Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-19

the rains of the last few days may In
crease the number.
W. L. OBrien, state labor commits
sioner and director of the state free
employment bureau has issued the
call for the harvesters and asked for
5000 men to be brought into the
state to take care of the wheat.
Wheat cutting has begun in Sum-
ner, Harper and perhaps one or Two
other southern Kansas counties. IN
the following counties harvest VIII
begin from June IL to Is: Edwards
Kingman, Rice, Pratt, Reno, STAFFORD
Sedgwick, Harvey and Mcpherson.
Present indications are that har-
vest will be started in all OF the
counties of the state, with the excep-
ton of those in the extreme north
west, before July l.
A Demand for Men With Teams.
Wages for single hands will no.
where be lower than 81 a day and
board, and in most counties the going
wages for average harvest hands will
be $3.50 a day. Men with teams are
needed in most Of the counties where
there is large acreage of wheat.
Not nearly so many men as usual will
be needed in Barton, Pawnee, Ford
and Edwards counties, wheat having
been badly hurt there by dry, hot
weather.
In the neighborhood Of Great Bend
few men will be needed, but the
wheat is much better in the northern
part of Barton county. Stafford,
Pratt Kiowa, Kingman, Mcpherson,
Rice and Reno will all need extra
men, estimates being that 1000 will
be needed in Pratt county, 1000 in
Stafford county, 800 in Kiowa, 400 in
Kingman, 1000 in Mcpherson, 300 in
Rice and 300 in Reno.
Need Many in Northwestern Part.
Smaller numbers will be needed in
Clark, Barber, Gray and Comanche.
The biggest demand for hands in
the 1913 harvest will be in Ellis, Rus
sell, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Mitchell,
Osborne, Smith, Phillips, Rocks, Ora
ham, Decatur and Rawlins counties.
Ellis calls for 1000 men, Rawlins and
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large numbers are needed in all of
the other northwestern counties
named.
Topeka,-The Mahin Liquor law, re-
| quiring the railroads and express
companies to file statements of all
liquor shipments into Kansas, is be-
ing obeyed to the letter by the car
riers and it has cut down the liquor
business so much that wall from
the bankers may be expected.
One Topeka bank has discharged
two employees simply because of the
loss of business. None of the other
Topeka institutions has cut down
forces yet, but there may be reduc-
ton in dividends next month because
of the falling off of the liquor bust
mes since the new law
For many years it has been the Gus
tom of the liquor houses, brewers and
distillers to ship liquor to Kansas men
and send draft with the bill of lad
ing attached for the shipment. The
man who needed drink and those
who wish to sell little liquor would
! gather the actual cash needed and go
to the banks, pay the draft and get
the bill of lading and then get the
liquor.
That business amounted to more
than $40 day and $500 a month TO
one Topeka bank IL the last three
years. The bank collected five to ten
cents on each draft as exchange, so it
can be seen that the business was
of some amount
1t is asserted by bank oficial that
not one shipment of the liquor for
which the bank handled the money
ever was used illegally-that is for
bootlegging, but all were consign-
ments for personal vse. Many men
have decided that they don't want
their names recorded in the county
clerks Offices as receiving liquors so
they have quit getting it.
The Union Pacific double track
line between Topeka and Kansas
City, used jointly by the Union Pa.
cific and the Rock Island, is being
relaid with 90-pound steel rails.
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There are no criminal types of men
or women in Kansas, according to S.
T. Seaton, executive and pardon clerli
for Gov. George II. Hodges. Seaton
has been studying criminals ever since
he got his job and thus far has not
found any of the criminal types of
which so much has been printed in
books and magazines lately.
o.
DR.. Frank Knight Sanders was
unanimously reelected to the Office OF
president of WashburA college by the
board of trustees in their annual
meeting with the provision that he
be granted an indefinite leave of abb
sence without salary, to take effect at
once.
Charles H. Sessions, secretary of