The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-08-01
KANSAS CROPS GET RAIN
WHOLE STATE BENEFITED
Corn will Average From seven to
Twenty Bushels to the Acrc-Sale
Of Garden seeds PhenOM We


stock to he Held for Better Prices.
Topeka, Kan, July z9.-Lacrosse re-
ports heavy rain in Rusn county and
that grass and stock water is abunl
ant. Scott county reports an excellent
rain. The buffalo grass ranges are
excellent and there is plenty of feed
for the stock. Rain that fell in Cow.
ley county will insure a fourth of q
crop of corn. ACCORDING to a dispatch
from Winfield. In Wellington, during
q severe rainstorm lightning struck
a cookhouse belonging to a threshing
outfit and two men were fatally in
jured. The rain was the most gem
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 VII! We made. The farmers are
now saLisAed to hold the stock until
the prices get better, being confident
or their a.4nIy to obtain enough feed
for them now. While the rain came
too late to be of great benefit to the
grain, it practically insured a large
fruit crop. Apples and pears are get
ting in bad condition, but now, with
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 of
as fine q variety as has ever been
known in the state. The fruit sur
prised the horticulturists by the way
in which it endured the severe dry
spell.
The cities of the state will gain
great benefit from the rain. In some
places the sewer systems had gotten
into bad condition through the lack
Of water to wash them out. They
have now been fully flushed and
better state of things will result.
An ice famine. which was staring
some of the cities in the face, has
now been averted by the cooler wealth
er. Water has been supplied in gen.
erous quantities. buildings have re-
ceived thorough wetting and the
danger from fire is lessened tenfold.
Atchison. KAN, July 3d. The
drought in northern Kansas which
has lasted without interruption since
April Is, Is broken. The Missouri Pa
cific railroad has received r\,orts from
all stations which extend 300 miles
westward from the Missouri river and
northward into Nebraska, and all ex-
cept two or three report a downpour
from fourth Of an inch to two inches.
The rain was steady, drizzling one
and lasted, in most places, for three
or four hours. The parched earth
absorbed the moisture as fast as it
fell. While the recent rains have
covered central and southwestern
Kansas. they have not touched the
northern counties up to within the
last "a hours.
Kansas City, July SO.-Rain fell
here almost continuously, the down
fall amounting to over an inch.
Lincoln. Neb., July 3O.-Reports
from, all over the state show that the
rains that visited this state have left
the corn in many localities In better
condition than was at first thought.
In some localities, however, there will
be no corn, while in many localities
there win be about one-third of q
crop.