Free press., 1903-08-15

hard wheat shall be required TO weigh
60 pounds to tue bushel instead of Gl 4
Badly stack burned wheat is 20 be
added to the rejected class. No 1 red
wheat, weight same No. 1 hard, re-
lection same as No. l hard wheat. A
new grade of corn is to be established,
with a classification between No. 4 and
mo grade. The grading OF 6afir corn
has been changed from No. l, 2, and
4, mixed, to No. 1, 2. and 4, white,
and No. /, ?, and 4, red. A weight
test has been established for oats. No.
/ oats shall be required TO test 3:
pounds TO the bushel and No. . shall
be required to test as pounds to the
bushcl.
KANSAS FLoUR-For the first time
in the history of the milling industry
of Kansas the entire output OF -four in
the state this year win be sold in east
ern and foreign markets as Kansas
flour Heretofore it has been custom
airy for tine Kansas lnillers to market
their -four under some of the more pop
popular Minnesota brands. Hereafter
Kansas millers will refuse to brand the
Kansas flour as anything other than
the product of Kansas mills.
NEW CHURCH AT PRATT.-The build
ing committee of the Baptist church at
Pratt have secured prepared plans
which show u very elaborate structure.
The building will be 49x0i feet, divided
into convenient apartments. There
will be an auditorium, Sunday school
room, six class rooms, three dressing
rooms, ia baptistry, three vestibules,
an infant class room, two front en-
frances, one rear entrance and one
side entrance; also large basement
ASKED TO SERVE AGAIN-The Kan
sas worlds fair board has sent for ii.
II. Kerns, of Bonner Springs to tender
him the position of director of agricul
turc of the Kansas exhibit at the
worlds fair, if he viii take it. Kerns
conducted the Kansas agricultural dis
play ut the Chicago worlds fair.
WORST IN 20 YEARs.-That part of
jefferson county in the Kansas river
VttIlcV experienced al OCSJItiCIlNG N4lltt
storm on August 5. Barns and out.
houses were blown from their founda-
tions or unroofed. Apples We're
stripped from trees and corn was bro
! ken off at the ground.
BOGUS CHECK FOR PONIES. james
Snow has been arrested in New York
! on the charge of passing bogus check
i'll payment for {; carload of ponies
from the Westcott ranch in Dickinson
county Sheriff Bake, with requisi-
tion from Governor Bailey, has gone
east TO get the prisoner.
AL GREENE LEAVES KANSAS. A bert
| r. Greene. a pioneer Kansan, politician
and newspaper man, has sold his home
in Lecompton and will become resi-
J dent of Portland, Oregon.
| KANSAS GETS 25o MORE. .-Applica-
tions are now on file for 500 free rural
delivery routes in Kansas. Exactly
! one half will be esta ablished. That is
Kansas share.
FoR CITY PARK K-Cotfeyvillc is to
vote upon issuing S., 900 in bonds for
the purpose of buying land for a city
park.
LINE OF THEIR OwN.-Arl1ansas City,
Geuda, Wellington and Winfield threat
en- TO build an interurban line of their
own.
Hail SroRMs. Topeka, Atchison,
and Troy report hail with heavy rain
on August >. The hail did no damage
SHORT TAx LIsrs.-The delinquent
tax lists of many counties are not long
enough to pao for publishing them.
NINE PARTIES OUT.-The University
of Kansas has sent out nine scientific
| expeditions this summer.
NEW TELEPHONE LINE.-The Santa
Fe-Garden City telephone line is open
and doing business.
REUNIONS MERGED. The Forest Park
Veterans Reunion association, an or
ganization including the counties OF
the Second congressional district, an
nOUnces that is annual reunion, fixed
for September l to 4, has been called
off and that the event win be merged
with the state reunion at Lawrence
September to 20.
FOUND PEARLs.-For a month Il
party has been searching for mussels
in the Neosho in Allen county, and tho
lola Register is told that $500 worth OF
pearls have been found by them
PETnFIED SEAI--Councilman F. O.
Peiker, of Paola, has purchased from
John Reed. 4 farmer at Louisburg, a
pctrified seal, and has placed it in the
city park at Paola. Mr.. Reed discov
cred it on mis- farm some years ago
and many scientists have sought to buy
it.
QUARANTINE RAIsED.-The cattle
men of Graham and Cove counties have
convinced the sanitary board that there
is no mango there and the board ex
empted those counties from the dippin NJ
order.
MUST TEAR DowN ALL FENCES. "A
II. Burtis, special agent of the interior
. | Oenartofent has r-eturned from Wash