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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1914-06-18
100000
BUSHELS
Present Estimate OF Amount
Of Wheat Soon To Be
Harvested In U. S.

The latest report of the Unit.
ed States Government estimates
the total wheat production OF
this country at 900,000,00O bush
els. OF this tremendous total
638, 100000 bushels is the esti.
mated yield of winter wheat
alone. That all threshing out
fits, railroads, elevators, ETC.,
will be taxed to their utmost can
not be doubted: and still much
grain may stand in the fields for
weeks unless stacked. The fol-
lowing summary of the situation,
furnished us by the Crop Invest
ment Com miitee. of Chicago, de-
serves mention:
l. Saving grain and straw
which might be spoiled in the
field, especially in wet weather.
2. The grain will go through
a complete sweat, and is said to
be superior in quality to grain
threshed from the shock.
3. Tbreshing is made consid-
erably easier, and nothing like
the amount of of help will be
req quired, as in the case of shock
threshing, so that the total cost
is increased very little.
4. There is the added advan-
tage, which is little considered,
Of having good storage for the
grain while it is in stack, at abb
solutely no cost. Furthermore,
Ha fairly general return to this
practice were made, the market
would not be glutted at one time
as is now the case.
S. Early blowing for wheat
would be made possible. The
Kansas Experiment as reported
in BAlletin No. 176 definitely
sh0wst that early plowing, is'one
Of tue greatest factors in in-
CreaSing the wheat yield, Disc
ing the land early, even if it cam
aOt be plowed, seems to be the
acxt big contributing factor.
Either case pre-supposes an
early working of the soil, which
must mean a removal of the
grain.
w. p. FEEDER, Secretary of the
Kansas Public Utilities Com
mission writes: kansas stands
on the eve of another harvest,
which, from present indications
will be a record breaker. The
reports given out by those who
keep in close touch with the con-
ditions in the state place the
growing wheat yield at this time
at upwards of 100000, 900 bush
els, or about one-third more than
the yield of any previous crop.
The prospective wheat crop,
after all allowances are made,
will of itself require l25,O0O box
cars of 1000 bushels capacity
each, which means an invest
ment of over 100000 900, not
considering motive power nec-
essary to haul the loaded cars.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1914-06-18

Jouett Shouse, of Kinsley,
Democratic candidate for Com
gress from the Seventh District,
was in Meade last Friday.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1914-06-18

New Republican candidates
in the field this week are: F. M.
Davis, for County Attorney, c.
A. Marrs, for Probate Judge;
and Moses Black, for Surveyor.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1914-06-18
Special Correspondence

W OCbOdhNS lnC L 1883 DuI ca u
man as several different kinds
of a prevaricator, which only
demonstrates that the writer of
these letters has found the thin
spot in the skin of the Honorable
McNeal, and gotten under that
gentlemen's epidermis.
The fact remains that on page
% of the session laws of 1913
will be found an appropriation of
SO, 9,464.21 ITO pay for the defci-
ency in labor, equipment, print
ing, and material and incidentals
for the State. Printing Plant for
the fiscal year ending June 80,
1911" which deficit was created
under the ad ministration of the
aforesaid McNeal as State print
er.
The point which the Press
Bureau sought to make was that
it did not become Mr.. McNeal
to criticise Governor Hodges for
spending money to pay the old
debts of the Stubbs administra-
ton, a part of which aforesaid
deficits were made by the said
McNeal himself.
Denouncing the Press Bureau
man, who is used to being called
all sorts of names, is the usual
reply of the fellow who has no
better answer. Vituperation
does not change the real facts in
the case.
But the deficit Of $9,464.0O for
the fiscal year ending June 80,
1911, was not the only deficit un-
der McNeal's administration of
the state printing plant. The
legislature of 1909 made the APP
preparations for the Printing
Plant covering the biennium end
ing June 30th, 1911, but on turn
ing to page 29 of the session
laws of 1911, one finds that the
Legislature was compelled to APP
propriate $35,OQo.OO to cover a
labor de6eieneysf6 the year 1910
and to pay.ioralab abor and material
to keep the plant running to July
1st, 1911. In other words, Mr..
McNeal had exhausted his ap-
preparations for the fiscal years
of 1901, and when Austin took
the Office in January 1911 there
was neither money nor material
to run the plant the rest of the
year. McNeal had spent his ap-
preparation during the first six
months of the fiscal year.
This deficit helped create that
void in the State Treasury which
Stubbs' administration left as an
inheritance to the Hodges ad.
ministration.
Mr.. McNeal can call the Press
Bureau man liar until he is |
black in the face but any one
who cares to pick up the session
laws cited, can read for himself. |
w. E. Davis who is the Repub-
Iican candidate for a third term
as State Auditor, and Earl Ak
ers, who is one of them things"
they call Progressive Repub-
ican, and who wants to be re-
elected to the Office of State
Treasurer, have been putting
'orth great claims of friendship
.or the dear taxpayer. 1t may
be we'll to scrutinize some of the
hings these gentlemen are doing
n order to find out whether
hese claims of friendship for
he taxpayer have any founda-
ion in fact.
The public is pretty generally
ware of the fact that men may
10 things and keep entirely with
n the law and yet violate the
.verage mans idea of what is
light and just as between man
nd man. For example:
When Mr.. Davis and Mr.. Ak
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1914-06-18

The weather, the weeds, and
the crops are fine.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01
WER WILL NOT DELAY
 THE PANAMA FAIR

It is good to hear from Secretary Bryan that the Pan ama-Paeific exposition will be held next year as announced. Not that any one should have doubted for a moment the in- tention Ito celebrate the world S greatest victory of peace on time, despite the pestilence of war now sweeping half the worlds civilized area. There seems little hope now Iof gain ing official exhibits from Eng land, Germany Or France for the fair. But England and Ger many have declined to be of ficially represented some time before the war clouds appeared ai least to unofficial eyes. Rus sia and Austria and Belgian may also be counted out, we suppose. And Italy has de- cliHed to exhibit. Bnt these losses will simply render 'the exposition predom:nately Amer ican, and as such more eloquent ly indicative tiaa ever of lhe streng new bona which the canal constitute between the two American continents. - New York Tribune.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01
Saint Johns Church

Rev. Harry P. Corser, Priest i'll charge.
 Sunday am. (seeond Sun- day of the month) Holy Com munion.
 9:49 a.m.. Native Sunday School.
 II am. Morning Prayor and Sermon. During July and Aug ust 2nd and 4th Sunday only. 3 pm. Native service.
 During August, 2nd and 4th Sundays. September, 1st and 3rd Sundays.
 Thursday s pm. Choir prac- tice.
 Meeting of Vetsry first Mon day night of each month Noman's Guild, alternate Thursdays.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01
PARIS LOSES NEARLY
 THIRD OF POPULATION

X census being taken in Paris to provide the military author ities with information in case of siege show the number of households to be SS7, ,267, rep rssenting 2,006,7S6 people, as compared with 1,123,034 house holds and 2,S33,351 people, in 1911, showing the exodus rep re sents 30 per cent. of the population. It is expected ful- Ter figures later will show the diminution to be greater than I fhis.-Wall Street Journal.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01
Launches Rough Rider and Teddy

Rough Rider and Teddy Monday, 8 a. m.-Chomley (Sunny Point), connecting with mail carrier for Sulzer and all points on West Coast Prince of Wales Island. Tuesday, 8 a. m.-MetIakahtla, and Dolomi. "Wednesday, 8 a. m.-Loring Yes Bay (Cannery Hatchery Bell Island Hot Springs and Shrimp Bay. Thursday, a. m.-Same as Monday. Friday, 8 a. m.-kasaan, It Camp, Rush & Brown and Hollis. Saturday, 8 a. m.- Hadley. Carries Passengers and
 Freight Hubbard & Williams
 Masters
 Agents for
 WADHAMS OIL co.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01
ON THE JOB

We have had Presidents who regarded the duties oI the Chief Magisbhatracy as an easy routine. There have been others who used their position to exploit themselves by eXten- sive travel, public shows and incessant ispeech-making.
 Asked to appear On the stump in behalf of Democratic can didates this fall, Mir. Wilson places his responsibilities as President above those that at tach to party leadership and says with reference to the state of war in Europe: Every patriotic man ought now to stay on his job until the crisis is past, and ought to stay where his job can best be done.n
 Staying 'on the job in this case means more than an ap- preciation of duty and more than a willingness to forego pleasure. It reveals an un- shaken confidence in the intel ligence and justice of the people. The President has made his record and is willing ito abide by 1t. His party has made it's record and he can see no reason why much talk should be necessary to convince his countrymon that with so many achievements to it's credit it should not be cordially indors- ed at the polls.
 This is an assumption that the people of the Uunted States as well as their representatives at Washington are on the job. To stay OH the job is wisdom al all times. but in the present crisis it is ! policy which in private life has been forced up on millions of anxious busin- ess men. who are in no mood for distracting sensations or diversions. In the grim com puision that is upon them they will find encouragement in the knowledge that the administra- tors of the Government are al their posts. alert, laborious and true.
 Woodrow Wilson has been on the job for peace, on the job for fair taxation, on the job for honest business, on the job for self-respecting industry on the job for sound currency and on the job for just banking. Ne believe that great people who are also on the job will take care cf him and of every cr of Congress, no lnal- te Elal his party label may be wi has supported him.-AeN Nc < World.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01
AMONG THE CHURCHES
First M. E. Church

First M. E. Church Sunday Church sert} ce Il a. m. and f:30 P. m.
 Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7;3o. Friday choir meets. 8 o'clock. First and third Wednesday after aoons at 2:3O Ladies Aid Society.
 H. W. MICAENER, Pastor.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01
"Ar ainst Annexation to the Town of ketchikan,"

Or words equivalent thereto.
 That the territory sought to be annexed to said town is de- scribed as follows, wis:
 Commencing at the south west cornor of the present Town of Ketchikan at a point on Tongass Narrows at mean hi6h tide marked by cross on the rock; the same being corler No. 5 U. s. Survey No. 437; thence south 33 de- grees 30 min., west 300 feet to Q point in Tongass Narrows; thence south 54 deg, 42 min., cas- S653 feet to a point in Tongass Narrows 300 feet southwest of the southeast corner of the property of the Standard Oil Company; the same being corner No. 4 of U. IS. Survey HOO; thence north 5l degrees 57 min., east 800 feet to the southeast corner ofthe property of the Standard Oil Company, the same being corner No. 4 of U. s. Survey No. HOO; thence along the eas erly line of survey Mo-, l. loo, 60S.52 feet to corner Mo-, 3, U. s. Survey No. HOO; thence north 51 degrees 57 min, east t357.2 feet to a point thence north 56 degrees 30 min, west 2649 feet to a point identical with the north east corner ofthe present town of Ketchikan; thence south 33 degrees 30 min., west along the easterly line of the pres ent corporate limits of said town 1252.7 feet to the southeast corner of the present corpor- ate limits, the same being iden- tical with corner Mo-, 4, U. s. Survey Mo-, $50; thence along the meander line of mean high tide to the place of beginning.
 The foregoing description in- clHdes within it's boundaries all the tide lands and water front abutting the southerly boundary of the present town If ketchikan and the property and plant of the New England f'lsh Company and the proper Y and plant of the Standard Oil Company and the public cemetery.
 The qualifications of an Elec-
 of of said election shall be as follows: He or she shall be a male or female person of the 1ge of twenty-one years or mere, and shall be the owner of substantial property inter- ests in land, buildings or inn provements on land or tide land within the Town of Ketchikan OF lhe Territory proposed to be annexed.
 Dated, August 2S, 1914.
 The Common Council of the Town of Ketchikan. Alaska.
 D. SMITH HARRIS, | President of the Common Council, and Ex-Officio Mayor. Attest:'
 s. A. PLUMLEY, Clerk.
 First Pub. Aug. 2s, 1914.
 Last pub., Sept. 20, 1914.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01
I'll JRSDAY THE 1st, DAY
 OF OCTOBER, 1914

and that the polls will be open from Q o'clock, a. m to ' o. clock pm. of said day. That the Council Chamber on Main Street, in the Town of Ketchi- kan is the polling place in said town, and Jacob Pittenger, John Koel and John Shoenbar are Judges, and Geo. M. Chesney and R. T. Graham are clerks of such election.
 And that the store of Louis Hanson on Mission Street in the Territory proposed to be an- neSed is the polling place in such Territory to be annexed, and Charles E. 1ngersoll, Louis Hanson, and Karl Berg are the Judges, and Mrs. J. w. Young and D. Broderius are clerks of such election. That the Elec- tors are hereby invited to vote upon the proposition of an- neNing the territory herein after described, by placing on their ballots the words,
 SECT Annexation to the Town of Ketchikan,"
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01
CATHOLIC CHURCH

Low Mass at S.:30 a. m. High Mass at 10:30 a. m. Sunday School at 2:30p.m. Sunday Vespers at 7:30 p. ID. Week Day Mass at s a. m. Rev. PAUL P. KERNS.
 Pastor.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01

Douglas,-L. A. Slane. city assessor for 1914, has finished his labors. The property of the ci.y shows substantial in crease in valuation over last yer, as has been true every year since the city was found- ed l2 years ago. The assessed valuation of the property is s510.5G0 and the city authori- ties are i'll hopes they can keep the tax levy within the 10 mills on the dollar.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01

Mrs. A. F. Wells, hairdras- asr. Scalptreatments, shampoo ing and manacuring. Combings made up. Sample line of switch es. Over Burgen's Store, New Town.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01

Furnished flat for rent, En- uuire SuIIy's. adv.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01

Latest fall and winter mjlin- cry just arrived at the Heck man store adv.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01

Try new Wellington lump coal, the best on the market Al D ka Steamship Go. Phone 6i 4 Advertising.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01

Wall paper show new or ad- dmission free. c. WILKES. ad.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01

Just received latest fall and winter millinery at J. R. Heck : man X Co. adv.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01

We have a fresh suppls of New Wellington lump coal from Naniamo, B. c. Ketchikar Wharf Co. Phone 64. adv
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01

Furnished room for rent. Reasonable. Apply at Miner Office. It adv.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01

.aLFor a good and classy paper c. WILKES. adv,
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01
Cabins for rent at SuiIy's. ac

SEINE BOAT FOR SALE Seine boat Colombia 49 f. Eft. ong, f3 f-2 it., beam 25 p.h. ,ngine and all equipment. Erite or cable Wm. Ethical. 'o3eivers, Valdez, Alaska.
 -Advertisinq
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01

Fields clothing store is now complete. adv.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01

Ladies winter coats from S10 up at Fields. adv.
The Ketchikan miner., 1914-10-01
NC rICE OF,
 SPECIAL ELECTION

4 special election is hereby cal ed in the Town. of Ketchi- kar, Alaska, and in the terri sory hereinafter described pro- pos sd to be annexed, for the purpose Of submitting to the electors of said Town and the electors of such proposed ter ritory the question of he an- neYation of such proposed ter ritory to said Town on
Arizona republican., 1914-08-01

New York and contains 100000 people, a few of whom read Guatemala has no divorce uues- tion, this being avoided by cutting out marriage to very great extent.
 Most Guatemaans Indians, many of whom work On the large German plantations and are per fecty free except that they cannot leave until they pay their debts, and they pay their debts without leaving. Guatemala has beautiful constI- tuition, modelled own. but the nation is like a young lady with complicated automobile. It doesn't know how work the thing. Guatemala has had almost many presidents Mexico, and they have given little satisfaction. It the trouble maker of Central America and than once the United States has had to rush down there in a gun boat and talk things while holding two or more warning republics firmly by the
 Guatemala is hot. moist land profusey deco rated with volcanoes and 13,000-foot mountains in it's middle and with swamps filled with compressed malaria along the seaShOre. It has the most beauti full birds in the world and also the most ornamental postage stamps There highly civilized Indian government in Guatemala, with great build ings and literature. The country is slowly improving and may some day get back to where it 800 years ago.
Arizona republican., 1914-08-01
WHO MAKES MONEY FARMING AND HOW?

In the current issue of Farm and Preside the national farm paper published at Springfield, O.. Judson C. Welliver Washington correspondent of that publication, writes interesting article ill which he shows that large farms more profitable than small in proportion to the dollars invested He says that after two three of inveStiga- ton the government has published bulletin pre- senting the conclusions of survey of representative in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, wherein is shown who makes the money farming and how; also who loses it and why Following is extract giving of the facts contained in the governments re- ports
 Tn the first place it seems to have discovered that most of 1t is made by the landlord, and that chiefly of the increase in land values. The farmer gets poor wages for his work In start ngly large proportion of the he gets wages ment and cost of help The the small farm makes less wages than the man on the bigger farm because it costs more for what the efficiency experts might call overhead operating costs on small than a large farm If you don't own enough land to make good-siZed economic farming unit rent and farm it along with what you own If you cant get it. sell what you have and go where you can buy enough or rent enough to make the proper unit
 "The department figures show that the size the farm increases the proportion of it actually raising crops increases and the number of horses and amount of machinery required per acre to farm it decreases Likewise until the farm gets big enough to make it possible to handle labor most efficently--that is to have something for all the hands to be doing all the time that is worth while the proportonate labor cost is too large on the small farm. That may be tough on the intensive ex- perts, but it's fact they can't get around The small farm must have the various implements, but they don't as much work per dollar of cost that they represent, the bigger farm
 The survey which brought out these and many moro important facts included PIT farms in Indiana i9s in Illinois and 227 in Iowa each state rather more than half operated by the owners, and the rest by tenants" - ,
Arizona republican., 1914-08-01
HOW WALLACE IRWIN SCARED SWIMMERS

My first story" says Wallace Irwin in the August Strand was newspaper yarn founded thread of fact but mostly invention. In the sum mer of 1899, when found myself unwillingly dis owned by Leland Stanford, my Alma Mater, took a short trip to the shore of Santa Cruz, in Cali fornia. After month spent fishing. flirting and olterlng, I found my funds running extremely low Friends who happened be with at the time were giving me roseate accounts of the and easy wealth to be accumulated through writing for Sunday editions of newspapers. I had tempted anything more ambitious than college jour nalism, but l needed the money badly that went forth very early in the morning in search of material.
 Almost the first picture to greet my eyes that morning group of Portuguese fishermen strug- gling ferociousy with their few hundred yards down the coast Mackereli' shouted early rising hotel guest, raced to the of action, moved our shoes, rolled up our trousers, and vol unteered our assistance to the fishermen, who obviously in need ot help.
 Several men were working huge pulley the shore, twenty others deep in the surf struggling with the stubborn nets-evdenty record catch in region where mackere frequently high six tons to the haul. The net almost the beach when the Portuguese began pressing their disgust in their native patois and before I knew what actually happening the foreman floundering among the nets cutting the mesh with huge draW-knife Then the escape of the fish began-shark, The unlucky fishermen had right in the middle of a school of dog fish pygmy shark who follow mackerel, and had hauled in netful of the useless, tough little fighters
 "A man was there with kodak, and the idea flashed upon There least d thousand young shark in that net shark dangerous; most of the released captives would soon grow into formidable eaters. Therefore the netful thus carelessly turned loose upon the Pacific destined in time be a menace bathers along the coast! Perfectly good newspaper logic of a kind. By noon my story was done As the snap shots developed 1 submitted the masterpiece to a San Francisco Sunday editor and grsti fled to receive therefrom a check for S2O
 T spent the money and forgot it, yet am told that the story copied in hundreds of newspapers in America and abroad and that the legend still persists the effect that the Pacific is alive with shark only waiting for the date when they shall have to sufficiently formidable propor- tons to gobble full grown summer gir-despte the fact that the fish who contributed my story a variety of shark which seldom grows beyond four feet long,"
Arizona republican., 1914-08-01
|TT=I Arizona Republicans Editorial Page E

ident has recently rewarded one of his faith ful supporters in congress Senator Fletcher Flor ida. The senator's son in law, Dr. Kemp, had just been convicted and sentenced two years in fed eral prison for using the United States mails to advertise the facility and safety with which he could perform criminal operations There could be no doubt of the doctors guilt. and there tenuating circumstances. There his brazen advertisements But he promptly pardoned by the president No believe that the president would have interfered in the of any other criminal, that he would have lnterfered if the criminal in this had been the -in- law of unfriendly
 Though, We have said the fathers may have had in mind the of the presidential power of appointment influence legislation, they could not have contemplated that any president would so use the pardonng power discharge his political obli- gatiOns.