Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-11-12
KANSAS COMMENT.


river in Cowlcy county rose ten feet
last week after the greatest rainfall in
years
A LARGE DocKET.-The Cowlcy
county district court has OH its docket
for She next term IS Grim nal and s39
civil cases.
WRECK on U. PA Union Pacific
train was ditchcd near Russell. Five
heavily loaded cars ere dcrailed. No
one was injured.
KEROSENE AccIDENr-G P. Bowers
explosion of coal oil that was used as
kindling in stove in his store.
MASTER MECHANIC REsIoNs.-W. e.
Anderson, master mechanic of the
Rock Island road, with headquarters
at Goodland. having in charge the Col
orado division, has resigned.
KAw RIVER RIsEs-The Kaw river
at Lawrence rose several feet as re-
suit of recent heavy rains and has put
stop to the work on new channel and
the repairs on the dam by Congress-
man Bowersocll The north bank of
the river is also caving in us a result Of
the rise.
W1crurA ArPEAts.-The city will
appeal the decision in the case. of the
city against the Missouri & Kansas
Telephone company in which Judge
Dale decided that the company did not
need franchise and the city could
only name the streets and alleys which
the company could use.
Nor ''AcTIvE TRooPs. The expense
for having the Kansas troops partici-
pate in the Fort Riley maneuvers will
aggregate about $50, OOO Most of this
will be paid by the war department..
The only expense the state will be 1T
is for the main tenancc of the governors
staff. The federal government only
pays the cost of maintaining active
troops in the field. The governors
staff is not considered ''active troops"
Is Nor REPEALED. Attorney
Torrance of Cowiey county asked the
Attorney General if the law, providing
that Il county may not issue warrants
for greater amount in any one year
than the amount of the tax levy for
that year, had not been repealed. At
torncy General Coleman held the law
was still in force although II portion
of the section, referring to another
matter, had been repealed by implica-
ton.
School POPULATION PADDED.
Atchison Champion says: Last year
the school census for Atchison was
6,OGG; this year it is 3,T34, loss of
2,339 This year the census had to be
sworn to; last year the school popula-
ton was guessed ut. AS Il consequence
Atchison received 50 600 last year more
than the schools were entitled to. Last
year tine school population OF Atchison
county was 10, 2o2; this year it is 1904,
a difference of 2,59s between the two
years"
AK ORGANIZED BAND.-Their den has
been found and six of the thirty who
composed the gang of robbers are
where they can't get away. Their
headquarters have been in Marshall
county, but the band was discovered
by officers of the government, the state
and the railways. The gang has been
implicated in robbcries of banks and
postoffices in northern Kansas and
southern Nebraska for ut least six
years. 1t is thought that parties who
robbed the bank at Burton were Il
part of the gang.
MANY DIVORCE CAsEs.-There are
thirteen divorce cases on the Novem-
Der docket of the Geary county district
court, of which five are brought by
women who married enlisted men at
Fort Riley. The soldiers lived with
their wives until discharged or trans
ferred and then deserted them.
A KA,JsAs BoY.-Raymond A Over
son of Osagc City, has been unanimous
ly elected president of the junior class
at Harvard to fill the vacancy caused
by President Leathcrbee dropping out
of the university.
VALENTI:;E RE-EIEcTED.-Del. A.
Valentine, the editor of the Clay Cen
ter Times, has been reelected clerk of
the supreme court. He was first elect
ed in 1899, tEcn in 1901, and now for a
third term There were four votes for
Valentine and three for Gale Jones,
stcnographcr TO Justice Burch.
WREcKAT CoFFEYvILI.E.-AM Missouri
Pacific passenger train from Kansas
City, crashed into the rear end of a
freight train in the Coffeyville yards.
Several passengers and the cxpressman
received minor injuries.
Quilt ~ YEARS OI.p.-AIiss Ina
Young, of Summerield, has "a quilt
that was made by her great grand
mother and is lined with linen spun By
her own hands. The quilt is still in !,
good state of preservation, although it
has seen eighty-sevcn years of service
A TEST CAsE.-The Missouri Pacific
will make Il test case of the order of
the railroad commissioners to place a
station agent at Ontario on the ground
that the commission has no right to
make such an order where the bust.
ness of the station does not justify it.
TELEPHONE PARTY.-At Gaylord II
large wedding anniversary had been
arranged, but the weather was SO
stormy and disagrceablc that the guests
couldn't assemble. All the intended
guests were connected by telephone
and the entertainment given the same
rs if the guests had all been assembled
III the room. Resolutions were given
and mus C sent alontr the wires from