The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-05-02
FINE PROSPECT FOR WHEAT
No improvement Shown by Close In
specton of Fields in Western
Portion of Kansas.

George N. Watson, manager for the
Watson, Durand-Kasper Wholesale
Grocery House of Salina, has just
completed trip through Western
Kansas in a motor car inspecting the
wheat conditions He talked with all
the larger wheat growers in the
wheat belt, and without a single ex-
ception they declare that the present
conditions were never excelled in
April since the development of the
wheat growing industry in Kansas.
The acreage is larger than ever before
and prospects were never brighter for
large crop.
Wheat has been blown out in West
-ern Kansas only to a trivial extent
on high ground" said Mr.. Watson.
THE excellent outlook extends as far
West as Healey on the Missouri Pa
.cific, and Grainfeld on the main
line Of the Union Pacific, and at the
west edge of this territory the plant
is as healthy looking as it is in Sa-
line County. The wheat in Western
Kansas has not attained the growth
that it has nearer the central part of
the state, but it never does get so
high and it is always from two weeks
to a month later than Central Kan
.sas wheat. Favorable weather now
is all we need for a bumper crop
Traction Engine KiIIs.-William
'Grammer, 40 years old, met instant
death when he was run over by a
traction engine. Grammer crawled
under the engine to recover an oil
can and a 13-year-old boy opened the
throttle. The accident occurred near
Milford, in Riley County. Grammer
and other men were using the engine
in repairing a road. Officers here
decided no inquest was necessary.
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Allen Before Sena!e.-Henry J. Al
len, editor of the Beacon, left recently
for Washington to appear before the
Senate committee on inter-oceanic
canals for the purpose of discussing
before the committee the proposed re-
peal of free tolls.
Gored by BuIIs.-John Reedy Of
Yates Center is dead as the result
OF being gored and tramp1ed by an
enraged bull he was leading. The
bull pulled the rope from Reedy' s
hands, knocking him down, goring him
and trampling him so that he died.
James Ramsey of Winfield is believed
near death as the result Of being at
tackled by bull when he went to
feed the animal His dog came to
the rescue and drove off the bull after
one HON had been driven through the
formers lung.
Kansas Girl Sees Pope.-Miss Lou
Use N&sgcner, granddaughter of B. P.
WasGencr, general solicitor for the
Missouri Pacific Railroad, recently
wss l:onorcd by a private audience
wi.A ?o:,c Plus at Rome. Miss Wag-
gcaet is i student in a girls school in
Berlin. During Holy Week Miss Wag-
seacr, accompanied by one of her
teachers. made journey to Rome.
High School for Horton.-Horton
has .oted $4,000 bonds for a new
hisk school building. The old build
ing had been condemned as unsafe by
the state fire marshal.
Veteran Engineer Dies-H. w
Crane, a retired veteran engineer OF
the Union Pacific railroad, is dead al
his home in Wamego. Mr.. Crane was
in active service OF the road forty
years. In the early days he used tC
stop his train to allow herds of buf
dalo to cross the track.
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Poor Judgment.-G. ". Thompson
of Atchison has voted at every presi
Dental election since 1913, and dur
ing all these years Franklin Pierce
wa. the only successful presidential
candidate for whom he voted.