Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-06-10

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hans got on the trail of the thief an,
io'io"ed MIN down the Little Woo
river.
me fugitive when oyertaken turn
ed at bay and shot Williams. danger
| ously wounding him in the groin
Ihen Williams fired. killing the farm
hand.
feopie In the vicinity simply bur
led the stranger and rendered a quick
verdict of justifiable homicide.
CLEVELAND. o.. June 7.-Horace
Feii' the actor who shot himself yes.
terday. died this morning.
NEW YORK, June 7.-Senator
clark of Montana arrived here last
night from Europe He leaves in a
tew days to attend the wedding of
ms son to Miss Foster. at Butte.
Mont The senator's gift to the
bride Will be check for a million.
Mr. Clark says the Los Angeles and
salt Lake railroad will be built with.
out any question. The senator's
health was much improved by his trip
abroad.
ST. JOHNS. N. b., June IA num-
Der of wrecking steamers are working
ON the stranded liner Assyrian on the
rocks off Cape Race. The weather
is favorable and it is possible she
may escape destruction.
NORFOLK, Va, June IA double
barreled shotgun connected by n
string to the cash drawer in Joseph
Byrds store early this morning killed
William Caddy as he was robbing the
TIL Byrd had set the trap.
WICHITA, kas., June NO other
state in the union can approach Kan
sas in wheat raising. This year it
will lead out with 100. 900, 900 bushels
of spring and winter wheat. a record
crop even In Kansas. This crop If
sold at the average price of GO cents
a bushel. will give to every man. wor-
an and child In the United States a
81 bill. providing the Kansas farmers
wished to distribute the proceeds In
that manner, II placed in box cars
on single track it would reach from
Wichita to Chicago and back again.
If every farmer in the state raised the
same amount of wheat and sold 1t at
b. cents per bushel. the per capita
wealth among the farmers would be
5 900 from this one years crop. The
yield of wheat in Kansas for the past
three years has brought enough money
INTO the state to plaster the entire
area with 50 bills. Sixty million dol
lars derived from one crop is a great
deal. but Kansas has its eyes on even
greater possibilities.
Commencing the latter part of May
and extending far into July the great
wheat belt of Kansas Is the scene of
excitement. One can scareiy
the income of the Kansas
farmers during harvest time 1t is
over $l.000.0O0 a day. and for every
minute the Kansas farmer finds him
self growing richer in thousand dol
lar Jumps. On 5O0-acre fields he Is
clearing himself from $500 to $500
day. He is getting more from one
acre of ground at a single cutting than
the land is worth.
Notwithstanding all this the Kan.
sas farmer Is pessimistlc during har-
vest, but after the golden grain is
insurance there are few more liberal
spenders.
Just now the trains coming into
Kansas are loaded to the guards with
men called harvest hands, although
great many of them never saw a ten
acre wheat field. These men are
from all parts of the country and from
pf al
tramp is out for his summer outing
and the city man comes for turn at
the binder just for exercise. How
ever. there are many In that vast
army of workers who take home with
them hundreds of dollars.
If the harvest hands play out then
the Kansas girls are called upon to do
the work, as great many of them
We're last year, and they did it with
credit to themselves. Fifteen thou
sand harvest hands have been i'm
ported this season, but 1t is not likely
that this will prove enough.
The Kansas wheat belt centers
around Wichita and a grain man of
this city stated that within q radius
of 100 miles 60 per cent OF the Kansas
wheat was harvested, while in the
seventeen counties one-half of the
whole state crop grew. In some of
the northern counties no wheat K
raised.
The largest wheat shipping town In
Kansas is Clafin in Barton county.
Two thousand cars of wheat were
shipped from there in 1900. Clafiin
is in the short grass country, which
has been transformed from a patch of
into productive wheat
fields This is the country which
has produced more unique statesmen
and queer notions than any other
community on earth. Carrie Nation
and Jerry Simpson are both short
grass products. Now the farmers
have turned to raising less attention
and more wheat. Instead of teach
ing their children to enter politics and
curse the government at ~ they are
turned into "A wheat field and there
grow up.
This spring the weather has been