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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-10-28

various Western States and in
foreign countries which are rep
resented in the Congress.
To establish a better under
standing of the value of agricu1-
tural education in the public
schools of the West.
To bring to the attention of act
i've farmers the various theories
and working plans whereby each
farmer may assist in the general
commercial, social and political
uplift of the Western States.
ENORMOUS CROPS ON DRY FARMS IN
VICINITY OF LoNGMoMT, COL.
The Rural Home is in receipt
of reports from John T. Burns,
secretary-treasurer of the Dry
Farming Congress, which will
hold it's fourth session at Billings
Mont, October 26-28, which in
dicates. that dry farmers are
among the most successful agri-
culturists in the vicinity of Long
mont, Col. Three examples are
taken as representative of the re-
suits obtained in that district
and show that women share the
triumphs of dry farming with
the sometimes So called stronger
sex. Reports from the fields
where threshing outfits have
been busy for several weeks
state that the yield of dry land
wheat is twenty-five to fifty
bushels an acre.
Miss Alice Now1en, who is
farming a place northeast of
Longmont, harvested forty-eight
bushels an acre from twenty-five
acres. John Weese had ninety
four acres near Hygine, six miles
west of Longmont, that yielded
thirty-one bushels an acre. This
is land that never had drop of
water put on it in the shape of
irrigation and, in fact, is above
any ditch. Eben w. Hamilton,
who has just proved up on a
homestead ten miles east of
Longmont on the high divide be-
tween the Big Thompsonand the
Cache la Poudre rivers, reports
that he has just placed his wheat
crop in the granary, that it aver
aged forty-two bushels an acre
and will net him $4,000. The
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-10-28
w. HI. Tracy
The Live Stock Auction
GEP.
Pratt Kansas

If you contemplate having public sale at
any time or any place don't fall to write or
wire VIZ Tracy at Pratt, Kansas. He is
an up-to-date auctioneer and ha no other
business, consequently he devotes his entire
time in keeping himself posted in all lines of
property he may have to sell and is com
petent judge of valves of all classes of live
stock. No man is fitted to sell your stock I'M
less he is posted on quality and values. is
the high dollar for you means a reputation
for him, End, he will work for you from tn
time your sale is billed until the last article is
sold. His terms are reasonable and can be
had atThe Meade State Bank, First Nation
al Bank or Fowler State Ban
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-10-28
versity of Kansas.
Meade has some good clayes and
samples should be sent in.
REDBLUFF BRIEFS

!. S. V. Benge left last week for
Homer Ohio to spend the winter
with his son.
A few friends dropped in at
the Kragh home last. Monday to
spend the evening.
Post Office inspector Johnson
and wife called at the post Office
Tuesday morning to check the
books and found everything o. k.
We regaet that Mrs. Johnson is
having such poor health at pres
ent but hope the country rides
will prove beneficial to her.
But few from the Bluffs took
in the picnic at Meade Saturday.
However these that went report
a good time.
GERMANY.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-10-28

The fourth annual session of
the Dry Farming Congress will
convene in Billings, Mont. at 10
O'Clock a. M, Tuesday, October
20, 1909, and will continue three
days.
The Second international Dry
Farming Exposition will occur
in connection with the Congress.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-10-28

land is not irrigated and he de-
pended entirely upon the natural
rainfall. In addition to 100 acres
in wheat, Mr.. Hamilton has other
crops which will yield him large
profit.
Business men at Longmont
and surrounding towns are feel
ing the effect of the harvest.
Money is common and the mer-
chants are sharing the prosper
ity which has followed the efforts
of the dry farmers. An effort IS
being made to have samples of
the dry land crops of the Long
mont district sent to Billings to
be displayed at the international
Dry Farming Exposition which
will be a most important feature
of the Fourth Dry Farming Con-
gress and will be held IN connec-
ton Herewith, October $500
Metropolitan Rural Home.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-10-28
JAS. [. .STAMPER,
Auctioneer

Don't claim date for your sale until you have
seen or correspended with him. He not only has
the natural qualifications for good auctiopeer
But is well posted on qualities and prices of liv
stock, and all merchantable commodities and has
the mack Of getting long prices for the property
which means success for you well as for himself.
Informttion in regard to billing and conducting
sales furnished ON application. Terms reasonable
and satisfaction guaranteed
We hereby recomend Mr.. Stamper to any on
need of his service,
LOUIS BoEuLRR Cashier, Meade State Bank
F.. w. CURL Cashier, First National Bank
Meade Kansas.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-10-28
DR.. Smma 3ouNtalne
DENTIST
Office: New Meade State Bank
Hours, ] to S p. m.

Care should be taken in selecting, a rem
ely tor headache. Many headache rcmc-
dies are dangerous. Roc. Headache Rem
edy comes prepaid in sealed packages. It
is safe, sure and speedy. Twenty-Five
doses twenty-five cents Roc. Chemical
Concern, Lincoln, Nebraska. Ask your
local druggist.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-10-28

Mr.. ]. c. Maynard of Mt.
Vernon Mo. was an over night
guest of Judge Randolph Mon
day, leaving on No. for Tyrone
Oklahoma to visit with his son
Brother Maynard of the Tyrone
Observer. Mr.. Maynard and
Judge Randolph came from
Tenn, in company, and Mr..
MAYNARD remained there while
the Judge came on to help make
Meade county the best place on
earth in which to live. Mr.. May
nard and Judge Randolph had
not met before for 80 years but
Mr.. Maynard said that the Judge
had changed only by getting
bigger.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-10-28

LastweekGeorge Wehrle came
back into the News Office, Miss
Anna Hake whohad been with us
for some time, because of poor
health was forced to quit. Miss
Hake is careful and accurate
type setter, Conscientious in all
her work and a pleasant person
to have in the shop, but the posi-
ton of second person in a print
shop is place which taxes the
strength of stout young man.
We are sorry to loose Miss Hake
from our force.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-10-28

The corn social will be held in
the Geo. Cones building Saturday
evening Nov. 6, 1909.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-10-28
Edited ByF. w. Bowen.

ed with truths which would re-
quire an iHiterate a lifetime to
discover.
Mr.. James Hollinrake of Wau-
kegan Ill, the man who is in
stalling the tile irrigation plant
on the Bowen-Hollingrake ranch
has been spending the last week
in looking after his interests in
this county. He plans to put in
the first division of tile Go acres)
as soon as. the work can be done.
The bitches in which the tile are
to belaid will beopened by means
of ditching plow, pulled by an
engine.
DRY FARMING THE THEME
Billings Mont, Oct. 12.-One
of the most interesting programs
ever prepared for western con-
vention is promised at the fourth
dry-farming congress, beginning
here Oct. IS. Among the foreign
delegates are to be Herr Nikolas
Kaumanns, imperial German
agricultural attache, now in
Chicago; DIR. Ladislaus Georgia,
representing the Hungarian
government; E.. J. McMullin,
Salisbury, South Africa, an Off
cial of the department of agri-
culture of the Orange River Col
ony; DIR. Adolph Aaronson, in
charge of the dry-farming exper-
iments in Palestine for the Turk
ish government; Senior Don Rem
ule Escorda of the agricultural
college at Juarez, Mexico, and
DIR. l.. A. Beteaneves, chief en-
gineer of public works and in
dustries, Minas Garaez, Brazil.
James J. Hill of the Great
Northern railroad will deliver an
address at the opening of the in
ternationa1 drv-farming expo
sition and at the opening of the
congress.
OBJECTS OF THE DRY FARMING CON-
GRESS
The fourth annual session of
the Dry Farming Congress will
convene in Billings, Mont. at 10
O'Clock a. M, Tuesday, October
20, 1909, and will continue three
days.
The Second international Dry
Farming Exposition will occur
in connection with the Congress.
OBJECTS OF THE CONGRESS
To discuss and compare meth
DDS by which the great area of
arid land can be proftably utiliz-
ed under thorough tillage by
which the natural rainfall can be
conserved.
To encourage the use of meth
DDS by which, in districts where
rainfall IS slight, or irrigation
water is limited, the actual pro-
ductive acreage can beincreased.
To create closer cooperation
between the Government and
State experts in charge of dry
farming experimental work and
the actual farmers of the arid
districts.
To enlarge the plans for carry
ing on a great educational pro-
paganda by which, eventually,
the arid districts of the entire
world can be populated by pros
porous and contented agricul-
turists.
To encourage legislation look
ing to increased Federal and
State appropriations for the estab-
lishment of more experimental
stations, the employ entof more
field experts and the actual CO.
Operation of ali these stations In
fixing and maintining a certain
recognized standard of methods
for obtaining results from the
operation of farms in the arid
districts
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15

Arden, N. Y, Special-Edward H
Hartman, the greatest organize o1
railroads the world has ever known
met the only lasting defeat of his ac'
tive life Thursday al the hands Of
death. Secluded in the magnificent
home on Tower Hill, surrounded by
members of his family, physicians
and nurses, he succumbed to an intes.
final disorder Thursday Afternoon
after a fight against disease waict
will rank for sheer grit with his re-
markable struggles in the fnarcia
world.
The time was given to the world as
3:35 p. m, but Mrs. Mary Simons
sister of the dead man, said that tho
end had come at 80, more than two
hours previous. Whether this appar
ent discrepancy has any bearing or
the current belief that every effort
was made to lessen the influence Of
the financier S death on the New York
stock market is problematical. But
it is significant that the time of his
death as officially announced was just
35 minutes after the trading had
ceased on the exchange.
Mr.. Hartman died peacefully ant
almost to the end his brilliant mind
retained its integrity. After a re,
lapse on Sunday he sank steadily and
soon after the noon hour Thursday
there came relapse which marked
the approach of the end. His wife
two daughters, the Misses Mary and
Carol, and his sons, who have been
constantly with him.
No spiritual adviser was at hand
The swiftest automobile in the Ear
riuan garage had been despatched
for the Rev. DR.. ]. Holmes McGuiress
an Episcopal rector Of Arden parish
and Mr. Harriman's personal chap
lain, but DR.. McGuiness was not at
home. When found later, although
rushed up the mountainside at break
aeck speed he did not arrive until
death had come to Arden house.
With the secrecy that has been
maintained at the Hartman resi-
dence unbroken to the very end, news
of Mr.. Hartman IS death was convey
ed to New York before it came to
Arden and the valley below.
Without pomp or ceremony E. Fl
Hartman was inferred in the lit
tie country churchyard beside his
oldest son, E. H. Hartman, Jr, at
Arden, Sunday at 3 p. m. Rev. j.
Holmes McGuirnnss rn"t"- cf o.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15

,.-su.s VI .ue arden farms, and w. A.
McClelland, superintendent of stores
Of the Hartman estate. These men
were pall-bearers, according to Mr.
Harriman's wish.
Mr.. Hartman was born February
25, 1s4S, and was therefore in his
62nd year.
Mr.. Hartman, like many otner
men who startle the world, came up
from poverty and started out with
little education, but step by step,
with an unfagging ambition, rose to
be a factor to be recknoed with by
the great fnanciers of the world.
At the time the Union Pacific stock
was going begging and the road vas
the despair of many moneyed inter-
ests, whose brains and capital had
failed to place it on q paying basis,
Hartman, backed by Kuhn, Loeb &
Co.. and Standard Oil interests, IN
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15
Say Stories Agree.

New York, Special.-Scientists and
explorers here comparing the latest
dispatches regarding Commander
Peary's achievement with the reports
which DR.. Cook has sent out were
very generally agreed that Peary'a
findings seem to confirm DR.. Cook s
story in several significant particu-
lars, thus far raise no points Of dis
agreement. Thes cientists were more
positive than ever that the contro-
versy can be settled beyond reason
able doubt by an inquiry before q
recognized scientific body.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15
.EDV ARD Il. Hartman DEAD
Great Finaneier and Worlds Phenomenal Railroad
Organizsr Passes Away At His Princely
Home Al Arden New York.

dertook the rehabilitation of the rail
road. He secured controlling IN
terest, reorganized the management,
and through his transcendent genius,
converted the bankrupt company into
one of the best dividend-paying roads
in the country. In this and later.
when he took hold Of the Southern
Pacific, uarriman's policy was one
Of lavish expenditure, which made
the properties as near physically per-
feet as possible. The matter of div
idends was allowed to wait upon their
perfection. This policy has continued
on all the Hartman lines, and to it
has been added close study of the
territories adjacent to the property
and which contributed, or could be
made to contribute to their welfare.
Hartman s most spectacular per-
formance and that which made his
name familiar to all the reading pub
lie was in May, 1891, when he strug-
gled with the Morgan and Hill in
terests for control of the Northern
Pacific. On May 9 of that year the
historic Northern Pacific corner re-
suited in the stock of the company
going to $1,000. At the "show down
Hartman produced $7S,OOO,00O in
stocks. However, the Hill-Morgan
people held the whip-hand through a
bylaw of the company which permit
ted the retirement of preferred stock
at any time. Of his holdings $4l,-
100000 was preferred, but Hartman
secured compromise and he and
some of his associates were elected
to the Northern Pacific directorate.
Hartman, it is said, controlled
$4,000 miles of railway, or six times
across the continent; that these lines
employ $4,000 men; that, in addition,
he directed $4,000 miles of steamship
lines, making $4,000 miles of tra-s-
portation in all; that one could go
from New York to Hongkong without
ever leaving the Hartman lines and
that he could retarn by another route
ON Hartman lines nearly all the way.
Financiers in recent estimates
of Harriman's personal wealth
have varied all the way from $780,
100000 to $1OO,OOO,O0O. He was, of
course, large holder Of securities of
the various corporations with which
he was identified, including in addi-
tion to the Union Pacific and South
ern Pacific systems, over score of
smaller or tributary properties, not
only in this country but in Mexico
as we'll. Report credited him with
large personal holdings in various
ro;l-.~- ] --.--a
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15

-...... ..2,659,S73 366,596
In conclusion, Mr.. Hester says the
facts concerning this remarkable year
in cotton consumption speak for them
selves, but it is safe to say that had
they been estimated instead of plain
unvarnished truths, even extremists
would have been justified in classing
them as e1aggerations.
In the South he says: "We have
brushed 100000 bales closely dur
ing the past year and this close on
the heels of the panic with 215 out of
a total of 1856 active mills from one
to two months late in getting under
headway. Most of the new not COM
plete spindles will be in working or
der before the coming years close,
and with these on the basis of the
19O4-'O5 consumption per spindle the
capacity of the Southern mills will be
something like 100000 to 100000
ho1ec - - ,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15

Chattanooga, Tenn, Special.-Jas.
U. Jackson, Of Augusta, Ca, one Of
the business associates of the late
Edward Fl. Hartman, and part own
er of the Augusta street railway sys-
TEN, in speaking of the great fnan-
cier's death said:
"I do not know what the policy of
Mr.. Hartman g successor will be,
but I know that his death will be one
of the greatest shocks to the pro-
gress of the South that could have
been received. I am in a position to
know that it was Mr.. Hartman in
tention to use his Illionis Central and
Central Of Georgia lines for the de-
veloping Of the South's resources and
to further the interests of the more
propressiyo communities.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15

Mexico City, Special-Another ter
rible flood has visited the Jamitepec
district in the State of Oaxaca. Sugar
plantations and mills have been de-
stroyed, hundreds of head of cattle
have been killed and scores of farm
laborers have lost their lives in the
waters. The scenes Of this latest in
undation is in the southern part Of
the republic, many miles from Mon
terey and Tamaulipas. The Atoyac
river overfowed its banks and swept
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15
Marshal Killed BY Blow.

Jesup, Ga, Spccial.-Marshal G..
3. Pope was killed Friday afternoon
BIZ a blow over his heart in a des-
perate struggle with Edward Tyre,
Brantley Tyre and Jas. Tyre, prom
incnt young white men whom he was
attempting to arrest. 1t is not known
which one of the Tyres inflicted the
fatal blow. All were arrested as they
attempted to escape and lodged In
Wayne county Jail.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15

New York, Special.-Wall Streets
response Friday to the death of Ed
ward H. Hartman was a bouyantly
strong stock market in which Sc
curities made sensational gains and
held them to the end. The volume
of business was cnormous-well over
100000 shares-and to this vast
amount the better known Hartman
stocks, namely Union Pacific comnIar
and Southern Pacific, alone eontribut-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15
MEXICO AGAIN SUFFERS FROM A DISASTROUS FLO(

miles of a rich country with devas-
tating force. The Jamiltepec district
is one of the richest on the Pacafic
coast and it is said that 100000 per-
sons will suffer from this most recent
flood owing to the great area of land
laid to waste. The initial overflow
of the Atoyac river was caused by
cloudburst. The situation in the
northern part Of the republic is still
serious, in spite of the fact that the
food sufferers in the State of Tama-
ulipas are receiving their first relief,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15
THE ROOSEVELT TO BE in HUDSON RIVER PARADE

4 Favorable reply was promptly
sent, and the Roosevelt will be as
signed to a place of honor close to
the Half Moon and Clermont, which
will lead the parade. In all probabl-
ity Peary himself will be on board,
together with the members of the
Peary Arctic Club, and possibly other
distinguished explorers. DIR. Cook,
it is expected, will be in New York
City at the time, but the celebration
committee regards it as unlikely that
he will be invited to join the Peary
marty
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15

ed over one-third, while other prop
critics in which the late magnet was
more remotely interested added prob
ably as much more to the sum total.
The day resulted in complete route
of the short interest, which was prob
ably more extensive than even the
best informed had imagined. Even
before the opening here it was evi-
dent from the tone Of American Sc
curities in London that the strongest
sunnort was Forthcoming.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15
New York Times Loses.

New York, Special.-Judge Hand
in the United States Circuit Court
settled a novel legal controversy Fri
day in favor of The New York Sun
and The New York World, defendants
in proceedings brought by The New
York Times. Friday the Times OBJ,
tanned a temportry injunction re.
straining The Sun and The Worle
from printing any of Peary's cabled
account of his discovery, which he
had agreed to furnish exclusively te
The Times but the court Friday dis
solved the restraining order.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15
Could Have Been Worse.

"The thing might have been SC
much worse than it vas,'' said DR.
Daniel, with reference to the burning
of Columbia College, lying in bed
nursing his aching feet and patting q
burned place on his cheek, but smiling
good naturedly through it all. "Had
the fire come in the way it did at the
hour it did when the college was full
of girls two weeks later, We might
have seen sights that would have
0ade strong men weep.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15
Boston Schoolgirls

A Boston school teacher received
rather a shocl: the other day when
she got an insight into the mind Of
one of her little scholars. The teach
er had asked the children to write
an answer to the question, What
do you wish to be when you are
grown up?"
One little pale faced girl, with q
prematurely old face. wrote. this sin
gle sentence: 81 want to be an old
maid."-Eoston Record.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-09-15

New York, Special.-Commander
Peary's ship, the Roosevelt, will be
one of the features of the Hudson
Fulton naval parade on the opening
day of the celebration. The follow
ing telegram was received here Fri
"sydney, c. B., Sept. 10.
sHudson-Fulton Celebration Com
mittee:
"peary Arctic Club applies for ,1
position for it's steamer Roosevelt
with the North Pole in tercentennial
parades. ,-,,