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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-22
Bonds
New York Money

New York. June 2I.-Money on call, per
cent no loans. Time money easy, 60 days,
3a4Q4 per cent; 80 days, 3%d4 per cent; SIX
months, 5@5A per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, per cent.
Sterling exchange steady. with actual
business In bankers bills at $4.S3 for so
day bills and at s4S6.S5 for demand. Com
mercial bills. $4.S2s. Bar silver 5s4c;
Mexican dollars 4Sc. Government bonds
steady: railroad bonds heavy.
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Treasury Statement

Washington, June 2i.-The condition of
the United States treasury at the begin
ming of business today was: Working bal
ance S56,066 1896: In banks and Philippine
treasury, $56,022. PIP; total of general fund.
$l37, ,427. .2S3; receipts yesterday, $2,510,7i9,
disbursements. $2,li5,675; the surplus this
fiscal year is ST., ,S31 065, as against sur
plus of $3.50, ,20S last year The figures for
receipts, disbursements and surplus ex-
clude Panama canal and public debt trans
actions.
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Artificial Freezing Keeps Out Flood
From the Pnnular Mahha MICS

Although the flood in Louisville, KY,
rose considerably above the windows
and doors of the electric power station
of that city. none of it reached the
machinery for the engineers adopted a
novel method of keeping it out. A part
of the equipment of the power station is
an ice manufacturing plant, and when
the water began to rise, refrigera ting
coils were laid around the edges of the
windows and doors, the chinks of which
were filed with sawdust. When the
sawdust became saturated with water it
was frozen by means of the coils and
thus an innow OF water was prevented.
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curities opened lower and declined steadily
under realizing. The closing was weak
with prices ranging from unchanged TO q
below parity Money and discount rates
were steady.
Consols for money, " 1916 Tor account,
T27s Illinois Central, liz; LouisVllie an anu
Nashville 1874; Southern railway, 21A.
Bar silver quiet 267sd per ounce Money,
3i1m31b per cent. Discount rates; snort
and three months, 5-16d4ss per cent.
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Liverpool Grain Market

Liverpool, June N.-Wheat, spot steady;
No. l Manitoba, rs 91sd; No. 2, rs 61ad; No.
3, rs 41Ad. Futures dull; July, rs 6!sd; Oc-
tober, rs 3a4d; December, rs 4Ad. Corn.
spot firm; American mixed nominal; no
stock; American mixed, new, kiln dried,
5s AID; American mixed, old, 6s; American
mixed, via Galveston. 5s Sd. Futures dull !;
July, La Plata, As 10ssd September. La
Plata 4s lid
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Live Stock Market

Kansas City. June gl.-Hogs Receipts,
2COo. market cents lower. Bulk, ss5o@
S.65; heavy, $8.50@S65; packers and butch
ers. SS60dS. 20; light, $S.60@S70; pigs, S@S.
Cattle: Receipts. 2Ooo, including leo
southerns; market steady Prime fed
steers, SS259S.75; dressed beef steers, $50
ms.25; western steers, $7.5O@S.50; southern
steers, $607.90; cows $4s5@725; heifers,
s6. .750iS. so: stockers. $650@S.15; calves, $50
M9.50
Sheep: Receipts none; market steady.
Lambs, s6259I75; yearlings, so@6.25'
S56l6. %; wethers, s4.5O@525; ewes. s4.25@
4.75: stockers and feeders, S3M5.
ST. Louis. June 2l.-Cattle:' Receipts,
5000, including 200 Texans; market steady.
Choice to firm steers, $7.254S; good 10
choice steers, s75O@S.25; mixed and butch
er steers, $5.75GL5O; stockers s447.25;
calves, s6G10.75; Texas steers, s5.2oq7.25 )
Texas cows and heifers, s4.2SQ7.
Hogs: Receipts 1900; market lower.
Pigs and lights. s725@S.75; mixed and
butchers, sS.Go@S.75; good heavy, $S.55dS 10.
Sheep. Receipts. 25oo; market steady
Muttons, $5@525; yearlings. So25a6.5o'
lambs, S7.2517.50; spring lambs, si.25d71o
Louisville, June 21.-Cattle: Receipts, 90;
market slow to weak. Range, $2.5oMS
Hogs Receipts, 400; market &c hishcr
Range, s4.50dS.55.
Sheep: Receipts, 1SC0. LAMBS SLOW;
prospects Upward.
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st. Louis Grain

st. Louis, June 21.-Cash wheat, No. 2
red, 97l9S1ac; No. 2 hard, 96c. Corn, No. 2,
60c; No. white, &c. Oats, No. 2, 4014q41c;
No. white, 421ac. Wheat closed, July, SSc;
September. soc. Corn, July, 60$sc; Septem-
Der, 61a4@6l7sc. Oats, July, 402sc; Septeln-
Der. 417sG42c.
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Hubbard Bros. 4 Co.

Cation Mcrchasns, Hanover Square, N.
Y. Members New York Cotton Ex-
change, New Orleans Cotton Exchange,
New York Produce Exchange. Asso.
eiate Members Liverpool Cotton Assoc
chase and sale Of Cotton and Cotton
Seed OH for future delivery. Special
attention and liberal terms given for
eonsignments OF spot cotton for q,
ovogy. Corrogpondsuce invited
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New Orleans Cotton Futures

New Orleans June H.-Spot cotton was
quiet and unchanged middlng. IL 9-16c;
sales spot, 81 bales; to arrive, none. Low
ordinary, 13-16c nominal; ordinary, 1oc
nominal; good ordinary, 119sc strict good
ordinary. 117sc low middling. 12bc; strict
low middling, 12ase, middling, II 9-l6c;
strict middlng, 127sc; good middling,
13 Lice; strict good middling, 13Ac; mid
ding fair, 13 11-16c nominal; middling fair
to fair IA 1-16c nominal; fair, IA I-16c nom-
inal. Receipts, S7s; stock, So, 351 bales.
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Cotton Seed Oil

New York, June 21.-The cotton seed
oil market was a little easier today
under profit taking and on the belief that
prices had been advanced too rapidly, but
the undertone was steady on evidences of
light supplies, closing points lower to
1 point net higher. Prime crude nominal;
prime summer yellow, spot, 7.S0@S. 25c;
June. 7.SOc: July Isle; August-Septem-
her. 7.74c; October, .33c; November. 6.53c;
December, 6.36c: January. 6.3Sc; prime
winter yellow. 7.soc bid; prime summer
white 7.90c bid.
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New Orleans Rice Market

New Orleans, June 21.-Rice strong. Re-
ceipts: Rough 40; clean, 2463; millers,
479. Sales: Rough none; clean Honduras.
none; Japan, 1875 at 974@3asc. Quotations:
Rough nominal; clean Honduras, 4Ad59sc;
Japan, SAG3ssc
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Kansas City Grain

Kansas City, June 2l.--Cash wheat, No.
hard, S7@9S1sc; No. red, SSq95c. Corn,
No. 2 Mixed 599591ac; No. 2 white, $50
591ac. Oats, No. 2 white, Ale; No. 2 mixed,
391ac. Wheat closed, July. S5c; September,
S6Ac; December, s9AdS9ssc. Corn, July,
Soc; September, 60is@0Ac; December, 565sc.
Oats, September, 4l5sc; December, 42K0
425sc
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Poultry and Eggs

Hens, 45G50c; live, per pound, 150D16c
fryers, 1Ad11s lbs. average 221ac: fryers
less than / lb. and under 11a pounds aver
age a0c ducks, lac pound; guineas.
sOc roosters, 30c; geese, 4005Oc:
live turkeys, 1sG20c; fresh eggs. case can.
died. 19@2Oc; extra graded candled eggs.
21c.
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st. Louis Produce

st. Louis. June 21.-Flour quiet. Hay
firm; timothy, s13q17.50 prairie, s10Q13.
Receipts: Flour. 10000; wheat, $1,000; corn,
66O00; oats. 5000. Shipments: Flour, 49,
600; wheat, $1,000; corn, 1000 oats, 5000.
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Creamery Products

Country butter. 20d25c: fresh creamery
butter, 321ac; cheese, 161ac; imported Swiss
cheese, 2lc; German brick cheese. zoe:
i:nburger cheese. 1sc; imported roquefort.
37c; Neufchatel cheese. per dozen, <5c:
Pimento cheese. Sbc; process butter, 3Oc;
daisy cheese, 161ac per pound.
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French Exchange

Paris, June 21.-Three per cent rentes,
S3 francs 10 centimes for the account; ex-
change on London, % francs "A centimes
for the cheques. Private rate of discount,
3a per cent.
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Flour and Breadstuffs

flour, $685. Oklahoma flour. $5.15;
pure wheat shorts, 500; pure wheat bran.
$27; C. s. hulls per ton, SIG; prime c. s.
meal, per ton. $32; C. S. feed meal per
ton, s26; No. / timothy hay, per ton, s24;
mixed alfalfa and johnson grass, per ton.
$40; sack, $1.5O; alfalfa hay per ton s23;
Johnson grass, per ton, SIG; mixed feed,
$32; oats, 56c bus corn, S5c.
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Some Research Work

From the st. Louis Republic.
'.Are you one of those fellows always
going around saying that the average
woman is mystery?"
mot me. I've got 1t all figured out
now. except her complexion"
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LOCAL QUOTATIONS
Pig Iron
Local Cotton
Meat

Lard, 127se; compound 9s; dry salt
short ribs, s1415; bellies, $685.; ham
butts, 15.5oc; Boston butts. Ice: pork
lo!ns, lie; spare ribs, 15c; breakfast
bacon, 25q26c: smoked bacon. Ice; regular
ham, 1910; skinned ham, 201ac.
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Posing a Lion for Motion Pictures

From the Popular MecHaHIcs'
At the moment that "Brutus, one OF
the big lions of the Cincinnati zoo, was
scheduled to keep an appointment with
motion picture operator, one or the
guards appeared with a large piece or
meat, which was held up invltingly.
Thereupon Brutus presented an un-
usually pleasant face to the picture ma
chine. 1t was only a passing express
sion" however, for the Withholding of the
meat soon aroused a feeling of impat-
ience which rapidly grew in intensity.
providing the operator with an excellent
series of facial motion pictures.
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MONEY IN WHEAT

$1,000 Buys, Puts or Calls on 10000
bushels Of wheat No Fgrther Rist. K
chance to take 100000: &c 10000: &c &c
xSV0:0o. etc Write for particulars.
THE CENTRAL STOCK e GRAIN co.
Park Bldgv Cleveland, O.
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Fikh and Sea Foods

Red snapper, 8Q912c in Dbl. lots; gray
snappers or groupers, 31s@4c; Spanish
mackerel 121Ac; sun perch or Dream, Sc in
Dbl. lots; pompano. zoe; mixed fish, TIC
in Dbl. lots; crockers, &c in Dbl. lots: fresh
water perch Sc: muliet, SIC in bbis.:
small trout. 7c fresh water cat. dressed.
1Oc; salt water cat, TIC.
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Metal Market

New York. June 21.-Metals dun
practically nominally unchanged Lake
copper S15.00015.25; electrolytlc,
s14.S7h @15.OO; casting, s14.75. Iron un-
changed.
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FAIR SIZED ORDERS
FROM THE JOBbERS

New York, June 21-Cotton goods orders
of fair size are coming along from job
bers who are looking to the fall trade.
Business is not of full volume for the
season, and there is still a marked con-
seryatism in the placing of business for
spring. Most of the large primary fac
tors anticipate a much more active trade
next month when the semi-annual gath
ering of wholesalers takes place here
and when the results of the Senates pre-
liminary action on tariff matters becomes
better known.
Mills are confining their outputs very
closely to firm ORDERS and accumulations
in first hands are the lightest known M
years.
Leading commission houses say the
fundamentals of the cotton goods trade
have seldom been better and with easier
money and more definite knowledge of
tariff changes they predict a very con-
siderable activity in filling up depleted
shelves. Fall River sold 100000 pieces of
print cloths for the week at unchanged
prices Prints are in moderate demand.
Ginghams are quiet.
Tickings are steady and denims are well
sold. Duck is firmer.
Fine and fancy cottons for future de-
livery are being introduced carefully.
Jobbers are succeeding very well in clear
ing up summer goods in clearance sales.
Prices on cotton goods are as follows:
Print cloths 2S inch 6i-6is, Ss4 cents; a.
Cos, Sla cents; SS1s inch. 64x64, SIS cents;
brown sheeting southern standards T&
cents; denims ounce IA cents; tickings
ounce 13 1-5 cents; standard prints 51a
cents; standard staple ginghams 6si cents;
standard dress ginghams 9h centse.
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liquidation by the buyers Of yesterday
sharply depressed prices.
The tone of the market under the dis
ouieting foreign news and the further
hopeless feeling ir financial circles re-
fiected these outside conditions.
There is no feature beyond this selling
and the backwardness of the market u
absorbing 1t.
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London Stock Market

London, June 21.-Stock shares were to-
day nervous end weak. This was due
to continued liquidation for local and for
eign accounts and fears of further trouble
at the forthcoming settlement. Consols
lost another k and are now close to the
low record of last October. American Sc
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Dry Goods

New York. June 2l.-Many small mail
orders are coming in on cotton goods FOR
the jobbing trade. Prices ruled steady.
Underwear and hosiery orders for spring
are light. Linen orders are withheld by
apprehension of tariff changes, Raw silk
Is steady
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Montgomery Market

Montgomery. June 21.7tSpecial.) )-Spot
cotton quotations in Montgomery Satir-
day were: Strict middling, 12l4c; mid
ding 12c; strict low middling, 11tsc.
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Grain Receints and ShinmentS

Kansas City, June 3l-Receipts: Wheat,
81, 900; corn, $1,000; oats. 1000. Shipments:
Wheat, $4,000; corn, $4,000; oats, 1000.
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Danish Cabinet Formed

Copenhagen, Denmark. June H.-Ths
New Danish cabinet wse formed today
by c. T. Zahle, former premier and the
leader of the radical party.
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German Exchange

Berlin, June 2l.-Exchange on London.
20 marks 40 pigs. Tor cheques. Money, "a
per cent. Private rate of discount, 5ss@55s
per cent.
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Naval Stores

Savannah, June 21.-Turpentine, firm
36c Sales. 54S; receipts, 525; shipments,
4O1O: stocks 23.0S3. Rosin, firm; sales. 1885,
receipts, 1888; shipments. 524; stocks. 116,-
O67. Quote, A, B, $3.50; c, d, 50 95; E, s4.05;
F, G. II, s4.15; /, $4.2O: K. $4. .55: NJ 50 10;
N. s5.S5 WIG, $6.25; WV, $500.
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Coffee and Sugar

Coffee. Arbuckles, s22.77 per 100 pounds;
Luzanne. 25c per pound. Sugar. standard
granuated, DC per pound.
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Willing To Chance II

.Kissing is thought by some to be
Unhealthy exercise said he.
Yes she replied; but then. who
knows?'
There S risk in all things. 1 suppose.
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Hubbard Bros. & Co.'S Letter
New York, June 21--(Speeial.) )-Heavy
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LOCAL SECURITIES

rotal sales for the day. 275.60O shares.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-27
RAILROAD news
New Short Line for Santa Fe
Is Latest RumOr.
Acquisition of st. l.. r.. NJ. & p.
Is the Clue.
LOW GRADE THROUGH KANSAS
Give Road Three Routes to
Pacific Coast.
Other Items of Interest in the
Traffic World.
.OW GRADE THROUGH KANSAS

With the acquisition of the St Louis.
Rocky Mountain & Pacific railway in
northwestern New Mexico, the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa F'e company will
secure another cutoff to the Pacific
coast, according to railroad men in
Topeka. This new possession runs
from Des Moines to Otero. n. NJ. In
connection with the purchase of this
short line. it is said that the Santa Fe
will abandon it's original plan to build
the Colmar cutoffs through the CHM
arron River valley and southwest.
1t is understood now that the cut
off will be built only to Des Moines.
The terminals of the Colmar cutoff
and the newly purchased property are
less than 100 miles apart. The route
will give the Santa Fe a low grade
across the corner OF Kansas and New
Mexico and on to the coast
The Santa Fe has two distinct routes
to the coast through that section. One
is straight west through the state of
Kansas and Colorado and down into
the mountains of New Mexico. The
other runs southwest through Kansas,
Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle
into New Mexico. If the proposed
cutoff is carried out, it will give the
road a third and a shorter route for
the handling of freight to the coast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-27
TO ENLARGE POST
Secretary Garrison Says Leav-
enwOrth Be One of Largest.
Visited Military Prison and
Suggests Important Changes.

Leavenworth, Aug. 27.-The United
States military post here is to be en-
larged and converted into one of the
largest and most important posts in
the United States. according to state
mentS attributed to Lindley M Carl
son, secretary of war. who, with Ma
jor General Leonard Wood and other
army officials, visited at the post Tues
day in conjunction with his tour of in
spection of military posts all over the
country
Secretary Garrison in an address to
officers of the army staff college is said
to have praised highly the conduct of
the Leavenworth post. The address
was not made to the public. officers
present told of the secretaryS remarks
concerning the future and present of
the local post. Beside the visit to the
army service schools. Secretary Garri-.
son and General Wood visited the
United States military prison.
General Wood harshly criticised a
number of conditions found there. He
requested Secretary Garrison to issue
an order at once abolishing the use
of stripes on the prisoners General
Wood further complained of the sys-
tenn in vogue whereby an army man
who has served a sentence for petty
offense is dropped from the army and
suggested to the secretary that in
many instances of minor offenses these
men al Ter StTN ms SeIlt6Iite SllOuil bG
restored to duty.
other conditions which General
Wood complained of were the ''trusty
system methods of working prison.
ers and the matter of diShonOrably dis
charging soldiers who fail on occasions
to report for duty. Secretary Garrison
took under adVisement complaints on
these various quest ons and said if or
ders were issued in compliance with
them the orders would apply to all
@A@4s in the country.
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TEXAS WILL TRY TEST SUIT.
File Case Against Railroads to Deter
mine Galveston Regulations.

Austin, Tex, Aug. 27.-The state
railroad commission is gathering evil
denc to be used in the test suit which
it will soon instruct the attorney gen
eral to file in court here against GER
tain railroads of Texas with the view
of determining whether state or inter-
state commerce regulations govern on
shipments of freight unloaded from
steamships at Galveston for distribu-
ton in this state.
The railroads take the position that
all such freight is interstate and there
fore subject to the rulings of the inter
state commerce commissions regula-
tons, while the railroad commission OF
Texas contends that the freight loses
it's interstate character when it reach
eS the wharVeS and is subject to its
regulations and rules.
If such freight is classed as inter
state the railroads will escape the pay
ment of the loading charges at Calves
ten and this burden will be placed
upon the consignee or consignOr. The
railroads would then also be COM
PEELED to assess the interstate rate
from point of shipment to point of
destination. This is considerably
higher than the present com bination
of local rates. 1t would be a serious
blow to all distributing houses situated
outside of Galveston, it is claimed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-27
PUMP UNDERFLOW
Finney County Has Advantages
Over Eastern Part of State.
Pumps Furnish Water for
Stock and Growing Crops.

Garden City. Aug. 27.-The general
drouth for the past two months, that
| has not only covered all of the state
| of Kansas. but large area of the
| country, brings into the foreground
| the many advantages of the western
| part of the state. Advantages that
have never been exploited, and which
are but little known elsewhere. While
| the stock man in the eastern part OF
| the state is exercised over the problem
of feed and water for his stock, out
| here it is only a matter of moving over
| to new and unoccupied range for
| grass, and fixing up a windmill or at
| taching d small gasoline engine to the
nearest well for supply of water.
| While this wonderful supply of I'M
| derground water has been mentioned
| and exploited to some extent, very few
| people grasp its Importance or mag
| nitude, and even when full particulars
and data are given, very few people
| Importance. An item in the press
states that Olathe is shipping in co.
/ 600 gallons of water daily to supply its
| people.
in the Garden City district that fur
| nish 1000 gallons or more of water
per minute. 1t would take one of
| these plants just one hour a day to
supply the 800 gallons. There are
several plants that furnish 1000 gal
| Ions per minute, one of these would
| supply the needs of OIathe in Is min
| utes per day. This water is as clear
as crystal. cold and of the finest quail
| ity. What would the city of Olathe
and many other towns in Kansas as
we'll as elsewhere give for such d
We'll?
Again our attention is called to the
fact that many cattle are being ship
ped from the eastern part of the
state to the market, on account of
shortage of water. A very few of
these wells would supply enough wat
err to carry the cattle through the
present dry spell if they could be dis
tributed where needed. If instead of
this water supply we had a thin layer
of gold at the same depth, SO that a
man could dig and wash out five or
six dollars worth of gold per day, or
small supply of petroleum, where
men could put in wells and pump up
few barrels of oil per day, we would
soon have vast population and every
availa BILE acre would be appropriated
and used. AS it is it will take time
and capital to thoroughly develop and
use this water supply, but it will some
time be the means of making untold
millions, for the people who will de-
velop and use it, but so far, it is
practically unknown and only used to
d small extent.
One field of alfalfa near Garden
City, irrigated from wells, will pay
the owner 10 per cent on a valuation
of $500 per acre over and above the
cost of operating and marketing the
hay, this year, and there are in this
locality somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of three hundred to four thou
sand acres, known to be underlaid
with this inexhaustfble supply of
water, and new discoveries of this
underground water supply are being
made all over western Kansas every
year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-27
sPOTTER DESERTED FAMILY.
Left Abilene With Another Woman
Wife Frantic.

Salina, Kan, Aug. 27.-William Mes
sex, who for the past two weeks has
been employed by the city to secure
evidence against violatOrs of the pro-
hibitory law, is believed to have de-
serted his wife here in company with
another woman.
Messex has done good work, and has
secured a half dozen or more convic-
tons He came with the best of rec
concentrations from the Women 8
Christian Temperance union.
Friday he went to Abilene and tele-
phoned his wife that he would return
that evening. When he did not re-
turn she became alarmed, and enlist
ed the aid of the police. Enemies of
Messex, whom he had prosecuted in
his capacity of spotter, started the
story that he had left with a woman.
A man answering to Messex's de-
scription had been seen on the streets
there, in company with woman
whose description tailed with that OF
the woman with whom he was said
to have left. Investigation disclosed
that a couple had registered at an Abb
lene hotel as man and wife, and the
description furnished by the hotel man
ager was the same.
Mrs. Messex, when SHOWN the sigma
ture on the hotel register, which the
man wrote, burst into tears. The
name, she said. was one her husband
frequently employed.
No trace of the couple could be gain
ed after they had left the hotel They
told the clerk they were leaving for
Wichita. but Rock Island employees
could not remember having seen a cou-
pIe of their. description.