Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-07-04
KANSAS COMMENT.

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HAHvEsTEI;'s RATES The railroads
ont of Chicago have granted rate of
one cent a mile from Chicago to the
Kansas wheat fields.
TRAIN STIASDED A MoNTu.-A Rock
Island freight train was caught be-
tween washouts for month four miles
west of Abilene The repair train
reached it and rescued it ON June %.
KANSAS Books. 1t has become n fad
TO collect libraries of Kansas books.
Many of them are ont of print and
quite expensive There are over $50
books by Kansas authors orabout Kan
sas.
OSE VorE AGAINST BOSps.--In Min
neapolis only one vote was cast against
the proposition to issue bonds 10 the
amount of SIS. 600 10 aid in the con-
struction of the north and south
road.
To HAVE CHARGE or EXHIBIT Prof.
G. p. Grimsley, OF Washburn college,
erals and manufactures exhibit Kansas
will make at the st. Louis fair, by the
Kansas fair commission.
MORE WAGES GRANTED There are
several hundred men employed by the
contractors who are erecting new build
ings ut Fort Riley. The men have been
given, without the asking, a raise of %
cents upon the days wage.
Work on N. II. & G. RAILWAY
Graders, scrapers and metal for the
construction of the Nebraska, Kansas
* Gulf railway is beginning to arrive
in Salipa and it is expected that work
on the new road will begin within a
few days
WORKING DAY AID NIGHT. The
Santa Fe shopmen are working day
and night on account of damage done
TO rolling stock by the flood. There
arc about =, 500 men employed at the
shops and more are wanted. The same
condition exists at all the repair shops
along the line.
IAN Old TIMER MOVES. b. Tom
hnson, of Minneapolis, formerly war
den of the state penitcntiary, and one
of the we'll known lawyers of north
central Kansas, has moved to Indcpen-
dence to engage in practice there
Tomlinson is one of the old timers in
northern Kansas.
HAD TO QUIT.-H. ). Douglas Of To-
pelSa, who had the contract for the con-
struction of the Allen county court
house at lola, has had to give up the
work, as the men he had expected to
go on his bond were citizens of North
Topeka who are not now in a position
to appear as bondsmen.
CAR OF SUPERNATURAL Anthony
such n car was unloaded which had
been covered with flood water at Kan.
Sas City and the car was packed with
mud. The lSraut was in cans and the
labels were off and the cans were mud
dy. An Anthony merchant had a car
of sugar in the flood which was totaI
loss.
COOP NEIG uBoRs.-The Ell Dorado
Republican has this instance: FranL
Heath is sick and is in Wichita hos
pital. On June 30 five of his neishb Dor:
in the forenoon and nine in the after
noon all with teams turned in and cul
tivated his corn for him doing n gooc
job. The incest people in the worlt
live on the farms.
HAD NEIGHBoRs.-P. b. Ross and W
Boughton, farmers south of Abilene
were left by the flood with lake 81
rods wide, a mile long and three to 81,
feet deep. Twenty-Five of their neigh
bors with teams, plows and scrapei,
met there and dug large ditch, run
ming the water into the river, drairin,
the fields so that corn could soon b
planted.
X. N. G. APPOINTMENT. -Gov. Bale
has appointed J. F. Roe, of Chanute, a
captain of Company d, First regiment
Kansas National, Guard.
BoURBoN COUNTY CoRN.-The heav
lest rain in years fell in Bourbon couu
ty on June %. Much of the corn Gro
had been replanted two or three time
and some of it is just up while man
fields have been cultivated once o
twice The wheat crop is better tina
had been expected.
LOST ESQ ACRES OF WuEAT.-Jaco
Meyer and his three sons, in Sumne
county, had three hundred acres c
wheat caught by tho hail storm. Th
grain on ESQ acres is a total loss; tina
on the remaining fifty is badly damaged
DE SoTo FARMER. -'"rhree weel,
ago." he said, Il had $50, 600 worth {
land. l refused $50, 900 for it la.
March. Now / have a hundred acl
lake and several hundred tons of clea
white sand which nobody wants. A
it stands my farm isn't worth a thor
sand dollars leaving improvements O,
of the question This is only "a san
pie case.
OAKLEY BANK RoBBED. The Sta
Bank of Oakley has been robbed of b
tween 81, 900 and 5000 The safe W;
blown open and wrecked.
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