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Show FARMER ARISTOCRATS. One Oversees Harvesting in an Automobile. Auto-mobile. Tales of sudden wealth are quite common In the famous Kansas and Oklahoma wheat belt, line houres, modern mod-ern in every appointment, are the rule, rubber-tired buggies and automobiles are nothing to attract attention, in certain communities even, the farmer farm-er has grown metropolitan to the ex-( tent of building nn opera house on a school lot and securing some of the best attractions In the theatrical line, it was not until the present winter that Wichita could ufford a guarantee for certain notable singers Among those ocrupjlng front seats were well known wheat growers Turmers' daughtets and farmers' sons form n goodly part of the Kansas society element, while piano salesmen look to them for their quick deuls It is nothing uncommon for a farmer to come to town and buy two or three rubbcr-tlred buggies, or een place an oidor for an automobile. II D W Illilne a rich farmer of Pratt countv superintends all his harvesting In nn automobile Many others are One of the richest farmers In the Kansas wheat belt Is John T Stewart, who came to the Stole five sears ago. He borrowed IM from a friend, rented n qunrter section of land In Sumner count) nnd began work. Toduy he Is worth J2 wo 000 and his income from whent In 101 wns C4 000 lie Is known ns the wheat king of Knnsas There are twent-three millionalics In Kan-sns. Kan-sns. fifteen of whom are farmers living on forms and running them ns nn Investment In-vestment Tcrlnps they have not all of their fortune Invested In land, but n goodl) portion of It Is. Solomon Bes-le Bes-le of Wellington placed 411,000 In wheat land last )enr nnd Ins realized SO per cent on his Investment, or ten times as much as he receives from money loaned in llllnols-W. It Draper In Alnslee's. |