The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-19
HOLD THEIR WHEAT
Less Than Is Per Cent of This
Years Crop Has Been
Moved.
FARMERS SLOW TO MARKET
Railroad Men Say Not More Than 4o,-
100000 Bushels Has So Far
Been Shipped.

on its way to consumers. This IS the
estimate made by railroad officials
who know the movement of the wheat
since the harvest began. Not over 10
million bushels of the crop have gone
for export or been loaded for export
through gulf ports, and not more than
% million bushels have been sent to
the mills or warehouses.
According to the best information
obtainabIe from the car reports Of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific, Union
Pacific and Missouri Pacific a little
more than 13 thousand cars of wheat
have been shipped from Kansas to the
gulf ports. Of this amount a little
over thousand cars have been con-
signed to Galveston and the rest 10
Port Arthur, New Orleans and Mobile.
Not all the cars have arrived at the
ports yet and many will not reach
there for some time because of the
limited storage capacity at gulf ports.
All the elevators and mills at Calves
ton are unloading less than two hun
dred cars day. The Port Arthur
and New Dreams situations are a lit
tie better. Only about One-half the
cars loaded for Galveston by the Santa
Fe and the Rock Island have reached
that point the cars being held at
terminals or at original loading points
until the cars already at Galveston
are unIoaded and started north. Two
or three trains a day go into Calves
ton and these maintain daily about
thirteen hundred cars standing in the
yards there and awaiting unloading.
Little wheat is moving by rail to
Kansas mills and the % million bush
els is almost all moving eastward
and northward Around million
bushels have teen shipped to Canad-
ian points for expert. About II mil
lion bushels have been shipped to
Missouri river terminals and the rest
has gone to Chicago and to milling
centers farther eastward. The Kan
sas crop is estimated at from $50 to
185 million bushels. The railroads
estimate that not over so per cent
of the wheat has been threshed.
The figures here given do not in
clude wheat bought direct from far
mers and ground by local mills.
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No Reason for Price Boost.-Fred
c. Robertson, United States district
attorney for Kansas, who has been in
Wichita several days investigating
high prices since the declaration of
war, concluded his investigation and
left He said the increases were not
due to the war, but because war ex-
lists, and he ventured the opinion that
prosecutions would result from his
visit There was no reason, Mr.. Rob
ertscn said, for the advance OF the
prices of necessities.
Stops Lodge Liquor SaIes.-County
Attorney Ise obtained from the dis
trict court an injunction restraining
the Moose lodge OF Caney from sell
ing liquor He will ask for a perma-
nent Injunction when the case comes
to trial.
On One Railroad 27 Years.-Michael
Sohlinger, a conductor on the Prosser
branch road, is dead at Concordia
after twenty-seven years Of continuous
service.
Dollar Wheat in Kansas.-James Ma
1oney, a Geary county farmer, is the
first man in that part of the state to
receive a dollar a bushel for his
wheat. Mr.. MaIoney sold four thou
sand bushels at that price The wheat
is CT exceptional quality Early in
July the wheat was worth less than
seventy cents a busheI here.
Quarrel Over Poer:.-A controversy
concerning the authorship of the Kan
sas poem, ~The Call of Kansas, +"
reached the public with the publica-
ton in Pittsburg of the claims of Mrs.
Emma NJ Karr, Girard Mrs. Karr
asserts she wrote the verses which
have given Ester NJ. Clark, Chanute,
statewide fame.
Sells First corn.-The first of the
new 1914 corn crop to sell at Cotton
wood Falls has been bought by Ed
ward Thurston, a banker and stock
man of Elmdale, who paid Edward
Gardner of Middle Creek rs cents a
bushel for his crop. The corn is to be
delivered this fall.
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Killed by Motor-W R. Smith, 20
years old, was killed at Conway
Springs, when he was struck by F. C.
Bishops motor car on the public
square. Mr.. Bishop and family were
driving across the square to church.
Mr.. Smiths skull was fractured, his
leg broken and his chest crushed.
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Killed by Train.-Peter Nelson, 20
years old, and pioneer resident Of
Salina, was found dead near the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad tracks at Gyp-
sum City. It is thought he was struck
by a train.
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Indicted Woman Hurt--Mrs. Grace
Patton. who is under indictment
charged with the shooting of her hus-
band, James Patton, at wichita in De
cember. 1912, was seriously injured al
Wellington when an automobile col
1ided with and overturned buggy in