Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-11-05

one of the agents of the geological sur
vey, several Kansas streams ARE in
danger of pollution from oil wells and
mine water. Tho report states that
the water supply of Emporia. Burling-
ton, Chanute, Benedict, and Independ-
cncc are being polluted by sewage, mine
water and refuse from the oil fields
entering the Ncosho and Verdigris
rivers.
ADA RERAN STATUn.--After reposing
in the basement of a Topeka dry goods
store for seven years the silver statue
of Actress Ada Rehan, which formed
Il part of the Montana exhibit at the
Columbian exposition in Chicago, has
been sent :o'Omaia where the Aneri-
can Smelling and Refining company
| will convert it into bullion.
KANSAS JUDGES. Bailey
has announced the appointment of the
list of judges. They are: j. McCabc
NJ oore, of Wyandottc; Cyrus Hurrell,
of Jackson; Walter l.. Simons, of
Bourbon; Il. Stillwcll, of Neosho; J. T.
Dicllerson, of Marion, Matt Simpson.
of Mcpherson, and w. G. Holt, of the
| Wyandotte common pleas court.
| AFTER 80 YEARs.-L. A. Wilson,
deputy county treasurer of Scdgwick
county, has returned from trip to his
old home in Ohio. Mr.. Wilson moved
to Kansas in 1871 and since that time
has never visited his old homo. While
there he enjoyed !. visit with his sister,
whom he mad not seen for 30 years.
COLLECTED FROM LUNATIcs- Super
intcndent T. c. Biddlc of the Topeka
insane asylum turned i'll to the state
of patients ut the asylum. Patients
who have property or relatives who
are financially responsible, arc re-
quired to pay for their keep
FIFE AT ADMINISTRATIONS had the
| worst fire in months in the Adam Hees
building; Elwiclz & Dyer, wall paper,
| quecnswarc, paints and oil, lest their
stock valued at $500. The building
was damaged to the extent of 81, 500.
w. l.. Cooley, jewcler, lost about $500
worth of jewelry.
PULE BRED CAIvEs.-W. P. Ander-
son, of Amarillo, Texas, livestock agent
OF the Pccos Valley lines of the Santa
fe system, visited Kansas to arrange
for the shipment OF about 1,5Oo head
| Of ,,ura bra6 o,Iuoc fror, tho ~, N h,pd1 n
of Texas to Ohio feeders.
To EXPORT THEIR OWN WHEAT
Large shippers of grain in Southern
| Kansas and Oklahoma are said to be
working up Il mbination or sort of
trust for the purpose ofexporting their
own wheat by way of the gulf ports.
GETS MORE THAN WAS SroLEN.-The
Burton bank recovered more money
than the robbers took. Tho amount
found on the island where the thieves
were caught was much larger than the
amount taken from the bank.
Mrs. HINsnAw ExoSERATED.-The
Kansas yearly meeting of friends at
Emporia cxonerated sister from the
charge of persuading her nephew to
enlist in the U. s. army. The trial
took up two days time.
For SUNDAY CLosISG.-The city
council of Kansas City. Kans., after a
conference with the Merchants Mutual
Association, proposes to prohibit by
ordinance the opening of stores on
Sunday.
SUES FOR DAMAGES. w. F. Brant, of
Atchison, lineman, badly crippled in
1901 by falling fifty feet from tele-
phone pole has sucd the Missouri &
Kansas company for SIS, 500.
SIXTYFIvE ARRESTS. daily
papers of Topeka report 65 arrests in
Sc hours, 90 of them for drunkenness
Row IN RENo.-There is II row on in
Reno county over the bill which uas
passed by the last legislature increas-
ing the salaries OF the county officials.
ROBBERS AND CAsH.-Both the rob-
bers and the cash they took from The
bank at Burton were found on an is
land in the Arkansas river, together
with their tools and dynamite. One of
them was badly wounded by pursuers
in the dark They were traced by
blood from this mans wounds.
WALKER HAS TRouBLE.-A. D.
Walker, of Holton, state railroad COM
missioner, has great deal OF trouble
when out of the state on account of
chewing gum fame.
Two PIPE ORGANs.-The First Meth
odist church of Ottawa has contracted
for a S., 600 pipe, organ to be ready for
use soon. The First Baptist church of
that city has voted to install II pipe or
gan of like value, to be put in their
church next summer.
THREsHING IS SIow.-Threshing in
Graham county is progressing, but the
enormity of the crop is such as to make
the work an almost endless task
Probably not more than 80 per cent OF
the crop has been threshed at this
time.
CARRIED A SPLINTER 90 YEARs-In
his breast, S. Thicbalt, of bourbon
county. carried a splinter for 90 years.
BY an accident Il piece of wood was
buried in his breast and the wound
healed over and has not bothered him
much until recently. The wood was
removed by a surgeon and the wound
healed over again.
RODE STOLEN HoRsEs.-In the pa.
rade of the Anti Horsethief associae ion
ut Winfield men rode horses which
dad been stolen and captured by the
society.