The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-12
GARDENS FOR ALL.
Congressman Have Larger
Amount Of Seeds
The Distribution Was COM
menced This Week.
LARGE APPROPRIATION
Each Member Has 700 Pack
ages at His Disposal
Washington Gossip Of Interest
to KaRsans-
LARGE APPROPRIATION

/ by the government began this week
Within the coming thirty or sixty days
Kansas win have had her quota dis
trlbuted-whieh aggregates about $500
1 packages
The seed distribution has become 80
popular that at the last session OF con-
4 greSs the appropriation was Increased
from $4,000 to $40. eco. and even vita
this Increase some OF the members have
not enough to their credit to supply the
demand Of their constituents
This year each senator and repreSsn-
tative has over 5000 packages OF veg
etable and flower seeds 10 send our. the
total number Of packages being about
Is 0OO. COO
This year the seed contractors have
/ installed machines FOR packing the seeds
+ former years Each of these machines
+ does the work Of filing and sealing TO
envelopes minute, has, in other
words. the CAPACITY Of eight girls which
II formerly took to do this amount Of
work A day and night shift viii be en-
ployed until the distribution Is conf
pleted-
Few government expenditures so
small as this IN the aggregate have oc~
CaSioned 50 much adverse comment Mr..
Morton, when secretary OF a=grl culture,
made q determined effort to shut on the
1ree-Seed distribution He found rnaCs
in spite Of al his endeavOrs, the appro-
priation had been increased and distr1-
button made mandatory
" nen the appropriation Tor the puT-
chase and distribution Of congressional
seeds came up before the last session.
decided hostility was showed by the
seedsmen OF the country-which the
practice annually invites. Notwtth-
standing their opposition. congress in
creased the amount or the appFopr1a-
ton from $4,000 to $4,000.
Together with garden seeds sent out
flower and field seeds are largely dis
tributed- Besides the distribution 70
constituents bymembers in congress. the
department OF agriculture IS given an
allowance for its own use over 70o.-
Geo packages Of flower and vegetable
seeds are sent to It's county correspond
ents who furnish the monthly crop re-
ports Over $4,000 papers and bags Of
.vegEta Bile. flower and field seeds are
sent 10 the state grange organizations
throughout the country And then a
large amount IS sent out to weather
bureau observers. experiment stations,
Aside from the above distribution.
thousands OF packages Of foreign seeds
and plants which are introduced by TIE
department experts abroad are sent
out largely TO state agricultural expert
ment stations. and such reliable cult
vatOrs as have shown a willingness 10
corporal e with the department in MAX
ing reports as to the success Of these
imported plants
Washington Evening Times. 'aThe
or~anized sbstainers Of Kansas have
BY the heroic example Of one Of their
NUMBER female. named NatiOT--vVho
is in jail for denolishiug a saloon with
paving stones The Kansas state Ten
perance union viii shortly meet in con
veution at Topeka. when its executive
committee viii propose a general cru
SADIE OF brickbats and arson against al
liquor dealers
Congressman and Mrs Chester 7.
Long have removed their place Of resi-
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new DriscoH fats. which border On the
north side Of the capitol grounds
Henry HeitfeIt. the Popuiist senator
from Idaho, was formerly a Kansas
man When at the age Of IL years he
removed to the Surdower state from s.
Louis. and located at Seneca, Ne1anss
county There he resided for - years
He located tn Idaho in 1883. where he
was afterwards engaged in farming and
stock raising. He was elected state sen
ator in 1898, and reelected In 1856. The
state legislature sent him to the United
States senate IN 1887 and his term win
expire March 9 1903 Mr. William n
MORGAN. who IS Senator Ee5tfelt's pr
vate secretary. Is also a Kansas man
He is one Of those Opie Reed thorough
WesternarEhustIiugs bright and court
e0us in his manner Mr. Morgan was
raised i'm Crawford county and durIEss I
for nine years. Being anxious to follow 4
Horace Greelevss advice he went further
west TO grow up with the new CCu /
try He located at Moscow Idaho. Just
ten years ago Nr- Morgan Immediately ]
took UP the study OF law and was ar
mitted to the bar zvith honCrs IN 1854 I
Three years later he was elected to he +
Idaho legisia ture and served one tern /
He has been private secretary to Sena- /
ter Heirfelt since the fall Of 1888 Mr. !
Morgan is authority for the statanuat I I
that Kansas stands first in place fn fur 1
nishing the most eTnigrants I'd Idahs I
and says that many Of her people al I
holding high political positions through /
the state Morgan tells an interestfra I
years ago settled q colony at Spauldirs /
near the western border OF tie
stats Near this town flows the
Clearwater river. This stream Is
noted for the great amount Of gold found I
in its bed. and the presence of a large 4
eddy FIN its course near Spaulding 1t
is estimated this eddy contains a body 4
or water covering At least thirty acres I
and has depth Of over sixty feet This 4
is a most treacher0us body Of water arlg7 Il
navigation on the river at this point is +
made impossible BY the great force Of i
the circIing motion Of the water The +
Kansas fellows decided that the eddy 1
would be q capital place to ind gold at /
lis bottom. washed down from the /
mountains and confined there by the i
peculiar motion Of the water. At once +
c1ntrivance was conceived to make 4
a search for the gIittering and precious
a divers outfit The diver was Iarfated
from the bank and a 200-pouud weight Il
placed ON his feet TO sink him Man
nor weight never reached bottom but
the man was taken cut Of the terrific
WhirI more dead than alive. with his