Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-03-04
Record Rental for Grass Being
Asked by Pasture Land
Owners in Kansas.
STRONG INQUIRY FROM TEXAS
Good Advance Over Last Year,
Cattle Men Report.

rights for this summer in Kansas are
confronted with the highest prices
ever asked in the history of the range.
Pasture men in Chase. Ellsworth and
Greenwood counties. who attended the
Kansas Live Stock Association at
Wichita, say there is strong inquiry
for grass at the present prices and
that the pastures of Kansas will be
filled with cattle by the early part of
May. The northward movement prob
ably will begin in April
B. G. Croker of Bazaar says the
best grass in his country has been con-
tracted at IS to SO, al1oting about four
and half acres to the steer. In case
of cows with calves, five to six acres
have been granted, but the price is
$40. Compared with last year, these
prices are 81 to S1.50 a head higher
and the highest ever paid for Kansas
grass. They have practically doubled
in the last few years.
Many Texas cattlemen were at the
meeting of the Kansas Live Stock AS
sociation expressly to get in touch
with Kansas pasture men and by the
time this convention closes the ques-
ton of Kansas grass will be fairly
well settled.
J. H. Avery of Amarillo, Tex, said
that the entire Southwest is coming
through the winter in better shape
than at any time in the last thirteen
years There is an abundance of
rough feed still available, moisture is
plentiful and in so far as the breeding
side of the cattle industry is concern
ed, more money was made in the last
two years than ever before
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Mayor May Be Briton-George R.
Blake, who has served one term as
mayor of Columbus and also as coun-
Gil member and on the board of edu-
cation, has started an investigation to
learn whether he is a citizen of this
country or a subject of England.
Blake's parents came from England in
1872, but Blake was born while his
parents were visiting in England a
few years later, and although his par
ents returned to America soon after
ward his father never became a citi-
zen. Blake served in the army dur
ing the Spanish-American war, but
did not serve three years.
Funds for Farm Bureau.-The Lyon
County Board of Commissioners has
appropriated $1,000 to the use of the
Lyon County Farm Bureau for 1916.
The request for the appropriation was
made by delegation of farmers repre-
senting the 26O members. Under the
state law, the bureau will receive a
like amount from the state agricul-
tural college.
Must Serve His Sentence-John B.
Peters, who escaped from the Hutchin-
son reformatory eight years ago. is
held in Spokane, Wash, and will be
returned to serve out his sentence.
which will keep him eight years
longer
Wichita Nurse to War-Miss Gene
We've Walker of Wichita sister of
Mrs. Andrew Newman, has sailed for
London, where she will become a war
nurse at the front. She is a gradu-
ate of Mercy hospital. Chicago, and
is a member of DR. Murphy's class
of war nurses.
Dog Brought HeIp-Bob Dunbar, a
negro who lives on an island in the
Arkansas river near the south limits
of Wichita, heard his dog barking fu-
riously the other day and upon going
to the scene found man caught in a
barbed wire fence that stretched
across the channel and calling for
help. The man had broken through
the ice and soon would have frozen
had not the dog called attention to his
plight. Dunbar saved him. He was
a member of a camping party.
Retailers to Meet-The state con-
vention of the Kansas State Retailers
Association will be held in Lawrence
next July, according to announcement
made by the executive committee. The
association includes more than 500
merchants of Kansas, of which $50
are expected to attend the conference.
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Death Followed Pulling of Tooth
Orville L. Thompson, % years old,
is dead at the home of his mother
in Salina as the result of the extrac-
ton of a tooth last October Infec-
ton made an operation necessary and
part of the jaw was removed Pneu-
monia followed, resulting in death
Atchison Attorney Dies-C. S. Hull.
SIS years old, an Atchison attorney for
twenty-five years and a resident of
the city for thirty-five years, is dead
there. He was graduate of Oska-
loosa college, now Drake university,
at Des Moines.