Morris tribune., 1883-03-10
GREAT FARMER DEAD.
The Brutal Murder of Dr. Hugh }
Glenn the Great Wheat Grower of
CaIifnEnia

California.
DR.. Hugh J. Glenn, the largest wheat
raiser in California, and ;iie Democratic
candidate for Governor Of the state in
1879, discharged his book keeper, Henry
Miller, on Friday last because he did not
do his work satisfactorily. On Saturday,
Miller revenged himself by shooting DR..
Glenn who died on Sunday last from the
effects Of the wound. Miller refused t.
surrender, after shooting DR.. Glenn, unit,
be was shot in the leg by Z. NJ. Cochrane,
the superintendent OF the farm.
Dr. Glenn was Virginian by birth,
MisSourian by education, and originally
a horse dealer by occupation. Nomlna-
ted for governor by the California dem
ocrats in 1870. he was styled the" Honor
able Blk" by Dennis Kearney, the
Sand-L0t orator ofSan Francisco, because
he persisted in being an ostenslble
workingman's candidate after the kear-
ney wing of that party had placed W: r.
White in the field. George Z. Perkins,
the republican candidate, was elected by
10000 plurality, the opposition vote be-
ing divided nearly equal between Glenn
and White.
DIR. Glenn, as already stated, was the
largest wheat raiser In California. His
great wheat ranch was in Colusa county,
and embraced about 10000 acres Of land,
and the number of acres in wheat each
year ranges between 10000 and $4,000.
Reckoning an average of from 20 to 25
bushels to the acre, the aggregate crop
each wear amounts to something more
than 100000 bushels. This enormous
amount of grain requires vast appliances
for planting and bringing it to market;
and the capital invested in machinery
alone sums up considerable fortune.
During the harvest time there are en-
ploved on the entire ranch some 800
men. DR.. Glenn was general-ln-chlefo OF
his force, and the ranch was divided, for
convenience of operations, into mine
smaller ranches-each with dwelling
house. barns, black smith shop, and 9TH
er necessary building. Cooperating
with their human brethren in the great
labor are 200 horses and mules, with
kinship of 900 mares and younger
stock which has not yet achieved the
dignity of labor. There are 81 dwelling
houses, q barns, IA blacksmith shops,
and other structures sufficient to swell
the aggregate to 100. The machinery
could not be replaced for 200; the
workhorses and mules are worth $llO,-
600; the brood mares and young stock,
$75, 900, and the buildings on the place
$4,000.
The gravelly roads are good on the
Glenn ranch, but the way of him who
inspects it is long and wearisome. 4
whole day will not suffice to see all the
farm houses, to inspect all the machinery,
to ride from end to end through the
long lanes in the amending wheat, to
see all the small armies of men engaged
in their diversified labor. DR.. Glenn
himself, though all the time on wheels,
was unable to complete the circuit in a
single day. Though an early riser,
twice week was as often as he could
cover all his vast territory and inspect
personally the operations of his en-
ployes. There were required during
the harvest season about 500. Three
hundred were required the year round.
Some of these are permanent, but most
are of floating class, who work month
week, or day, as suits them, and
then seek fresh pastures and other wheat
fields.
OF the $4,000 acres of his ranch DIR.
Glenn cultivated 45 900, the rest of the
land lying idle only because it is in tim
Der, or cannot possibly be made
available. The ranch is unequaliy divi-
ded, the largest amount within one fence
being vast field of 10000 acres, All
the land under cultivation was invaria-