Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-10-23
KANSAS COMMENT.

On, MOI Nor Now.-People are not
sneering at the ''Orient" railroad
scheme as they were won't to do last
spring.
16 ACRES OF PAsTURE.-A field OF
this size in sedgwiclS county produced
this season 103, $50 pounds of hay, OF
over 81 tons, netting fully $3.50.
BAD RoADs.-At ottawa the roads
are in such condition that the water
plant may have to shut down owing to
the difficulty of hauling out coal.
SHOT AT MINISTER ]. NJ. Jack
son, Topeka Methodist pastor, was
shot at in his own yard. He has been
very active in the anti-saloon agitation.
RIGHT ARM CRUsHED.-Wm. Tracy,
who works in the plating room of the
Santa Fe shops in Topeka, had his arm
badly crushed, having caught in a
wheel.
An OLD-TIMER DEAD.-John NJ.
Crowell, who from 1870 to 1885 was
postofice inspector for nineteen west
era states, is dead, aged so. He lived
in Atchison since 1858.
BELoIr HAS GADDERs.- Missouri
Pacific conductor told reporter of the
Call of that city that the people of Be-
lott do more gadding than those of any
other place on the line.
FRIENDS UNIvERsITY.-Duri the
Friends yearly meeting at Lawrence
$1,000 was added to the endowment
fund of Friends university. This
brings that fund to nearly $4,000.
AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARs.-F. s. De
Long, who has been living at Preston,
accidentally discovered that Mrs. Shack
lee, who lives at Pratt. was sister OF
his he had not seen for eighteen years.
INSANE MAN KILLS HIMsELF.-Chas.
D. Hardy, state insane asylum in
mate at Topeka, laid down on the Rock
Island track in front of a passenger
train, on short curve, and was killed.
He was prominent Mason and was
once register of deeds of Kingman
county.
WILL ELECT II JUDGES. There are
seventeen district judges to elect in
Kansas this year. In the Sixth dis
trict every county will have an oppor-
tunity to vote for a district judge.
That is the only district in the state
where the terms of all the judges ex-
pire this time.
The MosT CEMENT SIDEwALKs.-The
Mirror believes that Olathe has more
blocks of modern cement sidewalks
than any city of twice its size in the
state. Almost all the walks in the
business portion of town are made OF
this material, and there are a good
many of them in the residence district.
LARGEST TELESCOPE IN KANSAS
The observatory at the Wesleyan uni
versity at Salina was opened to the
public on the occasion of the eclipse OF
the moon. The university has one OF
the largest and best telescopes in the
6OtbC anu OAAC oGuuOhDo dLb SiOAZObs
joined in watching the eclipse and also
to view Perine's comet which is now
said to be visible.
MAJOR CRowELL's RECORD. late
Major John M. Crowell, of Atchison
was member of the famous vigilance
committee of San Francisco, and was
known as Boston" During his life
he visited California four times, never
by rail. He helped lay ont the site Of
Sacramento, and there had a cabin
next to the shack of D. o. Mills, the
New York capitalist. In Atchisor
Major Crowell lived in the house il
which he died forty years.
APPLE PIcKERs IN DEMAND.-Ths
orchardists about Wamego were short
100 men to pick apples last week. The
large acreage of sweet potatoes there i:
also being damaged for want of men tC
dig them. The demand there for apple
barrels is heavy. The factory at Wame
go is working double shifts of Is mer
each.
3LAReEsT CoRN.-Captain E. p
Diehl, of Olathe, was awarded the
honor of exhibiting the largest ears O
corn on exhibition at Washington dur
ing the Grand Army encampment.
YOUNG FARMER ATTACHED Augus-
Martin, a young farmer of Saline coun
ty, was attacked by two stranger.
while returning home from dance
at an early hour in the morning. They
fired two shots at Martin, one entering
his left leg.
TALLEsT CORN STALKs.-The TALES
corn stalks exhibited at Kansas head
quarters in Washington, measuring L
feet inches, were grown by q. S
Spore, of Newton. They have beer
placed in the museum of the depart
ment of agriculture.
SHOT A CATAMoUNT.-Claud Miner
aged 12, of Mcpherson, while hunting
rabbits saw a catamount in a tree
He did not know what it was but wen
close to the tree and killed the anima
at his first shot. This is the first cata
mount killed in Mcpherson county
1t stood as high as shepherd dog, ant
was over four feet in length.
GOES ON THE BALLoT-The secre
tary of state has started his force t,
certifying the state ticket to the coun
ty clerks. The fusion ticket goes unde.
the name of Democratic.
SUSPENSION BRIDGE BREAKs.-Th,
suspension bridge which crossed tn,
. Solomon river between Minneapoli
and Lindsey, has broken down. TIL,