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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-25
,ntnam, Fisher, colestel Nays

son. Jersey. Putnam Fisher coles(6) Nays;
None.
Communication from the G. X. b. & O. R'y
Co. accepting franchise as granted read.
Moved by AID. Barker, seconded by Aid. Put
nam that the clerk have ordinance printed
which motion prevailed. Yeas AID. Barker,
Hudson. Jersey, Putnam, Fisher, Coles (o)
Nays:-None.
Auditing committees report read by the
clerk.
Moved by AID. Fisher. seconded by Aid. Put
nam that the report be accepted and placed on
file which motion prevailed. Yeas:-Ald. Bar
ker. Hudson, Jersey, Putnam, Fisher, Coles(6)
Nays:-None.
Moved by Aid. Jersey, seconded by Aid. Bar
ker that the matter Of printing be left with the
Mayor and clerk which motion prevailed.
Yeas:-Ald. Barker, Hudson, Jersey, Putnam
Fisher, Colese) Nays:-None.
Moved by Aid Hudson, seconded by Aid. Bar
ker that the contract with N. Lapham be re
newed for another year at 5000 with quarterly
payments; providing that should the electric
road be laid and watering trough interfered II
be discontinued, which motion prevailed
Yeas:-Ald. Barker, Hudson, Jersey, Putnam,
Fisher, Coles(6) Nays:-None.
Moved by Aid Jersey, seconded by Aid. Hud
son that the Mayor and City attorney be al
lowed TO employ the necessary lega! assistance
in the Alta j Hall case which motion prevailed
Yeas:-Ald. Barker Hudson, Jersey, Putnam
Fisher, Coles, O. Nays:-None
Moved by Aid Barker, seconded by Aid
Coles that the street committee be empowered
| TO have road running west from G, ID. Ellis i'm
proved which motion prevailed. Yeas,-AId
Barker Hudson, Jersey, Putnam, Fisher, Coles
g. Nays,-None.
Moved by Aid Barker, seconded by Aid. Hud
son that the nightwatch be instructed L
patrol Main street from the bridge at Richard
son Silk Mill, TO and across the bridge at tn,
east end OF Main street; north TO the northeast
corner OF Factory AZ; west TO railroad across
railroad bridge TO depot, west on Depot stree
to Richardson Silk Mill at least once an hour 4
possible, from to 1880 O'Clock p. IN. which
motion prevailed. Yeas,-Ald. Barker, Hud
son, Jersey, Putnam, Fisher, Coles, g. Nays
None.
Moved by Aid. Putnam, seconded by Aid
Jersey that the ordinance committee be in
structed TO draft an ordinance with claus,
pertaining to the setting out OF shade trees
which motion prevailed. Yeas-Ald. Barker
Hudson. Jersey, Putnam Fisher Coles. 8
Nays-None.
Moved BY Aid. Jersey, seconded by Aid Bar
ker that the Marshall be instructed to notify al
property owners to repair sidewalks when it i
necessary within 30 days which motion pre-
vailed. Yeas-Ald Barker, Hudson, Jersey
Putnam, Fisher, Coles 9. Nays-None.
Moved by Aid Fisher seconded by Aid. Hud
son that the band committee take up a publ
subscription TO help defray the expenses G
band concerts during the summer whi mo
tion prevailed Yeas-Ald Barker, Hudson
Jersey, Putnam, Fisher, Coles 6. Nays Non,
On motion council adjourned.
ALvAH w. PRINGLE. City Clerl
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-25

Running sores, ulcers, boils, pimples,
etc. quickly cured by Banner Salve,
the most healing salve in the world.
A sure cure for piles. w. l. Benedict.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-25
QUIT PAYING RENT
BUY A HOME

| have some good ones on
my list. The time to pur-
chase is when property is
raising in value. The time
to sell is when some one
wants to buy. Take advan-
tage of the situation. If
you have a house TO rent or
sell consult me.
| draw deeds, mortgages, wills, con-
tracts, investigate titles, make col
lections, etc.
E. 3. LAPHAM,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-25

Peptorene Tablets cleanse and i'm
prove the blood, curing all eruptions
of the skin. 20 cts. per box.
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H. ChiiAl nm
Health Omcer and City

Moved by AID. Barker, seconded by Aid Coles
that the report be accepted which motion pre-
vailed. Yeas: Aid. Barker, Hudson, Jersey,
Putnam, Fisher Coles co. Nays:-None
The following petition signed by II. c. Fried
ley and 10 others was read:
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-25
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Bedding, Apr 10, 1901.
Meeting called to order by Mayor Leonard.
Roll call; Present Mayor Leonard, Aid.
Hudson, Jersey, Putnam, Fisher, Coles o.
Absent, Barker %.
Minutes OF last meeting as read were APP
proved.
Aid. Barker takes his seat
Moved by Aid. Barker, seconded by Aid. Jer
sey that the following bills be allowed and or
ders drawn for same which motion prevailed.
Yeas:--Ald. Barker, Hudson, Jersey, Putnam,
Fisher, Coles(6) Nays;-None.
CONTINGENT FUND.
X. Robinson, PA days auditing city books 90
w. A. Wilder, +" 100
VIM. Is. Reed S 90
Belding Hall Mfg. Co Pumping for March 20 90
Mrs. Markell, IA days nursing at Morey's IA OO
STREET FUND
Chas. Loper, days labor on streets with
team, Is
Fred Rich, 2 days, hours labor on streets
with team, a %
Chas. Hagadorn, day, IA hours labor on
streets, 6s
The fire committee reported as follows:
Bedding, Mich, April 10, 1901.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN:--We the undersigned com
mittee, 10 whom was referred the petition in re
gard To extention OF water main from Pine st
west on May st. TO State ST. would say that We
have carefully loo ed the ground and locality
over thoroughly and do hereby recommend thai
the said extention be extended west on May ST
two blocks, and TO the west side OF street at enc
OF last block, with one hydrant placed ut OF
near the end OF said main, the size OF main u
be in. wooden pipe placed at the required
depth 70 prevent freezing. Signed by the com
mittee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-06

dfcated by the fact that Sumner alone
mas a greater acreage than the COM
b1ned area in 80 of those considered.
Counties having small acreages of winter
wheat should not, however, for a mo-
ment be considered of inferior agricul-
tural value, as the husbandman per-
chance is farsighted enough to recOg-
nlze that his soil is much better adapt-
ed to the still more profitable produc-
ton of corn, alfalfa and the sorghums.
the three great crops that com bined
largely to make Kansas the ideal stock
raising and fattenfng region that she is.
Wh1le wheat may be grown in every
county, about So per cent, or so, 1873 900
bushels, OF the tremendous output of
last year was grown in 20 counties
namely, in order of their rank in pro-
duct1On, Sumner, leading with $3.50 900
bushels; Barton, Rice, Mcpherson, Rus
sell, Saline, Ellis, Sedgwick, Stafford
Ellsworth, Rush, Reno, PaWnee, Harper
Marion, Mitchell, Lincoln, Dickinson
Ottawa and Harvey, none yielding less
than IL million bushels. In sixteen of
these 20 counties the wheat area is in
creased 284,278 acres over that of last
year. their gains ranging from 36S19
acres in Harper to 237 in Barton while
Marion stands out alone in the decrease
column, and Sedgwick, Reno and Dick
1900 acreage, including Marion, was
25U2,5O acres, or considerably more
than so per cent of the states entire
wheat area; thus it will be seen that
in the chief wheat-growing region of
Kansas the increase in acreage has
been phenomenal. 1t is generally claim
ed by the knowing ones that this years
yield is heavier than has been antici-
pated, and with the immense area the
largest ever yet sown, Kansas will GER
tainly retain her enviable position at
the head in the ranks of states producing
IN greatest Opulence the wheat for maxi
ing the high grade breadstuffs for
which the people of the world are con-
tinually clamoring.
Spring wheat is not prominent item
in Kansas agriculture and it's growth is
given little or no attention outside a
few northern or northwestern counties
bordering Nebraska. The area soWn to
this crop in the last decade has aver
aged but about 10000 acres annually.
and the annual yield has been about
l2OO,OO0 bushels. Winter wheat far
mers have an antipathy to the growing
of spring wheat in their territory, as
they claim it affords a breeding and
nursery ground for chinch bugs, which
later spread and do much injury to
other crops.
Kansas has extensive milling indus
tries and it is believed that fully 40 per
cent Of her wheat is made into -four
within her own borders, and probably
another 80 to 40 per cent of this grain
S marketed at her double commercial
gateway, Kansas City, Kansas, and
Kansas City, Missouri
No better harvest season was ever
known than that now closing, and the |
grain is going into the stack and the sep !
arator in a condition never surpassed. |
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MAYOR GIVES IT UP.
Mr.. Phelan Unable to Settle San
francisco Strike.

San Francisco, Cal, Aug. 6.-Negotia-
tons for a settlement of the labor
troubles having resulted in failure, the
indications now are that the strike will
not be ended until after a bitter and
protracted struggle. Mayor PheIan's
closing statement of his services as me-
diator presents both sides of the con-
troversy. 1t shows that the vital diff
ferences now existing between the con-
tending parties lies in the fact that the
employers association declines to re-
employ their men unless they will
agree not to go on sympathetic strikes
or use sympathetic boycotts. As an
Offset the employers say they will not
discriminate against employers of
union labor or against union employees.
Neither side will yield either of the
points at issue. and the mayor there
fore considers the negotiations closed.
That the San Francisco labor council
entertains the same opinion is evil
denced by its course in entering the
contest for the first time and calling
out the sand team sters. It was expect
ed by many that the council. which
controls about 5000 men, would order
a general strike, but this win not be
done at present. The quitting of work
by the sand teamsters today will Sc
riously cripple the building trades and
may deprive many other men of en-
ployment.
Andrew Furuseth, secretary 0f the
sailors union of the Pacific, and one of
the strike managers, says that for the
present at least the strike would not be
extended beyond San Francisco and
San Francisco territory.
Shipping in this port remains pretty
well tied up, though some of the big
steamship companies are keeping up
work on the docks, lodging and board
ing their non-union employees on board
vessels which have been converted into
temporary hotels.
Governor Gage is now in the city,
and has been for two days watching
the progress of events in the labor
troubles. He has been gathering infor-
nation at first hand, and has inter
viewed the labor leaders. He came to
San Francisco expressly to be on the
ground in the event of any emergency
arising requiring his presence. and has
declared his. intention to act as a medi-
ator between the en- ployers and the
employees should his services be de-
sired. About 500 journeymen painters
are on strike for increased wages. and
the iron workers are still out but they
are not directly involved in the contest
between the City Front federation, the !
labor council and the Employers asso-
-iaffQu
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LUCKY INDIAN.
Owns a Quarter Advantageous
site of LawtOn.

Fort Sill, Ok, Aug. 6.-The town lot
auctions at Lawton, Hobart and Ana
darko. under the supervision of the
government, began this morning at 9
O'Clock.
Miss Matte Beals. who drew No. 2
claim lis receiving all sorts of honors
at the hands of the prospective town
builders Today she was elected mar
shall of Lawton. This is purely an hon
orary title, as there will be no marshal
except the one appointed by the county
officials, who viii have control Of Law
ton temporarily.
Miss Beals can take a shorter cut to
get deed to her claim than by home
stealing it for IA months After the
opening she can make application to
have it set aside as an addition TO
Lawton, and If the application is an
proved by the interior department she
can get a deed to the land bv having
$40 an acre for it. Then she can plat #
and sell it. Unless she takes this
course, she cannot sell lots under. con
tract, the deeds to be delivered after
she proves up, "A months hence, for that
would be a violation of the homestead
laws, and someone would SQUAT on her
claim and take it away from her on a
contest. A homesteader must swear
that the claim is for farming PURPOSES
and that he has not entered into col
fusion with other parties to speculate
on it.
Jack Pomousky. a Comanche Indian,
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ARKANSAS MINERALS.
Missouri Pacific to Open Up a Line
to lola SHELTERS.

Fort Scott, Aug GA plan of the Mis-
souIl Facluc Railway company which
seems 70 contemplate one Of the biggest
industries Of this part Of the country was
lthounced IN this city today BY Railroad
contractor =. H. Riley, who is now on
ths construction Of the Missouri Pacific
Sut-oH AZ Bonneville, and who was here
looking Tor men to work on the Boon.
vile extension. The plan is to construct
a line OF road through the heart of the
- ksilsas mineral lands to Webb Civ
MO. where it viii connect with the Mis-
Eourl Pacli1c. and come up over the Forr
ScOtI g southern. The idea is to have
the only line of railroad directly from 1bs
immense mineral fields OF Arkansas to
she l2ia s55neiIers Mr. Riley had a chart
sly ing tne~route Of this line and saws
g Bso5 laTge I9Tee o men now employed 1t
$55lIleulate4y Upon the completion Of fha
Boonvnie cut-on and that the new road
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The Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific
grass and weeds along its tracks
Kerosene is burned ana a bellows at
tachment blows the flames so that all
vegetation for a distance of about two
dSet either side OF the track is killed
The apparatus is mounted on a push
cart and can be operated as fast as a
man can walk
While their new station is being built
a. Shlcago, or for one year from April
1 next, the Lake shore Roclc Island
and Nickel Plate roads will ,1sa The
SaIahu central station. at Harrison
street and Fifth avenue.
4 " Mudges car, No. 217, was dead
from Glorieta- "a
Charles Rurley. Of the Ration sbo,s
n-o chlp of iron fly in his eye some
="esAs aga causing loss Of sight in the
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injured eye. He is being treated in the
Topeka hospital.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
completion of the Grand Canon rail-
road Over 100 teams and all the men
possible to secure are working for b
Lantry & Sons, who are rushing the
work to CON pletion as fast as possible.
A meeting Of general baggage agents
or western roads has been called to
be held in Chicago today. The object is
to draft an agreement for the uni
form handling of baggage. The agree
ment when drafted will be submitted
Ior rautlcation to the Western Pass
The painters in the Albuquerque
SHOPS paint cars by forcing the paint
into them with compressed air. The
apparatus works on the plan of an
atom1zeTs and does more effective work
than hand painting, besides being
many times more rapid. The air pres
sure drives the paint into the wood
piled with a brush.
George Hartman, well known to the
citizens of Wichita, form erly superin-
tendent of the Santa Fe there, and now
Of the Mexican Central at Chihuahua.
Will quit that system on September I
and Will become president Of the South
ern Pacific at Houston. This is one of
the biggest divisions on the line and
the step IN advance is an important
one Mr.. Hartman has been with the
Mexican Central about four years
Tiffany, the carpenter at Emporia.
has been having a rush along with the
rest of the men. He worked until II
o'clock last night and was called out
at this morning. He has made five
end sills for engines in the last ten
days. more it is said than have been
made here before for long time. The
switch engines are the ones on which
most Of the silIs go. They go hurrying
around the yard. and frequently hit a
car considerably harder than is in
tended. Then sometimes the auto
matte couplers won't work unless the
coupling bump is a hard one.
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Tapped tho Ticket omcs TIL.

Las Vegas, n. NJ, Aug 6.-Monday
night between 9 and 10 o'clock a bold
robbery was committed in Las Vegas
IN the glazing light of an arc light some
inlscreant broke the plate glass window
in the ticket office Of the Santa Fe
depot. and getting inside, broke open
lhe money drawer and stole about ten
dollars 1t was an exceedingly nervy
venture, for at that hour the platform
is usually occupied by several persons
passing about, but luck was with him
as not a person happened along to see
MN, and the night Waterman was
away, attending to a refrigerator train
several arrests have been made, but
surncient evidence to hold any of the
men arrested was not forthcoming. and
all have been turned loose.
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MORE TESTS TO-DAY.
o. g. sholes and L. NJ. Jones to Try
"Telephonic Telegraphy."

tendent of biography for the Santa Fe,
and his assistant L NJ. Jones. win go.
one to Spencer and one to Lecompton
to make further tests of the system Of
telephoning over telegraph wires which
Mr. Sholes is experimenting with.
The test today will be made with
double wire metallic circuit. The spe-
cial instruments for the test will be
taken from Topeka.
The use Of telegraph wires for tele-
phone communication is not an expert
ment," said Mr.. Sholes today. 1.-The
principle is all right. 1t is only a ques-
ton of getting the proper instruments.
I do not know that / have the best
instruments and material for the work,
but / can get them. The problem of
using single wire for the work is one
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SEAGRAVES HERE.
Santa Fe Colonization Nan Back
in Topeka
Tells Of Progress Of the Work
in the East.
STATE AGENTS NAMED
VS.. Gilbert For Ohio and EN-.
BIsh For Maryland.
Prosperous Conditions Make
Movers Hard to Find.

Charles L. Seagraves, travelling pass
enger agent for the santa F'e, returned
yesterday from a months trip in Ohio
Maryland. Pennsylvania and Other
eastern states. where he has been work
ing in the interest Of the big Santa F.
colonization scheme for the Arkansas
river valley in Prowers county, Colo
RADIO.
Mr.. Seagraves assumed the role OF
lecturer on the subject of sugar beet
raising, irrigation and immigration
while he was on this tour He deliV-
cred % lectures in farming localities.
mainly among the Mennomtes ana
Dunkards-
The two principal headquarters Of the
colonization mOven ent are Dayton
o. and Baltimore, Nd
The Santa Fe has announced the fol
lowing appointments of state colonial
ton agents for two Of the states IN
which it is working;
For Ohio. ". 5. Gilbert, of Johns
Vile, Ohio.
For Maryland. E NJ .Bish. of West
minister, Nd
other state agents are to be appoint
ed soon for Iowa, Indiana, Illinois and
other states. Mr.. Seagraves has the
appointing Of the state agents.
Each state agent has working under
him a corps Of local agents. After the
first work is done by Mr. SeagraYeS
with his general lecture about the ad-
Vantages of Colorado for intensive
farming. he leaves his state and local
agents TO do personal work among the
farmers to induce them to move to
Colorado.
Speaking of the success of the work
so far Mr. SeagraveS says.
We do not expect any great west
ward movement, but are trying to in
duce a steady, healthy immigration.
We want the best farmers. and it takes
time to get that class of men to move
If numbers were all we wanted, we
could contract with some immigration
load Of people who would settle on the
land.
This is a very prosperous season
back east. and it makes everybody con-
tented There is not much desire
among the farming classes to change
their present locations. The men we
have to work with mostly are the farm
ers who rent They are just as good
farmers as anyone, too; in fact, they
are the backbone of the farming COM
mun1ty. A man who rents a farm finds
out sooner or later that he can do no
more than n axes ends meet. and then
he IS willing to move to some place
where he can own his own farm. That
IS the opportunity we offer to farmers
in Colorado.
We do not limit our work to any
one sect We want all good farmers.
We do considerable work among Dunk
ards and MennOnites because as a class
they are good citizens and are looking
for chances to improve their condition
II ana going TO Iowa next week. and
VIII spend a week in that state organ
1zing the work. After that 1 exDect to
90 back east again.
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KANSAS WHEAT.
ocontInued fr0m FIrst Page.l

gave their orders in advance for the
! quantities needed by themselves.
It would be an error, however, to
convey the impression that no soft
winter wheats are grown in the state,
and in the central and eastern portions
such varieties as Fulcaster, Fultz,
Early May and others similar are not
uncommon. The soft, white, large
berried varieties brought from Michl-
gan do not do well, and the same may
be said of the white wheats from Cali
fornia, Oregon and other western ter
ritory.
Farmers are rapidly learning that
profit CON IS from using the best seed
obtainabIe, and that sowing the same
wheat continuously on the same
ground is not satisfactory. A change
of seed, such as from one county to
another, or even from one neighbOr-
hood to another, and from northern
localities to those more southern, is ex-
cellent, and preferably the latter rather
than from south to north.
Probably the average quantity of
seed used per acre by the Kansas
Whatsoever is five pecks. and this va
rleS according to quality, location,
method and time of seeding and the
Whim of the sOWer. from a minimum
of three to a maximum of six peckS.
Probably nine-tenthS of this is planted
With drills, the old style of sowing
broadcast being discarded. Not all OF
the wheat land is by any means plOWed
every year, it being very common, es-
pecially in the western half of the
state, to drill directly among the stub
bic Of the recently harvested grain; it
is claimed that this gives a firmer seed
bed, with much less liability of the
surface soil being moved about by the
high winds and leaving the roots naked
to the weather. Much of the ground,
however, that is not plowed is scarf
fed with disk harrows before seeding.
and very satisfactory condition OBJ
tanned thereby. Rotation is something
that the Kansas farmer has as yet
given little thought, but his methods
will change with the years.
1t is the opinion of the most expe-
rienced and extensive Kansas millers
that growers will be wise to continue
the sowing of the hard wheats as their
staple except it might be to supply the
limited demand for soft wheat flours,
amounting to 5 or 10 per cent, for
pastry and ike purposes, and this
could be properly grown in the eastern
counties which are least adapted to
the more staple varieties.
The following table shows the acres !
product and value of Kansas winter
and spring wheat for the last ten
years:
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Decrease. -Ineludes St Louis division


which showed decrease OF over 500, COO
The above figures certainly show a
prosperous condition of trade in the west
Their full significance, however, is lost
unless comparisons are made with 1899
For instance the increase of over three
million dollars in Atchison net returns
the past year follows an increase of over
1--we million six hundred thousand dollars
in the previous year, while in the cast or
almost. every one Of the roads mentioned
for 1889 Thus St. Louis and San Francis
four hundred thousand dollars: that Of
Minneapolis and St. Louis $1S7 600; Great
W estern, SS06, 900. Wabash. $50, 900; South
ern Railway, over one million dollars The
only exception IN the list above given is
St Paul, whose earnings for 1900 werc
about eight hundred and eighty-four
thousand dollars less than those for 1899.
In q general way the increase in the past
fiscal year has been less than in the pre-
vious year, which was to have been ex-
pected, IS the 1900 figures had already
reached large proportions.