Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-06-18

With 1edoQudfterS III NlculOsts HAS
taken a state charter. The company
proposes to construct an electric line
from Wichita to Arkansas City. Il dis
tance of about eighty miles by the
route chosen. Capital stock amounting
| to one million dollars has been sub
scrihed.
| VANDALs l.; 4 CHURcn.-At ottawa
some vandais broke into the Episcopal
{ church and drank up the wine which
thad been stored away for sacramental
| purposes. They also broke into
closet and took out the sacerdotai robes
| of the clergyman. and with these about
them they engaged in Il bacchanalian
dance around the altar"
! VICTIMS OF WREcK.-The victims OF
the Santa Fe wreck which occurred at
Stillwell, Kas., in which nine were
killed and ten injured, are reported by
the physician at st. Joseph's hospital
to be doing well and all will recover.
| Only five af the injured remain in the
hospital, the others having been dis
charged.
FLOOD CHANGES HoUsEs.-A man
living in North Topeka did not so back
TO look at his property until the food
was over Then he found that his
house was gone and 4 much better
dwelling had lodged almost exactly in
the same spot. If nobody claims it he
will fix it and move in.
FIRST TRAIN AERIvEs.-The first
train into .Salina from the east for ten
days arrived at Salina over the Mis-
| souri, Pacific. Construction gangs have
repaired the track between Salina and
Gypsum City and hereafter through
trains Will be run on as near schedule
time as possible.
WAS HERE IL '44.-Luther Dicllerson,
of Atchison county can remember the
food of 1914. This writer has known
Lutte" since about 1 $50 and remembers
of his telling about the "A flood when
talking with him about the extremely
wet winter and spring in that part of
! Kansas in 1859.
HORTON SUPPLIES CIRCUS. --Sells &
| Downs show was tied ND at Horton
for several days by the washouts. The
men were paid off while there, and the
result was n greatly increased lot of
trade for the merchants in addition to
| the purchase of necessary supplies.
LONG SEWER ORDINAHCE.-Judg
| by the length of the lola sewer or
dinance published in the Register that
town is going to have miles and miles
OF sewers and then some. The ordi-
nance covers five of the Registers long
columns
DAMAGE AT LAWRENCE. "A conserv-
caused by the flood in that city places
the loss at 100000. Congressman
| Boversocll was the heaviest individual
loser. His losses are figured at $780,
| 600.
No MAIL TO DELIVER On the day
set for the Inauguration of free mail
delivery for Concordia there was no
mail to deliver. The floods segregated
the town for quite period.
A WISE Cow.-The Reflector states
| that COW belonging to an Abilene
man stood for an entire day with her
front feet in a buggy; only her head
and shoulders out of water
RAISED SIG. OOO.-At the dedication of
the First NJ. E. church in Emporia the
sum of S16,OO was raised; freeing the
organization entirely of debt.
| SEED Is NEEDED. Farmers and gar
deners who lost their crops in the Kan
sas floods are having difficulty in pro-
curing seeds for replanting.
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL. Cottonwood
Falls seems certain of securing one for
Chase county No opposition has de-
veloped.
Ten New TEACHERS kansas ani-
versity viii add ten new teachers to its
corps of instructors next year.
| GRADUATION EXERCISES Orion ac-
count OF the death of the Rev. Peter
McVicar all of the graduation exercises
to have been held at Washburn college
next week. with the exception of com
mencement and the baccalaureate SER
mon, have been declared off.
GENITAL BRANCH OPENS Shat
branch of the Missouri Pacific, which
mas been blocked two weeks by the loss
of one span of its bridge over the Glue
river, is now opened for traffic. Many
towns that were suffering for provi-
sions will be now supplied.
COULD Nor MEASURE THE WATER
The city engineer of Topeka says that
it was impossible to put IL pole down
three feet into the currents of water
during the food He fears that it may
be impossible to change the current
back into the river bed.
To BUILD A FERRY.-The Kaw river
is falling very fast ut Topeka but has
not yet reached its natural channel
Two companies of regular army en-
| gineers from Fort Leavenworth are
there and will proceed at once to build
ferry across the river.
BERRYToN FLooDED.-This is small
town southwest of Topeka. where the
people of the town and the farmers of
the neighborhood loaded up many
wagons with supplies for Topeka right
after the floods came 1t is now in a
situation to need aid as Il waterspout,
followed by a heavy rain, has wrought
great havoc there.
ToPEKA's POPuLATIoS.-Acco
to the statistics in the county clerk S
Office Topeka has population of 3s,-
$50. an increase of $50 over the asses
sor's returns OF last year.