, $50
into the state treasury, fees collected
for August. The expenses of the de-
partment were $3.50 State Grain In
spector Northrup turned in August
fees amounting to S4,6O3; expenses,
1901.
A HOTEL BURSs.-Heller's hotel at
Sylvan Grove, Saline county, and a
nearby dwelling are burned, causing a
loss of $4,000 in the hotel building
alene, besides considerable one on
furniture.
On GENERAL ToRRANCE's STAFF
Colonel !. Il. Grimes, of Hiawatha, has
been selected as an aide de camp on
the staff of General Eli Torrance, com
mander-in-chief of the G. A, R.. for
rhe national G. A. Il. reunion to be
held next month at Washington, d. c.
Colonel Grimes was an aide-de-camp
several years ago at the Louisville ma
tional reunion.
GETTING NERVE. Several of the stu
dents of Ottawa university have been
working as section hands on the Santa
Ife this summer.
GET NEXT To DAVIDsoN.-C. L. Da-
wilson, of Wichita, has bought lake
of seven acres of deep water, full of the
finest lake trout and bass. 1t lies in
the mountains of the northern part of
Colorado.
WILL BUILD AN ARMoRY. -Adjutant
General Fox, of the Kansas National
Guard, has received information that
Captain Charles Lander, of Company
X, at Lindsborg, promises to build an
armory at Lindsborg for his company
He will put his own money into the