Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-23

hours time. both building and contents
were destroyed. A lamp was knocked
over into pile of combustibles. The
fire began inside upstairs Only a few
of the available men could be used and
these were deferred by the heat and Sc
clusion of the flames. The office, which
is next to the ware-room, was COM
pletely flooded with water, but almost
everything in this room was saved.
The total loss is estimated at about
$4,000. There were nearly $4,000
worth of storage and the damage to
the building was about 81 900.
ARBoR DAY.-The immense campus
of Friends university in Wichita, was
planted on Arbor day to trees of such
varieties as are known to do well in
Kansas. A year ago James NJ. Davis,
who purchased the building and gave
it to the Friends church, had his Iand-
scape gardener in New York prepare a
plan for decorating the campus and
making it into veritable garden and
this plan is now being carried out
MULvANE RESIGNS. R. Null
vane has resigned the presidency of the
Missouri & Kansas Telephone company.
When he became president of the com
pany 90 years ago it was IL compar-
atively small affair; now it has %, 2O4
miles OF toll wire, principally copper,
reaching s93 cities and towns in its
territory. Its gross revenue for the
year ending in january, 1908, reached
81, seS, 436. So.
HEREFoRDs AND SuoRTHoRNs.-An-
other large pure-bred Hereford and
Shorthorn cattle sale has been held at
Manhattan, The highest priced Here
ford bull brought $40. The entire
herd of &c head brought s5,o Most
of the buyers Were Kansas men, and
the stock will remain principally in
Wabaunsee, Riley and Geary counties.
GBINsTEAD HAS RECovERED.-Fra
Warner, the negro who attacked Pool
Grinstead, the editor of the Wathena
Times, few weeks ago, has been con-
NASSCA VI ASSAULT Will W Kill.
Sentence has not been pronounced.
Mr.. Grinstead has recovered. The
negro was intoxicated and attacked
Grinstead with a razor.
MEMORIAL WINDow.-Thes services of
the dedication of the memorial window
in honor of the late George T. Fair
child, former president of the State
Agricultural college, were held at the
Congregational church of Manhattan.
The window, which is of beautiful
design, was given by Mrs. Fairchild
and a number of friends.
New CHARTEEs.-Two new state
banks were chartered ut one session of
the charter board; one at Dexter and
one at Logan. The Eureka Gas, Oil and
Mineral company increased its capital
stock from SIS, 125 to $50, 900 and the
Western Star Mill company, of Salina,
has raised its stock limit from SEQ, 900
to $1,000
PERCHERoNs AND CLYDEs.-Regent
J. S. Mcdowell of the state agricul-
tural. college, has purchased three span
of Percheron mares from J. W. Robi-
son & Son, of Ell Dorado, and one span
of bay Clyde mares from w. II. Sits,
of Mcpherson, for the college.
COURT HOUSE AT ERIE.-Neosho
county held an election TO vote on the
proposition to build new court house
at Erie. The vote was overwhelmingly
in favor of the proposition. The coun-
ty outside of Chanute was practically
solid for the court house.
JEWELL COUNTY GETS ONE.-Con-
gresham Reeder, it is understood, is
practically sure of having the govern
ment put down one of the three wells
promised the Sixth district in Jewell
county.
EASTER HATs.-A dry goods man at
Hutchinson estimated that $40, 900 was
put in Easter hats in Hutchinson alone.
And it rained
COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISES. There
are two of them in Reno county. One
is creamery company, with SOS, 900
capital, at Yoder, with 100 stockhold-
ers;- the other is a large department
store at Hutchinson, in operation on
the profit sharing plan.
, Two THOUSAND EXPECTED
that number are expected to attend
the Y. NJ. c. "A. international confer
ence in Topeka on April 30 to May 3.
A special train on the Santa Fe will
come from Chicago for the accommoda-
ton of the delegates.
Leavenworth county ordered the war
den of the penitentiary to release John
Munro, an Oklahoma convict, at the
end of five years, upon the showing
that Munro had been given a sentence
of eight years when the Oklahoma
laws provided for five years as the max
imum
A SOCIALIST CoLLEGE.-A socialist
college will be opened at Wichita on
May 6, bearing tile name of American
Socialist college" It will be the first
of Its kind in the United States.
TAXING CAPITAL. STocK.-The SUI
preme court decides that the capital
stock of a corporation is subject to tax
alton only in the state of its domicile
and it cannot be taxed in another state,
Notwithstanding the fact that its prin-
cipal business is conducted in the other
state. This case was of great import
ance to Wyandotte county as an at
tempt was made to tax the live stock
commission companies, organized under
the laws of Missouri, which are doing
business at the Kansas City stocllyards
wholly in the state of Kansas
STORM on THE VERDIGRIs-A severe