Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-10-16

CEOnd 10 C8pCCICo W dLICAo anu Liz
Santa Fe is making arrangements 10
equip its regular trains with extra
coaches for the meeting. If it is
thought the crowd will justify it, a
| special train will be run. Speakers
from over the state have announced
their intention of attending the meet
ing and it is anticipated that the gath
ering will be large one.
| BLUEGRASS SEED.-The crop of blue
grass seed in Kansas this fall is I'M
usually large, but the price is low.
c. w. Mitchell, of Gardner, has pur-
chased 43, 900 pounds of seed from the
farmers in that vicinity, paying 1875
per hundred pounds This is about
oue-third as much as bluegrass seed
brought last year. Notwithstanding
| the low price, the farmers will net
more profit per acre this fall from their
bluegrass seed than from any other
crop.
THE STATE REFoRMAToRY.-Su
tendent J. S. Simmons of the state re-
formatory has submitted his biennial
report to the board of managers. 1t
shows the property of the institution
to be worth $500, 491, the land being
valued at S25O,OO and all the rest,
represented by buildings, furniture,
fixtures, livestock, feed, supplies and
the like. During the last biennial
/ II L., L.,
been built, almost exclusively by in
mate labor.
| KANSAS CONNECTS, AS UsUAL.-Kan-
sas was bound to get mixed up in the
| great Stratton will case at Cripple
Creek. The judge, j. A. Orr, who ig-
nored the terms of the will and APP
pointed a set of administrators of his
| own choosing, was raised in Kansas
AMI formerly practiced law at indie
! pendence One of the administrators
appointed by Judge Orr was Mr..
Grimes, his brother-in-law, who used
| to live IN Howard county.
BRAKEMAN HESS KnLED.-Bralle-
man Hess, of the Missouri, Kansas Sc
! Texas railroad, was killed six miles
| south of Junction City. He was riding
in the engine and was standing in the
! gangway when his hat blew off as the
| engine ran onto a bridge. In his eff
! fort to save his hat his head was strucl,
against the bridge and his body fell
| into the river below. He was about 81
years old.
! KANSAS BROOM CORN. -There is a
scarcity of good whisl1 brush in the
Kansas broom corn district this year.
! The brush is red and coarse and the
quality is SO variable that prices range
from $40 to S1Oo per ton. A few sales
We're made this week for S1OO, but the
most of twelve carloads shipped to mar
l1et brought from $40 to $50 per ton.
BIG CORN IN KIowA.-A. e. Hager-
man, had load of corn in Kiowa.
The ears were all very large, of uni
form size and firmly filed. Mr.. Hager
father has 60 acres more equally as
good. He says the entire crop will
yield As or so bushels per acre.
SWEET Potato EXPLoDEs.-At Leon
the other day hot sweet potato ex-
ploded, seriously injuring woman
who sat at the table.
CAwKER CITY FLooDs-Floods so in
jured Cawller City that the Ledger re-
quired supplement to tell of the dam
age.
MIAMI COUNTY PEABs.-George Wat
son last week took pair of pears each
eleven inches in circumference, to the
La Cygne Journal Office. Up to that
time they held the banner. A few days
later, however. Robert Bass, of Pleas
anton, took pear to the Herald Office
which measured fourteen inches around
and he still holds the record.
ADVERTISING FLoTsAM.-A Stockton
man wants information of a large
white tank which the high water car
,ied off. He might do well to adver-
tise in the New Orleans papers.
bond clerk in the state superintendent's
office, has been chosen assistant cashier
of new bank in North Topeka and
has taken the position. 1t is not likely
that Superintendent Nelson will name
a clerk to succeed Lindell as the work
for the year is almost up in the Office.
STRANDED BIZ THE EBB.--A Beloit
party ''doing" the Smoky and Solomon
rivers in a steamer would have reached
their journeys end sooner if falling
waters had not left them stranded on
the dam at Minneapolis.
ANTI-FUsIoN CASE CoNTINUED.-Ow-
ing to the absence of Judge Doster,
the hearing in the suit brought by w.
Fl. Craddocl1, the Democratic nominee
for governor, in the Kansas supreme
court to test the anti-fusion law, was
continued. Judge West, on behalf OF
the state, fled motion to quash.
CoUNTERFEIrER ARREsrED.-Deputy
U. 5. Marshal McGrath arrested w.
/ Curtis, living nine miles north of Lin
/ coin on the charge of passing counter
felt money. Curtis is supposed to have
( an interest in a counterfeit plant.
/ CHANGE DIsPATcnERs.-J. z. Waldo,
/ former chief train dispatcher of the
| Frisco road at Fort Scott, has been APP
| pointed train dispatcher of the western
division with headquarters at Neo-
desha- He succeeds II. II. Brown, who
has been transferred to the eastern
division, with an office at Springfield,