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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04
MARKET REPORT

Kansas City Stock Yards, June 30,
1914. Seasonable price-spread widen
ing is in progress in the cattle mar
ket. Prices are getting down to grass
basis on cheaply fattened cattle,
while choice to prime steers are ad-
vancing gradually, and the market
ON them appears to be founded on
conditions that will last through the
summer and fall. Cattle supply for
June is $1,000 head, lightest normal
June run since 1899 Receipts to-day
are 1000 head, good fed steers strong,
Others weak, cows weak to 10 lower.
Heavy Nebraska corn fed steers
brought $3.50 today, highest price
since early in the spring, and other
good cattle sold at So. 80 and upwards.
A shipment of good Kansas grass
steers brought 50. 40 yesterday, and
Others So, wintered on wAeat fields,
and finished on grass, without corn.
Bulk of the native cows sell at IS 40
to So. IS, heifers $50 to S8. 25, a few
at So. IS to SO. Stockers and feeders
have been selling at bargain rates
recently, prices nearly as low as two
weeks ago, the low time this summer
There is slightly better demand to-
day, and stock grades are firm. Cattle
are said to be selling on the ranges
higher than at the markets; sales of
yearlings for fall delivery at S36 to
$40 are reported, and calves for De-
cember delivery at S25. Quarantine
receipts are fairly liberal again this
week, but do not carry as much beef
IrrI1 1lxr
mixed and steer sales range from
$3.50 to S7.S5, cows 81 90 to 6.35 few
fed cows at 81, veals are SO cents
lower, at S8 to $3.50
Hog receipts here this month a.
mount to lSO, 900 head, the lightest
June since 1902. Supply today is 49,
900 head, and packers are trying to
get them cheaper. Early sales to
spectators were on steady basis,
top s8.45, bulk 50. 20 to S8.42 IL, and
packers later took the crop that way.
Opposition of packers is probably for
the purpose of staying further ad-
vances. Fatted broo sows are likely
to sell at big margin below medium
and light weight hogs this summes as
packers are not anxious to accumu-
late lard.
Sheep and lambs are 25 to so lower
this week, top spring lambs today
SS.9 80, medium to common lambs
down TO s. 25. Sheep are not as much
lower, wethers selling up to s.. Is,
yearlings s6.75, ewes s4.75, breeding
ewes 81. .25. Receipts this month foot
up 100000 head, a fairly good June.
though 10000 less than June last year.
Supply today 5000.
j. A. Rickart,
Market Correspondent.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04
A Wheat Field Burned Up

A Union Pacific locomotive set
fire to a 120-acre wheat field belong
ing to William Dillman, seven miles
east of Salina, Saturday afternoon.
Three-fourths of the wheat was dis
troyed. A general telephone call
was sent out over the rural lines and
to New Cambria, but the men were
all in the fields and it was some time
before help arrived. A high wind
prevailed and it was with extreme
difficulty the fire was kept from
spreading. Work of cutting the field
had Just begun.
From reading the above it would
seem that. there is still danger for
the wheat crop. Every farmer should,
as soon as possible after harvest,
plow a fire guard around their fields,
and especially around their wheat
stacks They cannot afford to take
the chances of losing it by fire. Of
course they are not all near the rail-
road, but fire can very easily be
started without being started by the
railroad. Plow fire guardsi. - Ellis
Headlight.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04
Tried to Wreck Train

Monday evening as No lob was
nearing Hog Back the engineer dis
covered some obstruction on the
track and stopped his train in time
to save a wreck. Marshal Davis
looked around and found a couple of
young fellows and took them up for
investigation and on examination
they proved to be the parties wanted.
The boys, Walter Evens of Lancas-
ter, Ohio, and Albert Novak of
Schenectady, New York, we're the
names given and tt1ey.gave their ages
as I6, which prevented them being
sent TO the penitentiary. They will
be sent to the reformatory, however.
Ellis Headlight
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04

Young Dodd Dingitt of Petunia,
Mo-, who is in the Kansas harvest
fields, writes in the following cap
tious strain TO his loving parents:
This is good cal different what |
expected. In the first place there
amt no hi 10, hi-lee about it tall
I've been yur week now and there
hasn't been single time when the
bronzed harvest hands have stood up
in row with their hats on the back
of their heads and sung, Say-hadly
the Cay-hook 90 is Cay-halling now,
Ill-laye hoo, lay-heel" And another
thing, there amt but two milkmaidS
on the place, and the pretty one is
dated so far ahead with them college
students that's helping harvest that
poor, untooted feller like me can't
get near enough to hand her peach
on the end of pole. And the other
one loaks so much like a fiend in hu-
man form that L don't know whether
I'll be able to keep fur enough away
from her to eScape.-Ex.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04
Says Rushing Wheat to Market Is
Heavy Loss

Kansas farmers stand to lose thou
sands of dollars through rushing
their wheat to market, according to
G. D. Yetter, who acted secretary of
the Seed Wheat club organized last
fall by Charles M. Sawyer, state bank
ization was instrumental in furnish
ing seed wheat for about 40, 600 acres.
The club raised $50, 600 with an office
expense of something less than twen-
ty dollars, and furnished seed wheat
to farmers who had been hit so hard
by the drouth last year that they
were unable to buy seed.
"a good many suggestions have
been offered in regard to handling the
big crop this year at threshing time,
said Mr.. Yetter. .'Most of the ad-
vice has been good
ssBut it seems to me the most OBJ
That is to leave the grain right in
the stack. Because / was a railroad
agent in the wheat belt for some
time, and afterward was actively en-
gagged in the handling of grain for
ten years, 1 believe L speak from .ex-
perience.
Rushing new wheat to market is
improbable, both from the stand
point of the grower and the shipper,
Mr. Yetter declared.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04
Kansas Laad.-A New Version

written during the drouth of 1913 J
Once we came to Kansas land
A happy, gay and care-free band;
Our hopes were high, the view was
grand,
When we landed here in Kansas land
And as we gazed on down the years
We saw not then this vale of tears;
For though we've worked and toiled
in vain,
She gives not her golden grain.
CHORUS.
0, Kansas land. Dry Kansas land,
Is this thy child, that stricken band
That wends its way across the plains
L search of sky that sometimes rains,
And hopes and hopes with inward
pain
They ne'er will see this land again.
Our Kansas land is hard to beat
For real hard times and drouth and
heat,
And tho we'd hoped and watched in
vain,
She sends US not her coming rain
The frogs that now are three years
old,
Have yet to swim, I'm told, i I'm told
They do not live, they only stay
They are too dry to hop away,
And things keep growing worse each
day
Our hens so weak they cannot lay
What we will do / do not know
The roosters, too, have lost their
crow
We have no wheat, we have no oats,
We have no corn to feed our shoats,
The pigs go squealing down the
street
There's nothing left for them to eat.
Our feed s all stacked there in row;
It's thistles green you surely know;
The cows they live and do quite well
They give skim milk for US to sell.
The mortgage, too, is way past due,
The landlords now they'll sue and
sue,
There's nothing left for them to take
But an old boot-jack and toothless
rake.
The green grasshopper's with US, too,
Just see him sit and chew and chew.
H1 HASN'T chewed our mortgage yet,
He'll leave US that you bet, you bet z
Now you who in this land do dwell,
To you this truth we now will tell,
You may as well just smile and stay.
Then you'll look like US some happy
day.-MrS. Herman Long in
Russell Record.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04
You're Bilious and costivsI

Sick headache, bad breath, sour
stomach, furred tongue and indiges-
I'll ON, mean liver and bowels clogged.
Clean up tonight. Get 25c- bottle
of DIR. Kings New Life Pills to-day
and empty the stomach and bowels of
fermenting, gassy foods and waste. A
full bowel movementgiyesa a satisfied,
thankful feeling-makes you feel fine
Effective, yet mild. Don't gripe. 25c.
at your druggist
Bucklen's Arnica Salve for Burns.
ADV.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04
Can Poor Men Become Farmersl

In the current issue of Farm and
FireSide, the national farm paper
published at Springfield, Ohio. David
Buffum, practical New England
farmer, writes an interesting article
entitled ''Can Poor Men Become
Farmers?' He goes on to show how
man with little capital can get
started in agriculture much easier
than the man with no ocapital-precise-
ly as in the case with other businesses.
He does not absolutely discourage
men taking up agriculture without
any capital, however. His article is
filed with practical advice founded
on experience. In the following pas
sage he shows how on the farm it is
necessary for a man to work harder
than anywhere in the world:
1.-The new farmer should refrain, at
first, from hiring much help He
should plan to do most of the work
himself. And he must work hard
harder probably at times than he
ever worked before. For although
there are slack times on the farm
as in winter, when the farmers work
is easy and his hours short, or in the
early autumn, which is proverbially
the farmers hoiiday-it is not so in
the busy season. His plowing, plant
ing and harvesting must be begun
and finished each in its proper season
or result in loss; and nature, with
whom he is working in collaboration,
takes no account of the eight-hour
law or of whether he is tired or short
handed. There are times when he
must rise before he is properly rested,
and begin his days work tired and
sore; nor can he, as when a wage
Garner, leave his work behind him on
Saturday moon with no thought of it
again till Monday morning.
81 have laid the more emphasis up
on the exacting nature of the farm
er's work because SO many city dwell
lers see in farming an easy way of
getting living, and, from being long
accustomed to taskmaster, forget
that man who is working for him
self, if earnest and reSo1ute and de-
termined to succeed, may find in the
demands of his farm harder task
master than he ever worked for be-
fore.
Il would counsel the greatest eau
tion in all who are thinking of taking
up farming on small means, it is
right for me to. say that for man
| who is resolute and resourceful, who
has learned to know the real values
| of things, and who, from sureness of
his fitness for the work and careful
UoiUbinU of his rpSourcQS can 500
his way clear to a reasonable chance
of success, farming offers an exceed
ingly inviting field, and one that is
worthy of both effort and self-sacri-
| fee"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04
Has Your Child Worms?

Most children do2 A coated, fur
red tongue; strong breath; stomach
pains; circles under eyes; pale, sall0w
complexion; nervous, fretful; grinding
of teeth; tossing in sleep; peculiar
dreams - anyone of these Indicate
child has worms. Get box of Kick
apoo Worm Killer at once. 1t kills
the worms-the cause of your child's
condition Is laxative and aids
nature to expel the worms. Supplied
in candy form Easy for children to
take. 25c., at your druggist.-Adv.a
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04
Manner Of Voting


At the primary August 4, sepa-
rate ticket will be provided as hereto
fore for each political party, labeled
as such, and bearing at its head the
party emblem. The voter will give
his name to the election board, stating
for which party he desires to vote.
One of the judges will then give him
a ticket of that primary or a blank
ticket if he requests it, and also
separate non-partisan judicial ballot,
enabling him to vote for three candi-
dates for justice of the supreme
court wherever that office is to be
filled. The voter will retire to the
booth and place cross in the squares
at the right of the name of each can
didate for whom he wishes to vote. If,
in the case of a particular office, the
name of no candidate is printed ON
the ticket, because of no nomination
papers having been fled, the voter
may write in the name of candidate,
but the name of person who is a
candidate for nomination by one
political party must not be written
uron the ticket of another party.
at tr5 election November 3, there
will be separate ballot for township
offices, but the names of all nominees
of all parties. for all other officers to
be voted for at that election, and al
SO of the non partisan nominees for
justice of the supreme court and
judge of the district court will be
printed upon one piece of paper
known as the general ballot" The
names of all candidates for each Office
will be arranged under the designa-
tion of the office there being no party
column and party emblem not being
used. The circle formerly used for
voting purposes is abolished. The
name of each candidate will be fol-
lowed by the name of the party by
which he was nominated, except
ing in the case of non-partisan
nominees, whose names will not be
accompanied by any party designa-
tion whatever. The voter on giving
his name will be provided with bal
lot, which he will mark after retiring
to the booth, as at the primary by
placing cross in the square at the
right of tsse mare of each Candidate
of his choice. He will also be fur
nished separate ballot for voting
upon two proposed amendments to
the constitution, one relating to tax
alton, the other to the recall of pub
lie officers. An elector unavoidably
absent from his county on election
day may deposit his ballot at any vot-
ting place where he may present him
self.
Both at the primary and at the
election the ballots must be marked
only by means of crosses, made in
the squares, with a a-pencil. If the
ballot given the voter is torn, defaced
or wrongly marked, or if anything is
erased from it, it should be returned
and new one procured in its stead.
The voter before leaving the booth
should fold his ballot SO as to conceal
his markings and show the printed
endorsement. In cities of the first
and second class, only such electors
as are registered can vote at the pri-
mary or election. A voter may re-
ceiye assistance in marking his bal
lot only in case of physical disability.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04
BuckIen's Arnica SaIve for Cuts,
Burns, Sores

Mr.. E. S. Loper, Marilla, N. Y,
writes: Il have never had cut,
burn, wound or sore it would not
heal, Get a box of Bucklen's Arnica
Salve to-day. Keep handy at all times
for burns, sores, cuts, wounds. Pre-
pents lockjaw. 25c., at your druggist
ADV.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04
Dictagrams

Two men were talking up an ex-
change of property the other day.
Each wanted the other to consume"
the mortgage but it wouldn't go
down and that spoiled the trade.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04

Almost everybody is taking a slam
at the popular little Ford. The latest
"dig' we have heard went something
like this: ''If you can't afford real
auto why don't you buy yourself a
tin lizZiel''
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04
For Sale

Young horses and mares, three and
four years old. Inquire OF John
Lemke.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04

Speaking of the good old days and
nothing at al to eat. there was the
green tenS$to pie for one thing.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04

Generally debiliated for years.
Had sick headache lacked ambition,
was worn out and all run down. Bur-
dock Blood Buffers made me a well
woman. Mrs. Chas. Freitoy, Moos-
zup, Conn.-Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04
Market Correspondent
Weather Report

Maximum and minimum tempera-
1ure according to the government
thermometer at Wa-Keeney for the
week ending "Wednesday noon.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04

And now they say that the colonel
has enlargement of the spleen. Well,
it is some satisfaction to have the
trouble located, anyway. A good
many people have been guessing diff
ferently.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04

Sharon Springs viii celebrate the
style.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04

We have had no rain here for more
than two weeks.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04

And perhaps not the least of the
evils that follow in the wake of I'M
usual prosperity is the extravaganza
engendered by big wheat crop; the
purchase of new machinery which
may not be needed again for years;
the purchase of luxuries, or the ad-
Joining section; a straining of resour-
ces to plant still bigger crop. In
short, a bumper crop bumps the coun-
try almost as hard as a drouth, a
cyclone or blizzard.
DICK TAGRAPH
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04

Accidents and crime follow in the
wake of bumper wheat crop. Men
are thrown off, or fall off freight
trains and are crippled for life, to be-
come a burden on society or friends.
Stores are broken into, and men are
robbed of their hard earned wages by
unprincipied fellow laborers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04

And there is a great variety in the
kind and character of the men who
come in to help care for bumper
wheat crop. Not few of them are
of the rather undesirable citizen class
rowing travellers who take advantage
of the leniency of the railroads and
the hospitality of the people who are
willing to fatten them up in order to
hold them until the harvest is ready.
Some who come are able to work
but not particularly anxious; some
are neither able nor willing; some
are both willing and keen to work
but hardly able to withstand the heat
through the long days and perform
the hard work to which they are not
accustomed. Perhaps one in five
makes a really good hand" and
these have no trouble in getting and
holding job, but it is time that
tries the temper and endurance of all
concerned
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-04

A bumper wheat crop is not an un-
mixed blessing: One man can plant
enough wheat to keep three women,
six or eight men and as many horses
busy through long, hot harvest-if
we happen to have a bumper season.
The result is a shortage of help, ex-
orbitant wages, big grocery bills, and
a strenuous whoop and hurrah just at
the time other crops are needing at
tention.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-03-28
CONFERENC
of Farm Demonstration Work
Here Three Days Very In
stuctive to Farmers.

The conference of the men en-
ployed in farmers cooperative dem
onstration work in West Virginia,
which has been IN session here for
three days, came to a close here this
afternoon in the court house with
addresses made by James NJ. Jones
aud /. C. Hill, OF Washington, and g.
r. Titlow, OF Morgantown. The
meeting this afternoon was largely
attended by farmers from all parts
of the county. The conference was
we'll attended at all sessions and
much good was derived from It.
The morning SESSION OF the farm
agents at the Gore hotel was taken
up with gen eral discuss'o on, at the
close of which a committee was
formed to challenge the men employ
ed in the same work in adjoining
states and this fall select and see
which state has made the most prog
ress in agriculture work.
The morning session of the district
superin tendents of the club work was
very busy one, many topics being
discussed w D. linn, of Philippi,
gave q, short talk on pasture and
meadow lands; H. S Vandervort. of
Kanawha county, discussed hog chol-
era; T. c. Jones. district farm agent
LOT AeuluGhys 1SL4hSSSCCs Y II SIM
and Maryland. gave Instructions to
the district sUpcrialteaie ats as to how
TO make out reporIS 10 state agents
and the use of government privil-
Ieges. Prof Hill also advised the dis
trict superi tn endents to try to reach
the obstinate farmer who will not
take up the work by getting his boys
and girls interested in the boys and
girls clubs
7 Nat G. Frame discussed the use of
ammonia sulphate instead of nitrate
of soda as a fertilizer. In his dis
cussion he showed that by using am
monia sulphate which is a by product
of coke instead of the nitrate of soda
three million dollars would be saved
to the state annually, and 1t would
greatly increase the coke industry in
the state.
W. H. Kendrick. state agent of the
boys and girls clubs. gave short
talk on corn and BIB. Ezell, of Ka-
naYha county, closed the session by
telling the methods used in his coun-
ty to increase the production of po-
tatoes.
W. f. Hoffheins, field agent of the
West Virginia Good Roads Associa-
ton. stated at the close of the good
roads meeting held in the court house
Friday afternoon that he would re-
main In the county week and make
personal canvass for members of
the good roads association and that
when he had secured enough mem
bers he would call meeting and
form a cnuPfv association.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-03-28
And Dismissed to the Number
of $4,000 by the New
York Central.
BUSINESS sTAeMATIoM
Is the Cause and There is No
Immediate Prospect That
Business Win Pick UP.
az AnnocIArEp saEgg

NEW YORK, Mar. 2s.-".Dismissal
of % 900 men by tine New York Cen
trail railroad since December J., said
A. D. Hardin, vice president of that
road today, is only a barometer OF the
company's business.
'.The reduction Of forces was not
arbitrary he added 1T came about
gradually as traffic, mainly freight
declined: and while ! don't want 70
be a pessimist, l cannot gee any i'm,
mediate prospect that business VIII
pick up and these men come back TO
Mr. Hardin said this condition af-
fected most of the eastern railroads.
or the 25 900 men dismissed by the
New York Central about $4,000 were
laid off on lines east OF Buffalo and
10. 600 west of Buffalo.
Although the reduction affected ali
branches of the service, the employees
OF the construction, operation ana
maintenance Of way departments SUI
fered most.
Hardin, 1.-THE business of this year on
the New York Central suffered a re-
drction of from eight to ten per cent
The reduction OF the working force
has been on the same ratio"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-03-28
NERCHAN IS
of City Are Engaging Space
Literally in Spring Fashion
Number of Telegram.

What to wear this spring and sum-
mer? That's the big question that
will lie fully answered in the Daily
Telegram's spring fashion number
which will be ssued Wednesday,
April /. by picture and word the
newest styles from the worlds fash
ion centers will he presente dto Tel
egram readers by the best artists
and writer's. The Clarksburg mer-
chants will tell You where you-can
buy your spring and sumner clothing,
furnishings, etc, and what the cost
will be.
The following leading merchants
have already reserved large spaces
in the fashion section for their an
nouncements: The d. NJ. Ogden
Company, The Parsons-Souders Com
pany. The Apollo, Bon Ton store. T.
] Lynch and Company, He. ME and
Company, Fuel City Pressing Com
pany, Bakers Underselling Store, Ly-
ceum Theater. Sturm's Millinery
Mrs. NJ L. Black-Krohme, Switzer
Brothers, Coffman, the Tailor, Don
ohue and Johnson. II. A. Nusbaum.
Inc, Highland Bros. and Gore, Hay
man Greenhouse Company, Dudley 5,
florists: Sn,der Furniture Company.
The Vogue Millinery, Newman, w
Il Yonke. Grand Leader Store and
Ciarksburg Furniture Company.