The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-14
WATER PROBLEM
Garnett's Supply Almost Ex-
r. hausted.
Chanute and FredOnia Not
Worried.

Garnett. Aug. 14.-The Cedar
creek water supply is exhausted, and
there is no other place to get a new
supply. There is quite a comfortable
supply of water in the lake at pres
| ent, but if the people use it prodig-
! ally, it will not last long. 1t is posi-
| lively necessary to take care or the
small supply for cooking, drinking
and ether necessary domestic pur-
poses, and all good citizens should
help the city commissioners to con-
serve the supply on hand.
The attention of those who have
stock to water is called to the fact
that they can get water at the well
near the northeast corner of the court
house yard, where there is plenty of
good water.
Chanute Believed Safe.
Chanute, Aug 14.-There is still
plenty of water in the Neosho river
to furnish the city system, and not
much likelihood that the municipaH-
ties along its banks will find them
selves in the straightS of ConeyVille,
Independence, Cherryva1e and Ere
donia, which depend on the Verdigris
river for their supply.
The Neosho flows quietly on. not
withstanding the furry and excite
ment in the unfortunate cities along
the Verdigris. This, too, in spite of
the fact that the river now is about
as low as it has been in forty-four
years, according to one who knows.
The present low stage has been
reached before" said an old-timer
this morning. 1.-The year 1860 was
the driest Kansas has any record of
since the days of Joseph, and then
there was plenty of corn in Egypt, SO
don't get frightened
Farmer Wants Supply for Own Use.
Freoonia, Kan, Aug. 14.-Albert
Wells, who lives just the other side
of Neodesha, on the Verdigris river,
came to Fredonia and petitioned the
courts to issue an injunction against
the city of Independence restraining
it from dynamiting the rifles on his
farm to increase it's water supply.
Probate Judge Natter complied with
his wishes and Sheriff Whitesides
went down and served the papers on
the man in charge Of the work.
Independence has employed a force
of men for the past week or so cut
ting all the rifles up the river from
that city in order to furnish water
for city use. They have been cut
ting and dynamiting rifles regard
less, it seems, of the protests OF land
owners on either side. Mr.. Wells
thinks that to cut the rifle on his
land would endanger his stock water
supply in which supposition he is,
without doubt, in the right
Newton Would Save Trees.
Newton, Aug 14.-Much time, en-
ergy and water has been expended on
the young trees of Newton in an eff
fort to keep them alive during this
dry weather. The larger, older trees
have been neglected, few people real
izing that they are really in danger
of dying.
An authority on trees states that
he believes fully one-half of the old
er trees in Newton would be lost I'M
less immediate steps are taken to save
them. Many have inserted pipes from
the surface to the roots to facilitate
watering, but this offers a free pas
sage for the escape of moisture and |
brings the heated air in direct con- |
tact with the roots. The same au-
thority stated that spading around |
the trees not only furnishes a means !
of gathering moisture, but serves as |
a mulch to retain it.
Hutchinson Depends on UnderfIow. |
Hutchinson, Aug. 14.-With stories !
in of rivers going dry, wells !
drying up, stock furnishing for thirst, |
trains for drinking purposes, !
and the people in this |
valley generally may feel thankful
Throughout the Arkansas valley, |
where the inexhaustible underfIow !
gives an abundance of water ten to |
fifteen feet below the surface, ready |
for pumping, such thing a water |
shortage is unknown.
BY ramming a pipe into the ground |
almost anywhere, hooking on a gas
engine or windmill, there is plenty of |
water not only for stock tanks, but |
for irrigating.