The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-29

which the late Bill Nye would describe
as having insufficient ventilation. The
'hrsts were packed in boxes and piled
up in the refrigerators; the seconds"
were packed and shipped Immediately
to market, and the ''thirdS"-I couldn't
find out what becomes of them although
I asked several times. Perhaps they
are sold to the hatcheries.
Every spring Mr. Baden packs away
in a regular temperature of 80 degrees
600, 900 dozen of eggs to await the high
prices of the following winter. At this
season of the year he can buy eggs for
g. and 10 cents a dozen. He has bought
them as low as 4 and cents when the
hens were particularly Industrious, and
he has paid as high as % cents when
they were lazy and the weather was
bad. At present they are selling in the
wholesale markets of the cities for 10,
II and Is cents; in the winter at 20 and
% cents a dozen. Mr.. Baden says he
has sold eggs as high as so cents a
dozen wholesale.
Every groceryman within radius of
100 miles is his agent. They take them
from the farmers wives in trade, pack
them in boxes which he furnishes and
ship them daily to his place at Win
field. He has buyers with wagons con-
stantly travelling from house to house
along the country roads, who deliver
their purchases at the nearest railroad
point and are paid commissions for
what they bring in. There are few large
a
1000 hens, but have not been able to
find him, and conclude that he must be
a myth. The average farmer keeps not
more than 100 or 200 hens, and can fur
nish from five to six dozen eggs daily
during the season. AS the cold weather
comes on the supply diminishes, for no
means have been found to make hen
work when she doesn't want to.
In the same way Mr.. Baden picks up
his supply of butter and chickens. He
handles about a million pounds of but
ter a year, and 1000, 900 pounds of poul-
try. The chickens are brought in alive,
and average four pounds in weight.
They are killed, dressed and packed in
large building, with machinery. Four
men can do up 1000 a day. The
feathers are practically worthless, al
though they are saved and sold to up
holsterers. The price averag es 2 cents
pound, but the entire product last
year came to less than 81, 000 which is
a small item in big business The
price of chickens is pretty regular the
year around, and ranges from to 6
cents a pound alive. After they are
dressed they bring from II to Is cents
in the wholesale markets.
Broilers," as spring chickens are
called in the trade, are packed in the
the winter trade and lie in the ice from
six to eight months before they are sent
TO market The best season for buying
brOilers is June and July. They bring
the biggest prices in January and Feb
ruary.
The town of Independence was the
home of the notorious Bender family
who, twenty years ago, on the road to
CherryVale, enticed travellers into a sort
OF roadhouse, from which few men with
money ever emerged Guests were
usually seated in a room with their
backs to a calico curtain, and while
Kate Bender, the siren, entertained
them "old man Bender hit them in the
hDo IL Of = b.
ak. When night came the family buried
its victims in the garden and took care
of the travellers teams in some manner.
generally driving them over into Indian
Territory and selling the horses and
wagons for what they could get.
A number of mysterious disappearance
finally, after a brother Of State Senator 15T
York was seen TO enter the place and
tee visited them and advised them to leave
the country within twenty-four hours. The
the report of the committee and when
the Blenders packed up and started on the
Nobody knows what happened, but the
popular impression is that the entire fam
the Arkansas river, and its outfit burned
The Blenders used to turn up OCCASIONALLY
they the were never satisfactorily identified,
ence know the reason why.
Senator York is the man who defeated
Subsidy Pomeroy for reelection during
the winter of 1915 and sent John James
ingalls, to the limited States senate. There
had been bribery rumors floating about
the state house at Topeka and the public
was in a very suspicious mood. SO one
day. just before the last ballot was taken,
York, who was man of dramatic man
ners, arose, and. placing roll of s.. 900 in
greenbacks on the speakers table, decIar-
ed that he had been paid that money by
5. G Pomeroy as the price of his vote, and
that he knew of other members who had
received similar amounts. Several states
men blushed painfully, and there was an
immediate stampede to Ingalls,
A similar trick attempted in the
Montana legislature last winter, when one
of the supporters. of Mr.: DAILY. shook a
.'wad" of $4,000 in the face of his col
leagues, and confessed that he had been
didn't work, and the money now lies I'M
urer. who will add it to the revenues of
the treasury unless somebody calls for it
before he makes his next annual report
There are few tough towns in Kansas
these days. Hard times and vice do not
go together, and the long period of de-
preston drove the sporting classes to more
profitable fields. When the Dalton gang
was disposed of in 1892 highway robbery
stopped, and there has not been a single
'hOld-up' for several years. 1t was at
the thriving little town of Coffeyville that
the DaltonS closed their eventful career.
Two brothers and one of their allies were