Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-22

man, State Treasurer Kelly and Score
tary of state Burrow, that the cost of
state printing viii be cut down to the
minimum from now on and that no
useless reports will be published. 1t
is the intention of the board to keep
within the appropriation for the work
made by the last legislature. In the
past every legislature has had to meet
deficiency appropriation bills for the
state printing ranging from $4,000 to
$4,000
g. A. R. RELIEF FUSDs.-The COM
mittee appointed by the g. A. r. de-
partment to distribute funds to old
soldiers who suffered loss in the Kaw
valley food has completed its work.
The amoant distributed was So, sos. 03.
OF the eO2 comrades who gave in their
names there were 25 found who did
not need aid
JEWELL. COUNTY CoAI.-All the min
ing machinery necessary to mine the
twenty eight inch vein of coal which
was reached by shaft near Jewell
City has arrived there and the work of
taking out coal will begin in a few
weeks. A stock company is organized
to operate second shaft which has
been completed.
OBJECT TO THE FEE.-Fifty non-resi.
dent pupils at the Kansas agricultural
college have left because of the annual
fee of $40 which was fixed by the legis-
lature last winter. The Kansas stu.
dents all pay the fee of So a term. Des-
p;te the loss of the so non-residents the
college has gain of 200 over last year.
GRAIN SPoILING.-T> $. Houpt, of
Bogue, Klaus, HIS notified the state
beard of railroad commissioners that
if he doesn't get some grain cars pretty
soon he will be a heavy loser. He has
several thousand bushels of wheat
piled out along the railroad tracks and
the wet weather is damaging it
MOVING TO JUNcTIoN.-The contract
has been let tor the moving of the
town of Milton, Sumner county, about
one mile to the cast, where the Orient
and Missouri Pacific railroads cross. A
bank has been organized with stock,
subscribed by farmers of the vicinity
who are all wealthy stocllmen.
SAI,TA FE GIVES S5OO.-The Santa
Fc road made the Methodist church of
Emporia present of $500 for the new
church, with the understanding that
the church will not bring suit for dam
ages because of the fire which de-
stroyed the old church.
INTERURBAN LINES. are two
of them out of Topeka which seem
likely to be built; one of them up the
Kansas river to Manhattan and
the other across the country from To-
pella to Council Grove through Au-
burU.
HERBERT IN notwithstanding Her.
bert, owner of the Brown County
World, and postmaster of Hiawatha, is
in a hospital at Kansas City, under
treatment for nervous ailments. His
condition is not serious
5000 TRUANTs.-L. L. Gage, truancy
officer of Topeka, has notified the city
superintendent that there are 5000
children of school age who are not at
tending the city schools.
For A CRY PARK.-At special cleo
4;o,, ~ WaI1;,rto, a eoan;o1 ~ ,,,,,
levied for the purchasing, improving
and main tanning 4 city park.
Hoe CHoLERA-Farmcrs in the
Walsarusa valley in Shawnee and
Douglas counties lost over 1000 swine
in two weeks by hog cholera.
THE TRUANcY LAw-The city of
Horton has 100 more pupils in it's
schools this fall than last. The truan-
cy law did it.
School LIBRARY.-The Smith Center
school library has 200 volumes and has
ordered $3.50 worth more of books.
ROCKS COUNTY WHEAT.-Judge Chas.
w. Smith, of Stockton, says the wheat
crop in Northwestern Kansas is much
better than was expected when the
farmers began harvesting. He believes
nov that it will average more than
twenty FIVE bushels to the acre and that
Rocks county alone will produce more
than four million bushels.
FIRE AT SOLDIERS HoME.-Fire has
LID
the Soldiers home at loss of ST, 800.
None of the contents of the building
was saved.
PIILAGE BY SOLDIERS. war de-
partment decided to march troops from
Fort Leavenworth to Fort Riley. The
farmers along the route are now pre-
senting bills against the government
for property taken. Warrants are also
being issued against some of the SOL
diers for larceny.
BONDS FOR ALI.-Petitions are be-
ing circulated in Winfield for an elec-
ton involving three propositions, gas
and electric light propositions OF S25,-
900 in bonds each and for Carnegie
library.
ToRRIaGTON IN WIDER FIELD.-R. e.
Torrington, division freight agent at
Wichita for the Santa Fe, will here
after act as agent or rather overscer of
all freight business for the company of
lines west of the Missouri river. The
maintaining of freight offices and
force of clerks will be abolished.
commercial agent will be appointed.
From WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
D. Scherlnerhorn, graduate of Wes-
leyan university at Salina, has been
appointed by Bishop Thorn born, presi-
dent of a theological school in India.