Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-13

lO4lOWib6 uclcgdCeS 10 represent hdH-
sas at the Trans Mississippi CONNER
cial congress, which meets at Seattle,
Wash, August 1921: E. r. Moses,
Great Bend; L. c. Frazier and Il. j.
Kennedy. Coffeyville; ]. H. Mcknight.
Wichita; w. A. Rem, wellington;
George Thatcher, Great Bend; John
Wolf, Ellinwood; E. b. Cowgirl and J.
E. Frost, Topeka; F. d. Smith, Kinsley;
Edwards, Wichita.
A Hay SHiPPING PoINT.-An order
has been issued by the board of rail
road commissioners compelling the
Missouri Pacific road is build depot
and establish an agent at Batesville,
Woodson county. That is big hay
shipping point and the farmers there
want facilities for handling their
crop.
ASKED TO SERVE AGAN.-The Kan
sas worlds fair board has sent for H.
H. Kerns, of Bonner Springs to tender
him tine position of director of agricul-
turc of the Kansas exhibit at the
worlds fair, if he will take it. Kerns
conducted the Kansas agricultural dis
play at the Chicago worlds fair.
WORST IN 90 YEARs.-That part of
jefferson county in the Kansas river
valley experienced a destructive wind
storm on August 5. Barns and out
houses were blown from their founda
tions or unroofed. Apples were
stripped from trees and corn WIS bro
ken off at the ground.
BOGUS CHECK FOR PONIES.
Snow has been arrested in New York
on the charge of passing a bogus check
in payment for n carload of ponies
from the Westcott ranch in Dickinson
county. Sheriff Bake, with requisi-
ton from Governor Bailey, has gone
east to get the prisoner.
Nor Acknowledgement Farris, of Ar
kansas City, while drunk, attacked his
wife with n chair when she shot him
through the heart. Mrs. Farris was so
years old, was not arrested.
AL GREENE LEAVES KANsAs.-Albert
r. Greene, pioneer Kansan, politician
and newspaper man, has sold his home
in Lecompton and will become resi-
dent of Portland, Oregon.
KANSAS GETS 25O MoRE.-Applica-
tons are now on. file for 500 free rural
delivery routes in Kansas. Exactly
one half will be established. That is
Kansas share.
HEAVY SENTEA CE. Fred Ammon, of
Dexter, Cowley county, was found
guilty on seven counts for selling liquor
and was given fine of $3.50 and $50
days in Jail.
LAWRENCE so YEARS OLD.-Arrange-
ments are under way at Lawrence to
celebrate on the 9th of October the
fiftieth anniversary of the christening
of the town.
New ToPoGRAPHICAL MAP.-The
government is making one of Kansas.
The government geological survey has
men at work in the southern tier of
counties.
BETWEEN BUMPERs.-A harvest hand
from Coffeyvile fell between the
bumpers of Missouri Pacific train at
Gypsum City and was fatally injured.
CHERRYvALE WATEEwoRKs. The
special election at Cherryvale for is
suing bonds for waterworl1s carried by
large majority.
ROOFS TORN oFF.-At Lawrence the
wind tore the roofs from several large
buildings on the evening of August s.
COVERED THE STATE.-The rains Of
July and G covered nearly all the
state, with plenty of electricity.
LOST A LEG.-John Hart, timelIeeper
for the Union Pacific, fell from train
at Salina and broke leg.
FIFTY DOLLARS AHEAD.-The Chau-
tauqua assembly at Ottawa paid every
thingand had $50 left.
WANT AN ADvANCE.-Rocll, Island
telegraphers throughout Kansas have
united in presenting a demand to the
general manager in Chicago for an adj
vance of SIS per month in pay with a
nine-hour day. The operators now re-
ceive from $40 to SIS mouth for ten
hours work day.
GAVE His LAND REsI.-From a 1885,
af.f nf To, Tol,
farm is near Goodland, raised 1926
bushels of wheat this year. Mr.. Trach-
sci obtained his big yield by letting
his land lie idle last year.
NEGRO TAILOR KILLS A MAN.-At
Larned, z. B. Williams, anegro tailor,
shot and killed Clyde Langdon, a
young white man. A mob was formed
to lynch Williams, but Sheriff Mccoy
had taken his prisoner east on a Santa
Fe train.
CAME IN 1854. William Mac Hammer,
aged s4 years, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Doniphan county, died at his
home near Troy. He crossed the
plains to California in 1850 but returned
and settled in Doniphan county in
1854
CHANGE IN STENoGRAPHERs.- Miss
Francis, of Colony, daughter of Repre-
sentative John Francis, will take po-
sition as stenographer in the state his
torical society on October 1. She will
succeed Miss Mile Martin, daughter
of Secretary G. w. Martin. Miss Mar
tin will be married to Mr.. N p. Burge,
| chief clerk of the state labor depart
ment, in October. John Francis is
president of the historical society.
GOOD WHEAT YIELD.-A Rush county
| farmer got 40 bushels to the acre from
seventy acres of rented land.