Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-07-22
'THRESHING BEGINS
First Carload Sold i'm Saline
County Averaged 25 Bu-
shells to Acre.
WAS BETTER THAN EXPECTED
A Few More Days OF Fine Weather
and the 1915 Harvest Will BE
Finished.

The first carload of Saline county
wheat of the 1916 crop was sold at
SaIina recently 1t was raised near
Mentor The yield averaged twenty
five bushels to the acre, tested sixty
one pounds and graded No 2. Thresh-
ers report the yield in every instance
greater than expected
A few more days of weather like
that of the past two weeks and the t
Kansas wheat crop from 7sz million
acres and the 2 million acres of oats
will be harvested. J. c. Mohler, sec
rotary of the board of agriculture, has |
begun receiving the county crop re-
port sent to him every month by the |
secretaries of the local fair assocla- |
tons Throughout Eastern Kansas |
where there is a small amount OF
wheat and the largest acreage OF oats
the reports show the wheat and oats
all in the shock In Central and West
ern Kansas, where the big acreage OF
wheat stands, the harvest viii be al
most completed by the end of the
week The reports all said that the
conditions had been unusually favor
able for the harvest except the need
of hands in many sections In South
ern Kansas. where the wheat is ready
l TO IlToSn, many u1dC1AACS al
| to begin work for a lack of men
John D. Lichtenhan marketed the
| first load of new wheat sold in Geary
county recently, receiving 90 cents a
busheI. 1t tested 60 pounds His yield
is twenty bushels to the acre, slightly
better than anticipated. Threshing
has been begun in several other
| fields.
Farmers UP in Arms.-The farmers
in the northern part of Barton coun-
ty are up in arms over the burning OF
several stacks of wheat on the W. W.
Truxan farm, near Hoisington- Seven
stacks of new wheat on the TruxaH
farm were burned, all catching FIRE
about the same time. An investiga-
| ton of the other stacks is said TO have
disclosed a wet rag in which some
substance, probably phosphorus, was
wrapped The evidence has been
turned over to the county authorities,
but no arrests have been made 1t is
suspected that the work was done by
) ultra radical members of the 1. w W.
who were run out of Hoisington the
other day.
Wild Auto Injuries Four.-Miss Ma
2 RE Petit of Winfield was seriously
;. | injured and three other persons re
| ceived painful injuries when bis
: automobile escaped control of the
driver and backed through the gate:
at the entrance of Island park just a:
people were leaving the Chautauqu;
: grounds
Prison Board Organized.-The new
:, state board of corrections was organ
lied when monthly session Of tn
= board was held recently at the stat
u prison. A Q. Miller, editor of tn
!. Belleville Telescope, was electe
> chairman, Mrs. ]. NJ. Miller of CouI
= ell Grove secretary. and o. A Keac
y of Wichita treasurer.
Normal Girls as Nurses-Fmty-on
= girls of the state normal have joine
= Red Cross class for nurses. tn
a class, which will be taught by DR.
,s w White of the department of phys
ology and hygiene, will follow dire
lions prescribed by the American Re
n Cross.
Victim of Runaway Dies.-James
Green, a farmer who lived five mile
north of Winfield, is dead in a Wi
field hospital Green was found u
% conscious in his pasture after RI
away accident. He never regaint
consciousness.
Sc Bonds Declared Void.-The speci
e election held at Olatthe on March
" when $50, 900 in bonds were voted
III a big majority to erect or purchase
OF electric light plant, is void on aceou
of a technicality in the wording of I
* ballot and a new election will have
L. be held should the city desire TO -vo
on it again
Killed by Fali.-Ralph L. Beasi'
% years old, of Coffeyville, was
stantly killed while working on Dir
~ ing rig about two miles south of the
FOR He had climbed to the top of the !
it to fix the machinery. when he f
. breaking his neck
A Durham Boy Drowned--Fran
Keso. 1S-year-old SON of George Kc
ma of Durham, was drowned in the
:. tonwood river recently while in sw.
ming
Woman browns Hersen.-M
or Katherine A Burke, % years
ma daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Fra
a Burke of Mission township, John:
county, drowned herself recently