The Kansas Observer from Hutchinson, Kansas • 1

A DEMOCRATIC WEEKLY, SUCCESSOR TO THE OBSERVER. 8 A HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1920. VOLUME VI. NUMBER HACKNEY URGES PRACTICE OF CANNING THIS SEASON WONDER OF KANSAS IS AN AERIAL CARRYING RAILWAY SCHOOL DAYS CRITICS BUSY ON SAFETY STATIONS Chairman of the State Fair Price Commission Warns Householders of Their Plain Duties. CONDITION WHEAT IS SATISFACTORY Where There Is a Good Stand Indications Are for a Bumper Crop-Various Reports.

Southwestern Kansas Line Takes Limestone from Sun City to Transportation Road. life. hoot Mtv some oft cutttn 'Mdafs on. -j. a- fes-jxr -jyj 3u Uty Unjust Criticism Directed at the City Administration Over Act of Necessary Precaution.

Indications are at this time that the wheat belt of Kansas will enjoy a bountiful harvest of the popular grain this season This is based on reports from several bounties sent The Observevr during the past few days. As a. matter of fact, the acreage will fall far short of last year, due to two causes. First is, the amount sown was less, and, second, many thousands of acres were blown out last fall and winter during the continued dry weather. The worst came during the winter and early spring, when the weakened blades were uprooted and the roots frozen, making in these instances destruc- linn total.

Ed T. Hackney, of Wellington, chairman of the Kansas Fair Price Commission, is of the opinion that housewives should do a lot of home canning this year. He sets forth his reasons in the following communication to Sheridan Ploughe, chairman of the local fair price committee: Wellington, June 4, 1920. To Fair Price Committees and County Attorneys: The break down in our national transportation and the shortage of cans is liable to force up the price of canned vegetables. Kansas is blessed with an abundant crop of vegetables in the kitchen garden.

This surplus should be utilized to relieve the burden on transportation, the shortage of labor and the shortage of tin cans by extensive home canning. The State Agricultural College and the Federal Department of Agriculture are glad to furnish receipts upon request. Please urge your newspapers to carry canning receipts for the common vegetables at their proper season. Let every home protect its vegetable food supply. Let us can all we can.

Yours very truly, ED. T. HACKNEY, Fair Price Commissioner, Kansas. IiIni iii iifi It appears from the opinions of The most unique transportation line in southwestern Kansas is the aerial Mramway which carries limestone from the Best Bros. works quarry at Sun City to the railway.

The system consists of two. large terminal buildings and fifteen towers. Tlic span between the tw6 terminals, one of which is in the quarry and the other alongside the railroad, is feet. The installation cost the Best Bros, more than $50,000. The cableway has a capacity of 25 tons of rock per hour.

Best Bros, own at Sun City about 700 acres of practically solid gypsum land, and it is estimated that this acreage is large enough to supply them for many years to come. The cable-way is used in this manner: After the rock is blasted out it is put through a series of crushers and then taken on a belt conveyor into storage bins, from which it is fed into buckets which are hauled over the cable-way system down to the discharge terminals, where they are emptied into chutes from which the material is loaded into cars. The immense buckets hold nearly half a ton each, and travel at the rate of 600 feet a minute. The entire system is largely automatic in its operation, and an output of several cars per day can be handled with the aid -of two men. The traction rope, by means of which the buckets are hauled, is a one-piece steel rope nearly three miles in length.

The longest single span between the towers is at the point where the Medicine river is' crossed by a span of 585 feet Owing to the secessity for providing ample clearance for farm wagons passing undo" the cable-, way, the average height of the main cable is a little over 40 feet from the ground. CoPYftlSHT. N. P. L'S SEEK STATE CONTROL HUTCHINSON TO PROVIDE.

BILLET FOR HARVESTERS round them up together when they get to Topeka. "I expect it would be a good idea if your office would codify the primary laws or make an outline of how to proceed to get a candidate on the primary ticket and send them where needed. I would need some advice along this line myself. A Cheap Lodging to Be Furnished at Convntion Hall by C. of C.

and Legion. Evidence Is Brought By St. John Legion Adjutant to Kansas State Peace Officers' Meeting few legislators of this sort working in conjunction with our full-fledged Le Billet de Hobo, Hutchinson's contribution to the army of harvest workers, probably will open next Monday, if the plans of The Ameri can Legion and Chamber of Com- several producers, as rendered to The Observer, that tftvre has been about the proper amount of moisture in most sections to insure a good crop. As a result of this condition, the wheat that really is a good stand promises as big if not a heavier yield than in several Along" the Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific in particular is the prospect for a bumper crop bright "We have never had a better chance for a good crop that at the present writes one Ellsworth county farmer. "Just at a time when we had begun to believe that failure faced us rain came and the weakened grain took long leaps forward.

If nothing happens we will have the best crop we have had in many years." From the western section of the state, where failures have come to be expected, there are many of the besL-looking fields in the entire belt. In this section, however, a great number of fields were blown out and left barren. Others that were not blown out were covered with sand and the stems smothered. There is, a difference of opinion about when harvest will begin As a matter of fact, it will depend to a more or less degree upon the condition of the weather. If it remains dry, cutting will start several days earlier than if an abundance of rain should come.

The general opinion is that the beginning along the southern line will be about June 20 or 25 and later a few tiers of Counties north. The condition'of other crops ap- parenlly is very good. Corn in particular, although, somewhat late in most areas, looks fine, and if there is a reasonable amount of moisture during the next 60 to 90 days there will be a great yield of this cereal, -with a good paying price in prospect. With the crop of harvest labor com: ing down, the farmer faces the prospect of good crops in general this year, with the promise of more for his grain and other produce than he yet has received. DODGE DON'T TREAT N.

L. ORGANIZERS VERY NICELY mrce committee materialize. It will be located in Convention hall. The building will be converted into sleeping quarters where harvest hands will receive cheap, clean bunks and protection. Rcreational features will be operated in connection with the billet.

The authorities promise to keep the jungles the wilds along the KERR'S RESIGNATION EFFECTIVE JULY 1ST river used in former years, clear of the transients. "When I hear a motor car driver condemning, the city administration for erecting the concrete safety zone stations on Main street, I feel that he is exhibiting a selfish motive" remarked a laboring man one day this week. have heard a Jot of criticism because the stations are being built, and I for one think it conies in poor grace. It seems the car owners never think that the poorer classes have any rights on the public streets and that everybody and everything must bow to their wishes." The laboring man in question is entirely correct in his' estimation. It is a fact that every single individual who is kicking on the concrete "obstructions," as they term them, is the owner of an automobile, and in -tiost instances afflicted with the speed fever.

Main street is broad, much broader than the thoroughfares of other cities where safety stations, or usually platforms, are maintained. There is an abundance of room, as is evidenced by the fact that frequently motor vehicles travel two abreast between the street railway tracks and the rear of parked cars and still there is room enough. The loudest kickers are those who strain the speed limit at all times and who are in such a hurry that they cannot get through three or four blocks of the congested district without passing a dozen cars. It is this class of selfish lawbreaker who howl so vociferously against the concrete stations and who talk constantly of damage suits against the city All The Observer5 has to say is that any inan who damages his car on the obstruction while trying to pass other vehicles, will get just what is coming to him. There is too much disposition on the parts of car drivers to ignore the rights of pedestrians These individuals seem to forget, while lambasting the city administration, that 1 sometimes it is impossible for a woman or child, or even a man, to -penetrate the double stream of cars and get to where a street car stops.

Patrons do not dare go out into the highway and wait for a street car. They would be in constant danger of being run down by motorists who would consider that the footman bad no right in the street. The administration had this fact -in mind when the concrete stations were erected. They afford a place of safety for those desiring to board street cars and if they so desire they may go out to a station several min- utes ahead, or in other words, at any time they behold an opportunity to make the passage from the sidewalk in front of an approaching automobile. It has been said on numerous occasions that the city may become de fendant in damage suits where motorists carelessly strike the stations.

According to Walter Huxman, city -attorney, this is idle talk. Mr. Hux- man has examined the law carefully and finds that with the tall structures as they now stand plainly visible by day and bearing a light by night, no -action may rest against the municipality as the result of a car damaged by striking one of them. Mr. Huxman gave it as his opinion that mere platforms, such as were under contemplation at the start, might be dangerous for the reason that they would not be so plainly visible and might 'become obstructions to motor cars.

Most cities have nothing save platforms and there is no howling as in Hutchinson. Therefore it may be said that we have safer and more up to date stations for the benefit of street car patrons than any other municipality, large or small, in the country. Delegates elected from Arkansas to the national democratic convention were not instructed; which means that many more for McAdoo. Kansas democrats, it will be recalled, did not bind their delegation by irtstrirc- tion; but when the name of McAdoo was nicntioneJhe'onvention "went wild wi-fffhusiasin. What better cxprrtsion of the majority will could there be, than that act? N.

L. men will be able to hold the balance of power in 'he House. L. COATES." Numerous dtfier 'papers and documents of moment taken from the portfolio in action" during the recent trouble at Ellinwood, when American Legion members escorted Stevic and Walter Thomas Mills out of the county were presented to the peace officers by R. B.

Warwick adjutant of the Legion post at St. John who said he was one of the ex-service men who helped start the N. P. L. leaders on their way to Topeka, where they lodged a strong protest with the governor against their treatment.

Among other things was a tabulated list showing the number of members in each county of the Non-Partisan League. The number of N. P. in the counties in this immediate vicinity are as follows: Reno, C5; Barton, 609; Barber, 69; Clark, 210; Comanche, 162; Harper, 129; Kingman, 94; Kiowa, 132; McPher-son, 189; Pawnee, Pratt, 14; Rice, 178; Rush, 33; Edwards, 230; Ford, 38; Meade, 20; Stafford, 200. The Kansas peace officers adjourned their meeting fully roused to the need for prompt action to stamp out the "Red" menace in the state.

TO INVESTIGATE CASE OF THIS RENO COUNTY FARMER Evidence that the Non-Partisan League, closely 'allied with the I. V. W. and other organizations which aim to bring about a soviet in America, plans to work into control of the Kansas Legislature was furnished the semi-annual convention of the Kansas Peace Officers' ssociation in Hutchinson this week. This evidence was procured from a portfolio belonging to J.

O. Stcvic Topeka labor leader and head of the Non-Partisan League in Kansas. It was in the form of a letter from a J- L- Choates, of Grecnsburg, one of the Kansas N. P. L.

leaders. The letter follows: "Greensburg, Feb. 9, 120. "Dear Stevic: We have a married woman' here in this county who is a school teacher even now, and who is about 40 years old and whose husband has been a member of the N. P.

L. as long as I have been. She is a good talker and thinks for herself. I have been in schoolhouse literary debates with her a number of times, both as a colleague and as an opponent. Now, Bruner, Stewart and I have decided to, when we think the proper time has come, persuade this woman to run for the nomination for candidate for the Legislature, not as a N.

P. L. candidate, but just sininlv as an ambitious person. Then Hetory Burdorf Said to Have Withdrawn from N. P.

L. Temporarily to Get Citizenship. J. N. Herr will give up the management of the Kansas State reformatory in Hutchinson the first of next month.

On July 1, Lieut. Bigelow, Mr. Herr's rpublican successor, will take up the superintendency, and one of the most efficient prison officials in America will go the way of politics. Mr. Herr will lack just one month of having served the state seven years as head of the Hutchinson institution.

In that time it has' seen great progress along the humanitarian line. The old feeling of hate has been dispelled and a new one of respect for prison rules born. Mr. HeiT has made the institution a school, rather than a penal institution, and today has hundreds of splendid testiihonials from men who have been released and who have made good outside. Carl Richardson, clerk of the Reno county district court, has been instructed to investigate the case of Henry Burdorf, a farmer living near Haven, who comes up for final naturalization papers at the September term of district court.

A letter written by Burdorf in German to the national headquarters of the Non-Partisan League at Fargo, N. asked that his name be stricken from the rolls until he had received his citizenship papers, after which he promises to renew his fidelity to Townley. The universal sentiment among the Mr. Herr's resignation was forced by the board of administration at UVe live wires will do all wc can for the instigation of Gov. Henry Allen.

her without arousing suspicion. We Would-be Dynamiter in Western City Escorted by American Legion. BUSHTON NATIVE SON HAS AN ENVIABLE WAR RECORD Governor Allen began a year ago trying to find something on which to base charges against Mr. Herr, but has never produced anything be One of the Most Decorated Men in Kansas Served with the First Division in France. hind a technicality.

Strong pro sheriffs and policemen attending the convention was that harvest hands who show no inclination to work and try to prevent others from doing so must go to jail. It's work or jail, in other words. Assistant Attorney General C. J. Matson advised the sheriffs to freely make use of the vagrancy law in ridding the farmers of the menace of agitators.

He pledged every possible co-operation in prosecuting I. Wr. who try to hinder the harvest." Jlarvey, first assistant United States district attorney; Phil Zimmerman and Chester Lcasure Hutchinson editor, were among the other speakers who told of the I. W's and the Non-Partisan Leagucars. Attendance at the convention was unusually large the registration reaching 163.

tests have been sent from Hutchinson, many from republicans who condemn this sort of politics. They say that if Mr, Herr, could serve four years under Arthur Capper while he was governor, he should not he removed at this' late date. Mr. Herr has not made any definite plans for the immediate future. He has rented a home in Hutchinson, and will continue to make this city his home The town of Bushtort claims one highly decorated native son.

He is Clarence R. Huebner, who is a lieutenant colonel of the army, now stationed at Camp Taylor, with the First Division. He entered the army in 1910, and rose to the grade of second lieutenant a few months before the outbreak of the European struggle. He distinguished himself while serving with the First American Division, which saw extensive service on all fronts. He wears the distinguished service cross with an oak leaf cluster the Italian war cross, French Legion of Honor and war cross and the victory medal with five battle stars and two divisonal citations.

believe we can put her across. "Now, I believe a similar deal can be pulled off in every county is the state where there are a dozen or fifteen members of the N. P. L. if someone can be sent into that county with a list of the membership of it in his pocket.

He will then look up the livest wires there, put two or three of them wise to the scheme then together, they can cast about for a desirable candidate, man or woman, a woman always preferable, who can be run without arousing suspjeion. I think may-bo I can find time to engineer Clark, Comanche, Barber, Pratt, Kiowa and Edwards counties and possibly Ford county, too. "Again I suggest thai you put some organizers out into new territory, counties, I mean, where there arc no members. Let them pick up a few easy ones and work the same scheme. It looks to me like we might be able to pick up 20 or 30 legislators in whom wc could place almost full confidence Just in this way.

Of course, it will be necessary for your'oftice to keep tab on all such candidates and know who is elected on this scheme, so as to be able to Dodge City, like Ellinwood, is not overly, friendly to Non-Partisan League officials, as is evident by the following dispatch from Dodge: An organizer, for the Non-Partisan Jeague named Snare, who has been holding meetings in Ford county recently, made his departure Saturday night, accompanied by a large anil determined escort party made up of ex-service men, most of them in uniform. The Legion men went in a body to the rooming house where Snare has been staying Saturday night. A crowd of radicals and sympathizers with the N. P. L.

were gathered to protect him. A smart skirmish' followed, in which several minor casualties occurred, but from which the Legion men came out -winners, and with Snare in their custody. The organizer was placed in an automobile and hauled to Spearvilie. These ex-service men took charge of him and hauled him on to Kinsley. The Kinsley ex-service men took him to Croat Bend, and the last heard of him the Great Bend men were shooting hiin on toward Hutchinson.

The American Legion and Red Cross are joining in attempting to rectify the great wrong done an English girl by former American soldier. The young woman and her infant' is stranded in Hutchinson, abandoned by her soldier husband, who married her in Liverpool while he was stationed there. The American Red Cross will furnish her with transportation home, and the Legion will see that she gels a divorce from her faithless husband without cost. The authorities are searching for the husband, Horace Nelson. Western Kansas has an abundance of everything but money, according to J.

C. Hopper, Hutchinson banker and owner of much' farm land in Ness county. With thousands of dollars' worth of wheat in their bins the farmers are unable to meet obligations because they cannot get cars in which to move the old wheat. On top of this prospects are good for another great yield. Last year the railroads had a few cars on the sidings when harvest began, but this year there is not a one.

The socialists are not showing up well in the United States, but it is different in Germany. According to a recent news dispatch, the socialists have 34 seats in the Utik first republican Rcischtag. a if.