Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-16

%; Pomeroy 81; Marcus j. Parrot, 40
e. P. Stanton, 81; NJ. W.. Delahay, 2;
S. ID. Houston, /; S. A. Kingman, 8;
A. j. lsaalss, IL; NJ. r. Conway, 1.
Every man in this list with the excep-
ton of 8. A. Kingman, has been gath
cred to his fathers. In the state senate
of that year there were twenty-six
members and of these only three are
known to be alive. In the house there
were seventy-six representatives, and
of these only seven are in the flesh and
blood.
ORIENT Administrative Orient
railroad will publish a magazine tell
ing of the virtues of the parts of Kan
sas and Oklahoma through which its
projected lines are to pass and will
send out an issue of ESQ, 900 sometime
during the coming fall. The plan is
to give series of town sketches, the
material for which will be furnished
by local persons and paid for by the
railroad company. The edition will be
put ont at large expense. The Mail
and Breeze printing house in Topeka
will do the mechanical work.
Found GOVERNMENT BoNDs.-How-
ard l.. Castor, farmer, brought $751;
900 in government bonds to Seneca.
He found them in a rubbish pile on n
farm which he rented recently. The
farm belongs to the estate of w. l..
Maxwell, who left it to be placed in an
asylum for the insane four years ago
Mr.. CASTOR found the bonds in a care
fully tied and protected bundle, which
had evidently been covered with rub
bish to conceal it. The bonds were
given to the agent of the estate.
To EXPERIMENT WITH Cows.-The ].
P. Baden Produce company has leased
800 acres of land south of Winfield for
dairy. One hundred first class milk
cows have been purchased and put
under the care of Johnnie Cochran, an
experienced dairyman. The object of
this step on the part of the Baden peo-
pie is two-fol !; namely, to obtain fresh
milk for daily use in the creamery de-
partment and to experiment with COWS
for the purpose of obtaining more in
formation on dairy products.
EDITOR EcKERr's DAUGHTER
of the society events of the season at
Arkansas City was the marriage before
large company of guests in the Meth
odist church of William A. Sullivan,
an Indian trader of Darlington, O. T.,
and Miss Lee Eckert. daughter of Col
onel I. w. Eclert, for many years ed
itor of the Arkansas City Daily Trav-
eler. Miss Eclxert drew a claim in the
government land drawing and met the
groom while living on her farm. They
will reside at Darlington, D. T.
RATES ON SUGAR.-The interstate
commerce commission have not acted
upon the demand from Wichita that
the jobbers there should have as low
rates on sugar from Rocky Ford as are
given to Kansas City jobbers; but the
railroads have conceded the even rates
to Wichita. Heretofore wholesale gro
SCio VI w COuId SClI III Out
side of SedgwiclS county; now they have
an equal chance on all territory natu-
rally belonging to them.
ENDOWMENT FUND.-The Southwest
Kansas college at Winfield will soon
have 500, 900 endowment fund. Win
field citizens made the proposition to
raise SIS, 900 if the conference would
raise the other $4,000. The PROPOSE
ton was accepted by the conference
and provisions were made for beginning
the work of raising the money at once
RILEY COUNTY COURT HoUsE-A
special election is to be held some time
in June for the purpose of building "a
court house in Manhattan. The widow
of George W. Higginbotham has offered
site for the building near the business
part of the city, valued at 5000.
IRRIGATION MEETING CALLED. L.
Diesem, president of the State Irriga-
ton association, and r. NJ. Lawrence,
president of the Garden City Industrial
club, have issued call for meeting
at Garden City on April 16 to organize
u Southwestern Irrigation association
and lay plans for future development.
KILLED IN ELEvAToR.-Geo. w. Nell
son, an operator of an elevator in a
| Wichita ware house, l1neeled on the
floor to throw a SNOWFALL at party on
the floor below, when the elevator
caught his head and crushed it.
| FARMERS FOR GOOD RoADs.-R. w.
Gorrill, a Douglas county farmer, offers
to give 500 year for ten years to
help along good roads work. Gorrill
! says that if the merchants and others
will crush the rock the farmers will
haul it and do other work.
| PAID FOR THE HoRsE.-An Emporia
man received from Virginian draft
for S75 in payment for a horse bought
thirty five years ago. The sender said
he was getting old, was in poor health
and wanted to get the debt off his
mind before he died!
OLDEST PHYsICIAN.-Sincet the death
of DIR. John p. Wood, at the age of 1O1
years, it is likely that the Oldest ply
stefan in Kansas now is DIR. w. A.
Boyal1in, of Marysville, the coroner of
Marshall county. He will be ninety
five years old on Memorial day.
A COOP INvEsTMENT.-Burr Belts, a
Jewell county farmer, bought a sow
and seven pigs for 81. He fattened the
sow, got 400 pounds of pork, saved one
of the pigs, and eight months after he
made the 81 investment sold the six
remaining pigs foo s115.
WRECK ON SANTA FE.-Twenty-five
loaded stock cars met a train with tif-