Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-09-24

Tenn, has been undermined by water
and is in danger of topping over. It
marks the approach of tine Kansas
troops in the engagement and occupies
the most important point on Mission
Ridge. The monument was erected by
a legislative appropriation. The build
ing of government road through the
park near the base OF the monument
was the cause of the damage sustained
by it.
GRAIN INSPECTION RECEIPTS.
August receipts of the grain inspection
department were the largest on record.
Not counting the money which was
taken in at five fee stations, total of
SIS. ss1. so was collected by ]. w. Rad
ford, state grain inspector. The de-
partmcnt paid out s3,554 SO in salaries
and $3.50 for expenses, leaving bal
ance of S2,137 Mr.. Radford says the
receipts would have been $40, 900 if the
railroads could have handled the grain.
TAKES Two To BARGAIH.-Under the
law 4 school district can vote to hold
school or to pay the tuition ofits pupils
in another district. A case from Ford
county was referred to the attorney
general. There the district to which
another district had voted to send their
pupils, had not room for them in its
school house and refused to take them
in. The attorney general holds that
the arrangement is a contract which
both districts must agree to.
BIG LOAD OF WHEAT.-Farmersi in
Pratt county are in II contest TO see
which can haul the largest load OF
wheat to market A. W. Jones holds
the belt. For several days he hauled
100 bushels to the load. The other day
he broke the record by hauling 113
bushels and ten pounds. The eleva-
tor company had to borrow additional
weights to weigh the load. Mr.. Jones
hauled the load seven miles and used
four horses.
HUTCHINSON FAIR.-The first fair
there having legislative sanction. A
very large poultry exhibit was n feat
IRE. There were collections from the
farms and orchards sent in from sew
eral counties, in competition for the
prizes offered by the state worlds fair
commission. More than $50 horses
were entered for the races, the purses
ran0ine, from SIX to 5000
DIscHARGIHe BoYs.-The Topeka
city railway is discharging all boys
under 81 years of age. There are
about so boys left. The theory is that
the boys will be required to go school.
These boys were taken on when the
demand for harvest men made it inn
possible to keep up the force by en-
ploying men only.
INCHARGE OF DEWEY RANcH-Fraull
L. Bull, stocllmen of Abilene, has
been engaged as superintendent of the
big Dewey ranch in Northwestern
Kansas.
RAPID PLowINe. "A Sumner county
farmer is blowing by steam and run
ming night shift. In "a hours forty
acres are stirred and narrowed.
HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR.-The city
schools of Wichita opened with 1900
pupils in attendance; about 800 higher
than on the first day last year.
CoEFIscATIKe CoAL-This practice
is now going OIL. All tine railroads of
Kansas are said to be filing their bins
with coal shipped to dealers.
GRooM's SHoRTuoRNs.-Col. II. T.
Groom has brought to Wichita from
his Panhandle ranch seventy of his
Seorthorns to be sold there.
MOVED BY SToRM-A Methodist
Protestant church at Pleasant Hill,
Sumner county, was moved off its
foundation by the storm.
BONDS FOR INTEEURBAN.-The Wich-
tia city council has passed an ordinance
for voting bonds for the Arkansas Val
ley interurban railway.
FIRST WOMAN PHYsIcIAN.-The DIR.
Emily r. Robbins, who died at her
home in Philadelphia last week, and
who is believed to he the first woman
in the United States TO receive med
zeal diploma, with her husband lived
in Junction City and was a medical
practitioner there from 1868 to 1878.
USE WooD AT CAMP.-Coutract have
been let for stovewood to be used by
the troops at the maneuvers at Fort
Riley. The contract calls for TAO cords
of which 400 cords will be shipped to
the post at cost of $40 a cord.
GAS AT CHEToPA.-A. strong flow of
gas was struck in we'll being drilled
on the George Bush farm at the corner
of Chetopa. The gas was found at Il
depth of 375 feet and in dry hole
The find is considered good one The
people of the town are very much ex-
cited.
GOES TO TEAcn.-DIiss Grace SAKE,
of Bourbon county, has startcd for
Liverpool to engage in Bible class
work. Her fare from Fort Scott to
Liverpool was sac. so for railroad fare
and s47.5o for steamer passage.
WANTS RATES. Secretary W.
II. Kempcr, of the /. o. o. +. is trying
to secure one fare rates for the annual
meeting of the grand lodge, grand en-
campment and Rebelsah assembly. 1.
o. o. f., of Kansas, 10 be held at Wich-
tia from October IL to Is.
BALDWIN School REoPENED.-
secretary of the state board of health
went to Baldwin on account of the re-
port of diphtheria there. He advised
the school board of Baldwin that there
would be no danger in reopening the