Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-09-27
President Waters Says Wheat
Price Will Not be Changed
Before Next July.
FEDERAL Law IN EFFECT THEN
Measure Passed by Congress Fixing 81
Minimum Will BE in Force
After That

ASSuI duce CnaC the wheat price set
by federal price fixing authorities
would be stationary, at least until July
1. 1919. is given in letter from Henry
J. Waters, president of the Kansas
agricultural college and member of
the federal board on price fixing. The
letter was written to w. C. Simons of
Lawrence.
In his letter President Waters states:
You ask if the government price of
wheat is to continue throughout the
year, and in response beg to say that
1 raised that question and was posi-
lively assured by Mr.. Hoover and by
Julius H. Barnes, head of the United
States grain corporation, that this
price would be in effect until July 1.
1918, regardless of whether we are at
peace or at war. Arrangements have
been made. they assured me. whereby
this price could be maintained without
an appropriation by congress or any
additional expense to the people of
the country.
You understand that July 1, 1918,
the minimum price of 81 bushel es-
tablished by congress, goes into effect
and continues until July 1, 1919. Thus,
the farmer is assured of the govern
ment price for the crop which he
raised this year and is assured of at
least So a bushel for the crop which
he will raise next year.
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Ore Strike in kansas.-A sixty-foot
face ore strike eight miles west of
Baxter Springs was reported recent
ly ON what is known as the Stuart
Hamilton lease north of the Blue
Mounds. Some of the drill cuttings
assayed SO per cent, but it is said by
experienced miners that it will aver
age Is per cent.
Two Die at crossing.-Two were
killed and three seriously injured
when a Santa Fee express train struck
motor driven by Will Fox, a farm
er, on grade crossing fifteen miles
east of Hutchinson recently. Fox,
his wife and three daughters were in
the machine. Mrs. Fox and daughter,
Gertrude, 9, were almost instantly
killed. Mr.. Fox, Gladys, 6, and GoIdie.
4, were picked up badly injured.
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Winona to Fight for Road.-At a
meeting in Winona, attended by near
1y every taxpayer of the town, meas
ures were taken to employ the best
legal talent available to contest the
effort of the Colorado, Kansas & Ok
lahoma Railroad to obtain permission
from the state utilities board to tear
up it's tracks between Russell Springs,
the county seat of Logan county, and
Winona.
Pioneer of Atchison Dies.-Alexan-
der Sackman, sc years old, is dead at
his home in Atchison. Nearly fifty
years ago Mr.. Sackman settled in East
Atchison. He moved across the river
to Atchison when the bridge was built,
several years later. He was veteran
of the Civil war and a Mason.
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New Hotel for WinfieId.-Winfie1d
is to have a modern 6-story hotel op-
posite court house square. The con-
tract has been signed between the H.
L. Stevens Company of Chicago, no
tel builders and operators, and COM
mittee of Winfield men representing
a hotel organization that had raised
$40, 900 for the building.
Injury Fatal to Boy.-Wilbur Moore.
11-year-old son of the Rev. and Mrs.
w. E. Moore of Arkansas City, is dead
as the result of injuries received
while playing in the Newman build
ing. He endeavored to jump on a
moving elevator. His left leg was
crushed and had to be amputated.
The boy died from the shock
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Light Plant Burns.-The electric
lighting plant at Protection, burned
recently with a loss of $4,000. The
waterways plant nearby was saved
The city had voted bonds for a new
plant but had not started work.
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War Reduces Aggie CIass.-With
an enrolment of approximately 1,450
students, about 900 less than a nominal
fall enrolment, due to war conditions,
classes at the Kansas State Agricu1-
tura1 college opened recently.
Vote for Community House.-By
vote of more than to 1, the $4,000
bond issue for the proposed soldiers
community building in Manhattan car
ried at the special election held there
recently.
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Early Day Blacksmith Dead
Christopher H Strictly, a pioneer of
Council Grove, is dead in hospital in
Topeka Mr.. Strictly came from Penn
sylvania to Kansas in 1856. He opened
the first blacksmith shop between To
peka and Santa Fee on Strictly Creek