Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-02-06
KANSAS COMMENT.


GARDEN SEEDs.-People of Kansas
are calling for and buying garden seeds
these early February days.
RACING CIRCUIT. The Arkansas Val
ley racing circuit held its annual
meeting at Hutchinson lastweek.
MARY ELLEN LEAsE.-This historic
Kansas lady is to chaperone a party OF
young ladies on tour of Europe.
a HEATED SroUr.-A mechanical
continuance in a mill at Atchison,
spout, became heated and caused fire.
EXCITED ABOUT On~-Dodge City is
Just little excited over what appears
to be a find of oil underneath the
ground.
For SWEDISH COLLEGE.-Subscrip-
tions, to be paid in installments, are
being canvassed for at Mcpherson for
Il Swedish college.
ASKS CHANGE or REcoRD.-The wild
CIV of Major Henry Inman, soldier and
author, is making an effort to secure
correction of his military record.
Too MUcu.-W. o. Prater, of Sumner
county, has an 11-year-old boy who put
in condition ninety acres of wheat
ground ready for the drill last fall.
DIAMOND RING.-A jeweler at Salina
is displaying a 81 600 diamond ring be-
longing to private party not named.
lie does not tell what the pawn check
calls for
WAS IN SALooN.-An Austrian
miner named Joe Teotta was frozen to
death in the main street of Chickopee,
a Mount Carmel Company mining camp
south of Pittsburg He was found by
an Italian miner on his way to work.
When last seen alive Tcotta was in
saloon.
PRIZES FOR BUTTER.-At the meeting
of the State Dairymen's association in
Topeka A. c. Tannehill, of Topeka,
won the S75 silver cup for the highest
scoring butter. His score was !69I.
J.. Larson, of Topeka. was second with
0616. John Compton. of Carleton, car
ried off first prize for the best cheese
exhibit. c. Il. Merry, of Nortonville,
was second. The meeting next year
will be held at Parsons.
Y. NJ. c. A. MEETING. j.
T.. Nissley, of Topeka, in his report to
the 22nd annual convention of the
Kansas y. NJ. C. A., states that Kansas
has fifty organizations, with mem
bership of s,252. The total value OF
buildings opened last year is SOS, 800,
rs follows: Winfield, 5000; Hoising-
ton. 3d. 500; Parsons, IL, 500; and To
peka Railroad, S35, 900. Lawrence also
reports progress on its building fund,
there now being pledged for that pur
proposition. The year closed with all
expenses paid.
WHEAT STORED ON PRARIE.-The
work of cleaning up wheat, stored on
the open prairie and without shelter
has been going on rapidly and now
but little is left At Belpre ID. G.. Don
AVIAN filed his elevator and then put
0,OOO bushels in ten piles on the sod.
Not until after October 10 did he COM
mence to clean up this surplus, and The
last of it has just gone to market. He
lost practically none of it, as the dry
weather prevented the molding even of
that next the ground. by running the
bottoms of the piles through cleaner
he made No. wheat of the entire co.
900 bushels. This has been the cxper1-
ence of dealers generally.
ORAToRICAI. CONTEST. Tho inter-so-
ciety oratorical contest at the agricul-
tural college resulted in victory for
the Ionian society, Miss Wilma G.. Cross
being awarded first place. This is the
third consecutive year this society has
received the honor. The subject of
Miss Cross Grafton was citizenship as
"A Factor in Government
MODERN WOoDMEN.- Many hundreds
of Modern Woodmen from Oklahoma,
Indian Territory and Missouri, rs well
as from Kansas attended the national
convention of that order in Wichita
CITY MAI. BoxEs.-Topelza has been
designated as the distributing point
for the city mail boxes. If any of the
towns in Texas, Arkansas, Kansas or
Oklahoma need boxes for the free city
delivery they win come from Topeka.
OF course the applications for the
boxes must be made TO Washing
ton.
KANSAS BALL PITCHER. Dummy
Taylor, the famous base ball pitcher
who was raised ut Winchester, Kansas
is teaching in Il deaf and dumb school
in North Carolina this winter.
HUMANE SOCIETY. Numerous in.
stances of cruel treatment and neglect
of horses in Winfield has prompted the
organization of u humane society The
local A. IL. t. 4. has taken up the mat
ter. The society proposes to prosecute
all offenders in a vigorous manner
CHARGED WITH BKmERY-Tcn in.
dictmcnts were returned by the special
grand jury in Wyandotte county
Three men are indicted on charges OF
bribery and seven are charged with
violation of the Cubbison gambling
law,
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