The Southwestern Grain and Flour Journal from Wichita, Kansas • 18

Wi ft 'M( nti- x-i --ifflMriniiff rAJ-' -i-iUj iifWiinntfffiilMwffllfar THfe SOtJTH WESTERN GkAiN Nt FLOUR TOUkNAL DEATH OF OKLAHOMA GRAIbl DEALER. 18 P. H. PELKEY ENJOINED. Judge Wilson Issues Restraining Order in Favor of Owners of P.

H. Pelkey Construction of Wichita. L. W. Lyons, of Enid, Was Prominent in Oklahoma Grain Trade Affairs.

was insured for $50,000. It was owned by the Simonds-Shields Grain which has operated it for the last two years. Although the company has a long time lease on the site, which is on the Kansa3 side of the state line, the house probably will not be rebuilt. The Simonds-Shields Co. operates the Milwaukee elevator in the East Bottoms, with a modern tank storage for 1,550 bushels, and are arranging to add more tanks to care lor the storage demand.

A EV GRAIN FIRM AT WICHITA. The death of L. W. Lyons, president of the Wirt Lyons Grain occurred July 1, at his home in Enid, following an attack of acute indigestion. Mr.

Lyons was 49 years of age, and had been identified Avith the grain business since boyhood. His father was a grain dealer at Grinnell, and Mr. Lyons engaged in the same line of business in Nebraska for a number of years, moving to Oklahoma in 1901. The Wirt Lyons Grain owns and operates a line of sixteen elevators in the wheat section of Oklahoma, and Mr. Lyons always took an active interest in the Oklahoma Grain Dealers' Association as well as the affairs of his own company.

No change in the Wirt Lyons company as a result of Mr. Lyons death, has been made, as R. W. Wirt, vice-president of the firm who has been actively identified with its affairs will assume the management of the The P. II.

Pelkey Construction owned by tt. C. Christopher and A. C. Itynders, of Wichita, has been granted a temporary injunction restraining P.

II. Pelkey, former owner of the tirm, from engaging in the elevator construction or supply business in the Sothwec t. About t.vo years ago Mr. Pelkey sold the business of the P. H.

Pelkey Construction Co. to itis present owners, and entered into an agreement that he would not engage in any manner in the same line of business in a certain prescribed territory of which Wichita is the center Recently, however, Mr. Pelkey has become manager of a concern in Wichita that is inviting and contracting for the building of elevators and conducting a business similar to that of the P. Pel-key Construction Co. The present owners of the Pelkey company claimed that in so doing, Mr.

Pelkey was violating the terms of his agreement with them, and brought suit in the district court applying for the restraining order which has just been granted, ending a final trial of the case next fall. The Anchor Grain Co. is a new firm started at Wichita the principals being S. B. McClaren and C.

E. R. Win-throp, both of Wichita. Mr. McClaren has a grain, lumber and coal business, established at Andover, Kansas, 18 years ago.

Previous to that time he looked after the S. A. Brown line of Kansas elevators that was taken over by the Brinson-Judd Grain Co. of St. Louis.

For the- past year Mr. McClaren has had charge of the country stations of tne Otto Weiss Alfalfa Stock Food of which concern he is a stockholder. Mr. Winthrop operated country grain stations in Kansas and Oklahoma from 1892 until 1900 when he entered the grain trade at Wichita, for the past two years being identified with the McCullough Grain Co. The Anchor Grain Co.

will conduct a general grain business, making a specialty of supplying country run wheat to the mill trade, the experience of both members of the firm qualifying them to select the class of wheat most desired by the flour manufacturer. Offices of the company are in the Sedgwick block. NEW FEEDSTUFFS LAW FOR KANSAS MILL CHANGES HANDS. C. II.

Colladay has sold his interes in the Secu.ity Flour Mills Abilene, to T. J. Holdridge, Wichita, and J. W. Burns and W.

II. Kinney, Hutchinson. M. A. Prince-house, recently resident manager of the Anthony mills of the Kansas Flour Mills has succeeded Mr.

Colladay as manager of the Abilene property. Mr. Calladay will move to the Pacific Coast. Phillip H. Smith of the Massachusetts agricultural experiment station, at Amhurst, advises that under the new Feedstuffs law it will be necessary to register all feedstuffs intended for sale in the state by Sept.

1. No fee is charged for registration. A state appropriation provides the means for carrying out the provisions of the act, hence the paylnetii of an analysis fee or an inspection tax is not required. The law practically conforms to the uniform law advocated by the Association of Feed Control officials which has received the endorsement of the American Feed Manufacturers Association. All feedstuffs except those exempted in the act must bear a tag or label stating: The name and address of the manufacturer or person responsible for placing the feedstuff on the market: the weight of the contents of the package; the minimum percentage of protein; the minimum percentage of fat; the maximum percentage of fiber.

In the case of mixed or compound feeds a statement of the ingredients contained therein. UNION PACIFIC ELEVATOR FIRE. FROM A SINGLE WHEAT KERNEL. Billings, July 10. The most wonderful example of stooling of wheat ever seen in this section, was given this week in samples of grain of the Turkey Red variety grown by II.

Fosberg on non-irrigated land in the vicinity of Busteed. One sample was taken from a field of which 27 pounds to the acre were sowed on Sept. 20, and a single grain producd 138 stalks. The other specimen was from a sowing of September 9 of 21 pounds per arce rnd one grain grew 80 stalks. The grain is already headed and the kernels are large and plump.

It will produce a heavy yield without additional moisture, conservatively estimated by the growers at 30 to 35 bushels per acre for 100 acres. The Union Pacific elevator, a house of 1,000,000 bushels capacity, erected by the Peavey interests in 1890, burned June 21, after being struct Dy lightning. It was one of the oldest elevators in Kansas City. Although a wooden structure of antiquated type, the loss will be seriously felt as the total storage capacity of the market has been reduced to 10,900,000 bushels. The house contained only 100 bushels of oats at the time of the fire and.