Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-07-27
ksasas News Notes.

hard. red Russian or Turkey wheat,
for the production of which Kansas
has become famous, was originally
brought from the Crimean peninsula
OF Southern Russia. Kansas wheat
growers and millers are convinced of
the great desirability of sowing from
time to time imported seed. or seed di-
rectly descended from imported stock,
in order to maintain in future without
possible impairment the high grade of
wheat and Hour they now produce. To
this end the State Millers' Associa-
ton and the State Grain Dealers AS
ISOLATION appointed last year a joint
committee to import and distribute at
actual cost cargo of seed in time for
this years sowing. Inquiries about
this are constantly being made of the
State Board of Agriculture, and Sec
rotary Coburn is now authorized to
give the following information:
Fifteen thousand bushels of this
wheat, the product of one mans rails
ing, was due to reach New York direct
from the Crimea, July 5. 1t will arrive
at Kansas City, in bond, about July
Is, be stored in government ware
house, and distributed from there in
car lots to the parties in Kansas and
Oklahoma by whom it was ordered.
This wheat will be in sacks holding
3k bushels, and Mr.. B. Warkentin of
Newton, Kan, chairman of the COM
mittee having the Importation in
charge says that as near as he can
figure the cost will be very close to
$3.50 per bushel, exclusive of local
freights on small lots.
This, all things considered, is a very
low price, and of course is only made
possible by the patriotic enterprise of
the gentlemen who undertook the pur-
chase and Importation for the public
good.
Mr.. Warkentin will distribute from
1900 to 1000 bushels of the seed to
applicants while it lasts, and the fol-
lowing named parties will also have 1t
in quantities for the same purpose.
viz: ]. D. Bowersock, Lawrence; Thos.
Page, Topeka; A. T. Rodgers, Beloit;
! Murdoch Grain Co., Clifton; Arkansas
City Milling Co., Arkansas City; c.
Hoffman & Co, Enterprise; H. M. Hal
loway, Larned; Geo. H. Hunter Mill
ing Co., Wellington; Imboden Milling
| Co., Wichita; Walnut Creek Milling
Co., Great Bend; Stafford Milling and
Elevator Co., Stafford; Janett &
Moffett, Peabody; Thorstenberg
Grain Co., Lindsborg; The Hal
stead Milling and Elevator Co.. Hal
stead, all in Kansas; also the Black
well Milling and Elevator Co.. Black
well, Okla, and Kingfisher Milling Co.,
Kingfisher, Okla.
There is not a winter wheat grower
in Kansas who should fail to secure a
few bushels of this seed, which has
come direct and through first hands
from the original source of supply.
An AtchiSon county woman sold
81 900 worth of butter last year and an
other woman made 1854 by selling but
ter and eggs.
Secretary Coburn advises the farm
ers to burn their wheat stubble when
ever possible, so. as to cremate the
Hessian fly.
| An Emporia man who was arrested
for striking a little girl claimed, as
his defense, that he thought she was
his own child.
The combined weight of Holton's
| three heaviest circumstances Tucker.
Moses Sarbach and William Fishers
! ,070 pounds, or more than half a ton.
| So many of the employees of the
| Lyons salt plant deserted to go into
| the harvest fields that the plant has
shut down until after the crop is gath
cred.
James Jenkins, of Grant township,
pays 25 cents apiece for all bull snakes
| three feet or more in length. He
| tames them and trains them to catch
mice and rats.
Kansas has So 100000 acres of land
! without mountains and without
swamps; also thirty-eight rivers, 163,-
900 acres of artificial forests and a.
| 600 900 fruit-bearing trees. How's that
| for a desert?
Columbus wants a tower clock for
the court house.
The state board of health ought to
do something about Topeka. There
ence of "nemona," "lagrip," "tobacu-
losis,'' .tyfoe numonia.' "suisided.' .
paralysis ''blodd poison -absess,' -
spinal mengetis" and ''palilisis.
Harry Smart, of West Atchison.
started to take a trip around Cape
Horn. After travelling about 500 miles
| on the steamer he decided that he had
| enough of it and landed at the first
post. He is back working on the farm.
where sea-sickness is unknown
| All other claims regarding the
| whereabouts of the meanest man il
Kansas are swept aside by the Douglas
| county man who tried to send his
mother to the poor farm on her 99th
| birthday. And he owns 240 of the
most fertile acres in the county. too.
Emporia refuses to be outdone by
Eldorado. As soon as it became known