Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-20
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CANEY STRIKES CASA depth OF
/ 900 feet a gas flow was struck at
Caney which had pressure estimated
at 500 pounds.
UNPRECEDENTED INSANITY. There
were six cases before the Cowley county
probate court in two weeks, and as
many moro in the preceding four weeks
Brook Corn DoING WELI-Sincc the
rains this crop is doing we'll in the
broom corn district of Rice county, al
though the average is smaller than
usual. The first pulling is begun.
LARGE WHEAT FIEIDs.-Walsh Bros,
of st. Peter, Graham county had an
acreage of over 1000 acres of wheat,
and the yield is estimated at not less
than o5 bushels. John Ashcroft, of
Moreland, raised over 500 acres of
wheat.
5ToBACco FOR CoNvICTs.-The state
paws $3.50 for tobacco for the convicts
at Lansing. The state buys the to-
bacco in the natural state and manu-
features chewing tobacco. Last month
the state spent $50 for licorice to flavor
the product.
RIDING ON SIDEwALK.-Chief Burt of
the Wichita police has posted Il notice
that hereafter parties arrested for rid
ing bicycles on sidewalks would be
locked up with drunlls, thieves, etc,
instead OF leaving their bikes as bonds,
as has been the practice.
SIX THOUSAND ACRE CRor.-A. j.
Rice, of Graham county, had in 5000
acres of wheat scattered over e. quar-
ter sections, in spots ranging from 100
acres to 900 acre field. His average
yield is estimated at % bushels per
acres To carry this crop to market it
will take 200 cars with 600 bushels
each.
BEST APPLES IN KANsAs-W F.
Schell. the superintendent of the state
horticultural exhibit at ST. Louis, says
he will have to depend principally on
Southwestern Kansas for apples for
the exhibit at the exposition. AS the
fair opens next May this years fruits
must be secured and put in cold stor-
age, until next years crops mature.
PRISON TwINE plaintiffs product
this year is 40 per cent greater than in
1902, and it has all found ready mar
ket. There was considerable of the
Irvine being shipped to farmers, and
for which the farmers mad paid, (which
was damaged in the food in June and
the prison officials are trying to assist
the farmers in trying to get the matter
adjusted with the railroads.
RUNoRs OF COMPROMISE. There have
been floating rumors that the case
against the Dewey ranchmcn under ar
rest for killing the Berrys, homestead
ers inside the Deweys' fenced pastures,
was about to be compromised by Mr..
Dewey by his buying all of the Berry
interests in Cheyenne county If all the
remaining Bcrrys would leave. The
story is as positi vely denied as it is as
serted.
PEEITENTIARY BRICK-''Thc kiln at
the Lansing prison is making good
brick" said Governor Bailey. after a
recent visit there, "but we need more
skilled labor there than we have at
present This business can re devel.
oped until Kansas will have the best
state institutions in the west State
buildings can be erected at a very
small cost when our brick is prison
manufactured"
LOOK OVER THE LINE.-Tlle directors
of the Arkansas Valley Interurbar
Railway started from Wichita on auto
mobiles for a trip over the proposed
route to Arkansas City. All of the
seventeen directors said they would &C
and machines were provided for the
journey.
BEST OF THE FIvE-The NeoshC
Falls Oil & Gas Co., has struck sand a
500 feet in No. 6 well on the Reeves
tract This is the fifth oiler for thi
company and every indication point
TO its being the best of the five.
SENATOR LoNe RESTING. Accom-
panied by Mrs. Long he has gone t,
the mountains for an extended periot
of rest. After his speech at Cawl>c
City the senator concluded that h
wasn't able to make any more speeche
this season. It was the first one h.
made since his recent illness aud it al
most wore him out.
To ExTERMINATE PESTS The com
Imissioners of Barber county have levie,
taxes of one to three mills upon sever
townships for the determination O
prairie dogs
HARvEsTERs HoMEsTEADINe.- Man,
harvest hands from other states ar
taking homestead at the Colby ant
Walleeny and Dodge City land offices
The land Office officials at Colby sa,
there are 500 good quarter sections o
wheat land left in that district, Will
the Walseeny land office has 300, 90
acres left, all good wheat land.
OLD Bus HoRsE.-Alex, a 30-year oil,
bus horse at Wellington, is dead H
had been driven TO the bus only abou
twenty-five years when suddenly tallel
off.
LITTLE WHITE INsECT.-The larg
orchard of Charles Wylsim, five mile
southwest of Wichita, has been total,
destroyed by little white insect,
total stranger TO all fruit growers il
that section of the country. The tree
have been killed outright and hav
been chopped down as useless.
A DAYS WORK. makes Gael
day 5000 barrels of Portland cement