Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 19, Ed. 2 Saturday, August 7, 1897 Page: 3 of 4
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WHEAT POINTERS,
Things Every Farmer Should Know
and Apply this Fall.
HOW TO PLANT WHEAT.
And What Yarletlen to Knlte to <iet the
Kent Heturn* for Your Labor—1Some
Valuable KxperlmeuU Lie-
tailed.
A HAPPY WOMAN
Oklahoma Agricultural Experi-
ment Station, Stillwater, ok. Aug.
o.—[Special Correspondence.] — Okla-
homa has had a wonderful wheat crop
this year. Encouraged by it, there is
every probability that those who can
do so will largely increase the acreage
next season, and that many who have
grown no wheat hitherto will put in a
crop this fall.
The Agricultural Experiment sta-
tion at Stillwater has issued a timely
bulletin entitled "Experiments with
Wheat, 1890-7." It is now ready for
distribution and will be sent free to all
who request it. This bulletin records
some remarkable yields of wheat and
it is probable that they have never
been surpassed anywhere.
It was not the object of the experi-
ment to endeavor to "beat the world'
and get the largest yield. Its purpose
was to try as many varieties of wheat
as were obtainable and to endeavor to
find out the'varietiesmost likely to do
well in Oklahoma. With this in view
"eighty-three plats, usually of one-
rfortieth of an acre, were sown Sep
tember 22d to 24th. There were sixty
four named varieties. The rate of
seeding was four pecks per acre.'
The results are summarized in the
bulletin as follows:
"The eighty-three plats gave an
average yield of 39.6 bushels per acre
Eight plats gave yields between 50
and 57; fourteen between 45 and 50;
twenty-four between 40 and 45; fifteen
between 35 and 10; twelve between 30
and 35, and eleven less than 30 bushels
per acre. The smallest yield was at
the rate of 19.5 bushels."
"The varieties giving the largest
yield were Fultz, lied Russian, Ful-
caster, Mealy, Uietz Longberry, Sib-
lev's New Golden, and Oregon Swamp,
but it is probable other conditions
more influenced the yield in many
cases than did the variety."
The bulletin also gives results from
.sowing at different dates which show
that, in this case. September sowing
gave the highest yields. The effect of
subsoiiing, deep plowing, rolling, and
different amounts of seed per acre is
also given
An important point to be considered
when preparing for the next wheat
crop is the selection of seed. The
yearbook of the department of agri-
culture for 1890 contains an article on
improvements in wheat culture, by
M. A. Carleton in wtich the import-
ance of good seed is clearly set forth.
This publication may be obtained
through our delegate to congress.
The use of shriveled grain is bad
practice. Wheat for seed should be
carefully graded by mem' of screens
and only the nice, plump grains used.
The shriveled grains are frequently
made so by rust and their use as seed
serves to spread the disease. Mr. Carl-
ton, in the article referrel to recom-
mends the following plan of seed se-
lection: "At harvest time, cut from a
good field a strip of the best portion,
tirst eliminating all rye and other for-
eign heads and large weed seeds.
After threshing the wheat from this
striD, grade it by means of a fanning
mill with special sieves made for the
purpose, so as to obtain only the
largest and most vigorous grains.*Use
the best grade of wheat both for sow-
ing the small plat and for the general
crop the next season. The next year,
use none of the field crop for seed,
but after grading the wheat from the
small plat, as bef >re, use the very best
of it for sowing the small plat and all
the remainder for sowing the large
field, and so on from year to year In
this way seed is never taken from the
general crop, which cannot be given
the same care as the s'-nall plat, and
there is a constant selection of seed
which is more and more rigid every
year. Moreover, there is no extra
labor involved, except the small
amount required for grading the seed
each year."
Right now is the time to begin in
the right way by grading the seed
and s'>wiug a small strip with the fin-
est grade for next year's seed. It
will pay and give big returns for the
small amount of labor involved.
KILLED FEVER TICKS.
Writes a Letter to r H rtm u. of Col-
uiubim. Ohio.
"Three years ago I was 6ick. I
couldn't sleep in bed. I slept in a
rocking chair (or 9 years and a half.
When 1 wrote to you about it you said
it was chronic catarrh of the bronchial
tubes and air passages. I thank the
Lord and Pe-ru-na that I have such
good health again. It i6 more than I
ever expected, to get well. 1 suffered
so much and 1 tried all the doctors
around here and everywhere I heard
of. and it was all in vain till I found
Pe-ru-na. After I took two and a
half bottles of l'e-ru-na I could sleep
in bed. Before I took the medicine, I
weighed 12*.' pounds,and today I weigh
153, and my flesh is as sold as when I
was young. 1 can't thank you enough
for tiie good your medicine did me.
There are a good many taking Pe-ru-
na in my neighborhood because it
cured me. Everybody thought it was
so hard to steep in a chair so long. I
am so glad that I found help at last. I
think there is no medicine like Pe-ru-
no. My cough is cured and 1 thank
you and Pe-ru-na with the Lord s will
for it." This letter was received July
20, 1897, from Mrs. Catherine Uerber-
ish, Burbank, Ohio.
Send for a copy of Or. Hartman's
latest book, written for women only.
Address the Pe-ru-na Drug Manufac-
turing Company of Columbus Ohio.
This book is beautifully illustrated,
and every woman should have a copy.
THE REFEREE REVERSED.
SMITH-ALLEN.
Had Realy Made Love to Wiss
Allen.
ENGAGED TO PHRONIA. SCKES
Smith* Testimony Net Everybody Against
Hliu—Seemed to Think Hlmteir
Hero—Payne Peal* Smith's
Epidermis.
District Court Finds McKennon's Estate
Accounts Correct —Other Canes.
The district court yesterday reversed
Referee Scothorn's findings in the Mc-
Kennon estate and Harry Colton case,
in which Harry Pentecost was re-
ceiver, and decided the receiver did
not owe the estate anything. During
this time the opera was given free for
public use for many charitable pur-
poses and it was attempted to col
lect for these The court held the re-
ceiver's action justifiable. The re-
ceiver's resignation was accepted by
the court.
Other cases disposed of were:
Divoice granted Frank O. Miller
from his wife Katie.
Judgment in favor of the Building
and Loan association against John
Cheatham for S400.U5, and also against
John Cowan for $276.
Harvest Jubilee.
The following orators will entertain
the people at the Harvest Jubilee and
Old Soldiers Blue and Gray at Nor-
man August 12th and 13th:
Gov. C. M. Barnes, ex-Gov. Wm. C.
lief row, Hon. A. C. Scott, and Judge
R. Keaton, of Oklahoma City; Col.
Henry E. Glazier, and Prof Hogue, of
the Agricultural college of Stillwater;
President Boyd, of the University,
Judge B. F. Wolf and Judge B. F.
Williams, of Norman.
An Oklahoma Shcrlll" Adinlulsters a Sure
Cure.
Alva, August 2.—[Special.]—The
cattle infected with Texas fever in the
eastern part of this county and placed
under quarantine, have been released
When the sheriff took charge of them
one man was losing an animal each
day. Sheriff McUrath, who is an old
time cattle man, made a preparation
of coal oil and lard in the proportion
of one pound of lard to one gallon of
coal oil. The cattle were roped and
the mixture applied with a broom and
in every case the animal was relieved
of the ticks and entirely recovered.
TWENTIETH OF SEPTEMBER.
Application was made today by the
sheriff of Grant county to Governor
Barnes for a requisition on the gover-
nor of Kansas for John Coffnian and
Walter Nelsin, wanted for burglary.
The amount stolen was so little the
governor did not think it policy to put
the territory to three or four hundred
dollars expense getting the men, and
refused to issue the requisition. The
men are in jail in Ness county, Ivan-
srs.
News reached here, from Altui, in
the southwestern part of Oklahoma,
that outlaws had killed Quanah Par-
ker, chief of the Comtnanche Indians.
Chief Parker was returning from Tex-
as with 300 members of his tribe, and
was encamped on North Fork creek,
They were engaged in a game of cards
when he w. s killed and robbed of his
money.
Captain W. H. Baker is down from
Cross to see Attorney General Cun-
ningham regarding the la v govern
ing distilleries. His son who haw the
contract for Building the Hutchinson
road this side of Medford, is an exper-
ienced distiller, having a distillery in
Arkansas, and Jesire to put one in at
Cross. He will use corn and peaches.
A social was given last Saturday
evening for the benefit of Mt. Summit
Sunday school, near Mr, Stumpff's,
northeast of the city. A very pleas-
ant evening was enjoyed by all.
There were about two hundred pres-
ent. Refreshments were served. The
amount taken in was $21.90.
A. G. Bush, traveling for a Weir
City coal company, was in the city to-
day. He was a first day settler of
Guthrie and was a.tonished at the
progress the city has made since. He
is an old friend of Mr. Tontz, the
hardware merchant.
G. S. Smith and wife, the parties
who had such trouble with Miss Grace
Allen in their love affair, passed
through the city on the train to their
Kansas home yesterday. They went
from Chandler to Oklahoma City and
took the train.
A stroke of lightning fit the distri-
butor in th • telephone office yesterday
afternoon and destroyed ttvo thir s of
the wire connections. Miss Ruby
Jones, the operator was severely but
not seriously shocked, being almost
knocked senseless.
That in the Date the City Schools Will
HeRin.
The city school board met last even-
ing and decided to open the city
schools about the 20th of September
and have a term of eight months
A frame building was ordered pur-
chased and moved on the school block
reserve on Capitol Hill, south of Vilas
avenue, for the colored children of
that end of the town, so that they
will not have to walk across the rail-
road to the Bockfingcr addition.
Adjutant General Rosenbaum has
issued the commission of Chaplain of
First Regiment Oklahoma National
Gaurd of El Reno, to Fredrick W.
Hawley and commissioned E. W. Snod-
dy as Second Lieutenant of Company
B. of Alva
Mrs. James Builen, of Perry and
sister-in-law, Mrs. Builen, of North
Dakota, arrived today noon on a visit
to Mrs. Henry Asp." They formerly
lived in Winfield.
Dr. Chas. Smith was in Lawrie yes-
terday to attend Lee Uooch who fell off
a freight train and was not expected
to live. He says that the bov will get
well.
Dr. Williams returned from Win-
field last night, where he went in the
interest of the city hospital.
Chandler, Ok., Aug. 3.—|Speciat
Correspondence.]—In the case of the
Territory vs. Grace Allen, charged
with attempting to poison Phronia S.
Eckes by mingling arsenic with her
food, milk toast, and poisoning her
mother, Eliza S. Eckes, who ate some
of the toast, at Baker, in Lincoln
county, July 11th, the defendant was
on July afith and 27th, on preliminary
examination I efore Judge S. A. Cor-
dell at Chandler, the sessions of the
court extending far into the night.
Immense crowds of men and women
from all over Lincoln county were in
attendance upon the hearing, and
from the first there has been the
most intense sympathy for the defend-
ant. Thecouit room was packed al-
most to suffocation, and those who
could not gain admittance lingered
about the court house yard and camped
out at night, as the hotels and board-
ing houses have been over-crowded.
The territory was represented by
John Embry, county attorney, and
John L. Crank, of Shawnee, and the
defendant by Hon. 8. S. Kirkpatrick,
of Fredonia, Kansas, and L. E. Payne,
of Chandler. The defendant's sister,
Miss Nettie Allen, and other friends
from Wilson county, Kansas, were
present at the hearing. The ladies
were out in full force. Some of them
even stood up for half a day at a time
to hear the trial.
Miss Grace Allen is a young lady 22
years of age, and is a school teacher in
Wilson county. She possesses a lithe
figure, is a decided brunette, large
lustrous brown eyes, with a profusion
of a very black hair done up in a
Psyche knot. She was neatly attired
in black, and presented a very pretty
and attractive appearance. She wore
no jewels excepts dull colored gold
ornament at her throat. Her manners
are gentle, her voice low, and every-
thing about her bespeaks modesty and
refinement.
The prosecuting witnes-, Miss Phro-
na Eckes, is an angular lady wearing
spectacles and affecting a literary air.
She acknowledged her profound affec-
tion for Mr. Smith with much non-
chalance, and spoke of her approaeh-
idg marriage to him without hesita-
tion or embarrassment. She is evi-
dently extremely jealous of Miss Al-
len, and spoke of her in her testimony
as her attempted murderess. Miss
Eckes has bluish gray eyes, hair of an
uncertain brown, a good nose, looks
old for 25, has a pale face, large red
lips, and big mouth, large ears and
somewhat affected. She wore tan
olored shoes, a straw hat with a black
velvet band on it, a veil, and dressed
in a light striped shirt waist with a
brown cloth skirt.
Mr. W. G. Smith, more familiarly
known as "Gill," the man in the case,
is also a school teacher. Hie personal
appearances are those of a practical
nonentity. He is short, not to say
stubby, with weak eyes behind gold
spectacles with an uncertain, furtive,
and indirect expression. His face is
inclined to be sallow. His eyes are a
mild i lue. His hiir is a reddish
brown, or light, and his mustache of
the same color is scattered and appar-
ently struggling to obtrude itself into
uncertain evidence. His shoulders
are inclined to stoop. Carriage is not
good, his dress plain, his manner
snappy. Altogether he is a most ordi-
nory person—such a young man as
might be found at almost any cross
roads—but he came to Chandler imag-
ining himself a hero. It is said that
he never appeared in court before and
had prepared to cut a dash. In giv-
ing his testimony, he flourished the
telegram calling him from Kansas,
saying that Grace Allen had poisoned
Phronia. This .he did voluntarily,
and he sat during the examination at
Phronia's side, and busied himself
writing notes and passing them up to
the prosecution, as if inclined to lead
the prosecution into what he consid-
ered the proper lines.
Such is a personal outline of the
three leading characters in the late so-
cial sensation at Chandler.
Mr. Smith testified substantially as
folljA's: "I told Grace Allen of*my
relations with Phronia Eckes July 2,
1S97, at Fredonia, Kansas; she asked
me to promise to marry her; I said
nothing, but reached for my hat and
left; I told her that she could not con-
sider me as her friend any longer; I
went to school with Grace Allen at
(ireat Bend, Kansas, and we became
acquainted at school; I have not kept
company with her all the time; I took
two buggy rides with her last mon th
I was not so indignant with her when
1 took her buggy riding as I was when
she asked me to marry her; I had no
desire to take her buggy riding; 1
only did so at her request; we corres-
ponded up to April 2d. 1807; then we
had a talk, and we burned our love
letters; I never directly promised to
marry Grace; I told her that if things
were different 1 would marry her: 1
told her I would like for things to be
different; I do not know anything
about (irace declining to take a school
at Neodasha, Kansas, in order that I
might get it: I sent copies of Grace's
love letters to me to Miss Phronia
Eckes; I began to pay court to Miss
Eckes in 1890; I expect to marry her:
[and he has since done so]; about
three weeks ago I told Grace Allen
that I intended to marry Miss Eckes; 1
came here in response to a telegram
from John Eckes. saving that Grace
Allen had poisoned Phronia; John met
me at Guthrie and brought me from
Guthrie to the Eckes home: I have
been stopping there ever since: I have
talked with the parents about this
case; I did not tell them that 1 had
been courting Grace Allen; I gave it
to them as my opinion that this case
ought to be prosecuted: I told the par-
ents I thought it ought not to be drop-
ped."
In the argument of the case the
Hon. S, S. Kirkpatrick aud L. E.Payne
handled Mr. Smith without gloves.
Mr. Kirkpatrick said a man who would
go back on a young, trusting and con-
fiding girl like Smith had done was
destitute of honor.
When Mr. Payne reached the testi-
mony of Smith in his discussion of the
evidence, he said, turning aud look-
ing at Smith.
"We will now contemplate for a
moment the Kansas Jay; the creatine
who was engaged to two girls and true
to neither. 1 expected from what 1
had heard of these two women's in-
fatuation for him to see an Apollo
Belvidere, a glass of fashion, and a
mould of form, some magniticient
specimen of grandly developed man
hood, such as men might be envious of
and women might rave over. But
when this insignificant, red-headed
specimen who, with his spectacles,
reminds me of a horned toad, jumped
upon the witness stand, I confess that
I was disappointed. And we now have
the honor to stand in the presence of
the lah-dedah of the lah-dedabs, the
beardless Adonis without any signs
that I can see of manhood about him,
and to feast our eyes upon his physical
graces ani beauties, his weak eyes,
and to rejoice in the sound of that
sweet little lisp of his—ta-ta. This
is the Oil hi/. We have seen it at last.
Engaged to one woman, with the day
appointed for his marriage, he entered
the widow's home in the state of Kan-
sas, and sought the heart of this poor,
innocent, pure, and trusting girl, and
gained it fearful thought! This is
the lliiiij, the gosling, that gave away
the secrets of his sweetheart and turn-
ed her love letters over to a rival to be
made the subject of her sneers and
jeers; who plighted his troth, his
fidelity, to one girl and then, in his
duplicity, said he hoped something
would prevent him from marrying so
he could marry another, and spoke
the words of promise to the ear of that
other, only to break them to her heart,
and laughed and danced to see the
fiendishness of his own treachery
pinch the lily-tincture of that other's
face and starve the roses on her
cheeks. This is the moo-calf who took
buggy rides with a sweetheart and
lisped in her ears the dulcet strains of
his puerile passion, then said he took
the drive at her request! This is the
double-faced hypocrite who, two weeks
age, held the lily-white hand of
this pure girl in his claws and
told her that he loved her and
is here today, writing notes to the
prosecution and aiding, in every
way possible to him. to send her
to the penitentiary. He says he ad-
vised the Eckes family not to drop
this prosecution. He says 'I never
mentioned marriage to Grace Allen,'
and then, in the next breath, he says,
'I told her that if things were differ-
ent I would marry her, and that 1
would like for things to be different.'
Think of that! Is not that the lan-
guage of a subtle, false, perjured and
disloyal villain? If 1 had a son who
would engage himself to one girl
while engaged to another girl, tell
their secrets, expose their letters, and
then come on the witness stand aud
attempt to swear one of those girls
into the peniten iary, 1 would shoot
him as I would a dog; I would throw
the lousy cur headlong into a well
filled with scaly snakes, that they
might hiss at and bite him from now
until eternity."
It was Payne's brilliant excoriation
of Smith, his exquisite pathos in de-
scribing the position of Miss Allen,
with the uncertain, prejudiced and
entirely circumstantial evidence, that
gave the latter her freedom.
DRY WEATHER,
Rain Needed Everywhere But Crops
Not so Bad ftfter All.
MICH CORN ALREADY MADE.
Cotton in h (iood ConditUmi — Aii I'.nori
out Crop of Mil Kind* of Fruit* -The
Weeklj Crop Itiilletln Hi-
purt KiiniurM|(lnK>
W. M, Bronson* left yesterday for
Colorado Springs and Denver on busi-
ness. Mrs. Bronson and children ac
companied him as far as Winfield, Kas.
where they will visit her parts.
The Salmon canning factorv opened
up today and by tomorrow will be in
full /unning order.
Carl Havighorst, who has been dan-
gerously ill, is today reported much
better.
A HEAVY DKAIN.
July Disbursement* of Curie Sam Exceeded
the Receipts.
Washington, Aug. 4.—The monthly
comparative statement of the govern-
ment receipts and expenditures for the
month of July shows the total receipts
to have been 889,027,304, and the dis-
bursements $50,100,908, leaving- the ex-
cess of expenditures over receipts 811,-
073.544. This deficit is accounted for
by abnormally heavy expenditures in-
cident to the beginning of the new
fiscal year. As compared with .June
the receipts were increased 82,442,050,
ami the disbursements were increased
by $27, ICG,214.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that the debt, less cash in
the treasur3* at the close of business
on July 31, was $903,440,046, an increase
during the month of $0,790,500, which
is accounted for by a corresponding
decrease in the cash in the treasury.
This decrease is in consequence of ex-
ceptionally heavy disbursements. The
debt, independent of the cash, was de-
creased by $330,010.
JULY COINAfii:.
' sbi
No Silver Dollars Turned Out He
ply Ik Sufficient.
Washington, Aug. 4.—The monthly
statement issued by the director of the
mint shows that during July, 1897, the
coinage executed at the United States
mints amounted to $670,850, as follows:
Gold. $377,000; silver, $200,000: minor
coins. $23,850. No standard silver dol-
lars were coined. It is stated, how-
ever, that there is no significance in
this. In explanation of the fact that
no standard dollars were coined, it
was said that the supplj* on hand is
sufficient for all needs, and, further,
that the stock of minor coins has run
very low. In order to meet the pres-
ent and prospective demands of trade,
the mints w«re occupied in coining
subsidiary silver, and probably would
So continue through the month of Au-
Wltlsperlnjr Gallery.
The most perfect whispering cnllpry
n the world is In the dome of St. raul's,
'n London.
Oklahoma City, O. T., Aug. 4.—
[Special ] For the week ending Mon-
day, August 1897.
The past week was very hot and dry.
A cloudless sky every day and with
the exception of a heavy shower at
Stillwater on the morning of the 20th
ult , ainountiug to 1.11 inches, no rain
is reported from any section. The
nights have been cool without dew.
The average temperature for the
week, 82.3 is 2.3 degrees above normal.
The dry, hot weather has been
favorable to cotton ami from the entire
cotton region the crop is reported t<
be in good condition, growing and
fruiting nicely.
A light to fair crop of early corn is
ripening and the harvesting of this
cr" p has begun. Late corn is in fair
condition in the western portion of
the western section ami in counties in
the other sections visited by the Jieav
iest rains of last week. At the best,
but a light to fair crop will be made.
Kvery where rain is needed, not only
for corn but for all late crops. The
ground is too dry for plowing, and
pastures are either drying up or are
very short.
The yield of grapes, peaches, pota
toes and melons is large.
Farmers are making hay and thresh
ing their wheat and oats as fast at
pos-ible.
northern section.
Prudence—We have had only one
rain since July 10th; the ground is too
dry to plow; farmers haye begun cut
ting corn; potatoes being dug and th«
yield is very satisfactorjr; wheat i
being threshed as fast as machine
can be had.
Alva—Past week veryhot and dry;
corn will make not to exceed one-third
of a crop under the best conditions
from now on: all late will be short.
Waynoka—Still hot and dry; our
corn crop will inevitably be short;
cane, kaliir and other forage crops, at
a standstill: pastures drying up.
Stillwater—1.11 inches of rain on the
29 th.
Kildare—Week has been dry and
hot; corn ranges from a full crop tc al-
most nothing: grass getting dry; good
deal of plowing is being done.
Cross—One or two good rains in the
next two weeks will n-iake our corn;
hay is tine; threshing, haying and
plowing are the occupations of the
day; preparations are being made to
greatly increase the acreage of wheat
this fall.
central section.
Norman—Dry and hot: late crops
suffering for rain.
Thurston—Very hot and dry; ground
too dry to plow.
Hennessey—Dry and corn burning
up; cotton doing fairly well.
Tecumseh—Dry and warm; cotton
doing well; corn needs rain; grass is
yet fair; too dry for vegetables; ground
too dry to plow.
Sacred Heart—Hot and dry; corn al-
most ruined in this vicinity; cotton
all right: grass drying up: late fruits
ripening
Kingfisher—Very dry: rain is needed
badly: cotton looks well but needs
light rain.
Fort Reno—Crops suffering badljr
from drouth.
Oklahoma—Warm and dry; cotton
doing well: all other crops aud in need
of rain,
southern section.
Overbrook—The week has been dry
and hot with cool nights; cotton fruit-
ing nicely and doing well; pastures
getting short and in some instances
stock water is scarce.
Purcell—Very dry, corn almost
made, cotton doing well: melons good:
need a rain to cool the air.
Anadarko—The past week has been
very warm, but no hot winds: are
needing rain pretty badly; corn will
be a fair crop; wheat and oats ar<- be-
ing threshed: millet is fiue and hay
good.
western section.
Seger —Hot aud dry; soiu< late corn
needs rain badly; cotton doing nicely;
stubble ground still mcist enough to
plow.
Putnam—A good week for all crops;
early corn ripening; farmers busy cut-
ting' hay and threshing.
Thomas—This has been a hot and
dry week, almost creating hot winds;
the corn in places is tired near th *
ground; deep cultivated corn is suflvr-
ing most: can and Kaffir are doing
well; much millet hay is being made:
cotton is growing and looks well, but
is late: nastures are somewhat dried
up.
Cooper—Weather hot and dry; crops
at a standstill: corn nearly ruined; no
farm work can be done except haying
and threshing.
eastern section.
South McAlester No rain: maxi-
mum temperature, 102; minimum, .00.
Wagoner—A very sultry week but
all corn has much improved: some
that was thought ruined will make
light crops.
Clifton —Past week lint and dry:
cotton doing well: corn wilting.
J as. I. wldmkyer,
Section Director.
INFIT FOR FODDER.
Cattlemen Denperate Over Laek « f Cantor*
Mild Water t aimed by Heat.
Emporia, Kan., Aug. 4.—Hot winda
in Lyon and adjoining counties have
dried and burned up everything in the
way of crops. Corn will not average
a bushel to the acre and is unfit for
fodder. Cattlemen here are desperate,
there is no pasture, no fodder aud
water is very scarce. They are panio-
stricken and are rushing cattle to the
market until there are not cars enough
to uieet the demaud. The apple crop,
which promised so well, has also Imen
iestroyed within the past feu days,
l iVen Kaffir corn and cane are shriveled
up, but the farmers claim they will re-
er with the first rain. These and
alfalfa are about all there is now hope
for.
M l: r l\V Illll.lt It A Dl Y lllTRT.
The Noted St. LouIsIhu'm Ankle Hroken In a
llicyele Collision.
St. Lor is, Aug. 4.—Lee Meriwether,
x-labor commissioner and democratic
candidate for mayor « f St. Louis at the
last election, had a head-end collision
with a scorcher while riding a bicycle
last night and his left ankle was
broken and the bones protruded. The
surgeons advised amputation, but he
refused and, owing to the intense heat,
blood poisoning is feared with fatal
results. If he recovers it will be
months before he can leave his bed.
HaIIroad 1'roperty Not AfTeeted.
k \nsas City, Kan., Aug. 4.—Instead
of carrying out its original plan of raid-
ing Wyandotte county's personal prop-
erty valuations $1,000,000 and reducing
the assessed valuation of lands 25 per
cent., for the purposes of state taxa-
tion. the state board of equalization
at Topeka simply increased the valua-
tion of taxable property in Wyandotte
county six per cent, for state purposes.
The railroad property in Wyandotte
county, assessed at a valuation of 81,-
503,lso, was not affected in the least
by the raise.
Dlstisirous Hlu/.e «t Jackson, Tenn.
Jackson, Tenn., Aug. 4. The largest
and most destructive fire that ever
took place in this city occurred yester-
day evening. The entire plant of the
Jackson Woolen and Pants Munfactur-
ing Co. was totally destroyed. Losson
buildings and machinery. $75,000; loss
on stock, $40,000. There was only $37,-
500 insurance on buildings and stock.
One hundred and forty hands were
thrown out of employment
McTaKgart Shot During u Quarrel.
Independence, Kan., Aug. 4. — Dan
McTaggart, well known in Kansas
politics, and his 14-vear-old son were
shot by Henry Sheesley this fore-
noon, the former through the body
and the boy the arm. The shoot-
ing occurred at McTaggart's mill, near
Liberty, which was being run by
Sheesley, and was due to some busi-
ness quarrel and a lawsuit.
(■round to a Pulp.
Sedai.ia, Mo., Aug. 4.—Floyd Bar-
rick, of Warsaw, aged 21, fell from an
excursion train on the Sedalia, War-
saw Si Southwestern railway near
Mora and was instantly killed, his
body being literally ground into frag-
ments by the wheels. Barrick's par-
ents live in Tipton, and the remains
will be taken there for burial.
To Do Penance for KchelHon.
Arni'KN. Neb., A u g. 4.—Father
Thomas Fit*gei'aUl has gone to Con-
ception, Mo., to enter a monastery and
fulfill the sentence imposed upon him
by Mgr. Martinelli for the part he took
in the contest of three years ago
against liishop llonaeum. lie will re-
main in the monastery in entire seclu-
sion for six months.
County Withhold, state Taxes.
Atchison, Kan., Aug. 4.—The state
of Kansas owes the county of Atchison
83,800 for the care and maintenance of
insane patients during the years 1MI5,
1800 and ls',17. The county commis-
sioners, at their monthly meeting yes-
terday, ordered the county treasurer
to pay no more state taxes until the
claim of the county has been satisfied.
tloplin liHinlilliiK Holism Closed.
JOI'I.I.n. Mo., Aug. 4.—All gambling
houses were closed by the police last
night, and City Marshal Morgan says
that under no circumstances will gam-
bling be permitted in .loplin. The
Sunday saloon law is also to be rigidly
enforced hereafter.
Arrcnted for a Ivji
Milan, Mo., Aug. 4.
lived near this city, w
terdav by Sheriff Let
criminal assault on a
named George of or
Kan.
uhuh Crime.
F. II. Hill,who
is arrested yes-
, charged with a
Hi-year-old girl
near Louisville,
Hi
Monthos
Forner, a
his entire <
thought tc
dia ry.
Fire brol
M<
.-Harvey
here, lost
ire. It is
an incen-
s store at
■d a hotel,
s and ten
it .^75,000;
c was in-
Sl h
lie, a f
While
Oscar Metz left yesterday for Bur
lington, la., to reside. He has se-lquadruf
cured a position in a meat market in i |,e
that city. His many friends here will j
regret his departure, but wish him
success.
A, Mo., An:-. ■ -.lolin Schal-
ner living near Sweet Springs,
. .ring out a spring on his farm
(1 mastodon at a depth of
et from the surface. The
ieth and jaws of the huge
(I are well preserved and can
mounted.
He
Calf sklii* Held t
Washington. Aug. 4. —A
retary Howell has rendere
in which he holds that
should be classed as "hide*
e Hide*.
istant Sec-
a decision
aif skins
)f cattle,*
W. R. Black, agent for the Anheu-
ser-Busch Brewing Co., has returned
from a several months' trip to Califor- and theivfor«
nia. He has completely recovered new tariff bill at 15 per cent, ad va
from his rheumatism. lorera.
dutiable under the
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