The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-07-18
MONEYIN VOLUNTEER WHEAT
Harper County Farmer Gets 22-Bushei
Yield From Field He Did
Not PIoW.


Yield From Field He Did
Not PIow.
E. B. Rankin, a Harper county
farmer, is thought to hold the record
for harvest luck in that section of the
wheat belt. He is now threshing a
50-acre field of volunteer wheat that
is yielding nearly twenty-five bushels
an acre.
The wheat shattered badly in the
harvest last summer and in the fall a
good stand of volunteer wheat came
up Rankin pastured the field heavily
all winter with the plan of planting
the field to corn this spring
When corn time came the prospect
for wheat was so good he let the
wheat stand and it is now yielding
almost as good as land that has been
plowed and drilled The only expense
he has been to is in harvesting and
threshing, which is more than Offset
by the valuable pasturage he got from
the field during the winter.
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Picked Wrong Medicine.-Mixing
result in the death of Mrs. James E..
Young, wife of a Wichita laborer.
Young arose from bed and, going to
the kitchen, took cantharides from
the shelf instead of salts Both took
the mixture. Young is getting well,
but his wife is in critical condi-
ton.
LeaVenworth Lineman Killed.
Charles T. Hoy, Iineman employed
by the I4eavenworth Electric Light
Company, came in contact with ca
BILE carrying 1900 volts while work
ing on a 40-foot pole and was electro
cuted. Physicians used a pulmotor
without result.
New Rails for Central Branch
The immediate expenditure of $4,000
for new steel on the Central branch
was announced at Atchison recently
New rails are to be laid between, At
Gibson and Netawaka. They are
much heavier than the ones now in.
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"TaPs" for a Veteran.-John Hess
Ter, a farmer near Kanopolis, died the
other afternoon He was "A years
old. He came to that part of the
state in the pioneer days and fol
many years lived near Salina He
served four years in the Civil War.
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| Killed in Crusher.-John Marion, 81
years old, head plumber for the lola
Portland Cement Company, was kill
ed doing repair work in the crushel
department at the plant in lola. Mar
ion was caught in the machinery anC
crushed to death
Wichita's Noisy Fourth.-As a re
suit of the repeal of the Sane
Fourth" ordinance by the city com
missioners, Wichita experienced the
noisiest Fourth of July in five years
In practically every block in Wichits
and even in the downtown distric
cannons doomed and ear-sp1ittinl
giant fire crackers exploded from
dawn until late at night. Three Sc
rious accidents have been reported
A spent bullet from celebrator's re
volver struck Bertha Delano, year
old, in the right hip, ranging down
ward and SCATTERING the hip bone
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Was Tired of Eife.-Fred Kemp,
Junction City hay and grain dealer
committed suicide by hanging. Nj
Kemp was a Geary county farmer 70
many years, but sold out seven year
ago and came to town to engage i
business.
Radium Fails to Cure.-Mrs. L. s
Cambern, wife of Senator Gambler
: is dead at her home in Erie froI
cancer. She was recently brough
: home from Johns Hopkins hospita
Baltimore, where the radium trea
ment was unsuccessful.
Harvest Hand a suicIde.-Failing t
make good in the harvest fields wher
, he went to retrieve his fortunes,
, man believed to be I. E. Gobney, aboJ
, 60 years old, killed himself in tn
Union Station at Wichita by drinkiin
poison. He is supposed to be frol
| Parsons.
e Civil War Veteran Dies.-WiIlial
t Shaw, forty years resident of Salin
: county, veteran of the Civil Wa
3 is dead at his home in Salina. Il
was "A years Old, He leaves widoJ
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Tragedy Causes Death.-Mrs. Ro
! ert jenkins, widow of Robert Jenkin
killed by Sam Brown. when the Ia
,, ter shot his wife. his baby and hin
self, near Troy, is dead. She nevt
revived after her collapse followir
news of the tragedy. Mrs. Brown. hs
daughter, is in a serious condition.
!. Train Kills Man-An unidentifs
d man, about % years old. was run ov
d and killed on the Santa Fe tracl