The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-08-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Christian college.
Many fields Of corn along the Central
Ranch road are tasseling out
quarter section of land near Oberlin
rh;ch sold for $50 in 1888 recently brought
5000
Osborne county has paid S61O bounty
Al wolf scalps captured the past three
months
IN the county seat election In Wichita
county Farmer City was chosen by majority
ri 325 over Leoti.
Levi Billings corn, near Marion, averages
thirteen feet IN height and the ears are al
ready 100 hard for roasting.
John Walruff has sold his brewery and
otber tproperty at Lawrence, Las, $4,000.
The original cost was S9j, OtO
Clark Byrns livery stable on South Fifth
street, Leavenworth, was wiped out by fire
be other morning. Seventeen horses perish
q in the flames. III X
II Is said the Santa Fe company will com
mence grading their line northwest from Con-
i corda the latter part of July. The right Of
way is now being secured.
An accommodation train on the Missouri
Pacific railway left the track two miles south
Wreckng four freight cars
Joseph Smith and William Hove, farmers
Of Jefferson county, have been placed in jail
At Topeka for making counterfeit dollars,
halfs and quarters and five dollar gold
pieces.
Lawrence Journal: Mr. Garrett an ener.
getic farmer north Of town, has just harvest
ed 1.OOC~bushels Of wheat The grain was 80
l&nIu - Iva unrn hos rYa tod
bushels already.
Emporla Republican: Kansas has 7,OOO,-
900 acres OF the finest corn, and 1865, 900
acres Of the finest oats In the world and has
already harvested IL, 500. 900 bushels Of as fine
wheat as was ever grown. Kansas Is all
right
Lawrence Jomyma': Judge Bell has traded
over $50 600 worth Of Lawrence property to
Kansas City parties who will improve 1t. He
saws that the Communication rates will make
Lawrence property in demand with Kansas
Cityans.
Great Bend Register: Reports from the
farmers all over the county last Saturday
we're that wheat was better than they expect
ed 1t would be. and that corn never looked
better; and after all they have nothing to
complain Of
immense cribs ought to be erected close to
the Central Branch, between Atchison and
LenOra and Stockton, to store the surplus
crop Of corn which Il now promised from one
end Of the road to the other.
Minneapolis Messenger: The wheat yield
averages 20 to Is bushels per acre. 1t is a
nice plump berry, and the price is 80, IS and
80 cent per bushel The oat crop will be
large, 80 large that the price will be very low,
price offered now being 1215 cents
Solomon Valley Democrat: Mr.. A. w. Alb
bolt has secured q contract to build Is miles
Of railroad fence for the Union Pacific be-
tween Waldo and Plainville on the Lincoln
branch. He will have gang Of twenty men.
He will take al Of his old gang that are will
ing to 60
Wichita Commercial: Boomingl That u.s.
corn Is booming. Wheat Is cut, threshed and
ia now on the market oats are nearly all har
vested and corn is taking advantage Of the
best possible season to astonish the world.
The weather for corn has been all that could
be asked.
BY the records for twenty nine years, pre-
served By Secretary Graham, Of the State
Agricultural College, the average rainfall for
the months Of May, June and July is shown
to be 3.13 inches. The fall this year, is
probably fully up to the average, If not con-
siderably higher.
Beoit Gazette: This Is the ninth grain
crop we have seen in the Solomon valley (the
best country God ever made), and the wheat
exceeds anything we ever saw in any country.
The fields Of waving grain were simply
magnificent, and the yield will exceed the ex-
pectatlons of the most sanguine.
Smith Center Pioneer Jacob Moore
stepped in yesterday and showed us a land
warrant which was issued to his grandmother
for service rendered by his grandfather In
the Revolutionary war The warrant calls
for sixty acres Of land, is numbered $40, was
Issued October %, 1858, but never was used.
Salina Herald: The first load Of new wheat
vas brought to market a few days ago by Mr..
". B. Smith. 1t was raised on his farm
about five miles south Of the CITY. 1t weighed
sixty pounds 10 the bushel and was sold for
~ cents. As Is indicated in The weight, 1t il
up to the standard and heralds prosperous
fall trade.
Marion Record: This part Of Kansas, and,
indeed, so far as We can learn, every part OF
Kansas has been glorousiy soaked with rains
the past week. Corn never promised SO
Eandly. One farmer said to us Wednesday
that 1t looked as If corn was trying to make
~ AOr the shortage OF the past TWO years
ne said he saw one stalk the other day from
which seven ears were shootining. The
chinch bugs have been flying this week Ia
countless numbers Old farmers say they
hE
Downs Chief: The contractors who have
Oeen at work on the waterworks wells for The
past week, found water at the depth Of gu
leet, In nine feet Of gravel. Yesterday they
attached steam syphon to fad out the e.
aet amount Of water the well would furnish
4 Threw out with great force q three inc
sHeam or about one hundred and twenty
ganons per minute, and the best Of all the
wafer Is soft as rain water. This Is bonan'
a lot our city, an abundance OF pure sol
Ing
Concordia Blade: One OF the most pleasing
70 Kansas Is the country between this city
ana Atchison. 1t Is one vast crop growing
held In fact as the wild grasses, even, hav
Oeen supplanted BY tame grasses-timothl
ana red clover. The harvested wheat ant
sye are just closed, and the yield is enormous
Iofty Bushels of the former being turned q
many fields The oats crop TO be harves
VIII turn from thirty to sixty bushels 20 IN