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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-27
Latest Kansas Events.
AarieuIturzl College Extension.


While the Kansas State Agricultur-
Al college has been making remark
able advances in the last ten years
in all its usual departments, probably
the most interesting movement to the
general public Is its extension work
the education of old and young in their
own homes. Although 1000 people
attended its regular sessions at Man
haitian, nearly $4,000 others have been
in rather close personal touch with
the college workers the past year
For nearly 40 years the college has
been holding farmers Institutes in
Kansas but sending its speakers only
ON invitation Two years ago the re-
gents began the experiment of organ
izing all the counties of the state
and holding meetings in every county
seat and also In many towns. Since
October 1906 SO of the los coun-
ties have had farmers Institutes or
ganized, most of them with an active
membership, constitution and bylaws,
officers and fees and have held one
or more meetings. These offices are
in a sense the direct Representatives
of the college in their counties. For
tunately these first officers have been
splendid representatives and have al
ready begun to exercise good in
nuence for improved agriculture, be-
ing the Spokesman of the college for
much demonstration work with crops
and live stock The need-of a more
general awakening on certain agricul-
tura1 lines brought about the rail-
road agricultural meetings. Corn"
Wheat and Alfalfa" trains, ETC.,
enabling the college to bring certain
questions to thousands of farmers in
a short time and at the right time. Al
tobether the Kansas Agricultural col
lege men have spoken since october
f906 an corn and wheat in insti-
tutes or from train to the farmers
of 1o2 counties of Kansas, missing on
ly the counties of Finney, Kearney
and Cheyenne They have spoken to
nearly, if not quite, 100000 peo-
pie, not counting children. The board
of regents have also been interested
in reaching the young people Last
year boys corn growing contest was
authorized and nearly 5000 boys
were enlisted in this movement. Con-
tests were held in 40 counties and an
aggregate of nearly 100000 in prizes
were distributed. Then the winners in
the county contests are eligible to en-
ter the state contest at the agTicul-
tura1 college in December This year
SIS counties have boys corn contests
with about 5000 boys and so of these
counties VIII send their prfze winners
to tie state Farmers Institute De
cember 18th for a nine-day session.
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claims. safer, faster and cheaper by
far to build.
Construction Details.
The single track is laid across ties
about three and "a balf feet in length
the same sort of ties used fnSthe
construction of-the present day two
rail tracks, except that they are short
err Sixty-pound fails instead of the
standard 100-ponnd rails are used
Overhead, 80 inches apart. are sus-
pended two parallel rails, Lrshaped
on the inside These overhead rails
are supported by steel pillars placed
at intervals along the side of the road
and connected by steel beams
stretched across the track
On top of each car at both ends is
attached an inverted truck This is
raised from the car by strong steel
arm, corresponding to trolley pole,
and the four wheels attached to the
inverted truck fit into the ..L.-shaped
inner surface of the overhead tracks.
The trucks are in the form of an X.
with a wheel at each of the four
points of the *" The 'sX- is flexible.
opening and closing to accommodate
itself to the curves
1t Is this overhead truck arrange
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-27
Fruit Reports planned.


Walter WeIlhouse, secretary of the
state horticultural society, is working
out plan to make periodical reports
of the condition of the Kansas fruit
crops This is something that has
never been done before by the officers
of this society, but Mr.. Wellhouse be-
Heves that he can make his depart
ment as valuable to the fruit growing
interests of the state as F. D. Coburn
has made his department valuable to
the agricultural interests. Il am now
at work getting up a mailing list Of
800 to 1000 fruit growers in all parts
of the state to furnish me with esti-
mates of the fruit condition from
time to time" said Mr.. Wel1house. 81
will get about 20 reliable fruit men
in each county to be regular cores
pondents of this department From
time to time I will send out blanks
and ask for Information regarding the
fruit 1 figure on publishing these
four or five times a year"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-27

of the present eQuipmentLthis. in
brief. is the young engineers claim
That he can do what he says is not
only believed by practical transpor-
tation man of 40 years experience
Ike John H Starin but by 3 big firm
In Wall street which has agreed to un-
derwrite all the bonds required to put
through the Jersey City to Newark
'.mono-road," and by scores of others
who have investigated the new plant
and are anxious to become financially
interested in it ,-s=.---- s.-s-
First Practical Test
Starting on short half-mile stretch
of track inside the exposition grounds
at jamestown, the first practical test
of the new road was made in public,
although for three years the young in
veptor, Howard HanseI Tunis, has
been experimenting in the suburbs of
Baltimore.
More than dozen noted engineers,
among them Chief Engineer George S.
Rice, of the Rapid Transit commission.
have Investigated the new invention
and have pronounced it practical.
Some of them assert that 1t will rev
olutionize modern railroading because
Of the tremendous speed which It
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makes possible and because of the
vastly diminished cost of building and
operation
Negotiations are under way to OBJ
tain the rights needed before building
of the track can be begun and, al
though secrecy is maintained on this
point and the precise route selected is
closely guarded, it is understood that
the hackers of the company are ne
gotiating for franchise rights and ter
minal sites already possessed by an
existing corporation
Easy to Lay Tracks.
According to an interview printed
in the Newark newspapers, the linking
of the new "mono-raif' line with the
McAdoo tunnel is a possibility. Bion
l.. Burrows says that it would be a
matter of the greatest ease to run the
trains from the "mono-rail' road right
into and through the McAdoo tunnel
without interfering with the operation
of trains over the two rail line. All
that would be necessary would be the
laying of a single rail between the two
rails, and the installation of the neces-
sary overhead rails to preserve the
equilibrium of the "mono-raiP' trains.
If this is done, it is asserted, pas
sengers can be carried from Newark
to the heart of Manhattan in ten min
utes- That he is willing to enter into
an operating agreement with the
'mono-raiP' company, William Nc
Adoo, head of the tunnel company, is
quoted as saying
This new "mono-rail' system, IN
vented by the young Baltimorian, is
totally different from the various other
''mono-rail' systems, some of which
are in practical operation in England,
ireland, Germany and Austria Hum
gary, and others of which are seeking
a foothoId. 1t is entirely unlike the
system, for instance, for which F. B.
Behr, an Englishman, has been seek
ing a franchise between Atlantic
Ferry, Brooklyn and Coney island. On
Mr.. Behr's road the cars "straddle" a
single triangular rail In Germany
the 'mono-raiP system which has
been successfully operated is one from
which the cars hang suspended. In
Ireland there is a system in operation
very similar to the Behr system.
The young Baltimore engineers
plan, however, differs radically from
all of these, and is, according to his
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without being steadied by the over
head arrangement.
Cars Will Be Light.
Then, the cars are to be extremely
light as compared with modern rail-
road cars-another element contribut-
ing to high speed. They will not weigh
over seven tons.
Right here, in the two points just
referred to, is the great advantage
claimed by the hackers of Engineer
Tunis's system. Mr.. Burrows in de-
scribing it's advantages said that en-
gineers had long recognized the fact
that the great sprawling cars of the
present, with their immense weight,
are theoretically wrong. :
These big heavy cars are in effect
houses set upon Wheels he said
These wheels are placed four feet
eight and one-half inches apart, with
the center of gravity between them.
The first and greatest essential to the
whole system is that the cars must be
heavy in order to remain on the
tracks. Here, then, is the whole key
to railroad inefficiency, that in a sys-
tenn whose only excuse for being is
the ability to make speed the prin-
cipal requisite should be great weight
In short, having to overcome gravita-
ton, they start out by making it i'm
possible 1t requires no great mechan-
ical ability to discover that a one-rail
track is greatly superior to a two-rail
track, if one goes no further than to
see that one wheel viii only have half
the obstacles to overcome that two
have
II n.~rz<son
Still another claim for the mono-rail
trains is that they can be operated
very much cheaper because of the
economy in power it is. possible to
realize According to railroad men,
from Is to 80 per cent of the power
used to operate trains is lost in the
sidewise, swinging motion of cars
The Tunis mono-raiI trains, 1T is de-
clared have a straight ahead motion,
without any side-swing-
Nothing which ever moved ON
wheels can equal the speed claimed
for the Tunis --mono-rail'' trains One
hundred miles an hour is an easy mat
ter. and the cars can be pushed to $50
miles without any difficulty And,
while the cars are going at this speed.
it is claimed that the motion Is 50
gentle that passengers are barely
aware of the fact that they are NOV
ing The ierky. swinging motion Of
two-rail trains Is declared to be en-
tirely absent
As If all this were not enough to
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-27
ORGANIZE to FIGHT Bugs.

The new State chronological Com
mission met in the office of Score
tary Coburn and began the work OF
drafting rules and regulations to ex-
terminate the San Jose scale and 9TH
er injurious insects from the orchards
of Kansas. The personnel of the COM
mission is F. d. Coburn, chairman;
Walter Wellhouse, secretary; Senator
F. H Stannard, Ottawa; Prof. E. A
Popenoe, entomologist at the State
Agricultural college and Prof 5. j..
Hunter, entomo1ogist at the State uni
versity. This commission was Great
ed by the last legislature. 1t has au'
thority to designate inspectors whose
duty it viii be to visit the orchards Of
the state for the purpose OF discover
ing obnoxious insects and taking steps
to prevent their spread. The commits
sion was advocated by the State Hor-
ticultural society.
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the building of similar roads all over
the United States. The overhead
truck system used in the Tunis sys-
tenn is patented.
Much Interest Aroused
How active interest in "mono-rail"
railroads is, is shown by the fact that
following the announcement of the
plans to- build the New Jersey line,
the promoters of the company have
been besieged with inquiries from per-
sons who want to Introduce the sys-
tenn in other places. One inquirer
was a capitalist who holds the con-
cession for a 400-mile railroad in
South America, much of the route of
which runs through Inaccessible coun-
try. The Tunis 'mono-rail" is es-
pecially adapted for use in a rough
country because of the fact that the
ightness of the cars makes it possible
to operate the trains up almost any
reasonable grade
To all these inquirers the promo
tiers say they have replied that they
are not in the field for the exploita-
ton of the new system. or even for
money making Mr.. Starin, the leader
in the enterprise, has announced that
his object is not to make money so
much as to put into practical use an
invention which he believes to be the
coming railroad system of the future
No Stock to Be Sold.
His hope to have a railroad which
will carry people from this city to
Newark in almost an inappreciable
space of time, and to give an example
to other railroad companies in the
good treatment of employees 1t is an
nounced that no stock of the new COM
pany is to be put on the market, and
that all the money that is wanted to
push the enterprise viii be realized by
an issue of bonds at the right time.
a big Wall street firm has already
agreed to underwrite them
Expert System to Be Popular.
That they ultimately expect their
system to be widely introduced the
promoters of the new road do not at
tempt to conceal This. they expect,
viii speedily follow a practical demon
stration of its success
Howard HanseI Tunis, the young in
ventor of the system, is at James
town, where he is experimenting the
running of trains over the expert
mental halfmile track Tupis wanted
much longer track, but IT Is said
that the trolley c6mpanies of Nor
folk were too influential with the ex
position management and he was re
stricfed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-27
MONO-RAu SYSTEM
TO REVOLUTlONIZE
RAILROAD TRAVEL
May Relegafe Steam Locomotives
and Heavy Coaches TO the
Scrap Heap.
FINANCIAL GIANTS ARE INTERESTED
Men of Millions Stand Ready Test Practical
biIity of Scheme of Howard HanseI Tunis-
Speed of $50 Miles Hour Is Among
Promises Made.

New York.-A young mechanical en-
gineer, for little more than three
years, has been mystifying and anus
ing persons living near his fathers
home at Windsor Hill. just outside of
Baltimore, by his experiments with a
single rail railroad that he has con-
structed.
Recently all the newspapers in the
city contained the authoritative an
nouncement that John H. Starin, who
has made millions in transportation
enterprises; Charles Stewart Smith
and Woodbury. Langdon, all members
of the Rapid Transit commission, were
to back a company which will build
this young engineers single rail rail-
road from Jersey City to Newark.
Formal announcement of the incor-
poration of the new "mono-road" COM
pany is expected soon to be made in
Trenton, and this, it is announced, is
to be followed in the next four OF five
weeks by the announcement of a deal
by which the new company has &C
quired a franchise and terminal sites
in the two cities-rights presumably
owned by some existing company. In
side of a year, it is promised, mono
rail trains will be skimming across
the marshes from Jersey City to New
ark, realizing the newest slogan in
modern rapid transit:
ITO Newark in ten minutes
Idea Is Revolutionary.
If what the young Baltimore en-
gineer confidently claims for his
"mono-road'' be -true-and he has con-
WINGED such hard-headed business men
as Starin, Langdon and Smith that it
is true-modern railroading will be
revoluuonized by his invention 1t
will relegate to the scrap heap the
two-track railroad, the ponderous, coal
eating locomotive and the big, heavy
eight-wheeled cars along with the
stage coach and the paddle-whee1ed
steamboat His new invention, if his
claims are well founded, is as far
ahead of the 1ocomotive-drawn train,
running on two tracks, as the flying
machine is ahead of the balloon
That trains will run easily at a
speed of $50 miles an hour on a single
rail in perfect safety, without vibra-
ton and the swinging side-wise mo-
ton of the present day railroad trains,
and that tracks and cars can be built
and operated at less than half the cost
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complete the eclipse q ne present
system of railroad construction and
establish the mono-raiF as pre-em-
inent. still another tremendous adj
vantage is claimed, and this is the
most important of aI-the matter of
cost
1t is the cheapness of the cost of
the system, which. If it is what is
claimed for it, threatens to revolu-
ionize railroad construction
Means Immense Saving.
According to the estimates made
for the New York hackers of the
project, a four-track, elevated line,
such as it is proposed to build be-
tween Jersey City and Newark, can
be constructed for $75. 200 per mile.
To build a fOur-track elevated road,
similar to the present elevated system
in this city, would cost $500, 600 per
mile This does not include the cost
of power or equipment-only the
structure and tracks,
The projectors of the new enter
prise figure upon building the eight
miles of elevated track between Jer-
sey City and Newark for $4,000 00-
To build the ordinary type of elevated
road, with four tracks, would cost be-
tween 100000 and $S,000,0 900. 1t
is this cheapness of cost which in
spires the hackers of the enterprise
to hope that they will reap tremen-
dous profits, and that the success of
this initial road between the two Jer-
sey cities will be followed quickly by
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ment which constitutes the dist1nctfve
feature OF the Invention OF the young
Baltimore man. and marks it's greatest
difference from the other "mono-rail''
inventions The overhead truck ar
rangement, with the four wheels, hori-
zontally set and working on the inside
of the overhead tracks, steadies the
car and gives it its equilibrium. Pow
er is also transmitted from these over
head wires for the operation of the
cars
One of the claims made for the
Tunis emono-rail" is that trains rum
ming on it viii be practically noiseIess.
One reason given for this is that the
guide wheels on top, which run in the
overhead rails, are of cast iron, oak
and leather and are so constructed as
to make but little noise They also
have ball-bearings and this makes ire
mendous speed possible. The guide
wheels are only eight inches in
diameter and less than two inches
thick Another feature of the car
which contributes to it's noiselessness
is the use of the direct current motor
Engineer Tunis claims that the only
proper system of railroad construc-
ton is the single track, because the
laws of gravity, and make necessary
tremendously heavy cars.
In his cars, Tunis explains, the bot
tom will be but 20 inches above the
rail, and thus the center of gravity
will be very low. The cars will have
an almost perfect equilibrium, even
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-27
Will urrisate 10000 Acres.

The first corps Of engineers I'M
der Prof. c. s. Schlicter, government
engineer of the reclamation depart
ment, have arrived at Englewood and
established permanent offices. The
work of construction in the Cimar-
ron valley for irrigation under gov
eminent supervision will begin at
once and rapidly be pushed to COM
pfetion. The estimated cost is ST.
600, 600, and it will require over
year to complete the pumping plant
and bitches. The section of country
to be irrigated is two miles south of
Englewood, in Oklahoma Territory.
When completed, over 10000 acres
of the richest land in the CImarron
valley will be under irrigation, and
the plant will be large enough to fur
nish water for as much more terri
tory if the farmers want it, The
main object for establishing the IT.
rigation system is for the cultivation
of the sugar beet, which is being so
successfully grown at Garden City by
irrigation.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-27
The Disappearing School Master.

u9 SsSAPPSdstu9 SCfoof mdStGFs
Without making any particular
noise about it the women and girls
Of Kansas have been gradually push
ing aside the school master until
that article is almost a scarcity in
this state at the present time. Com
pared with the total number of teach
ers employed in that capacity. Won-
en- and girls are willing to accept
lower salaries than men and as re-
suit they are rapidly taking their
places In educational circles. Men
are going into other professions and
into business. Some of them are go
ing down and out. OF the 900
teachers in the public schools sof
this state at least 10000 are women
As Kansas stands next to the top
among the states in percentage of
illiteracy fhe women point to this
fact as an evidence that their work
in educational lines is worthy or
still greater recognition They de-
mand more than the mere right to
teach-they want voice In their
government-and gradually are get
ting 1t. OF the los county superin-
tendents in Kansas. SO are women
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-27
A Good Coal Vein.

and Milling company. which has been
sinking on the tract of land owned by
the company eight miles north OF
Pittsburg. has reached the coal at
depth of 2O5 feet There is fOrty-one
inches of the vein, which is consid-
cred about the thickest in that part OF
the district
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-27
Ante-nuptiaI Arrangements Void.

Ante-nuptial agreements do not
count, according to decision of the
supreme court IN Miami county. G.
w. Rouse and his wife made an
agreement whereby, at his death, she
was not to have his property, al
though he agreed to care for her COM
fortably during life. He died intes-
tate. The court held that the agree
ment does not exclude the widow from
a right of inheritance
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-27
eusv in Parsons Yards.

The M. X. & t. broke a record in
the month of June for the number of
cars handled through the Parsons
wards. The average number of cars
ner month for the last year has been
* 600. but during the past month
there were over $4,000. This has
kept the switching crews busy; eV-
erybody has been busy The average
number of cars per day through the
Yards has been over 1,6oO-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-27
a Farmer invents a stacker.

Wesley kouns, a farmer residing
Just northwest of Salina, has invent
ed hay and grain loader and stacker
that promises 10 reyolut1onfze the
work of putting up hay. Like all 9TH
er Iabor-saving machinery, it reduces
the expence incident to the hayfng sea-
son. because of the fact that one man
or boy can do the work OF four or five
able-bcdied men,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-27
On one EARN so Years.

Living continuously on the same
farm for so years is perhaps the long
est period of residence in the To-
cation of anybody in Kansas This Is
the record of c. A Thresher. who set
tied on farm in 1857 near Berryton,
and has lived on the farm continu-
ousIy since that time
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-27
Made a Mistake.

Undoubtedly the Missouri Pacific
has made a grave mistake in compel
ling newspaper men to travel on tie
passes says the Leavenworth Post
It brings them into such close contact
with the roadbed that the defects OF
the latter are apparent
A Geary County Pioneer Is dead
C. F. Wetzel, aged "A years. dled at
Junction City, He went there in
1857 and settled ON Clark's creek He
was one of the earliest settlers Of
Ceary country.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-27
Kansas citx,s Inerssse.

Kansas City has increased in popu-
lation 132 per cent in ten years, ac-
cording to the statistics compiled by
the Hoye Directory company The
population is now 100, 1875. according to
the directory estimate, an increase of
1880 since 1897, when the Population
was given as 43.475.
Sued Under Twenty-Eisht Hour LAW
Assistant United States Attorney
West has filed suit against the Rock
Island, Santa Fe and Missouri, Kansas
& Texas railroads for violating the %
hour Law, which provides against
cruelty to animals, by 1oas eonfIne-
ment in cars without feeding and
waeering-
Stone Leaves the SaIina Journal
p B. Stone. for four and half
years the business manager for J. l..
Bristow,s Salina Journal has re-
signed and leaves for South MeAiester,
L T., where he takes the business
management of the South McAlester
Capital; MI Stone will probably be-
come financia1Es Interested in the
capital plant He viii. be succeeded
In the Journal office by George Miller,
Who has been the business manager
OF Home Rule. ex-senator J. Ralph
Burton's Abilene paper.