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

Ottawa is seriously discussing the ques-
ton of municipal ownership of water
and light plants.
FINEST Fat CATTLE.-Dave Haxton,
of Sabetha, won the $500 prize for the
finest load of fat cattle at the Kansas
City stock show.
A GOLD BiICK.-Robert Forbes,
wealthy citizen of Carbondale. has been
''donen by.a gold brick sharp to the
amount of $1,000.
CREAMERY BURNED.-The Girard
creamery and cold storage plant is de-
stroycd by fire. The plant cost s5. 900
and was insured for $1,000.
FOR A CRY PARK. a special cleo
ton at Wellington special tax was
levied for the purchasing, improving
and maintaining city park.
New OEIESr TowN.-Viola is the
name of new town which has been
located by A. NJ. Denny, right of way
man for the Orient 1t is in the south
western part of Scdgwicls county near
where the Orient crosses the Santa Fe.
1t will be the first station north of Mil
ton.
FRUIT CRAFTS SCARCE. of the
roots for apple tree grating in the
United States are grown in the kaw
river bottoms. The flood swept the
young trees all away. The seed for
the sprouts comes from Europe but the
roots themselves come chiefly from the
Kaw bottoms.
LARGEST CRACKER FACToRY.-A
cracker factory has been installed in
Wichita which has a daily capacity of
$40 boxes, which is said to be larger
than that of any other independent
factory in the in the country. One hun
ndred men will be employed for day
work, and when business justities it
like force for night work.
HANDLED CROP ALoNE-T. NJ. Born,
who lives near Morland in the west
part of Graham county, plowed, sowed
and harvested $50 acres of wheat with
out bit of help. When threshcd it
yielded him 6, 600 bushels or 2611 bush
els to the acre. The only work about
producing it which he did not do him
self was the threshing.
WICHITA Coal RATE.-The state
board OF railroad commissioners has
set the Wichita coal rate hearing for
November T. 1t will be held at Wich
tia. The coal dealers there claim the
roads have advanced coal rates. The
roads claim that that the rates have
only been advanced little and will
seek to justify the raise by showing
that the cost of maintenance has in
creased.
GIRARD PAYS PER CENT. The state
auditor received $50, 900 in municipal
bonds from Girard, Kansas, for regis
tration. OF this sum $40, 900 was for Il
gas plant and 5000 for an electric
light plant. These bonds draw 6 per
cent interest. 1t is the first time in
two years that any per cent bonds
have been offered for registration. All
bonds issued during that time have
only drawn from 4 to AZ per cent
To DIsTRIDUTE HARvEsTERs-A con-
tract was closed at Hutchinson between
the international Harvester Company
of America and ]. e. ConlIlin. for the
erection of $50, 900 building for the
use of that company in the distribu-
tion of harvesting machinery. Similar
buildings for distribution purposes
will be built or leased at Wichita, Sa-
lima, Concordia and Fort Scott. This
town will be the headquarters of the
concern, and the general Offices of the
company will be there.
KANSAS CORN STALKs.-The board
of trade people of Des NIoincs arc yet
talking about two stalks of corn that
were sent there from Moran, Kansas
They and the board fastened to them
weighed 100 pounds. They were IS
feet high and the cars of corn on them
were IA feet from the ground. The
STALKS were four inches in diameter
They were sent to the Iowa State Uni
versity to be placed on exhibition.
MINING ScHooT--The new STATE
mining school at Pittsburg opened
with 100 students.
MAKES A TiU,yGI,Y RUN. From Kan
sas City to Pueblo, COL, along the
route of the Missouri Pacific railroad,
the union men assert, Il non-union en-
pressman cannot beg or buy Il meal
An eXpressman is not supposed to
leave his car alone during the entire
run.
ACREAGE OF WHEAT-The acreage
of wheat sown in Pawnee county this
year will equal that of last year, al
though the work was delayed in the
early part of the fall on account OF
rain. The yield of corn is fair,
OUTSIDE HARvEsTERs. 3. Gerow,
state free employment agent, estimates
that over 10000 harvest hands from
outside of the state were employed in
the wheat harvest. Previous to the
time the cutting of wheat commenced
Mr.. Gerow estimated that 2S, 900 men
from outside of the state would lie
needed.
THEY TOTE CAUSE.-THE carrying OF
guns and other deadly weapons, a Gus.
tom which has grown prevalent in To-
pella in the last few years, is to be sup
pressed.
The PARDEE BUTLER FLAG.-The
flag which the border ruffians placed on
the raft on which Pardee Butler, after
being tarred and feathered, was sent
on his famous trip down the Missouri
river from Atchison, during the slavery
agitation has been presented to the
Atchison county high school by George
Butler, brother of the late Pardee