People's voice., 1900-07-19

Beacon: A Sedgwick county farm
er has discovered new way TO esti-
mate the wheat yield. Speaking Of
the present crop the farmer said he
had been over his field pretty care
fully and that his wheat would aver
age approximately thirty-twO grains
to every head, and that his experience
as farmer showed him that the
average number Of good full grains o!
wheat to each head was about the
average of bushels it would yield per
acre He has observed it for years and
has found that il does not vary to any
considerable extent.
IL turns out that the supreme court
in the KUrnStett case held that youth
did not exempU criminal in Kansas
from the death sentence. ln the
appeal the attorneys for the defen-
dants0ught to have him escape with
a sentence Of one year, coDtending
that the Severest penalty which could
be passed was Imprisonment for one
year, owing to the age Of the murder
er, who vas eligible, 1T Was claimed,
only to the reformatOry or jail sen
tence. The supreme court OF Kansas,
following decision of the Missouri
supreme court, affirms the judgment
of the lower court and holds that age
has no significance and is no bar 10
the full penalty and thereby sends
the defendant to the penitentiary for
life. He was convicted Of murder in
the first degree. KornStett is the
young Harper county degenerate who
murdered little girl and threw her
body in a well.
Mulvane Record: J. S. Eitmiller Of
Beatrice, Neb, the patentee OF the
Beatrice Stock Tank, is here to
straighten up the work of Hartley
who claimed to represent Eitemiller
and who obtained number of notes
for territcry IN this part Ct the state
Hartley is now 10 Jail at Winfield and
will be prosecuted for fraud. 1t Is
now the intention 10 make this a
manufacturing point for these tank:
and several citizens are interested ....
Tue little Taylor twins came to the
house the other day carrying live
viper. One had the snake by the
head and the other had it by the
tail. VIM. Bruce was 10 Wellington
Tuesday, making final settlement o
his account as administrator Of hi
fathers estate. The Richey boy,
started their hay baler last Wednes
day and will keep it going till spring
They say the hay crop is very fine ant
they expect to do a big business,
Kansas has added SIS, 900 600 to he
taxable wealth during the past year
The returns OF the los county clerk
to the state auditor last year showet
the aggregate taxable property of tn
state 10 be a little under 1927 200 0jC
The returns OF the same clerks thi
year show the aggregate of Kansa
property to be over s342 100000.
large proportion OF the increase wa
on personal property. The same basi
OF assessment was used this year a
last. The people have more carriages
more pianos, and more of all the othe
comforts Of life than they had yea
ago. The returns this year slow tina
Kansas has Eli more pianos, y
more silver watches, 2,792 more gol
watches, 1882 more carriages, IA, SO
more wagons, 16,445 more mules, /,
2O4 453 more cattle, and l46,053 nor
horses than last year. There arr
however, the same discrepancies /
the valuation OF personal property i
various counties this year that theE
were last. Allen county makes th
best showing. For instance, ALE
county is the highest on horses, asses
sing them at 1850, while Cove is tn
lowest, s3.69 WYaudotte assessed q
1892, while Leavenworth, which DO,
ders it, assessed at sl7.52. Linn, at
j1ining Allen, assessed ats2l. 20.