Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-01-01

Mutual Life Insurance company and,
the Kansas Union Life Insurance COM
pany, two Topeka concerns, are
merged. The consolidated company will
be known as the Kansas Union Life
Insurance company. The Kansas Mu-
tual was organized more than 20 years
ago and has done a big business. The
Kansas Union was organized last July.
The deal has been approved by the
state insurance superintendent. The
The officers and directors of the merger
concern are: President, j. p. Davis;
vice president, w. NJ Welcome; Secre-
tary, John f. Moon; directors. c. ]. Dew
lin, ]. L. Mulvane, Edward Wilder. Il.
G. Schwartzhopf and A. A. Robinson,
of Topeka; L. n. Morrill,, of Hiawatha,
and Scott Hopkins, of Horton.
NEW IRRIGATION ScHEME-Superin-
tendeht Haney, of the Hays City ex-
pertinent station, assisted by an expert
from the agricultural department at
Washington, will try new method of
irrigation on the experimental farm.
He will flood about l 900 acres of the
bottom land early in the spring with
flood water from the stream which
runs through the farm. His aim will
be to soak the soil thoroughly several
feet deep and depend upon this mois-
ture together with the natural rainfall,
to pull the crops through. No irriga-
ting will be done after the crops arc
put in. The only expense will be in
the construction of dam across the
small stream.
SECRET SERVICE GUARD.-Two years
ago the executive council without the
knowledge of the legislature employed
secret service man to guard the state
furniture in the legislative halls and
committee rooms. So much stuff had
always been stolen in the past that this
good thing. The detective saved the
state five or six typewriter machines
and lot of other truck. A detective
will be employed by the council again
this winter.
COURT OFFICIALS. &C. f. Swarts,
judge-elect of the Nineteenth judicial
district. has appointed James McDer-
mott as his stenographer, to succeed
Harold Herrick, the present stenog-
rapher under Judge Lawrence. Nc
Dermott is at present record fling clerk
in the supreme court. w. II. England,
deputy district clerk, will succeed Nc
Dermott in the supreme court.
JOHNSON COUNTY BANks.-The three
banks Of Olathe have on deposit sum
amounting TO $40 for every man, wo-
man and child in Johnson county
And adding the amounts deposited in
| other banks of the county, there is
enough to make Sos per capita.
Much SoRGHUM.-C. G. Casebier, of
McLouth, commenced the manufacture
of sorghum in a small way about six
years ago. This season he has shipped
out fifty carloads, and his supply is not
yet exhausted. One carload went to
Seattle, Wash.
SHOT AT MAI. BoxEs.-Smith Work.
man and Kearney Taylor, of Beverly,
Il small town north of Salina, were ar
rested by United States marshal on
the charge of shooting at rural mail
boxes.
REsUBMIssIoN. Waggener, of
Atchison, said he would introduce a re-
submission resolution to change the
constitution the very first day of the
legislative session.
A BRIGHT BoY.-A candidate for pa ge
in the next legislature has had his pic
ture printed on postal cards and is
sending them to all the members.
STEPPED on MATCH.-Mrs. Henry
Bredameier, of near Marion, stepped
on a match and in an instant her cloth
ing was blazing. She died.
WARDEN JEwETr.-It is stated that
Senator r. B. Ward, of Republic coun-
ty, may succeed L. b. Jewett as warden
of the penitentiary.
WORLDS FAIR CLUB.-At Saiina a
worlds fair club is being organized.
each member to pay into the associa-
ton S. a month until the first of June,
1904, when they draw out the entire
amount which has been paid. The as
ISOLATION is composed of some of the
leading business men of tine city.
WANTS DoDGE's PLAcE,-Cyrus Gas
ton, of Mitchell county, is candidate
for regent of the State Normal school,
to succeed S. Il. Dodge. of Beloit, who
has been on that board for the past
twelve years
STATE DAIRY COMMISSION. = At a
meeting of dairymen from different
parts of the state it was decided to ask
the legislature to create the position of
state dairy commissioner and put the
commission under control of Secretary
Coburn, of the state board of agricul-
ture.
Sold HIS MINEs.-P. II. Anderson.
the young Swede of Abilene who made
Il big fortune in the Klondilze, has dis
posed of all his interests at Cape Nome
and will invest in the zinc mines of
Southwest Missouri.
THOSE STEEL RANG. MaH.-Judee
II. L. Alden, of Kansas City, Kas., filed
brief in the supreme court attacking
the validity of the peddIers' license law
passed two years ago. One of his
clients, W. A. Jarvis, a steel range ped
dler, was fined in Ness county recently
for refusing to take out license.
THREsHING observation-disclosures
tive Watkins, of Reno county, will try
to put a law through the legislature TO