Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-02-21
Senator Bristow Wants Govern
ment to Locate Sites in
Western Kansas.
INTRODUCES BILL IN SENATE
Believes the Storing of Excess Water
Would Prevent Floods and Fore
stall Drouehts-Other States
Included in Measure

ern half OF Kansas to locate every
possible site for a reservoir or lake
in which water might be stored to
meet such situation as Kansas con-
fronted last summer was asked by
Senator Bristow of Kansas in bill
just introduced in The senate.
The Bristow bill would have this
report made not only for western
Kansas. but the plains of Oklahoma,
Nebraska, eastern Colorado and New
Mexico" 1t would carry an immedi-
ate appropriation of s1,000.O0O to de-
fray the expense of the survey and
investigation. The Kansas senator
said it should include not only reports
on projects such as would make good
irrigation plants as most Of the pre-
vious reports have been. but also
smaller projects; which, he said, COM
munities of farmers would build ii
they had the necessary Information
From 1000 to 10000 of these lakes
varying in size from 160 acres up to
miles, Senator Bristow said in
speech, could be established in this
plains country Several thousand
could be built in western Kansas. 1t
largely would remove the loss from
the droughts, he said, and at the same
time store the flood waters.
Boosting Farmers, Union.-Twenty
thousand members in Kansas. is what
Educational and Cooperative union
hopes to have enrolled by the time
its annual meeting assem- bIes at Hays
Wednesday morning, February IS, at
10 O'Clock. The cooperative move
showing much life in Kansas. Even
in the rich counties, like Brown, Ne
maha and Marshall, the farmers Are
going into the union rapidly or
ganizers can establish new locals.
Recently four new locals of the
Farmers union were instituted in one
| week in Ellsworth county. One good
thing the Grange, Union and Farm
ers' Equity organizations are doing
for Kansas, is teaching farmers the
business end of marketing and the
benefit of working and acting together.
All these organizations are increas-
ing their membership in Kansas.
Turkeys Fatten On Grasshoppers.-
That grasshopper plaques help tur-
key raisers was demonstrated at Gar
den City when 154 birds from the
E. R. McCue ranch brought S329.70 on
the local market. The birds lived on
live grasshoppers during the plague
last summer and have been fed large
ly on dead hoppers since that time.
The total feeding cost for the flock
was S24.
Kansans Met in chicaeo.-Five
hundred former Kansans attended the
annual dinner of the Kansas Society
of Chicago at the Auditorium Hotel
the other night. The principal adj
dress was made by Miss Margaret
Hill McCarter. author, historian and
educator from Topeka.
New Kansas Postmasters.-The
President has sent to the senate the
following Kansas postmaster nominal
tions: George E. Sain, Nickerson;
Maude NJ. Parrish. Quenemo: w. P.
Rettiger, Strong; j. c. Simmons,
Wellsville, and w. c. Dysart, Parker.
Fire Removes Landmark.-In the
destruction of the farm residence of
James King who lives four miles
| southwest of Waterville, which was
the result of fire originating in
| the kitchen, one of the oldest and
most widely known landmarks OF
that section of the country has been
lost The residence was built in the
| early sixties.
Sent a Calf by Mail.-The Rev Mr.
Elliott. who lives near Alton, in Os-
| borne county, received a live calf by
| parcel post 1t was sent from Alton
by friend and taken out of Alton
| on the rural route to the minister
The calf bore card attached TO
ribbon around its neck which was
properly addressed and stamped
McPherson Gets coEeee.-Word has
been received of the definite location
of the Free Methodist College at SIC
| Pherson by the acceptance by the
board OF the proposition offered there
OF s5o.d0o college building The
college has been located at Or
| leans, Neb
Emporia Pioneer Dead-wnliam
H. GiIchrist died in Emporia after an
illness of several weeks He was
born in Adamsburg. Pa. January 10.
1913 He enlisted in the Civil War
at its beginning and was in the Battle
of Gettysburg.
Good Price for Farr.-A quarter