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

wheat, 5000 bushels of potatoes and
no less than 1880 bushels of corn.
The prison farmers have just finished
putting in 313 acres in wheat. Wheat
was placed in 235 acres before the last
rain and all of it is now showing above
the surface of the ground. The prison
farm contains 225 acres of corn and it
will average about 60 bushels.
EIGHT SOLDIER Brothers. The
death of Rev. David Worsley at Neosho
Rapids brings out the fact that there
were eight sons in the Worsley family
and that all of them served in the
Union army during the rebellion.
Their aggregate service amounted to
twenty-five years They averaged six
feet and two inches in height. Six
were in the Third Iowa cavalry and
two in the Ninth Kansas. Rev. Wors-
ley preached in Kansas for about
thirty-6ve years.
SCARED TO INSANITY. Roger,
21-year-old farmer living near Valley
Falls has been taken to the state in
sane asylum at Topeka. During the
street fair there a couple of weeks ago
a dummy was taken up in a balloon
with the regular aeronaut and dropped.
A great many people were fooled
thinking it was man. Young Roger
was one of those who were mistaken
and that night he was delirious over
it and has been so ever since.
DROWNED IN THE NEosHo. Two
girls, Josie and Rose Klemick, were
drowned by the capsizing of a row
boat in the Neosho river about one
mile above the dam at lola. They had
gone to the river with. two boys and
there is report that one or both boys
may have been drowned. The river
was promptly dragged and the body of
Josie Klemick was found.
OLD CASES REINsTATED.-The SUI
preme court has granted peremptory
writ of mandamus to compel Judge
Skidmore, of the Cherokee county dis
trict court, to reinstate on his court
docket all cases which he sent to the
Cherokee common pleas court when
that court was established but which
was afterward knocked out by the SUI
preme court.
Secretary Barnes sent to President
Roosevelt some fine specimens of the
Kansas display; among them being a
60 pound watermelon, several baskets
of mammoth apples and case of al
falfa honey which came from the apiary
of E. Davidson, of Garden City.
I STECIAL ALUMNI TRAIN.-The Kan
sas City alumni of Kansas university
and the Yale alumni association ran a
special train to Lawrence on October
II TO the installation of Chancellor
Frank Strong. The train left Kansas
City at 8 a. IN. and returned after the
banquet about IL p. IN.
SPENDING A MILLION Now.-Nearly
a million dollars worth of work is
under way now at Fort Riley and the
government is still calling for bids for
more of it.
THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.-All the
churches of Ottawa pooled in giving a
supper for the benefit of the Ottawa
university and the net proceeds were
about S225.
ALL FROM IoLA-There are eight
candidates on the Socialist ticket in
Allen county; all of them citizens of
lola.
MARSHAL REYNOLDS KILLED.-Jo-
seph Reynolds, city marshal of Airing
ton, was accidentally shot and is ex-
pected to die. The ball from 41-cal-
iber Colts revolver entered his stomach
on the right side and came ont below
the right shoulder blade. His right
lung was penetrated.
TOWNSHIPS VoTE ORIENT Bonds
Out of seven townships in Butler and
Chase counties the Orient bond propo-
sition carried at the election. Out OF
S125, 200 bonds, S1oo, 900 bonds have
been voted in these townships.
FARMERS OPPOSE IT.-The farmers
of Clay county are opposed to the con-
solidation plan for district schools. al
though the county superintendent has
made efforts to promote the scheme
during his round of visits to the
schools.
THIRTY-Two MoRE.-Thirty-tw ad-
ditional rural free delivery routes were
added to the list of the rural free de-
livery routes of Kansas on October 1.
Orders have been received at the To
pelza postofiice which place that mum
Der of new carriers on the pay rolls
FARMER GIVES TO William
McCracken, a farmer at Sunnydale,
Rice county, has given Cooper college
at Sterling $4,000 for the education OF
Indian and colored youth. He has also
given ST, 500 for the endowment fund
and $500 toward putting new furnace
in the college.
PIPE LINE FROM PERU.-In the Peru
district there are now seven producing
oil wells and two gas wells. Two
more gas wells are being drilled, and
the building of pipe line to Sedan is
being discussed.
SCOTT COUNTY BoNDs.-The Scott
county bond controversy has at last
been settled and the suit instituted
against the county by the state for the
collection of the amount due on the
bonds has been dismissed. The coun.
ty has agreed to make levies and pay
off a stipulated number of the bonds
each year. The bonds outstanding