Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-14
Latest Kansas Events.


Saved No Wheat.
The agricultural department at |
Washington is rather piqued over the
enterprise shown by the Kansas uni
versity last spring in supplying farm
ers of Kansas with parasites to kill
the green bugs which were ravaging
the wheat fields, and in a bulletin just
issued makes light of the university's
efforts saying: During the last two
weeks of April a great many small
lots of parasites were distributed over
the southern and central counties of
Kansas by Mr.. S. j. Hunter, of the
Kansas State university. The artifi-
cial sending out of these parasites
and the test of distributing an enor-
nor quantity in a single field. were
legitimate experiments, but the evil
denoe showed very conclusively that
. they resulted in no benefit whatever.
With all the artificial introduction of
this parasite made in the grain fields
of Kansas and adjacent states and ter
ritories, there is no probability that
single bushe1 of grain was saved
thereby, or that the United States will
harvest one buShel more than it would
have harvested had no introductionS
of parasites been made or attempted"
Waggeners Famous Alfalfa Fields.
There was received in Atchison a
carload of dirt from jamestown, Kan.
it will be used by Bailie Waggener in
sowing rs acres of additional alfalfa
on his farm near town. The dirt
supplies the bacteria necessary to
sowing alfalfa. The cost was 81 a ton
with freight added. 1t will be sown
over the field. Mr.. Waggener has met
with great success in growing alfalfa,
because he has gone about it in
scientific way. F.. D. Coburn, who is
probably the leading authority in this
country on alfalfa growing, visited the
Waggener fields recently and made
the assertion that some of Wag-
gener's alfalfa was the best he had
ever seen.
Oklahoma Wins in Kineman Contest.
The ninth annual cattlemens picnic
at Kingman closed with good crowd
in attendance. The forenoon exer-
cises consisted of a cowboy parade,
| women and mems riding contest and
the final steer roping contest. War
rem Papan of Kaw City, Ok, won
! the prst prize in th5 raping contest,
| time :56; Henry Grammar of Kay
City, second, 100; John Arlington, of
Kingman, third, 1902; w. K. Hale, of
Fairfax, Ok, fourth, 1903.
Another Hutchinson Daily.
| Hutchinson is to have n third daily
| paper and it will be a Democratic
sheet, the Gazette. 1t has been grant
| ed charter by the STATE charter
| board. The capital stock is $4,000.
| The incorporates are: W. E. Vim
cent, Marion Watson, H. A Lill and J.
A. Meyers, all of Hutchinson, and H.
| S. Thompson of Sylvia. Mr.. Thomp-
son IS the Democratic member of the
| legislature from Reno county.
A New Insurance Company.
| A charter has been issued by the
state charter board to the Kansas
| State Life Insurance company, new
mutual life insurance company which
will have it's headquarters in Topeka.
| The company is a mutual concern.
with no capital stock. The directors,
all Topeka men, are A. Bosworth,
Headington, A. c. Longren, j. N. Nc
Nary, E. C. Longren, E. G. Ekblad, F.
| C. Bowen and P. S. Bangs.
| A Cat Tramps IS Miles.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. B. Splitter of Atchi-
| son have owned a cat for several years
and their daughter, Mrs. Theodore
White, of Valley Falls, grew to be
| very fond of it. She was visiting At
| Gibson recently and took the cat home
| with her. She missed the cat and
several days later the cat showed up
| at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Splitter,
/ the distance from Atchison to Valley
! Falls being 25 miles.
/ A PerpIexed Agent.
An exchange notes the presence in
| town of an agent of brewing COM
pany recently thrown out of Kansas.
| He has been in court in two towns. In
one place the court ordered him to
| leave Kansas; in the other the court
ordered him to stay within the state
| under penalty of fine and imprison-
ment. The agent candidly admits that
he doesn't know whether he is afoot
or horseback.
Adventists Elect Officers.
Seventh Day Adventists in state con-
ference at Wichita elected conference
officers as follows: President, Henry
| Shultz: vice president. Elder A. r.
Ogden, Wichita; executive committee.
n. T. Sutton Thayer; L. F. TRULY,
Topeka; A R. Ogden, Wichita; H.
i Osterloh. Wellington; W. H. Mills,
Emporia; Henry Shultz-