Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-08-14


A district reunion of the G. a. Z. is
to be held at Delaware Springs, Wilson
county, September l to 6.
A strong flow of gas has been found
five miles south of humboldt, in regu-
lar gas sand only 400 feet down.
An immense throng attended the
laying of the corner stone of the Rus
sell county court house by the Masonic
order.
There is fierce scrap between the
Missouri and Kansas telephone com
pany and an independent company at
Ottawa.
The first night that the new Jail at
Emporia was occupied, the two prison
ers in it broke out and left no address
These two Jail birds were small, weak
women.
The American Book Company has
found it necessary to apply for Kan
sas charter. The action of the supreme
court settled the decision of the COM
pany to do so.
Henry Bailey, 81 years old, not many
years since leading merchant of Fort
Scott, recently died in small house
alone and penniless. He had been a
city charge for some time.
A Topeka man who has made an
overland drive from Florence reports
corn west of Strong City as badly in
jured by the heat, but from that point
east the crop showed fine prospects.
The managers of the state fair at
Hutchinson, to be held Sept 1919, are
providing shelter for swine, cattle and
horses, to accommodate the largest
number that can reasonably be expect
ed.
James Lake, an old conductor on the
L. X. e. Western railroad, whose home
is at Garrison. was seriously injured at
Valley Falls, while on duty, having a
leg broken and receiving serious
bruises.
The Modern Woodmen of Topeka
and surrounding towns held their first
annual logrolling at Topeka on Au-
gust 2. There were all sorts of prize
drills and contests and big street
parade.
1t is estimated that from five to six
hundred dollars will bring the Repub-
lican river back to its old channel at
IL,
and electric light plant must wait or
use steam.
The Jacob Dold Packing Company
has received a full carload of scales for
the Wichita packing house. There are
81 scales, all made on special order,
and their combined capacity is nearly
million pounds.
Sam1 Oldham, Miami county farm
er sent Secretary Coburn a bunch of
timothy hay which measures five feet
in length, the heads being from five to
eight inches long. The sheaf will go
to the St.,Louis exposition.
Attorneys for the American Book
company have given notice to the ed
itor of the Farmers Advocate of Tope-
the charges of bribery made in his pa
per or stand suit for libel.
The Retail Clerks union of Yelling
ton are boycotting certain merchants
who refuse to close their stores early.
They are under the leadership of a
walking delegate from Wichita. The
city authorities say the disturbance
must stop.
Almost every candidate for import
ant offices this year have newspaper
men for managers of their campaigns.
This is true of both political parties.
T. R. Zacharias, of Harper, has re-
signed from the Hutchinson reforma-
rory board and Charles Hull, of Kir-
win, has been appointed to succeed
him.
An addition is to be built to the
Santa Fe round house at Emporia, and
the yards extended by building new
tracks, for which the rails are on the
ground.
John w. Kirby and his wife were
found dead in bed with bullet holes
through their heads, and with a pistol
with two chambers empty lying on
Kirby's beast. They were at their
home north of Burden, 'Cowley county
Prof. Haworth visited SedgwiclS
county to see if there. is salt under
meath. He reports that the salt beds
come within Is miles of Wichita on the
west and perhaps within five miles.
He also told the people there that there
was no coal in that section except at
very great depth.
The First district G. A. r. reunion
is to be held in connection with the
37th annual Brown county fair at Hia-
watha, August 27-29.
The concentration camp for the fall
maneuvers at Fort Riley will be on the
Pawnee fats, near the site of the first
capital of Kansas. Orders have been
issued for troops to come from Jeffer-
son barracks, Fort Leavenworth and
the posts in Indian Territory and Okla
homa; besides the Kansas National
Guard, and the militia of some other
states will be present.
The chemistry department of the
University of Kansas is receiving for
analysis many waters from different
parts of Kansas This work is done
free of charge and other waters are So
licited.
Mrs. Sara T. Robinson gives annually
$50 to a student of science at the Uni