The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-08-02
KANSAS CROPS GET RAIN
WHOLE STATE BENEFITED.
WHOLE
Corn viii Average From Seven to
Twenty Bushels to the Acre-saIe
OF Garden seeds Phenomennl-Live

Topeka, Kan, July 29.-Lacrosse re-
ports heavy rain in Rusn county and
that grass and stock water is abund-
ant. Scott county reports an excellent
rain. The buffalo grass ranges are
excellen. and there is plenty of feed
for the stock Rain that fell in CoX-
lev county will insure a fourth of
crop of corn. ACCORDING to a dispatch
from Winfield. In Wellington, during
severe rainstorm lightning struck
cookhouse belonging to threshing
outfit and two men were fatally in
iured. The rain was the most gen.
eral in the eastern part of the state,
which needed it the most.
The sale of garden seeds in the
state has been phenomenal Farmers
purchased large quantities of turnips,
sorghum and rye to seed for forage.
Many farmers have expressed their
intention of planting large fields of
turnips. The estimates of the prob
able yield of corn range all the way
from seven to twenty bushels to the
acre.
No more spasmodic efforts to sell
stock Will be maze. Inc farmers are
now satIsned TO mold the Stock until
the prices get DeCJer, being confident
OF their aDlnCy TO obtain enough feed
for them now. While the rain came
too late to be of great benent to the
grain, it practically insured a large
> fruit crop. Apples and pears are get
! ting in bad condition, but now, WITCH
anything like favorable conditions
they will make a large crop. The
Kansas apple crop is in fine condi
ton and the product promises to be o.
= as fine a variety as has ever beer
, known in the state. The fruit sur
prised the horticulturists by the wa!
: in which it endured the severe dr.!
spell.
The cities of the state will gail
great benefit from the rain. In SOM
places the sewer systems had gottel
into bad condition through the lac
of water to wash them out. The,
- have now been fully flushed and
:. better state of things will result
q An ice famine. which was starin
some of the cities in the face, ha
-. now been averted by the cooler weatl
- er. Water has been supplied in gel
- erous quantities, buildings have r.
- ceived a thorough wetting and tn
- danger from fire is lessened tenfold.
q Atchison, Kan, July 80. - TIL
C. drought in northern Kansas whic
20 has lasted without interruption sine
A 1 l. 10 MicCn11rf p
n. cifc railroad has received r<'orts frol
n all stations which extend 300 mile
e. westward from the Missouri river an
If northward into Nebraska, and all e
n cept two or three report a downpol
Of from a fourth of an inch to two inche
lie The rain was steady, drizzling or
in and lasted, in most places, for thrt
r or four hours. The parched cart
at absorbed the moisture as fast as
" fell. While the recent rains hay
Of covered central and Southwestern
IL Kansas, they have not touched Il
RS northern counties up to within tt
o. last "a hours.
er Kansas City, July SO.-Rain fe
IN here almost continuously, the dow
ct fall amounting to over an inch.
Lincoln, Neb., July 30.-Repor
from all over the state show that Il
rains that visited this state have lie
the corn in many localities in bett
d condition than was at first though
In some localities, however, there W
"i be no corn, while in many localiti
there will be about one-third of
nc crop.