Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-08-07

Dwight Ealrchlld, OF Wellsv1lle, was
killed by lightning on July 81.
Hamilton, a small town on the Santa
Fe, north of Eureka, suffered s12, 900
fire recently.
| G. w. Sackett, farmer near Conway
Springs had his arm torn off in a thresh-
ing machine.
Smith county had the heaviest rain
in years on July %. Four inches fell
at Smith Center.
Burglars blew up the safe in the
Rock Island depot at Sabetha but Sc
cured no money.
Last year the total acreage in alfalfa
in the state was $40, 142; this year it is
more than 400, 900 acres.
The Union Pacific company is raising
its tracks near Manhattan to prevent
being caught again by floods.
Jerry Simpson has sold his home in
Wichita to John Norris, farmer, who
will do business at the stockyards.
There were l64 applicants fer ex-
animation to teach at the close of the
| Sedgwick county normal institute.
NJ. NJ. Sherman has $500 acres of
corn in Ellsworth county which he be-
lieves will yield so bushels to the acre.
The Eastern Cowley county soldiers
and settlers association will hold its
annual reunion at Cambridge, August
| 10, 20, ad 81, 1909.
The new Masonic hall at Russell of
which the corner stone was laid lass
week will be a credit to the city and
| one of the finest buildings il the town.
Oliver C. Davis, member of the Sal
vation army, is under arrest at Port
land, Oregon, charged with embezzling
$500 from school district in Decatur
county, Kansas.
The Texas fever among cattle Song
the southern state line is rapidly being
checked and only few new cases are
reported. Quarantine regulations are
being strictly enforced.
A. M. Campbell, jr., of Saline county,
had eight acres of the imported Rus
sian wheat which threshed out 23s
bushels. or an average of nearly 80
bushels to the acre, of SO pound wheat.
The number of hogs in Kansas on
March 1, this year was 80 per cent less
than the number on March last year.
Last year there were 1,O96 1873 assessed
and this year the returns show only
737, 4s7.
The supreme court judges decided to
sit through one session in banc instead
of in two divisions. This is an expert
ment to ascertain by which method
business can be furthered the most
rapidly.
The third crop of alfalfa was cut last
week in eastern Kansas. Some fields
will yield five good crops. Last year
the 25 largest alfalfa COMMITTEES had 221,-
s75 acres; this year these counties have
80, 500 acres.
The 'Orient" hauled its first car of
freight from Waldron, Kansas, It was
car of 10000 pounds of wheat which
was turned over to the Missouri Pacific
at Anthony. Train service has been
instituted from Harper to Waldron.
The pastor longest in charge of
single congregation in Kansas is Rich
ard Cordley, of Lawrence. Probably
the next in length of service is Parson
S,nothers, who has presided over the
Ebenezer Baptist church (colored) in
Atchison for twenty-one years.
w. j. Trousdale's wheat land In Ed
wards county is yielding on an average
from eight to ten bushels this year.
Corn will make at least thirty-five
bushelS The wheat is of poor quality
and does not test high. Mr. Trous-
dale will this fall have 1900 acres
sown to wheat on his Harvey and Ed
wards county farms.
c. b. Buck, of Burlingame, bought
l9 steers about ten months ago and
turned them into stalk fields and fed
them on roughness, sold them and
SASoA W. W. u hClos n supper DOuRnL
them and made another profit.
The district court ordered that o. w.
Coffelt be taken from the Cowley coun-
ty Jail to Wichita, on account of threats
of an attempt to rescue him. Coffelt
has had two trials for the murder of
Detective G. C. Montgomery, resulting
each time in a disagreement of the
juries.
Insurance has been paid on the Wich-
ita Hcrold and Star newspaper offices
which were damaged by the fire in the
Western Newspaper Union building.
Each Office was damaged to the amount
of 81 COO.
The Santa Fe system is to erect at
Argentine an artificial ice plant with a
capacity of rs tons day, at a cost of
$4,000 The building is to be 80 by so
feet, two stories high at the ends and
four stories high at the center. Twen-
ty-fve men will be required to operate
it.
Pension Commissioner Ware informs
Judge Lawrence, of Winfield, that w.
d. Kramer, of Arkansas City, has been
disbarred from practicing in the pen
sion courts at Washington on account
of sharp practices"
The assessed valuation of Wellington
school district this year is 81 ,O6s, s66;
last year $685. OF the Caldwell
district, $500, sss; last year s36s, 7s3
Coal has been discovered on Harvey
Flickenger's farm 12 miles southeast of