The Dighton Herald from Dighton, Kansas • 6

THE HERALD, DIGHTON. KANSAS Fred Rchulte, an adopted son of FRENCH TROOPS ADVANCING TO FORWARD LINE STATE NEWS ITEMS Frank Pittmaii, an Atchison county AMERICANS STOP farmer, and who enlisted in the iiih- rlne over a year ago, 1ms been kill cd in action In France. Ills name v.f.s GERMAN ADVANCE In the casualty list published! July 4 No other notice has been received "Xt4(f 'V-'S 4-f. x'rCu i tt wVva 1 it i 1 1 1 1 I i It! LL. I- JJ 4 SdrA Occurrences During Past Week Gathered From All Parts of Kansas.

by Mr. l'lttiuun. IN GERMANY'S GREATEST James I'. Evans, representing tho industrial division of lb International Y. M.

C. has been in liuxter SMASH OF WAR YANKS STOP THEM. Springs recently conferring with tin: Chamber of Commerce and others BEAT HURT THE KANSAS WHEAT relative to the establishment of a Y. C. A.

service throughout the min MEET HUNS IN DEATH GRAPPLE lng field similar to that established ut the various army cantonments Yield of Winter Grain Fell Off Bushels In June, Sayt Government Agent. Upon Mr. Evans's report will depend when the service will be established. Pershing's Men Gave Proof to the Fragments of a burned body found World That as Fighting Men They Are Second To None On This Earth, in tins debris of a hotel destroyed by fire at Kinsley lead to the belief that V. W.

Wright of Norborne, bank cr, stockman and farmer, with large property interests in Kansas and Mis The prospective yield of winter wheat In Kansas foil off nearly 6 million bushels from June 1 until harvest as a result of the extreme hot weather, according to a report IkhuuiI by Edward C. l'axton, field agent for Kansas of the United States Department of Agriculture. Tho condition of the wheat at the time of harvest was estimated at 73 London, July 16. The ereat Ger souri, has lost his life. Recently his son, G.

G. Wright, learned from one man attack was definitely held up on the whole front east of Rheims five of the hotel girls that ho had taken hours after it was launched, according-to the latest advices reaching London, and the only German trains worth a room for the night at the hotel. The body was found where this room had been, and two persons who knew him per cent, forecasting a total yield of 61,871,000 bushels, as compared with mentioning are in the neighborhood of 'Tt WMIrrn Nwpnpr say he occupied the room the night the Juno forecast of 97,114,000 bush the Souain road and Prunay, where they succeeded in pentetrating for about one and one half miles on a narrow front. At both these noints the ds. The greatest damage from dry weather occurred In western and northwestern counties, the report Trench troops on the roud inovln up; ISrltish Tommies also ready to advance watch them pass: AMERICAN CRUISER BROOKLYN IN VLADIVQST0K HARBOR French began strong counter-attacks late in the morning.

hays. East of a line running through Topeka and Wichita to the Oklahoma border the damage was negligible, it On the front west of Rheims. the Germans had more success, but the was stated. Corn was In good condition up to July 1, the report says, but at present I only important gain to their credit for the morning's work was the crossing of the Marne and a zone a little more than a mile beyond on a front of about is needing moisture. The condition of corn on July 1 was estimated at 83 10 miles.

The Marne in this district per cent, which Is three points above the 10-year averago on this date. This is only a small, shallow river and can easily be crossed in the early morning year's crop is forecast at 131,312,000 the hotel was burned. The hotel was a frame structure and burned so quickly that guests had difficulty in escaping. Mr. Wright was about 80 years old.

fg, The names of fifty-three students of Kansas University who will be sent to Camp Sheridan July 18 for two months' military training, have been announced by the committee in charge of the organization of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. The list includes twelve students from Kansas City, ten from Lawrence and four from Topeka. These students, after two months military training at Camp Sheridan, will be given certificates of proficiency and will constitute the corps of Instructors for the cadet regiment that will be formed at the university next September. In addition to the students who will go to Camp Sheridan, there are to be five members of the university faculty. These have not been chosen as yet although there have been eleven applications rceived.

All who go will be required to pass a physical examination similar to' (hat required of those entering the bushels. mists. It's loss to the allies, however, deprives them of a' fairly valuable defensive land work. "Kansas' 2,261,000 acres of oats promises 64 per cent of 'a normal crop," the report says, "the deprecia Paris Overjoyed Lauds Americans tion since June 1 being 16 per cent Paris, July 16. In the desperate mm gr I vv-w r.M A production of bushel Is forecast." 'XhJV 'sct vn umi fighting which is reported in the official communication from the war office tonight, the American troops are given the credit for driving back the Germans who had succeeded in cross During tho last month the condition of barley slumped from 80 to 50 per cent and the yield is forecast at 9,180,000 bushels.

Tho Kansas potato ft. ing the Marne southwest of Fossoy. crop is rated at 55 per cent, and it is In the long sector between Durmans r-? estimated the production will be bushels." if. Glucose may now be permitted fis officers' training camps. and Rheims, Franco-Italian troops are reported to be resisting the German-assault valiantly and east of Rheims the enemy attack has met what is-characterized as "an irreducible de For the first time in the history of a substitute for sugar in the concoc The United States cruiser Hrooklyn in the harbor of Vladivostok lielnlnz to protect vnlunhle stores nn.l mnintnin Kansas of all of the state institutions order.

or it is the Hritish ennser Sultolk. fense." have kept their expenditures for maintenance, repairs and general operations within the appropriation MRS. MATTIE A. ROBERTSON GOING AFTER PHOTOGRAPHS OF ENEMY American Capture Brigade Staff. (By the Associated Press) With the American Army On the given them by the legislature.

This speaks well for the efficiency of the state manager and single board sys fS i Marne, July 16. The German prisoners captured in the counter-attack- tem of handling the business of many state institutions. James A. Kimball, state manager, filed with the governor by the Americans at the bend on the Marne number between 1.000 and 1,500. They include a complete bri today the report of the board of administration.

This board and the gade staff. South of Jaulgonne the enemy cross state manager were created by the 1917 legislature, despite strong oppo tion of so-called soft drinks. This was decided at the last annual meeting of the state board of health In conformation with the government's Instructions to allow the substitution In view of the present war emergency. Several now food standards were established. Canned peas must now be graded into six different sizes and the grade must bo marked on the can.

Reent rains In Kansas have put tho wheat land in excellent shape for plowing. Farmers are urged to get their plowing done early in preparation for next year's crop. "Now is the time for the tractor to do its work," says William M. Jar-dine, president of the Kansas State Agricultural College. "We cannot stress too strongly the importance of early and thorough seedbed preparation for wheat.

It will pay farmers well to get their land ready immediately. They could well afford to pay a good price for getting their land plowed. Tho extra yield obtained sition, to handle the business affairs ed the Marne this morning on six pontoon bridges hurriedly thrown over the stream and masses of infantry- of all the state educational, penal and charitable institutions. swarmed forward. The artillery con Tho board went to work July 1.

1917, stantly had the bridges under the heav with deficits aggregating $53,000 I fi iest fire and at least two direct hits hanging over these institutions. These were made, two of the bridges being blown up. deficits have been entirely wiped out and tho institutions will have email After sharp artillery work, German troops advanced behind a great smoke credit balances. This has been accomplished In the face of tremendous increases in the prices of all the supplies used at the institutions. It was cloud, which completely obsecured them for a time from view.

The low visibility also aided the enemy in his done simply through the efforts of a operations. The correspondent talked with some close, intimate and central organization, with tho active co-operation of American soldiers now in hospitals, who were in the thick of the fighting this morning. They were in complete agreement that the "German infantry was no match for the American. This is evidenced by the reports Phot ographlc machine ot the British Royul nir force about to start on a photographing trip, the gunner being ready to protect It. from all the American hospitals, there being only a few cases of wounds from rifle and machine gun fire, while most GIRLS BUILDING PLANES FOR OUR NAVY of the men are suffering from sharp-nel wounds.

Some of these cases are serious. 1 wouiu talie care or all the expense Incurred in getting the hind ready and Keeping it ready until planting timo. "Even in districts where no rain lias fallen this work need not be delayed, for the tractor's greatest efficiency is in plowing stubble land in July and August when the weather is hot, tho ground dry and the draft heavy. There should not be an idle tractor in the state for the next sixty days, or as long as there is wheat ground to get ready." Notice has been sent to Leavenworth, that the taking of testimony in the ouster suit against Mayor James C. Davis will open August 12.

Senator Carry E. Carroll, the muster appointed to take testimony, will be there on that date and the hearings will be held at the court house. Mayor Davis will remain suspended pending final action in the supreme court un the executive heads of all the institutions. At the penitentiary there was a deficit of at the reformatory the deficit was J6.102.12, and at tho school for the blind the deficit was $407.93 when the board of administration and the state manager took charge a year ago. Tho state Institutions have been working in closer harmony than ever before, each helping other institutions in various ways.

4 fr Charley Livingston, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Livingston of Lewisburg, is dead at Camp Gorden in Georgia of typhoid fever. He had been in camp about five weeks. His parents went to his bedside two weeks ago.

With her hmsband ftghting for Old Glory in the front line trenches of France, Mrs. Beulah lone West died at Salina recently. She was 20 years Jilt. Washington Elated at Yanks WTork. Washington, July 16.

An air of Mrs. Mattie A. Itobertsou has been elation was apparent in government appointed policewoman In the state, circles tonight as Assaciated Press dis patches from France unfolded the war and navy building In Washington, where nearly 000 policemen nnd guards are on duty. The women employees in the building are her charges. story of the valiant stand of American troops along the Marne against Militaristic Youngster.

less the suit against him should be the renewed German offensive. Official advices were slow and no formal report on the German effort to drive the jaws of a great pincer movement about Rheims on a 65-mile front was available at a late hour. Press reports made it clear the enemy had been hurled back by Yanks counter of age and was married to Hedford West last Thanksgiving, while the soldier husband was in training camp in Texas. A collection of hardware, consisting of tho handles of sixteen tablespoons, 161 pieces of wire varying I met a rather forlorn youngster on the street, with his head high, but his, lips quivering, nnd asked what he wanted, without appearing to notice his emotion. He said he could not -find his He was just around the corner from home, so I took him.

A man in khaki came out to meet him. He stooped down to pick the child up nnd as he did so the boy said "Dnddy, I lost my quarters and I don't like this post." Chicago Tribune. attacks along the Marne, where they hold the left flank of the great battle it i 1 1 from one Inch to two inches In length, eighteen trousers buttons and a buckle one inch square, was found recently front, while the French army, aided near Rheims by Italian divisions, stood fast over the far greater extent of the line they defended against fierce assaults by the enemy. The president read the account with consuming interest. At the war department, Secretary Baker, General March, chief of Etaff, and other high officers at the department received eagerly the brief glimpses of the battle flashed across the country in press bulletins from the battle front.

i nifil i withdrawn. A threshing machine operated by Charles McMillen south of Oatvllle in Sedgwick County was condemned by the United States Food Administration and ordered sent back to the manufacturers recently. Farmers complained the machine was wasting wheat and Delano Bechtel, threshing expert for Kansas, was sent by Walter Innes, federal food administrator, to investigate. He found two and a half bushels of grain flowed into the wagon while three pints of threshed wheat was blown into the straw, a wastage of four of every hundred bushels. Tight bottom wagons also were ordered for the threshing outfit.

John Pollard, one of the first Doniphan county boys to be taken in the selective draft, is missing in France, according to a telegram received by bis parents north of Atchison. He is a son of Calvin Pollard, prominent farmer, and is 24 years. -f C. H. Iver and Claude Hudson were arraigned in court at Sallna, on a charge of terrorizing passengers on a Missouri Pacific train east of Gyp-eum the other night.

Victor Dahlin, J314 Virginia Avenue, Kansa City, was a witness against the prisoners. Real Thing In Muzzles. "I'd like to look ot some dog muzzles," said the man entering the store. "Yes, sir," replied the clerk with the Incipient mustache. "There's a very good muzzle, sir." "And enn a dog chew with this muz-ule on?" "Oh, yes, sir." "But can't bite?" "Oh, yes, he can bite, but he can't bite off more thnn he can chew, sir." The work of women und girls In airplane factories has proved a boon to the nation's war Industry, since the making of planes Involves the fitting nnd assembling of a great many sninll parts.

These girls are helping to build hydroplanes for the navy In a factory near Washington. in the stomach of a that had been sent to the university medical school at Lawrence for dissection. The body was that of a former patient at the state hospital for the Insane at Osawatomie and the physicians' record of the case declared that the patient had died of acute indigestion. Accompanied by a squad of soldiers, George Chrowlais, a Greek, Is confined in the Lawrence police headquarters pending the arrival of federal officers. It is reported that the prisoner was caught making copies of blue prints in the offices of the army headquarters at the university.

4 Three acres of oats threshed en the farm of A. E. Shields, four miles south of Lawrence, yielded 273 bushels, an average of il bushels to the acr. This breaks all records for cat la the county. Jews Executed for Concealing Grain.

Washington, July 16. A number of Jews have been condemned to death and executed at Kherson, Ukraine for hiding grain, according to a report which the state department characterizes as more or less circumstantial. A priest who endeavored to aid the condemned has since died of injuries. Jewish merchants at Kherson have been executed also for refusing to give the names of peasants with whom they dealt and who were charged with concealing grain. THE WORLD OVER The handle of a new pocket knife can be unfolded to form a idx-inch rule.

In 28 days from hatching a silkworm Increases 4,000 times its original size. A collection of phonograph records of all forms of speech is being made bj Ports scientist Stainless steel cutlery contains about 13 per cent of chromium. The use of this Ingredient in the manufacture of steel for this purpose has been temporarily stopped. According to a geological survey estimate the United States uses nbout ICo.OOO ounces of fine platinum annually, of which only about 65,000 ounces are refined in the country, the rest being imported. Hen Makes Nest In Tree.

J. A. Panlels of Silver Lake, Conn boasts of a hen which lays eggs In a nest In a willow tree, ten feet from the ground. An employee of Mr. Daniels saw the hen cackling on a branch of the tree recently and discovered an egg in her lofty nest Since then she has been laying regularly in this unusual place..