Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-29
KANSAS COMMENT.


ed the telephones in Pratt, rendering
them useless for time.
EIGHTEEN PARoLED.- reforma-
tory board has parolcd eighteen boys
from the state reformatory at Hutch
inson.
A. II. T. ASSOCIATION. The State
Anti Horsethief association held a
meeting at Winf which was we'll at
tended.
FAR;t LANDS ADvANCE.-A. d. Scott
bought 500 acres of Butler county land
one year ago at Sill an acre. Heisno'v
offered SIG an acre for it and asks $50.
STEAM PLows AT WoEK.-They are
being used this fall in Mcpherson and
Russell tounties. A harrow is hitched
on behind and after the plow has gone
over the ground it is ready for the
wheat drill.
Hrs SoS DIsAPPEA RED.-T. J. Porter,
a leading stocltman of Kansas,
died very suddenly. His son, Charles,
attended the Priests of Pallas festivi-
ties in Kansas City and has not since
been heard from.
AyoTHEn PEABODY CoLr.-Pcabody
was the home of Joe Patchen when Il
colt. Kirllwood Jr., horse that was
foaled at Peabody. has made record
at Lexington, KY, of 2:11]4. His last
years record was 2:25
GOAT ON EACH STUMP. Before the
recent flood at La Cygnc Daniel Stain
brook had Il bunch of fiftythree goats
and fourteen stumps in his pasture.
When the water went down he had
just IA goats-one OH each stump.
MARCHED BACK TO FoRT.-About so
national guards with n number of reg
ulars were rounded up in Junction City
by regular cavalry for being out of
camp without passes and were marched
back over the four muddy miles.
HOTEL FIRE ESCAPES. There is only
three months left to comply with the
law requiring fire escapes in hotels.
The law also affects buildings two
stories OF more high where more than
twenty persons are Employed; including
wholesale houses, mills, factories,
school houses, lodge buildings and
public halls.
FARMERS 200 BUsY.--Judge c. w.
Smith has set n new precedent at
Stockton, by adjourning court so the
e., ,l,N tl,ai,
He presides over district in the great
corn and wheat belt in Northwest
Kansas, and said from the bench that
the saving of IL years earnings was OF
greater Importance than the adjourn
ment of Il few petty suits.
LARGEST RYE RAIsER.-J. L. Cook,
of Cove county, is the largest rye raiser
in tie county His crop this year
threshed ont 1900 bushels He also
raised 900 bushels of wheat and con-
siderable corn. He is PLEASANTLY sit
uated on his farm adjoining Cove City,
where he has at all times the luNurics
worth living Tor, including hogs, cattle,
horses, pond of fish and plenty TO
eat
RECORD BREAKER.-In the large
family contest inauguratcd by the To-
pel1a Mail and Breeze the first prize
did not go to Mr.. and Mrs. W. Q. FL
lott, of Rice county, but certainly the
tion." They were married in 1858.
During the next twenty-four years
twelve sons and three daughters were
born to them. Mr.. Elliott Claims that
the family average of IL baby every
sixteen and half months for 25s
months is record breaker
INITIATED 14O.-The celebrated far
west grand encampment degree staff
of Leavenworth, conferred the degrees
upon class of 40 candidates during
the cncampment at Wichita, said. to
be the largest class ever initiated into
Odd Fellowship in the West, and be.
lieved by many to be the largest ever
known in the United States.
COWBOYS Standardization ia the
western part of the state complain of Il
scarcity-of men. Cowboys are finding
moro lucrative employment elsewhere
and are deserving the range.
INSPECTORS FEEs.-State Grain in,
spector Radford turned in Sc, 400 in
fees for the mon tn of September. The
expenses of the department were So, o5O
The fees were 500 greater than fol
any other month in the history of tho
department Oil Inspector Kelly
turned in So, 3s2 as fees collected in his
department for September. His ex.
penses were S496.
A BEE TREE NJ. Beagle cut
down a tree on his farm, five miles
south of Paola, from which he secured
40 pounds of honey.
MORE DEMAND FoR MEN.-Laboi
conditions in Kansas are better than
they were even last year ut this time
so Mr.. Gerov says. There is more dc
mand for men of all classes of work.
In some parts of the country the rail
roads are turning off men by the hun,
dreds In Kansas the roads arc put.
ting every man they can find tc
work
WHEAT IS MOVING. The banks OF
Greensburg have paid out $500, 900 fol
wheat and the crop is just beginning
to move.
An ENGINEERING BUILDING. kansas
University will ask for an appropria
tion for one The attendance at the
school of engineering increased nearly
seventy-five per cent this year and has
an enrolment of nearly three hun.
dred. The present building and equip,
ment is inadequate.
You KNOW C. A. FELLOWS. Tho en-