The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-08-13
MACHINE MEN
HAVE TROUBLE
Three Threshers Have Fires,
With Fortunate Escape
From Heavy Damages.

Threshing machine men are having
the time Of their lives this season with
smut, or some other kind of explosions
and fire casualties Scores of machines
have been destroyed in the Palouse
country, and nobody is able to figure
out the exact theory OF the mishaps.
Some charge that matches and explos-
ives of different kinds have been put
in the bundles and shocks by vicious
persons, and several arrests have been
made over in Washington; others at
tribute the explosions to smut; and
yet In some instances very little smut
is in the grain where the explosions
occur.
Evidently the peculiar season has had
samething to do with the production OF
unusual combustible deposits in the
grain as 1t grew, resulting in the per-
ilous candition to threshers and graz
growers There should be an expert
analysis of the grain made by some
thoroughly reliable chemist IN theun-
iversity or statedepartment to settle
question, and see what can be done to
relieve 1t.
| James LyttIe's Machine Takes Fire
Last Friday evening at 700 o'clock.
James D. Lyttle's machine, which was
| threshing for Charles Spengler on the
Hurley place near Denver, caught fire
| in its inner workings. but by the liberal
use of dirt and keeping the top of the
machine closed to stop the draft, the
fire was subdued and work was resum-
ed within half an hour.
! After working a few minutes the fire
broke out again and this time burned
the inside of the machine and des-
troyed the straw stack where they were
working. Something like half dozen
sacks of dirt which had been prepared
was dumped into the machine and pre-
vented great deal of damage, and
Mr. Lyttle Informed the Globe man
that the damage could be replaced at
, cost of SIS.
Careful examination showed that
there was no hot box or bearing. that
everything was running smoothly and
q with an abundance of Oil Not belt
I was burned. Mr.. Lyttle came to
Grangeville and telegraphed to Spokane
= for repairs and the machine is again
at work. it is said.
4 Johnston & DeArmond Machine Escapes
: Without Damage.
Monday at 80 when the DeArmond
e and Johnston Bros, machine was just
e closing a run on oats for w. +. john
ston, two and a half miles west OF
6 Grangeville the straw stack was seen
| to be on fire. The engine was coupled
onto the separator and 1t was pulled to
a safe distance. The fire was seen
= from town and the report at once went
: out that the machine had burned. but
n fortunately that was not true.
= The fires throughout the country have
'. nearly always occurred in the threshing
70 of barley or wheat, but this happened
CT
% cleaning the machine, and there not
TX being much straw in it the fire was TAX
al en- out on the straw carrier directly to
e the stack, without setting anything or
e. fire in the machine. Just before the
" settled for the oats they had threshed
1900 bushels of barley for Johnston, wh'
is one of the partners in the machine
1t was w. f. Johnstons colt that wa!
"a killed by lightning last week while the!
al were threshing at the Tom Crea pac
ed northeast of town.
of Word has been received here that 10
Ir Kilen, who lived in Grangeville for
IN number of years, together with his ia
H. ther, James Kilen and brother Elias
all of whom were at one time connect
ed with the Savings and Trust compan
bank, is now head man in the postof
flee at Oatman, Ariz., at a good roun
salary.
ng Mac Scofield, editor of the Vollme
les Spokesman was in town over Wednes
ay day night visiting with his old hon
.all friends. Mac has just added a ne
his types setting machine to his newspap'
plant and made other improvement
that will give him more time to devo
to the paper proper, which has alreat
on been one of the excellent local pape
,th of this section.
eld George Sheldon, Major Ferris al
ces George Lamb were in town Wednesd;
from the Winona section trading al
taking in the sights. The gentlemen q
all good mixers and are always rea
nch to swap yarns with the best of them.
Rev. Van Slyke returned last Sa
ngs urday from Spokane where he took
ing daughter for a surgical operation. T
Tess young lady stood the ordeal well, a
t a is expected to return home in a coul
of weeks