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1SASHUGS he Siiriflpwer JjtJ; PUBLISHED 5 KANSAS STAFFORD COUNTY MAKES A REMARKABLE TRANSITION, A FETE OF THE NEW KANSAS County Larger Than State. Although the New England states are small, the average, size of the counties is greater than In most of the middle, western and southern states. Worcester county, In Massachusetts, is an example of an eastern county that is at the same time large in area and very populous. It is larger than the adjoining state- of Rhode Island. FLOOD DAMAGE AS AN EXCUSE.

The Missouri Pacific Tells Why Its Tracks in Kansas are Bad The answer of the Missouri Pacific to, the demand of the Kansas. railroad commissions that the tracks of the company be repaired was filed with the board Monday by B. P. Waggoner, general attorney, The answer sets up, the plea that the company has been doing all it could to get its tracks in shape. It recites that it was making repairs and relaying tracks and rebuilding bridges all last winter and spring.

Then came the exceptional floods of the late spring, and summer, washing out miles of tracks and Because of the 'damage from floods the company had to use all of its forces in getting the tracks ready for traffic, instead of making additional repairs. Then, it is shown that the company is repairing 1 Its tracks as rapidly as possible since the flood damage has been repaired. The letter goes on to show where the company is working and how many thou- sands of dollars worth of material are being put in each line. The Place Which Settlers Deserted Is the Third Wheat County In the State and Second in Acreage Some of its Products. New Form of Chromium.

Chromium prepared in the electric furnace by, Moissan proved to be slightly soluble in molten copper. Further investigation has revealed a new form of chromium, which is crystolllne, has a density of- 7.1, is chemically active, and burns with a brilliant flame when heai4 alone in the air, being attacked at red heat even by nitrogen. POWDER MILL HANDS STRIKE. SCATTERING FISH IN KANSAS The Game Warden Out With His Train Planting Bass and Crappie. The annual distribution of fish for Kansas waters from the state fish hatchery at Pratt began Monday.

Del Travis, state fish and game warden, started out the fish car, and in the next month, all of the young fish at the hatchery be distributed. Eleven trips have already been ar-, ranged, taking -in practically every part' of the state! The car, loaded with 10,000 fish, started over the Colorado division of the Chioago, Rock Island Pacific at McFarland and will distribute fish at every station along the division to Goodland, when the car will return to the hatchery it Pratt for another load. As fast as the trips can be made and new loads put into the car the fish will se distributed -as follows: Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe, from Strong City to Superior, thence on the Burlington to St. Francis, covering the northwest corner of the state. From Pratt to Kansas City, from Florence, to Great Bendvia McPherscn and Lyons, from lamed to from Harper to Winfield, Moline, Elk City, Independence, Coffeyville and Pitts-Surg.

St. Louis St. Francisco prom Kansas City to Fort Scott. Missouri Pacific, Wichita to Fort Scott. From Fort Scott to Leoti.

Union Pacific from Topeka to Grainfield. There are some other trips to be a ranged later to get Into other sections of the state. -1 Mr. Travis expects to distribute all of the fish raised at the hatchery this year in the fall months. He estimates the crops at something more than 100,000 bass and crappie.

The car has a capacity of 10,000 fish, and all of the long trips it will be loaded to the limit. Not less than fifty fish are given to each applicant and some applicants get as high as 1,000, ac-. cording to what they desire to do with them and the water conditions. It is the intention of the game warden to import a large number of "the blue quail from New Mexico this fall. These birds are coming into theV western part of the state in at the present time, but it is Mr.

Travis intention to get a large number of the birds in New Mexico and send them to the eastern part of the state for restocking; These birds have top-knots but are as gamey and as good eating as the brown ones, native of Kansas. NOt "Queer," muttered Uncle Rooster, as he turned over the magazine's pages of advertisements in: a vain search for the reading matter. "Ye'd think that all these here automatic planner playin inventions would 'a' guv our girls more time to help their mothers with the housework. Yet setch don't seem to be the i The Dupont Works in Kansas and Oklahoma May Have to Close. The employes of the Dupont Powder company at the powder works in Pittsburg and Turck, and Patterson, went on strike Saturday evening The strike order was issued as soon as the men could clean up their places and quit work.

The dispute between the company and its employes has been on since September 21, when a committee of the employes submitted a proposition to the company to arbitrate the matter. The employes demanded a joint agreement with the company similar to that of the coal miners in this district, covering wages and conditions of employment. On account of the absence of General Manager Frank Connable the answer was not re-1 ceived until yesterday. In it the company reiterated Its former statement, that it would not enter into a agreement with the men. When He Takes Second Place.

Though his wife frequently may have tried to make him realize a man never realizes just what an incidental and insignificant thing he is until the Baby comes to the house. Syracuse Journal. Stafford has just emerged once more from its wheat and corn jubilee. This was the third annual recurrence of this event and it excelled in all particulars the previous efforts. This has indeed been a banner year Dr Stafford county and for all central Kansas.

One of the chief features of the jubilee was the exhibit of farm and garden products, and this, county was prepared this year to assemble Ihe best exhibit on record. Among the unusual exhibits for this part of the country are very good specimens of the cotton plant and a small lemon tree has also been shown. Of course, the displays of and corn are the most profuse. In the past few years the people have been giving more attention to the scientific features of the culture of these cereals, with the result that more and better results have been obtained. Stafford county this year ranked third among Kansas counties in the pro taction raising 2,667,300 bushels.

In acre average, she ranked second, being outdone by Barton county only, and this by a small fraction. A conservative estimate on the coming corn crop places the probable yield for the county at about 2 million bushels, and both wheat and corn are of the highest quality. The jubilee was visited this year by many people whose knowledge of Stafford county dated back to the early days, pioneer settlers who became discouraged during the hard times inci dent to the development of the country and returned to their eastern homes to again become renters. One of these had not visited the county for twenty years and it was dif ficult for him to realize that he was visiting the same place where he "starved out" a few years ago. When he left he sold his farm for a few dollars to enable him to get out of the country.

To-day the farm would easily: sell for $8,000, and it is worth-it. He was surprised to find that the ox team and the small ponies which used to constitute the draught force on the pioneer farms had been displaced by teams of big horses and mules, rnd that the farmers came to town in motor cars, buggie.i and carriages, when in his day here, lumber wagons- and in some instances "wood runer sleds had been made to Passes Unnoticed. 1 A New Jersey man claims' to have been bitten by dogs 3,000 times. After a life-time spent with, New Jersey mosquitoes a little thing like a dog bite passes unnoticed. Cleveland Plain Dealer.

NEGRO SCHOOL FIGHT IN COURT. Society In Kansas. An Atchison woman wore a dress with a. long train to a recent card party and the rest of the guests spent two-thirds of their time in jumping over it. Atchison Globe.

A Galena Street Caved In A Unchivatrous Suggestion. Women like to jest about there being no men in heaven, but they know well enough that if there were no men there it wouldn't be heaven for them. Somerville Journal. Thursday morning the ground un-. der the homes of Mrs.

A. B. Hubbard and William Pollock of Galena caved In and left one house hanging on the brink of the chasm. The Hubbard family was awakened by the falling of the 1 plaster -of their home and es- caped before the biggest part of the cavein occurred, Nearly one-third of the Pollock house was overhanging a hole more than forty feet deep when the family was awakened. The Pollock home is across the.

street from the Hubbard home. Mine shafts caused the A School In Railroad Yards at Parsons, Angers the Blacks A new move in the race fight in the Kansas schools was made Friday in the Kansas supreme; court. Under the laws of Kansas5 negroes and white children may be separated in the grade schools. The city of Parsons did this and built a special I nii ding for tha negroes in the negro, neighborhood of the town. But the school was built between the Kansas Texas and the St." Louis San Francisco railroad tracks.

The building is practically surrounded on three sides by railroads. A writ of mandamus was filed in the court asking that the board education be compelled to admit negro children to the schools on equal terms with the white children. The plea is made on the ground of exclusion. It is recited that, owing to. the hazards the children run in crossing the railroad tracks and the noise and excitement attendant on the building being so close to the tracks and moving trains, it amounts to practical exclusion of negro children from the public schools of the city.

Will Find Cure for Leprosy. It is estimated that there are some 8,000,000 lepers in the world, but the cure of leprosy is now regarded as being within measurable distance. Certainly Something Wrong. "Oh, mamma," exclaimed little Nettle one day, "there must be something the matter with the baby; he isn't crying!" To Dislodge Bone in Throat. A raw egg swallowed at once after a fishbone has stuck in the throat will usually dislodge it.

Two Drown Fishing 1 Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Grady of Junction City, were drowned In the Smoky Hill river a mile east of town about seven o'clock Saturday evening.

They had gone on a fishing trip and were in a boat, which i was overturned. No one saw the overturning of the boat and only one person ws attracted by the cries of the man and woman for help. He succeeded in swimming but to them and getting" hold of the but her husband had a tight grip on her. clothes and pulled her to the bottom of, the Harvester Case Postponed The criminal. case against the International Harvester company has continued until the November session of the supreme court.

This was done on acount of the illness of Chief Justice Johnston. The attorneys for -the company asked that the case be continued until the full court was on the beach. This is the case in which the company was fined $12,600 'on forty-two counts for violations of the anti-trust law in the Shawnee county district court. The case was "appealed. Cure for Earache.

Take the heart of an onion and heat and insert in the ear and it will cure earache. Good Rains on the Central Branch The drouth a long the central branch of the Missouri Pacific has been broken by rains. Recently The Contented Man. The man who is thoroughly contented is 'likely to be bore or a tramp. A $30,000 FIRE IN TOPEKA.

The Burstinq of a Water Main Allowed the Blaze Play. A quarte rot a block of residences, stores and a livery stable burned at Topeka Monday The 'fire started, in the i livery stable in the middle of the block on Tenth street between Topeka' and Tyler avenues. The cause of the fire is unknown. The fire denartment believed the fire was out and left. department was called back ten minutes later and had two streams playing.

on the fire when a water main bursted. The department could do nothing to stop the spread of the Ilaroes to the adjoining gildings and the "fire went out when it had burned all available material. The. dijmijre has been, estimated at about-, $30,000. The contents of all buildings were saved, A Kansas Coal Miner Killed Thomas Redfern, one of the first miners who came to the Pittsburg coal fields was killed Friday by a stone which fell in the Central Coal and Coke company's mine Go.

15. He was about 65 years old. heavy rains fell between Corning and Downs. A heavy rain fell in the vicinity of Muscotah. i A Kansas Amusement Park 1 The Clyde White City, an amusement resort' near Decring on the in- HERBERT E.

GOOCH CO. BROKERS AND DEALERS Grajn, Provisions, Stocks, Cotton rialn Office, 204-205 Fraternity BIdg. Lincoln, Bell Phone 512 Auto Phone 2659 arrest IJouse in State I A Brother of Cyrus Leland Dead The body of Howard Leland, brother of Cyrus Leland, of Troy, was buried In Leavenworth Monday. Miv Leland died in Roswell, N. M.

He was register of the land office at that place. terurban line, was; sold by the sheriff, to Elmer Joyce of Coffeyville. The purchaser paid $800' for property worth at feast $8,000..