Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1901 — FARMERS SHIP GRAIN [ARTICLE]

FARMERS SHIP GRAIN

EVADE MIDDLEMEN’S PROFIT BY THEIR PLAN. Agriculturists of Dickinson County, Kansas, Believe They Gain by Sending Surplus Grain to Germany-Office-fcoldera Must Eschew Politics. The farmers of Dickinson County, Kansas, have recently made arrangements to ship all the wheat which they do not sell direct to American mills to co-operative associations in Germany. The wheat is billed direct from Solomon to Berlin, and it is, therefore, sold direct from the producer to the consumer without passing through the hands of a single middleman. It goes by rail from Solomon to Ntflsv York, where it goes through an elevator which has been leased by the German associations, and it then is shipped by steamer to Berlin. The Solomon farmers have to pay local freight rates on their wheat from Solomon to Missouri river points, hut from there they get a through rate of 21 cents a hundred pounds to Berlin. MURDER IS SUSPECTED. Well-Known South Dakota Cattle Dealer Missing:—Arrest Is Made. Peace officers in the western part of Bouth Dakota are investigating a supposed murder mystery. John S. Vaughn, a well-known cattle raiser, has disappeared as effectually as though the ground had opened and swallowed him. That he was murdered there seems little doubt, but a prolonged search has failed to reveal his body or what has become of him. George Brownfield, a Beulah (Wyo.) saloonkeeper, is under arrest on the* charge of being responsible for the disappearance of Vaughn, but the failure to find the body of the missing man leaves the evidence against him purely circumstantial. Vaughn was a cattle raiser, whose herds ranged in southeastern Kansas. Brownfield made an agreement with Vaughn to purchase the latter’s bunch of cattle at $25 per head, and assured Vaughn that the cash for the purchase was in a bank at Belle Fourche, 8. D. A bill of sale was drawn transferring the cattle from Vaughn to Brownfield, and the two men started across country for Belle Fourche to get the money supposed to be on deposit there. That was the last seen of Vaughn, and nothing has ever been heard of him since be left his ranch in company with Brownfield.

MUST KEEP OUT OF POLITICS. Attorney General Knox Gives Orders to Guide Federal Officeholders. The United States marshal and the district attorney at Kansas City have received copies of a circular from Attorney General Ivnox, with orders to post it in their offices. The circular says: “To AH Officers and Employes of the Department of Justice: The spirit of the civil service laws and rules renders it highly undesirable for federal officers and employes to take an active part in political conventions or in the direction of other parts of political machinery. Persons in the government service under the department should not act as chairmen of political organizations or make themselves unduly prominent in local political matters.” The circular also forbids federal officers and employes to collect or receive funds for political campaigns. Five Person. Burn to Beath. A dog upset a lamp in the kitchen of Carl Burk's homo at Gwyn Station, Pa. The house caught fire and Mrs. Burk and her four children burned to death. The dog upset the lamp by jumping on a table on which a lunch had been left for a member of the family who worked at night. Lentz Will Bush His Claim. John J. Lentz, former Congressman at Columbus, Ohio, will push his claim to the seat in the national House of Representatives, for which Emmet Tompkins, Republican, bolds a certificate of election. Mr. Lentz in a brief filed with the House committee charges gross frauds. Failure in Akron, Ohio. A. T. Paige, ex-city commissioner and one of Akron’s most prominent citizens, filed a petition in bankruptcy, with SOOI,IGB liabilities and practically no assets. The indebtedness was incurred almost wholly in connection with New Y’ork aqueduct contracts undertaken by Paige, Carey & Co. Winner* Must Bav for Medals. Winners of gold, silver and bronze medals at the Pan-American Exposition must pay the cost of manufacturing the medals. The executive committee lias decided to issue certificates of awards. Holders of these certificates may secure medals of the approved design by paying the cost thereof. Omnha fu(f;ri Fire Los*. Fire in the local supply house of the Creamery Package Manufacturing Company. at Eleventh aud Jones streets, Omaha, resulted in the serious injury of three firemen and a loss of $125,000. Killed by Hie Friend. Robert Newett, a florist in Chicago, was killed in a quarrel by his friend, George Johnson, in the latter’s house. They cuiue together from England. Ferryboat* in Collision. Crowded ferryboats collided in San Francisco during a dense fog and several passengers were drowned. Wilbelmine Wants a Divorce. No scandal which has occurred for the past Century has occasioned so much popular feeling as the semi-official announcement that Queen Wilhelmina of Holland {•trill apply for a divorce from the prince consort on the grounds of cruelty and improper behavior. Business Boor in Germany. Business that was booming at a terrific pace in Germany a year and a half ago la now lifeless. (Speculators sunk all their capita] in electrical shares and neglected all other linos of trade.