Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1905 — When the Wheat Is Ripening. [ARTICLE]

When the Wheat Is Ripening.

The great wheat fields of the West are pretty sights- in late June and July. Hills and valleys are covered with the golden yellow grain. For miles in places the grain stretches as level as a granary floor. Fences are rare and roads seem but pathways through the fields. Whole counties in western Kansas and southwestern Nebraska are one vast wlie'at field. Down near Hill City, where Wheat King Rice has his dominion, one can see fifty harvesting machines marching through the wheat, and the hum of the •header and the clicking racliet of the binder fill the summer air with pleasing sound. Iticc has 110 quarter sections in Graham couuty and 10,OCX) acres of them is in wheat. B. 11. Tallmadge of Chicago was given ii preliminary hearing in the government land fraud case at Roswell, N. M. One case was dismissed, and-a change of veuue was granted in the second. The dates for holding the thirty-firßt annual convention of the American Bnukers' Association at Washington have been changed to Oct. 11, 12 and 13, 1905. The conventions of the trust company section and nuvings bank section will be held Oct. 10. Suit against the Armour Packing Company for $20,000,000 damages for injuries sustained by contracting charbon from handling meat of the defendants infected with the disease was filed in Galveston. Texas.