Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-30

water is hindering the work of build
ing wall across the channel that was
cut around the end of the dam last
month and continues to go through
this channel doing considerable dam
age.
IRRIG AToRs MADE DEFENDANTS. =
Messrs. Ashbaugh and Smith. attorneys
for Kansas in the Kansas Colorado
water suit. went TO Colorado to get the
names of officers and the properties of
take water from the Arkansas river
These companies are to be made de-
PENDANTS in the suit The amended
bill must be fled in the supreme court
by the middle of August.
L. P. IMpRovEMESTs.-T Union
Pacific has been shipping in machinery
and material for the new improvements
which the company intends TO make ut
Salina. Crushed stone is being UNI
loaded i'll the local yards; also turn
tables, gasoline engines to furnish the
power for unloading cars of coal, which
has heretofore been done by hand, and
machinery of other description.
BLACKBERRIEs ON SASD.-West of
Abilene is large body of sand land
that has been considered worth nothing
except for pasture. Z n. C. Dyer has
made fruit farm of it and has raised
three acres of black berries this year
that have paid SIG an acre'on tile first
picking, one-fourth of the crop The
land that cost $40 an acre will return
500 an acre this year.
LOSSES BY TIE FLooD.-A careful cs-
innate of the damage done to property
| i'll Shawnee county by the flood COM
piled by the Topeka commercial club,
shows that the losses will aggregate
about 81 $50, OOO J. L. Anderson, the
secretary has made a careful investiga-
ton, having secured his information
from reliable sources.
G. A. r. RELIEF FUND.-The G. A.
R. flood relief fund now amounts to
5000. Money is still coming in and
it is thought the fund will grow for
some time yet. Department Command
err A. w. Smith will distribute the
money among the various posts in the
flooded district. The relief corps fund
amounts to 81, 900.
EFFECTS RAILRoADs.-Kan rail
roads are opposing the proposed raise
of wages for miners because it means
higher prices for coal. Even the roads
which do not own their own mines are
interested for they must buy their coal
and an increase in the cost of produc-
ton means an increase in the cost of
coal to them.
SALIVA GAS FHANCmsE.-Pennsyl-
vania capitalists have gas leases and
oil leases on 600 acres east of Salina;
the city council has given the company
2o-year franchise to supply the city
with gas, if they find it, at ST per thou
sand cubic feet.
FLOOD BILLS AUDITED.-The bills
which were jointly incurred by Topeka
| and Shawnee county during the flood
amount to S4,4s6.92. The city and
county will share this expense equally.
The cost of the pile bridge is included
in this amount
| OTTAWA COUNTY WHEAT.-Wheat is
| turning out splendidlv in Ottawa
county. John Bucus had an average
| Of ~ al,
Large quantities of new wheat are
coming into market.
OIL or Poor FARM.-The Chautau-
qua county poor farm has three pro-
ducing oil wells The farm raised
good crops of corn and wheat this sea-
son.
AT WoRLD's FAIR.-The girl band
of Wetmore, has dates at the st. Louis
exposition.
| BEER FIRST on NEW BRIDeE.-A
brewery wagon was tine first vehicle to
cross the pile bridge over the Kaw
opened for traffic at Kansas City. 1t
was loaded with beer and crossed into
Armourdale at fifteen minutes before
| 4 o'clock. No other wagons were al
lowed to cross until after five o'clock
Two SsnTH CENTER GIRIs.-Miss
Kate Tinizey has been appointed as
sistant librarian in the agricultural
college at Manhattan, and Miss Jessie
Dean as register and librarian at Wash
burn college, Topeka.
HORSES LOST IN FLOODS
is being made to the Topeka officials of
persons below town who have taken
mp stock since the flood and have been
working it failing to advertise it so
that the owners can claim it. Several
such instances have occurred. The law
is very strict regarding the advertising
of taken up stock, and there will be
trouble in store for some one.
FAVOR A CONFERENCE.-THE attor.
neys in the irrigation suit against Colo.
RADIO are in favor of compromising the
case
Do They WORK HOURS. state
labor commissioner has commenced a
campaign against public officers who
either work themselves or force their
clerks to work more than eight hours a
day. He claims the eight-hour law APP
plies to all public officials and has
warned them that they must stop VIC
lating il. The law not only applies to
clerks and employees but to the official
himself so the labor commissioner dc.
clares.
BELo1r CHAUTAUoUA.--It started on
July Is for full two weeks of work.
SHEEP SHEARINe TINE. n. Hey.
man, of DeGraff. Butler county, sheared
500 sheep this year, which averaged
nine pounds to the fleece. This is i