Free press., 1906-11-10

baskets of white cling stone peaches
to Atchison the other day and sold
them to the grocers. He has never
been without peaches since July and
the variety brought to Atchison are
SO very hardy that he will put
some of them in his cellar where they
will keep for quite while. One of
the peculiar features about a peach
tree is that the bloom is so suscep-
tible to frost and cold weather. while
the leaves are more hardy than the
leaves of any forest tree
Alleged Wives to Testify-Deputy
Sheriff w II Webb, of Labette cOun-
ty arrived in Oswego from N Y. city,
having in charge Euger~ c. Bagwell,
who is wanted on the charge of be
ing tor much married. Webb has
been in New York three weeks try
ing to extradite his prisoner and I'm
ally succeeded. Bagwell is only %
years Of age and is of pleasing ap-
nearance. He has been twice mar
ried it is claimed. and is reported 10
have a number of engagements on
his hands at present. He has filled
several responsible positions while
fugitive from justice being private
secretary to Alton B. Parker, Demo
cratic nominee for president in
1904 His two wives will appear
against him at his trial here in De
ceinber
Kansas Corn Is BiIIionaire. -
| Secretary Coburn has made state
ment in regard 70 Kansas corn that
is very interesting reading: In
corn Kansas is a Millionaire; in
the last twenty years the state has
raised 2,957,122 161 bushels, worth on
the f. rms where grown over $751;
| 00.OO0 The value of the Kansas
corn crop of 1902, from only 13 per
cent of her area, was sufficient to
more than five times cover the cost
| Cf t entire Louisiana purchase and
nearly eleven times as much as the
| United States paid for Alaska. Uncle
| Sans reports point out that in the
| five-year period ending with the year
| 1900 the combined value OF Kansas
! corn and wheat exceeded that OF the
same crops of any other state IN the
! Union. Illinois came next, but fell
behind Kansas by a little less than
| $4,000 600. The three or four states
excelling Kansas in total corn pro-
| duction are her immediate neighborS
OF the prairie. OF these she is ne1th-
er jealous or envious, and to over
come any deficits in meat making
food caused by a decrease in corn
she has only to utilize one OF her
three. four or five outlines Of alfalfa
harvested each year. Missouri Tor
example is admittedly one of the
worlds foremost corn states; yet
Uncle Sans reports show that Kan
s1s in 1896 and 1899 raised more
corn by 40 per cent than was raised
/ bH Missouri In 1899. according to
the -.~vernment's reports. the Kan
sas corn Weld was greater than that
Of all the New England states, New
York. New Jersey, Delaware, Michl-
gan. Virginia South Carolina. Flori-
! da. West Virginia, Maryland, Mime
sofa. North and South Dakota. Mon
tana Wyoming. Colorado, New
Mexico. Utah. Washington. Oregon,
| California and Oklahoma combined.
Five wears later, in 1904, in spite of
her destructive floods. Kansas pro-
duced more corn than all New Eng
! land. Pennsylvania, Minnesota and
thirteen additional states and terri
tories. In almost any year three or
four of the more northern OF the
! states 1O5 counties produce more
corn than the entire Dominion OF
Canada. In 1889 the yield of corn
in Kansas was 273,SSS,321 bush
els
Sued Him for Alleged SIander. =
! A suit for $4,000 for alleged SANDER
was fled in the district court against
| Webb c. Allison, hardware dealer
of Muscotah. The plaintiff is Mrs.
Edna May Kelley of that place. who
alleges that he made false state
ments derogatory to her character
Enforced Eieht-Hour Law. = The
assistant superintendent of the state
bureau of labor and industry. w. u.
Robinson, of Topeka, has returned
from Stafford, where he went to en-
force the eight-hour labor law. The
city is putting in a system OF water
! works, and as there is no contractor
in charge of the work, the city Off
GERS are directing the laborers and
| fixing the hours of labor. The mayor
has been working the men ten hours
a day and Mr. Robinson went to
Stafford TO make an investigation af-
ter the report reached his Office.
When he found that the report was
true he says he notified the mayor
that it must stop and was told that
the law would be ignored He claims
he had TO threaten to arrest the
mayor before the hours were chang
ed.
Died on Operating Tab:e.-Nichol-
Il Spears, 9 years old, son of An
drew Speers. of NIuscotah, died while
being prepared for an operation to
improve his hearing. He died from
the effects of chloroform.
Killed ky Passenger Train. = Joe
Hornsby. brick workman. was kill
ed by a Santa Fe passenger train one
mile west of Cherryvale. Hornsby
must have been sitting down in the