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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-31

The case of the Texas Live Stock
Association VS.. Lon Ford who was
charged with having stolen a steer
belonging to Babbitt Bros, came uI
in probate court Saturday, for pre-
liminary hearing with the result that
the defendant was not found guilty
of the charge. Herald.
On or about March 1st l will raf,
fle off my handsome thoroughbred
horse, (Marcus) buggy and harness
One of the most stylish outfits in
the southwest. Tickets for sale al
VIM. Bruce's at 81. 90 each. Rattle
to be conducted by disinterested
parties. Photograph of outfit car
be seen at Bruce's.
Very Truly,
LYMAN H. SAVAGE.
Mr.. Sam Bunch has been made
local agent for the Efficient Ga:
Lamp and will take your order a
any time.
The Meade State Bank
buys School Orders, County
Warrants, and all negotiable
paper.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-31

Thirty miles of the grade on the
extension is ready for the ties and
steel. The contract has been let
for the steel gang to begin work on
the 1st of February and the line
completed to Twist, Texas, by April
I, IooI.-Liberal News.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-31

Mrs. VIM. Colgan was a News
renewer this week.
A. J. Blankenchip went to Engle-
wood Wednesday after bunch OF
cattle.
We would like to hear more reg
ularly from Cricket with the Ever
green Items.
Attend the band concert Thurs
day night, January 81. Admission
IS and IS cents.
Mrs. Fred Gray arrived Tuesday
night from Wichita to spend few
days with her parents.
"Broncho Sam" from Plains fur
nishes choice items each week from
that vicinity. Sam is surely quite a
buster.
Rev. j. A. Lenehan, of Dodge
City, held services at the Catholic
church Wednesday morning. He
left for his home at Dodge the same
day.
Judge jenkins was busy this week
with the Marshall Will case. The
judge presides with great dignity
and will administer the law to the
very best of his ability.
The Gray County Sentinel editor
extends thanks to parties for saving
his life by the usual method. The
same method is invariably used over
here for all sorts of maladies.
J. D. Dalgarn has purchased the
farm of John Frame in West Plains
twp. and will move his family onto
the place. Mr.. Frame has purchas-
ed the Marion Rosenberg property
and will move to the city.
We observed a large broken win
dow on the north side of the square
this week and for an instant thought
that Sister Nation had struck town
and went up against it in trying to
ferret out vile places of iniquity.
The vinegar cod is the latest life
perserver which was tried but didn't
work and now the laugh is on the
perpetrators of the joke. Now that
the old man has struck the proper
gait, he don't propose to be fooled
by anything short of the real old
life saver.
The calves which Peckham &
Sons had lost have all been found
except one, though four were found
dead. The calves had been missing
from the pasture since about Decem-
Der goth, but not found till last
week. At first it was not surmised
what had occurred. Later develop
ments seemed to indicate that they
had been stolen and suspicionp point
ed to the arrest of Perry Hibbs who
was given preliminary hearing and
committed to Jail, under S15o bond.
The calves mentioned were reported
10 have been found over on Sand
Creek. Some of the dead ones bore
the original brands but as piece of
the hide of each had been cut out
the impression was given that the
animals had been rebranded and the
last brand removed. Among the
missing calves were three belonging
to A, M. Roberts who brought them
to town Thursday evening. In an
interview with C. E. Peckham he
informed the writer that he had no
suspicious that there were any par
ties other than the party arrested,
who were connected with the alleg-
ed stealing.-Beaver Herald.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-31

Judge E. H. Madison has been
selected as one of the judges at the
State oratorical contest, to be held
at Ottawa on March I. Eight col
leges take part in the contest.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-31

Sanford Woodland, an old Meade
county, Kansas, chum of the local
scribe of this paper, was pleasant
caller Monday. He is now located
at Enid, where he is engaged in car
pentering. ng.-Medford COX. Patriot.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-31
Grand Mask Bail.

There will be a Masque Ball at
the City Hall on Thursday night,
February IA, 1900. This will be
Valentine Day Ball. The proceeds
will be given to the Meade Band.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-31

We notice with considerable sat
isfaction that the News is now the
official paper of Meade county. The
Plaindealer extends hearty congrat-
ulations.-Preston Plaindealer.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-31

The regular meetings of Meade
Camp No. 1898 M. w. A. have been
changed to the second and fourth
Saturday nights of each month, be-
ginning with the month of February.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-31
Arenn C1ub.

The Club will meet with Mrs. A.
T. Bodle, February 9TH, 1901. Sub
ject, "Les Miserables.
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Preiden
Q. Weep
MEADE STATEBANk
MEADE, KANSAS.
De.,an.ted Depository of Meade County

This bank distincvely catlemen's
We solicit the of the legitimate stocgrow
of the southwest Money hand all times for legitimate
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-31
PROGRAM

1. March, 'Elmore'
q Waltz-'.Harmony.
g. Galop-"Whirlwind.'
a. Quickstep-"Avalanche
S. March-"On the Street.
6. Serenade-" Blossoms of Spring"
7. Waltz-''Dazzler.'
8. Polka-"May Pole -
9. -.'Grandeur
TO- Grand March-''Majestic.' -
IL March-"Gazelle.' -
12 Overture-'"The Diamond. -
13 March-''Monroe"
IA. Schottische- my Playmate"
Is. Reel-"Real Easy"
16. March-"Our Pet. :"
IL. March-s.Pamola."
49, March-"Opakan."
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Drummer Boy of the s6th III.

Comrade G. w. Mcdonald, 2107 Maple
avenue, Evanston, ILL.,, has seen mention
n The National Tribune of very Young
soldier, and writes to say that he entered
the service at the age of 10 years eight
months. He was born in August, 1851,
and enlisted April -, 1862, as drummer
boy in the Goth III. In order to enter
the service Comrade Mcdonald ran away
from home, going TO Camp Douglass, in
Chicago. He claimed that he was IA years
old, had no mother or father, and thus
imposed upon the recruiting officer, and
was mustered into the service. After the
surrender of Harper's Ferry, 1862, his
regiment was parOled. Mcdonald re-
turned to Chicago, where his mother Sc
cured his release upon writ of habeas
corpus.
Comrade Mcdonald says that he learned
to drum at the old Ellsworth Cadets
ArmOry, corner State and Randolph
streets, Chicago. William Nevans taught
him. Comrade Mcdonald is now men,
Der of John A. Logan Post, Chicago,
and belongs to the Veteran Fife and Drum
Corps of Z. S. Grant Post.
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him like beast: and now they've turned
him out to Craze, and de ole mans a
grazing cher since
There was much pathos in the mourn
full tone of the old man as he said this,
and he shook his head and moved slowly
away. We thought, as we stood musing,
what terrible thing to have to pass 80
long years in slavery; and, when the sap
and vigor of manhoOds usefulness had
been wrung from him. like the withered
trunk of the once stHlwart tree, becomes
useless, then, and only then, in the ex-
pressivs words of the poor old darby, to
be turned out, like broken-down horse,
ito grace and die. Such was the idea
that crossed our crude, free Northern
mind, and we felt, more than ever, in
heart and principle, an uncOmpromising
enemy TO human slavery.
A QUEER SPECIMEN.
OF this family was one of the queerest
specimens of negro boy we ever saw. He
was SHINY built, from 10 to u years old,
with huge, misshapen head, loosely set
on his shoulders, and a countenance of
the drollest description it is possible to
conceive. As we first saw him, he was
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Ito be continued.)
Great Washington.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: | send
you clipping from your paper of June
=. in regard to big things in the State of
Washington.
| am not Seattleite-wish 1 were
and have nothing to say about popula-
ton, timber, or how many miles it Is
nearer some other place, but l will say
that in many places they grow 40 BUSH
els of oats 20 the acre, and the farm on
which | now live (as a hired mani they
have produced is tons of potatoes per
acre, and across the highway few years
since | was there when they finished
threshing a 2O-acre field of wheat, and I
figured the yield at Ill bushels to the
acre. 1t was afterwards accurately sur
yeyed by the County Surveyor, and as it
was not 20 acres, it gave yield OF lit
bushels and a fraction per acre, and this
yield is sworn to and in the archives at
Washington, d. G. You have often heard
that old gag" or saying, Don't make
two bites of cherry" l have measured
a cherry one and a quarter inches in diam
eter. These statements are to show you
some few of the big things of Washing
ton. L saw at Port Blakely as deck
load on board a ship bound for China sew
eral sticks "a inches square, the largest
40 feet.-C. II. STACKPoLE, Coupeyille,
Wash.
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storm; will be with him as a videt in the
lonely forest, and again in the wild
charge.
The humorous, the pathetic, the pre-
posterous, the eXtravagant phases of war
are all told with the pen of a master.
Finally comes grim battle, the defeat, the
surrender, the travelling through the South
as a prisoner of war; the experiences in
Richmond prisons and at CHASTITY Belle
Isle; then comes the climax in the prison
stockade at Andersonville itself, with its
&C, 900 men, its poverty, its starvation, its
death All these things are told with the
dramatic power of truth, and they are
told as only they can be told by one who
was there.
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the cabin was of log, the interstices being
filed with clay, covered with a roof of
thatch, Drowned by the action of the at
mosphere. A broken rail fence, which in
closed the hut, and dilapidated pigsty,
within which four young ''grunters' and
their maternal ''parient" were industrious
ly roofing up the mud, comprised the lin
tied domain of the venerable darby who
was the presiding genius. We engaged
him in conversation, who was nothing 10th
to converse with anyone, leaning on his
stick, apparently about so years of age,
bent nearly double.
As he stood beside his hut we asked
him. after awhile, if he was a slave. He
said, NO; dey KEEP de ole man as long as
dere was any good in him, and worked
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partly concealed by some logs of timber,
with his head thrust forward, and his
large eyes rolling at US with peculiar
expression of drollery. One of ''ours"
seized him by the scalp and drew him
forth from his hiding-place; he stood for
a moment on his feet, and then bounded
away on all tours, with uncommon rapid
ity. On reaching the foot of a large tree
he scrambled up with the agility of a
monkey, and ran out far on a branch at
n dizzy hight above US and sat there,
seeming to enjoy our amaZement. After
little while he came down; at a bound
he leaped upon the back of our horse; but
before we could catch him he was gone
and had cleared the fence and was out of
sight. The next time we saw him he
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As We moved along the road to Gaines
vile on the afternoon of Oct 20, 1859,
We beheld innumerable graves by the road
side-a few hasty shoyels OF dirt cast
upon the poor fellows on the spot where
they had fearlessly fallen. Skulls and
member bones of human forms. cracked
under the wheels of army wagons, elicit
ing no other remark than There's more
of them yonder," or They fell thick and
fast here"-language seemingly cold and
unsympathetic, but uttered in tone
which told how keenly they pitied the
poor, neglected bones that once formed
the good husband. the noble son, the brave
brother, the gallant, impulsiye, patriot sol.
dierl
Ito be continuedO
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scured by the smoke ol
The author of Ander-
sonville has told a thrill
ing story. If it has hor-
rors they are not Of his
invention.
The book, however,
will be found TO treat not
only of prison life, but to
abound in incidents of
the camp, the march,
and the battlefield. In
fact, there is no better
narrative extant of the
stirring experiences of a
cavalryman than there is
10 be found in this story.
The reader of these pages
will 90 with the author
into his life and see how
the boy was transformed
into a soldier; will march
with him over mountains
and across rivers; will
camp on the hillside and
stand guard in the moon
light and in the rain
nnn largo y0Iuma
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Pension Came Too Late.
Boston Sunday GIobe.)

Clinton, Mass. Aug. 24.-One month
after he is dead a veteran of the civil
war, a man who was five times wounded
in battle, and who in the Regular Army
served his country ID years, gets an in
That was the fate of Henry L. Garfield,
of this town. His heirs will receive S525
in back pension. Application for the in
crease was made 10 years ago, and finally
was granted when it could do no good
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.llelX@M00
ZRLlHnAEN1s
By Capt. Nj. H. MCNAMARA, 9th Mass.

The guerrillas lowering about the TANKS
of our army would sometimes cause a lit
tie excitement, by gobbling up Quarter
masters and staff officers, or seizing am,
balances containing our sick and wound,
ed; but these little ventures were speed,
lily stopped by our cavalry, who were now
in fine state of discipline and exhibit
ing more dash every day.
One day while here We came upon a
negro family, who were living near what
had once been almost palatial mansion
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DENY THE DEAL.

The story Connecting Morgan with the
Panama Canal L. Refuted.
Washington, April 3.-Specifc official
denials greeted the published report
that J. Pierpont Morgan, having dis.
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build a canal and had secured President
Mckinley's cooperation and the aid Of
Colombia Denials come from the
White House, the state Department. the
Colombia legation and the French en-
tassy Most Of those who denied the
rCplr, aid Il was started to make diff.
cult the negotiations Qf the treaties BY
the United States.
This new development in the canal
situation. Baron Silva. who il also the
Colombia minister Of foreign affairs. in
his memorandum 10 Secretary Hay,
says his government agreed 10 grant
the United States long lease Of the
territory through which the canal pass
ed. lie states empathatioally. however.
that his government would not be will.
ing 20 code sovereignty. The lease is
% b. granted on these terms;
The United States shall pay 20 Co-
lombia IN half yearly nsiallments, dur.
ing the first 25 years after the opening
Of the canal TO tho public service, a
share amounting 10 o per cent Of it,
gross income, during a second period Of
% years q per cent, during third per
cent and during a fourth per cent.
This Is ON the basis Ut g9-year lease,
The United States guarantees tina, thu,
share shall be- IN no case less than $3.50,
600 annually.
In case of the issuance Of stock Co
I lombia is 10 receive a share. based upon
that given u by thN Panama Cana
I company. amounting tO One-thirtOoutl
OF the number Of shares issued.
Colombia is 20 receive $4,000 an
nually for the use of the railroad, Co
lombla mails. troops and property be
longing 10 the government, aud immi
grants from the country up To the mum
Der Of 1000 will receive free tmnsporta
ton Colombia vessels uru 20 be- allow
ed 10 enter free.
Colombia binds herself 10 grant per
mission 10 the French Canal company
10 negotiate with the United States fol
the sale of is sale. The concession ab
solutely forbids the company "to ced
or mortgage its rights under any con
sideration whatever to another nation
or foreign government under penalt!
of forfeiture
Mr. Ford, the ongineer-secretary o.
the Colombian legation made state
ment regarding the Panama canal. lay