Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-10

| ncy county, has passed into the hands
of the Fidelity Trust company of Kan
sas City, after temporary receiver
ship and some litigation. The land
consists of some IL, 900 acres of irrigablc
land, much of it in alfalfa, and val
liable canal of nearly 30 miles in
length.
TO GENERATE PowEE.-W. 6. Sar-
gent, of Joplin, Mo-, is buying all
water rights and dams OH the streams
OF Cherokee county, together with sew
cral Touring mills and lands along the
streams. His purpose is to generate
electric power over the Kansas and
Missouri mining district.
| QUINDARo UTIvERsIrY.-This college,
which is an institution for the colored
race, reports so per cent increase of
attendance. Although the pupils are
largely from Kansas there are pupils
from every state west of the Mississippi
river, and from Il few states further
cast.
YOUNG FARMER TO SEX THINGs.-J.
A. White worked on Ibis fathers farm
near Trousdale, Kansas, for twenty
one years without taking vacation.
No.v his father has sent him on trip
to Chicago, Niagara Falls and Mary
land to sec the world"
FIRST MALE BORN THERE.-Lewis
Leach committed suicide at Kingman.
He left lett tiers to his young wife and
others bidding them good-by, but gave
no cause for his action. He was 25
years old and was the first male child
born in Kingman.
BIRTHS IN "a YEAEs.-D Walker, of
Galena has Il record of his attendance
upon birth cases in "a years. The
number is !, Cos; OF which there were
$50 male babies and $50 females. There
are 20 pairs of twins on his record and
ore case of triplets.
| YARDNAsrEH KILIED.-A. V. Pos
ten, Santa Fe night yardmaster at
Dodge City, was killed almost instantly
by being run over By passenger ell
CINE, which was backing up Mr..
Poster has held similar positions along
the route.
| MARRIED so YEARs.-Mr. and Mrs
NJ. 5. Price, of Salina we're married in
Ogle county, Ills, in 1858, and have
lived in Saline county for thirty five
years. The 5Oth anniversary of their
marriage fell upon Thanksgiving day.
BISHOP LEoNARD.-Abirl Leonard,
head of the Episcopal church of U tah
and Nevada, died at Salt Lake on De-
ceInbcr 8, of typhoid fever. He WAS
! for six years Il pastor at Atchison,
Kansas, from 1881 to 1887.
| RosAILA STORES RoBBED.-Two
stores at Rosalia, Butler county, were
escaped aud there seems to be no clue
by which their discovery is made prob
able.
YOUNG KIoKAPoos. The 100 babies
born in the Kiclsapoo tribe in Brown
county, are now being allotted sixty
acres of land each from the Kiclsapoo
reservation in that county.
WHEAT FIEIDs.-W. j. Trousdale, u
Newton man, has put out 1000 acres
f! of wheat this year. 1t is in Harvey,
Reno and Edwards counties
Y. NJ. C. A. BuIIDING.-Chanute is
| to have Young Mems Christian As
sociation building to cost 900 or
| $780, COO.
PROSPECTING FOR GAs-Gas is being
| prospected for in Decatur county, in
the northwestern part of the state
POULTRY TO ALnsKA.-A Win field
packing house ships orders of chickens
and turkeys to Nome and Dawson.
KANSAS TIMBER. Much Kansas tim
Der is shipped to furniture manufac-
| turers in the eastern states
DRILLED WE'LL IN "a HouRs.-A 65..
344 feet deep in "a hours.
3I.ANTRY FIRM D1ssoLvEs. The rail
road contracting firm of B. Lantry &
Sons, of Strong City, has been dis
solved. Charles Lantry re;ircs and
Henry Lanhy will conduct the bust
ness. This firm is one of the most
noted railroad contracting firms in
the west. 1t has done nearly all of
the Santa Fc work for years.
WATER SoFrENEEs.-The Union Pa
cifc is putting in Il water softencr at
junction City and will also put one ut
Wamego. The softencr takes the al
kali out of water used for engines
NEW SCIENCE OFFIcEns.- the
! Manhattan meeting of the Kansas
Academy of Science, officers were elect
ed as follows: President, DR.. Edward
| Bartow, Lawrence; vice president, l..
w. Wooster, Emporia, and Prof Eyer,
| Manhattan; treasurer, A. !. Smith,
Emporia; secretary, g. P. Grimslcy,
Topeka.
A SECOND CoLoNY.-Thirty farmers
and their families compose the second
colony from Nebraska who have pur-
chased farms in Geary county and the
southern part of Clay county.
HUNDRED DOLLARS AN ACRE.-O. J.
Martin. a farmer of Sedgwicls county
has sold this year enough apples to
bring him in 2,O47 III cash. Mr.. Mar
tins is not u fruit farm, either, but lie
finds it paying part of the business.
His orchard consists of about twenty
acres.
TEACHERS AssocIATIoN.-The 2Ist
meeting of the North Central Kansas
Teachers association at Concordia
last week was q success in every
way. There were about 700 teachers
a,r0I;od