Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-10-09

! trouble. The members were called
into court to tell how they reached
such a figure. 1t transpired that they
put down the amounts each thought
T should be given, ranging from 1000
| to $40, 900, added them and divided by
twelve, getting Sc, 29l.66, which was
made an even Sc, 300. The defendant
is demanding new trial because the
verdict was so reached.
| CHENEY A LIVELY TowN.-Cneney is
a mighty lively little town. The latest
improvement is a telephone system
that has about seventy-five subscribers.
1t is good system and makes Cheney
very Gifted. Another new enterprise
is the skimming station. The great
| rush of wheat that has come into Che
ney has taxed the elevators to their
utmost capacity and they are running
night and day. Cheney is booming
as everyone will tell you who goes that
way.
PROF. OF AGRICULTURE board
of regents of the state agricultural col
lege have selected Prof. A. NJ. Ten
eyeclS, assistant agriculturist of the
agricultural college of North Dakota,
as professor of agriculture at this col
lego. Prof. D. II. Otis who has had
charge of dairying, has been placed in
charge of animal husbandry and Prof.
E. II. Webster, assistant professor in
the dairy department, has been placed
in full charge of dairying.
MEMORIAL SERvICEs.-The 18th an.
nual reunion of the G. A. R. and of
the ex-Confederates at Wichita was ex-
tended day and broke up on Sunday
evening. There were two gatherings
for the memorial services on Sunday.
which was an ideal day in point of
weather. Great crowds gathered at
| each service.
DRIVEN FROM HoME.-A 13-year-old
girl giving her name as May Case, was
deserted by her parents and was found
at Silverda1e, small station near Ar
kansas City, by Mrs. L. I. Hinton.
She notified the officers and they
| brought her to town. She claims her
stepmother drove her from home.
KILLED BY CARELEssNEss.- ii.
buggy in Haven and died of his in
juries. The names of the people who
ran over him are not certainly known
as they did not stop upon hearing his
cries but drove right on. The accident
is the talk of the village.
A WooDMAN MEETING
tives of the various Woodman lodges
in Kansas, the big officers and district
organizers held a session in Topeka
| to devise plans to secure the adoption
of the new assessment scheme prepared
by the national reorganization COM
mittee."
| CANE HERE IN 1s5s.-Dr. j. II. Die
trich is dead at Hutchinson at the age
of SO years. He came to Kansas in
1858 and to Reno county in 1887. He
leaves large fortune. His wife, to
whom he had been married fifty-fivo
years, and two married daughters sur.
vive him.
WILL GaIND HIS OwN FEED.--George
| Brigham, large stock feeder of Salina,
has bought the Louisville roller mills
for the purpose of grinding feed. The
mills are the oldest in that part of the
state, having been built in 1866 and re-
built in 1885,
JUDGE BURcH ON BENcH.-H. a.
Burch, the newly appointed justice of
the supreme court, has been sworn into
office and will sit with the court dur.
ing the October term.
CosT OF SCHooLs.-The amount of
money paid out by Shawnee county
for all school purposes, which included
the cost of the new buildings erected
by the city, coal, salaries of the teach
crs and all other items was S246, ga 95.
This is larger than usual on account
of the new buildings in the city which
cost in the neighborhood of $50, 900.
SOLOMON HIGHER THAN EvER-The
electric light works at Minneapolis
were compelled to shut down on ac-
count of the high water which disabled
the machinery. The Solomon is higher
now than it has been at any time since
the spring of 1878. The abutment at
the south end of the wagon bridge in
the lower part of the town has sunk
several inches and the passage of the
bridge is dangerous.
ONE BUDDHIsT.-A census of the
state university shows one Buddhist
student.
DEATH OF KANSAS MAN.-William
f. Mullzey, vice president of the De-
troit Salt Company, owner, with his
sons, of the Kingman Salt Mining Com
pany, of Kingman, Kansas, and large
stakeholder in the Toledo & Monroe
electric railroad, died at his home in
Detroit, Michigan, recently. Mr..
Mulkey went to Detroit in 1893, froiu
Hutchison.
LONGER TURN TABLEs.-The Santa
Fe has ordered ten turntables rs feet
long. The big new engines cannot be
handled on the old ones.
FUNSTON AT FORT RnEY.-General
Funston arrived in camp Sunday after
noon, coming as the guest of General
Bates He came in an unofficial capac-
ity and will remain for few days to
witness the maneuvers.
| $1,000 FOR CONFETTI much