Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1903-11-14

devoted to the dairying Interests 1t
contains 22S pages, prcfmsely illustra-
ted. 1t contains the following: Tween
ty years ago Kansas had but All, 54s
milch cows. and scarcely n creamery
worthy the name, and their product
was unsought. Ten years ago Kansas
had 567, 355 mileh COWS; creameries of
a better class were being slowly estab-
lished, but their output begged mar
let. Today Kansas has sO2, 73S mich
cows, or more than at any previous
time, and many high grade creameries
and cheese factories, including the
largest creamery in the world, hun
dreds of contributory receiving and
skim stations and their products are
sought beyond the supply"
NEWEST TEACuER Tho Lincoln
Sent claims to have tound the ner-
West school teacher in Kansas. Miss
Jennie BRAND was thrown from a
horse sustaining a fracture of the large
bone of the forearm. She thought it u
sprain and taught school ali of the sue
ceeding week, enduring the pain pa
ticntly as we'll as the inconvenience OF
writing with the left hand. On Satur-
day she rode to town in Il lumber
wagon, had tue fracture reduced and is
in school again.
CONSUMPTION IN KANSAS. state
board of health has published statis-
tics which show that consumption
causcs more deaths in the state than
any other disease; being % per cent
greater than either smallpox or typhoid
fever. In the last three months there
have been 353 cases of consumption re-
ported and 148 deaths, in IS OF the los
counties of the state
HALLOWEEN IDIOTs. of Hays
vile. Sedgwicll county, are the cham
pions. They smearcd the Methodist
Snd Christian churches with coal tar,
leaving obscene pictures and vile in
scriptions on colored glass windows.
a subscription paper was circulated to
apprchcnd and convict the low down
scoundrels.
TROLLEY TO CANAL. GEoVE.-The To-
pe1a & Council Grove Electric Railway
company is organized. 1t is composed
of local people Farmers and business
hind the enterprise.
HOPE TO QUAsH.-Thc ATTORNEYS for
William Martindale have fled their
briefs with Judge Phillips in the fed
crai court and are hopeful that the
second Indictment against Martindale
will be quashed.
SOLDIER KHIED.-Earl Steinbroolt,
a young man who served two years in
the Philippines in the Forty fourth in
|. f;lntry, was kicked by horse at Nor
ton and died two days later from the
effects of it.
REWARD OF S., OOO.- Santa Fe
has made an offer of n reward OF that
amount for evidence sufficient to con-
wet the parties who caused tlie recent
wreck in Colorado.
GEAssHoPPERs IN NORTHWEST
Grasshoppers have been causing con.
in the northern and north western part
of the state.
WAGES OF SECTION MEN.-The wages
of section men on the Frisco at Fort
Scott have been reduced from 81. 40 to
81. 80 a day.
ARKANSAS CITY DARK-The raise in
the Arkansas and Walnut rivers
drowned the electric light plant.
A BEET TEsr.-Tnc beet test al
Rocky Ford awarded those raised near
Arkansas City first place.
A STREET CAR LISE.-Salira expects
to have one in the near future, to be
built by Colorado men.
OCTOBER ARnEsTs.-There were 22T
arrests in Wichita in October and S.,
$40 collected in fines.
WANT MnDIc1NE HANDY.-M. K. &
Z. railroad men ut Parsons will peti
ton the company to establish dis
Pensary at Parsons The men claim
that they pay fees that entitle them t.
medicine free, but that they canuo
procure it without sending to the hos
pital at Sedalia.
PoP CORN AT SIN. L. Moore, neal
Wcstmoreland, has harvested one thou
sand bushels of popcorn from tifscel
acres, or scventy-fvc bushels per acre
He finds a ready market for it ut 81
bushel.
BLOWN TO AToMs.-The Frisco min,
of Galena was the scene of n lorribi,
accident. James Drake, Fred Chill
dress and Dick Arnhart were the vic
Tins of all explosion. Drake wa
blown to atoms, Childress fatally hur
and Arnhart severely cut and bruised
CASH BOND PREvESrKD.-The To
pelia city council refused TO grant
franchise to the Topeka Manhattan
Electric Railway company because i
declined to furnish to the city 81 ,OO
cash bond to guarantee the eons;ruc
ton of tine line.
GRADUATES GET SCHooIs.-Amop,
the teachers of the district schools o
Shawnee county thirty-five are grad