The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-10


at Junction City. In Rawlins and con-
tiguous counties in the western part OF
Kansas, he owned, with his son great
deal of valuable cattle land His son
is Chauncey Dewey. whose SensalloIla1
trial fol- murder occurred at Norton TINS
spring as a result OF troupie ,Il aDoI'
fencing government land on the ranch
Mr. Dewey was married twice. MS
first wife and daughter now visiting IN
Paris His second wife instituted SUIT
months ago. She is living in Manhat-
C'hauncey Dewey was with his father
at the time of his death he Went to
Wheeling last Saturday in response 10
. MI yfre'7 Dewey teill expected to return 10
Kansas June 1. but his illness inter
vened-
Mr.. Dewey's Energetic Life.
The following sketch of C. p Dewey
was written by j. l. House, a hallS09
one day fifteen or twenty years ago
the exact date is not materlal-d
stranger got off a west bound Union
Pacific train at Manhattan. He regis
tered at the hotel as &C z Dewey
Chicago" Some weeks later be bought
a cattle ranch of a few hundred acres
south of Manhattan. paying for II IN
snOt cash. T3v this speculative trans
action Manhattan gained the most -llp-
eral and public spirited citizen VINO mas
ever resided in the town, ana Kansas
a man of intensely interesting person
Dewey's first enterprise in the Man
haitian vicinity was his Rlley county
cattle ranch 1t was only a rev ouu
hundred acres in the beginning but
he kent buving a quarter section here
and an eighty there until he had 1lVVV
acres of choice grazing land in one
compact body. 1t not only covers d
LARGE norton of the south part OF Rlley
I re q large 0Ole
/ of Cearv 1t is devoted almost eXclu-
sively to grazing Here ana ther5 u
/ a hit of Kaffir corn or alralIa- buI
/ tbe principal business of the ranch IS
/ that of getting prime three-year-oIus
ready for the feed yards at MannatlaIl- IL
/ on +he ranch are commOdious buildings
/ and a force of twenty men Is enploSeu
/ the year around.
n1-isa was the building of feed pens
| at Manhattan where the raw Pr9o- ProuuSl : = =
/ of the ranch might be made ready lo1
fha market. South OF the Union a
/ cinc and Rock Island tracks at Man
/ haitian Dewey picked up fifteen acres
! OF choice Kaw river bottom lahu. -
a starter his carpenters constructed q
| corn crib that holds 2OO,OOO DuShels
| of corn-DrObablV the largest corn
/ crib on earth. It is built in the form
/ of a horseshoe and each hange OF the
| shoe is more than 100 yards long
/ C,ororoOdiOus sheds and pens followed
as fast as the carpenters could build
| them Last year 1900 head OF cat
tle were fed for the market in those
/ wards. There are not so many this
| wear because feeding with corn on a
par with gold is not profitable busl-
/ ness But the average production OF
the Manhattan yards, one year VIII
another. is 1000 steers ready for the
market In addition to his cattle bust
ness Dewey buys every salable horse
and mule that is brought to him anc
his shipments run into the thousands
of animals every year.
COMPARED with the Rawlins county
I ranch. however, Dewey's Riley county
! holdings are insignificant. In thf
southwest part of Rawlins county ht
owns 100000 acres of land in one
bodv. Originally this ranch com
acres additional was offered to Dewey
at a bargain sale not long since, and
he took it. On the Rawlins county
! ranch he employs a sufficient num-
Der of people to populate a small
town and mail addressed to Pantheks
really goes to the Dewey ranch
/ Dewey is just now stocking the Raw
/ Inns county land. One of the ship
ments that will go out there shortly
is a small train load of 10 ShorthorI
bulls About everything that DeweI
buys comes in train loads. When tn
Kansas crop fails 1t takes a train Il
4 carry one of his shipments of corn
II Posts and coal come in the same way
There are enough fence posts up il
the feed yards at Manhattan now t,
fence and cross fence a township
/ Another Dewey enterprise whicl
staggers the casual visitor is the liver.
and transfer business at Manhattan
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