Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-08-03
THE WHEAT MONEY
The State Bank Commissioner
SpecuIates as to DISPOSE
ton of Huge Sum.
MOST TO GO FOR MOTOR CARS
Farmers Expected5to Pay g$25, ooo,o 900
For Automobiles This Year
Witt Deposit $50, ooo,ooo

What will the Kansas fSr7aers this
year do with the $1O0,0O0,OO0 which
they will receive for their wheat crop?
This qpestiqHiWas asked Of State Bank
Commissioner Benson, recently. Here
is the way he said 1t would be spent:
Handling sthe crop, SIS, OOe,0O6.@'
Seed forJnew crop, $8,000,000s "a d
Payment of current debts, 100000.
900. ~" ~ '-
Interest on mortgages, 100000
Buying more land, 100000.
Buying automobiles, $25,000,000.
"Gadding," $1,OOO,OOO.
improvements and household ex-
penses, 100000. 5ta.F' ~ 3,
Deposits in banks, $20,000,000.
However, the bank commissioner
says that the farmers will not get the
500, 900, 900 all in a lump 1t will come
in gradually. Many farmers will hold
their wheat for higher price.
The railroads will be taxed to move
that portion of the crop which the
farmers now want to send to market.
In fact a shortage Of freight cars is al.
ready In sight. The roads are doing all
they can to relieve the situation, but
they declare it will be impossible for
them to supply all the needed cars
promptly. D''sz
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Killed Sherlff-O Officials, of Morton
county are In conflict and the opera.
ton of the law practically. has been
suspended as result Of the shooting
at Rolla of Sheriff Martin Moore, Don
Vanwormer a Rolia' real estate man,
has been spirited out ofMortoh county
for safe keeping In the Jail in Hugo.
ton, Stevens county. Two other men,
whom one faction in the county want
arrested as accomplices of VanwOrmer,
are still at, large through the failure
of other county officials to issue war
rants for them. 10 @l' wa 81" ~
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Leaves a Fortune to charlty--James
H. Richardson, S. years old. who died
recently at Mcpherson, left the bulk
of his fortune to philanthropy. Me-
Phersen College was given q 160-acre
farm; the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation another quarter section, and
Southwestern College at Winfield
three other farms in that section.
Richardson was q veteran Of the Civil
War. He never married, - u q ~
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Killed Near penverAMr and Mrs.
w. G. Waugh of Coldwater, were, killed
recently when their automobile was
struck by Denver & Interurban rail.
road electric car, at Barzoi crossing,
nine miles north Of Denver.
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Bomb Destroyed Thresher.-A bomb
placed in a bundle Of wheat caused
the destruction of threshing ma.
chine near Copeland. according to the
story told by members of the thresh.
ing crowd, who have come to Dodge
City. While the machine OF Garner
Brothers was threshing at the Roy
Williams farm two miles north of
Copeland terrific explosion tore the
pOphidtOI dpdlLp ohOI lhOuodhub Vi
sparks in all directions which fired
the surrounding wheat stacks, and
knocked. down seven men who were
working around the separator. -
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p RAM Into Butcher Knlfe.--Clarke
Brown, "a years old, son of butcher
at Eldorado, ran into a big butcher
knife tpati his brother had laid on the
block in the, shop, He died later in.
the hospital,
SeoIdeds Girl Commits sulclde-eMar.
guerite Caldwell the 15yearold, daugh,
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Cald.
well Of Sterling committed suicide re-
Gently by shooting herself through the
head with a revolver. II The girl. had
been out with some young companions
and was reproathed by her mother for
keeping late hours. 14 ?J-i0Hrl.t Z.
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kansan Killed, in ,pakota.--John;, H.
Murray, son of John Murray, an Atch.
ison real estate dealer, was killed
near Marmarth, N. D., recently, when
run over by a, train. He was working
as brakeman.
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MITCHELL aJyoung farmer living near
Diamond Springs, in the north part of
Chase county, was killed by a bolt of
lightning while at work ON his farm.
His Wife found his body in an alfalfa
neld. ~ 69r9frBn as5v bed fi ~.
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Big Wheat OReturn..AC.l Vanderbilt,
farmer near Solomon, threshed fifty
acres of wheat which averaged forty.
two bushels to the acre and tested
sixty-three pounds. He received nine.
ty-six cents for the crop, $40 an acre.
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OIL Men Expect Price cut.-With a
view to improving the effectiveness,
of their organization the Independent
oil men of Kansas held an informal
meeting lat SaAna recently with about
fifty present. IT was the universal
opinion, that gasoline will soon take
a drop IN price because Of the heavy
production Of crude foil.lG : tsU III E
Town ID swat the 1FISAMayor GEO