Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-06-12


There were washoats on the railroads
west of Salina by the recent rains.
Rain flooded the stores at Strong City
and one house was struck by lightning.
The Topeka school board decides to
employ no married woman as teacher.
The internal revenue receipts for the
district of Kansas for May were Sat-
417.45.
The ice factory at Coffeyville is
burned at loss of $50, 200, with $40, 900
insurance.
The Greenwood county normal iusti-
tute opened with 102 teachers in at
tendance.
At the Ness City high school % re-
ceived diplomas; fifteen of the number
were boys.
Mrs. Augusta erickson, of Usage City,
dropped dead while visiting relatives
at Butler, Mo.
Reub Neal has hauled his wheat into
Caldwell with the same pair of mules
ever since 1880.
Parsons had a heavy rain lasting
two hours. The streams were all out
of their banks.
At Ottawa the Marias Des Cygnes
reached the % feet mark some time be-
fore it stopped rising.
The capacity of the Clay Center
pressed brick plant has been increased
to 10000 brick per day.
James II. Watrous, a veteran of the
civil war and Il much esteemed business
man of Burlington, was buried on
May 81.
The new G. A. r. commander, II. C.
Loomis, is trying to make up a big
delegation to the national encampment
at Washington.
At the 3Sth commencement day at
the Kansas State Normal 1872 persons
received diplomas as post graduates
and 10 finished the course.
The ball game between the teams of
Friends university and the Alya, Okla,
Normal, was stopped by rain after -
innings without a single score for
either team.
General Miles arrived at Fort Riley
in special car on June 4. Testing of
the new guns was commenced soon
after his arrival He remained at the
fort but short time.
The Ellsworth company of National
Guards claims to have the finest armory
in the state. 1t has a floor space of so
by 100 feet, is lighted 10y electricity
and heated by steam.
Doniphan, once on the Missouri
river, with a steamboat landing, is
now three miles from the river and
much of the bottom land of that three
miles is in wheat this year.
Frank Myers, who enlisted at Fort
Scott where his mother still lives, is
sick and penniless in Denver. He
served three years in the Philippines
in Company f, 18th infantry. He was
on his way home when taken sick.
The Denver Relief Corps is caring for
him.
John Henry Barrows, president of
Oberlin college, who died the other
schools of Usage county, Kansas. Later
he was pastor of the First Presby
church of Chicago. He organized the
Worlds Congress of Religions during
the Columbian Fair.
The memory of some people is not to
be depended upon. 1t has gone the
rounds that Governor Osborne was the
only Kansas governor whose home was
in Topeka. Osborne's home was in
Leavenworth when he was elected gov
ernor, and was previously in Doniphan
county No Topeka citizen was ever
governor of Kansas.
Rain, amounting to a cloudburst,
fell north and east of Wamego on May
81. Some fields were three feet under
water
Topeka, Parsons, Cherryvale, Salina.
Florence, Reading and Ell Dorado re-
port very heavy rains on June 4. This
would indicate a wide and universal
soaking.
Bert Oaks who stabbed H. B. Raley,
a commercial traveller, in front of the
Breton house at Winfield, has been
arrested and brought back from Santa
Rosa, New Mexico.
The blacksmiths of La Cygne offer to
do free the work the farmers need who
suffered heavy loss from hail, if the
farmers will furnish the material.
Ellsworth had the heaviest rain of
the season on June 4. Many farmers
who plowed up their wheat regret it as
wheat left standing promises half
crop.
Rev. Louis Hills, son of E. L. Hills,
of the Soldiers Orphans home at
Atchison, is going to Manila where he
will be the pastor of Presbyterian
church.
Superintendent Hancy, of the Fort
Hays experiment station of the agri-
cultural college, has cleaned 400 acres
of the reservation of prairie dogs at a
cost of $50 81, or less than s cents an
acre.
Reading, which is near the head of
the Marias Des Cygnes river, reports
great damage to crops in the valley.
Many fields were under water.
Three 40 foot steel bridges over Half
Day creek near Elmont north of To-
peka, were washed out. The water
was four feet over the bridges.