Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-02

shape of cash and several cars and
wagon loads of provisions. Probably
for her size the town has made the
most liberal individual subscription yet
received.
The FIGURES GIvEN.-The vote upon
the election of a congressman from the
Seventh district to fill the vacancy &C.
casioned by the election of Representa-
tive Long to the United States senate
was: For Murdoch, (rep.) 1864; for
Clyne, (dem.), 6,s36; for Babb, (pop.),
9,9o3; for Roessler, (soc.), LOIS.
! DISTRIBUTION OF SEEDs.-The COM
missioners of Shawnee county estab-
lished stations along the Kaw river in
their jurisdiction for the distribution
of seed among the farmers in the flood
ed district. The commissioners have
about 500 bushels of seed corn bu. are
short on seed potatoes.
C. p. DEwEY's SoN-Chauncey Dew
| ey, who is in the Shawnee county Jail
in connection with the crime Of murder
of the Berrys, homesteaders within the
enclosure of the Dewey ranch, IS the
son of C. P. Dewey, president of the
Kansas Union Telephone company, Il
| long distance line
| FIRE AT CHAPMAN.-The Commercial
and VollSman hotels, Charles Deve's
bakery, Charles loves grocery and
market, the city building, the opera
l
burned from a lamp explosion in the
Voll<man hotel. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance So, 900.
! GETS MORE PAY.-Professor T.. c.
Franklin, of the University OF Kansas
left Lawrence to take position in Le-
| land Stanford University of California.
Another good man gone because Kan
sas was not willing to put up enough
to keep him. Franklin is Doniphap
county boy.
WAS IN BOTH KANsAs.--Wilson, who
is prisoner with his employer Chaun-
cey Dewey. served in the Philippines
in the Twentieth Kansas. He Is SER
geant major of the regiment TO which
the Osborne county militia belongs,
that guarded him at st. Francis
! NEIGuBoIs MADE GooD.-F ]. Davis
was suspended as postmaster of Larned.
Inspector Slusser dropped into town
and found Davis about SOS short The
business men raised the amount in
about thirty minutes and made good
the shortage.
BONDS THE CREAbERY.-Fort the pur-
pose of improving its plant and estab-
lishing about seventy new sllimming
stations, the Continental Creamery
company has issued 5000, 600 in bonds
covered by deed Of trust
MORE HAEvEsTERs WANrED-A. Ii.
| Moffet, of Larned, has written to the
employment bureau that Pawnee coun-
ty will need / 800 men from the outside
to harvest its wheat crop. The former
estimate was 1000 men.
/ REOPEN Iron WoRKs-The Galena
iron works, which have been shut down
since last fall, are to be put at worl, by
a newly organized stock company. 1t
is expected tina. zoo men will be at
work early in July.
Music SCHOOLS Winfield Col.
| lege of Music and the musical depart
ment of Southwest Kansas college have
united under the management of the
latter and the leadership of Arch Ohm
stead.
BELLEvILLE BEANCH.-After a tie-ur
by washouts of "A days the Union Pa
cifc branch from Junction City to
Belleville WIS opened on June %
COMBINE AND Buy TnREsHER.-Twen-
ty-five farmers living near Window in
Mcpherson county, will buy thresh-
ing outfit of their own.
KANsAN Wins MEpAI.-Franlx NJ.
Rarig, until recently student at the
Kansas Wesleyan university of Salina,
won first honors at the. Chicago North
western university this year. He was
awarded the Kirk medal and a SlOo
cash prize for first honors in oratorv.
Rarig's home is at Minneapolis, Kan
sas.
BOYS TRUCKING FREIGHT Fifteen
boys, aged Is to IS, the sons of we'll
known families Id Leavenworth, are
trucking freight with negroes at the
Santa Fe freight depot in Kansas City.
THUNDER STORMS. Parsons.
Caldwell, E,nporia, Reading and Fort
Scott and probably other localities.
were visited on June Is, all in the eve
ming or early night. with heavy thun-
ltler storms with considerable rainfall
AT Topeka telephone and telegraph
service was affected by lightning. The
storms were mostly local.
TwINE REQUIRED IN KAxsAs.-Kan-
sas City jobbers estimate the amount
of binding Irvine required to supply
the Kansas farmers this year is $500
tons or $4,000, 600 pounds.
NEVADA THE LITTLE.-Sedgwick
county, Kansas, has a greater popala-
ton than the state of Nevada, although
that state ranks fourth in area. The
Seventh congressional district of Kan
sas has six times the population of Ne
vada, with its two United States sena-
tors and one congressman.
MANY SPRINGS OPEgED.-Up Smoky
Hill Valley on the Brownrigg farm, a
well has started an artesian flow, run
ming steadily. Many cellars continue
to ill from spring waters though re-
peatedly pumped out
CHANGE OF CLIMATx.-The railroads
of Kansas find it necessary to provide
other power than windmills TO keep
their water tanks full. This is not
general but frequent occurrence this
/ rear The ,.ailroad nffici.rlr CO.. a..