Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-09-02
FEEL LACK OF CARS
The Wheat Growers of Western
Kansas at the Flood Tide
of Prosperity.
SAVES LIFE OF Her DAUGHTER
Mother Sucks Poison From Wound
Made by Bite of RattIesnake
Near Little River.

mdOc by Bite OF hdIIieSnakc
Near Little River.
.yheat growers in Trego county are
at the flood tide of the greatest pros
perity wave that has ever struck
western Kansas, according to F. c.
Wollmer, a prominent business man
of Wakeeney, who is in Salina today.
Wheat made the biggest average
yield this year in the history of the
county, Mr. Wollmer says, and the
acreage is greater than ever before.
Grain is selling at $1.25 a bushel and
the ointment would be without the
proverbial fly if buyers could get cars
in which to ship it out.
The county's average yield will be
not less than thirty-five bushels to
the acre, Mr.. Wollmer declares, and
the grain is testing more than sixty
pounds to the bushel.
The car shortage continues to be
the pressing problem. More than l.
100000 bushels of wheat is piled on
the ground along the Union Pacific
railway between Ellis and Wakeeney,
grain buyers say.
Her mothers presence of mind,
physicians say, probably saved the
life of Ruth Whistler, 6-year-old daugh-
ter of Fred Whistler, a farmer living
near Little River, Rice county, when
the child was bitten by rattlesnake
the other afternoon. Mrs. Whistler inn
mediately sucked the poison from the
wound and rushed the child to physi-
clans in an automobile. The girl is
little the worse for her experience.
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Elephant Stops Fast Train.-The
fast Santa Fe train No. All was
brought to a sudden stop on the hill
just north of Udall recently when the
bell cord was given two quick jerks.
The conductor ran forward to find out
what made the delay. After some in
vestigation an elephant, which was be-
ing shipped in the baggage car. was
found with his trunk over the bell
cord. He wouldn't let go, and the
cord had to be cut on both sides of
the trunk before the air could be re-
leased and the train could proceed.
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Stole ST 200 in JeweIs-While d. E.
Gillette, an oil operator of Francis,
Ok, and his small daughter were
swimming in pool at Columbus
elry and some clothing was stolen
from their motor car, which had been
| left in street nearby
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$4,000 Rabbits Killed in County
More than fifty thousand pairs of
rabbit ears, the result of eight
months work by bounty hunters, are
! packed away in the basement of the
court house at Scott City. The county
pays 5 cents bounty on every pair
brought into the office of the county
clerk.
Ten Barns Burned in Month.-The
| barn belonging to A. G. Schneider,
west of Stockton, was burned the
! other morning. Loss was about 49,
| 000 This is the tenth barn fire near
there since August !. All are be-
lieved to have been Of incendiary orr
| gin
Three Kansans Injured.-Mrs. Jas.
Harris and two children of Miller,
Kas-. and their guest, Miss Alma Wise.
of Larned. were badly injured when
their motor car skidded and upset
west of Usage city.
Live Wire Kills Mana man be-
| lfeved to be Charles Duncanson, "a
years old, was killed at lola by coming
in contact with a live wire. Relatives
of the dead man are said to live in Ne
vada and Eldorado Springs. Mo.
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Fall From Silo Kills Boy. Rollie
Aumack, p years old, fell forty feet
| from a silo on a farm near Chapman
the other morning and was killed.
Olathe Paper Suspends.-The Olathe
| Independent has suspended publica
| ton 1t was started about Jour years
ago on the heels of Progressiveism
Stockholders, about fifty in number
lost the $1,000 paid in stock. Liabili
ties are said to be almost $1,000. The
| plant is to be sold by the receiver
| William Speer-
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Hurled From Mill Tower.-Willian
Bond. 55, bachelor farmer of Andale
was hurled to death the other nigh
when he climbed a wind mill tower t.
throw the machine out of gear. Hi.
body was found under the mill the
next morning.
Ptomasne Poisoning Kills - Pto
| maine poisoning suppose6Iy from eat