Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-17
Among Our Exchanges.


S. c. Sumpter and Geo. DeCow,
live stock inspector, were over from
Meade this week loading cattle for
the eastern market.-Liberal News.
Rev. VIM. Reace, of Meade, will
assist Rev. Cunningham in the ser
les of Methodist meetings at the
Presbyterian church next week.
Liberal News.
l. N. Stamper and his father-in-
law, Jas. H. McMains, of Oklaho-
ma, passed through town to-day on
their way to Garden City to visit
Mrs. Stamper. Mr.. Stamper has
purchased a quarter of land and
leased school section in this coun-
ty and will become resident in the
spr1ng.-Santa Fe Monitor.
In the district court last week, the
joint case was by agreement dismiss
ed and F. H. Murphy is now held
over until the next session to get
hearing regarding the gamblingcase.
State of Kansas VS.. Ross was held
over for the term. The Wood and
Mcclure steer case was tried and
given to the jury, but the case has
not been decided. The jury failed
to agree.-Liberal News.
A month ago parties with small
punches of stock and parties with
only a few head were scared to
death and wanted to sell at any old
price that was offered them. Today
it is different. The rains came
pouring down, the grass and fall
pastures got fresh start, and now
you have to beg for calves and
young stock. The farmer has brac-
ed up and he now sees where he was
about to make fool of himself by
disposing of his stock and will win
ter them himself and reap the bene-
fit in the spring. The price of
young stock has gone up several
points already, and will go still
higher, all because the farmer is in
no hurry to sell.-Pratt Republican.
The cattle shipping business is
not so great in Liberal this year as
in the past. One cause is that the
usual number of cattle is not going
to the market and there are points
along the railroad extension where
cattlemen of the southwest may load
cattle and reach the market sooner,
perhaps, than if they should drive
to this point. Some of the stock
men of Texas say they would rather
come to Liberal to ship, but the
stock yards are too small for more
than one train load. The ranch
men do not now do all their trading
at the point where they ship. At
Texahoma, this week, several cars
of cattle will be shipped, but there
are no supply houses and the ranch
men will have to go to Guymon or
come to Liberal to get their supplies.
Liberal News.
The rates that the G. R. 1. & M.
have established from points east is
something fearful and wonderful to
contemplate. They ordered that
the Kansas City rate shall apply to
all intermediate points. The Kan
sas City first class rate is sI.33 and
this is made to apply to Hutchinson,
Liberal and all points east. The
effect of the rate is to give all bust
ness to Charming and Amarillo
houses and the R. L. gets the short
haul from Dalhart which pays them
about 20 cents. A further effect is
to make the business men, who
were favorably inclined toward this
line, sore on the company and this
feeling will lose the company many
dollars worth of business. There is
evidently something wrong with the
tariff department of this line and we
hope it may soon be righthd.-Strat-
ford, (Texas) Star.
AS we noted in our last weeks
issue stove peddlers are working
Harper county. We do not know
anything concerning the stove. Il
may be the best on earth. We dc
know and know it very positively,
that it always pays to buy what yor
want of home dealers. The ped
dlers pay no taxes, they are in the
community for the sole purpose O
making sales. The business mer
who are here help to support the
schools and churches. They wan
to sell you goods, and they wan
the goods to be in every way salts
factory, and if they are not, thel
are here to make it right. Whel
an agent competing against HON,
merchants comes to you on tn,