The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-10
COLD IS COMING


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and reading stories about the condi-
ton of things there that are new to
them.
No train has reached that town for
| fifteen days now, though the branch
line has been opened as far as Bur
dette.
The train took the mail as far as
Burdette, where a mail carrier took
it to Hanston and residents OF Jet
more waiting for it there carried II
home in a wagon. Coal dealers still
are fairly we'll stocked with canned
goods. while some lines have been solo
out. The only trouble regarding food
is that the variety is limited.
Rabbits Cause Feed Shortage.
Only a few stockmen have reported
any loss of cattle as a result OF the
cold weather and lack of food sup
plies The latest report is of a loss
of a number of head of cattle by
ranchman named Jennison. The starV-
ing jackrabbits are causing the loss
of a great amount of feed over that
part of the state
other towns on the Scott City branch
fuel and food supplies are Tunnln IN 3
short but no great alarm is felt me
dealers are short on coal and the
stores have run out of some OF the ne
cessities of life. In neither OF the Two
towns is there any sugar and the place
| of this necessity is being taken py
syrup, a substitute used almost alto
gether in the old frontier days. -,
The trains on the branch are stu
/ tied up, though the snow ploW redche "a
| here this morning after a 3-day trip IN
which # went to the end of the line
/ The Messenger train which left here
| three days ago is still tied UP near
In the last two days there has been
/ Of
Kansas which a heavy wind mas orill
| ed badly.
T4ce Is Shoveling Snow.
Santa Fe workmen in this part of he
| state the last three days had the priv
ilege of seeing a novel sight not often
seen anywhere. that of a high-up Off
cial of the road shoveling snow Off the
| track Superintendent Tice of this d.
vision of the Santa F'e is the official
| in question and the work occurred on
| the Great Bend-Scott City brancn- MT
| Tice went up the branch with the snow
pillow that opened the road to Dighton
and on the return drifting snow had
| again filled the track. Two days ago
| they got back to Ness City and this
morning reached Great Bend making
the 70 miles in 81 hours All last night
the workmen on the train, as well as
the trainmen, were out shoveling snow
from the drifts and helping the big ro-
| tary pillow through the drifts Just a
broken by the icy packs of snow it en-
countered-
Thousands Are Cut Off.
Salina, Kan. Jan. 10.-There is no
| improvement on the Lincoln branch of
the Union Pacific railroad, but the
conditions are probably aggravated
more than before. Hill City, with one
thousand people, Hoxie with five hun
bred people, and several other towns
with two or three hundred each are
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world, nc trains having reached any
of them for two or three days and
the Union Pacific officials have issued
orders that no effort is to be made to
get trains through.
AS soon as available, snow plows
will be put to work between Plainville
and Oakley, where the greatest trouble
is. Snow is ten and twelve feet deep
in T. cuts.
Indefinite reports of shortage of fuel
and feed for stock were coming from
those counties last week and the con-
dition there now is not known here.
Reports are received here that snow
drifts ten and twelve feet deep are
against the hedge fences on either side
of the tracks and the snow blows into
the cuts as rapidly as the tracks are
keeping the tracks open between Plain
Vile and Salina. Trains on the main
line of the Union Pacific are running
today with but little delay
Rabbits Eat From Mems Hands.
Hutchinson, Kan, Jan. 10.-Driven in
| TO the settlements from the plains by
! the snow and ice and lack of food. and
i TOO hungry and weak to escape from
| pursuers, jack rabbits are being caught
| alive and shipped east by hundreds.
| Beck Brothers, of Hutchinson, who
are wholesale shippers of jackrabbit
meat. are now making big shipments
of live rabbits, which have been caught
without the least trouble.
They are so hungry and famishec
that they will come right into your
| hands," explained K. c. Beck. I got II
| a shipment of ITO, Grated, by express
from Ransom, Ness county, and an
| looking for several hundred more i've
! Jacks. will send them on east to ZOOS
parks and gardens, where JackrabblL
are rare and will be kept as valuable
additions to the ZOOS of eastern cities
Packs Of wolves and coyotes, driver
in by the storm from the bizzard-sWep
plains, are now preying on the hocks
| of iacl1rabbits in the outskirts of west
ern Kansas settlements.
Kills Wolves With Hammer.
Emboldened by hunger in some DIS
tricts where the jackrabbits cannot OK
found the coyotes are not hes1tat1ng t'
attack stock in the fields the STOCK TOO
weak from hunger to make mucn re-
sistance being easily dragged down %
the prairie wolves.
John Hall, a farmer of SeWarc
county. reports that it is easy to rur
the covotes down on horseback, in
the snow drifts, and he killed Ilve o.
them during the past week, by giVlne
chase and striking them over thS
heads with a clawhammer.
VIM. Wolf killed a NUMBER o.
coyotes in a similar manner near rem
Rowland and Oscar Fields, of Hutch
inson. captured nine large wolves alive