Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-15

who come west to find cheap lands stay
| here. Kansas has been getting the
most desirable class of homescel<ers
tlEs year. They come mostly from
Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota
and Missouri. Some como from In
diana, Ohio and Michigan and a few
from Arkansas. Ninety per cent of
the homcscelSers who buy land are
young people.
HAULING WHEAT Ell MOONLIGHT
The new elevator at Hoxic is prepared
to handle 90 600 bvshels of grain daily.
Since wheat began TO move it has
been receiving from 5000 to 1000 BUSH
els daily, some of it testing as high as.
62 pounds to the bushel. During the
moonlight nights wheat has been ar
irving, the road lending to the elevator
presenting a lively sight filed with
farmers wagons.
GAS WELL. BROKE LoosE.-The Tim
mons gas well, one mile from Fredoni;t
broke loose, badly wreclling the der
rick and demolihhing much other drill
ing property. The report was heard
for miles around. The well is 1,O4O
feet deep and had been successfully
capped. Much two-inch tubing was
! blown out, some of which was found
200 yards away kinlsed up like
| straws
The CIrY's SuPPoRr-The police
| court receipts in Leavenworth last
month amounted to nearly $1,000, the
largest collection in the history of the
city. With the exception of II few
hundred dollars the amount was col
lected from gambling houses, policy
shops, saloons and houses of an i'm
moral nature. The two policy shops
alone pay 81, 800 month into the city
treasury.
IGNoHE STATUTES. has cities
which systematically ignore such state
laws as arc considered, locally, as dis
advantageous to business. The. latest
law which receives no attention in
some of these cities is the truancy law
which forbids the employing of boys
under Is years of age during the terms
of school.
| QUARANTINE RAIsED.-Thc livestock
sanitary commission has issued an
order raising the quarantine after
November l in the southern town.
ships of Cowlcy, Chautauqua, La6ettc,
Montgomery and Cherokee counties.
CAMP SANGER.-In honor of the as
sistant secretary of war, 'Camp Will
liam Carey Sanger" is the name official
ly adopted for the maneuver camp at
Fort Riley this fall. Scamp Root"
was its name year ago.
UNIvEnsAIIsr CONVENTIONS. - The
thirty-fourth annual convention of the
| Kansas Univcrsalist churches and the
thirteenth annual ton of the
Young Peoples Christian Union have
been held at Junction City.
Will. USE ELECTRIC MoToRs.-Thc
| Topeka board of education has decided
to use electric motors in the new school
W oiAhC bhC NCh 1duo
and hot blast heating systems instead
of gasoline engines.
KILLED IN OMAHA.-A. Z. Ratliff
was killed by the blowing down of a
brick wall at Omaha during storm
The Omaha men were injured at the
same time.
A n
terian church of Wichita is the fifth in
the number of members of the churches
of that denomination in the United
States.
SCARLET FEvEE.--One Mcpherson
school has been closed on account of
scarlet fever Several cases in the cast
part of the town have been reported
ARKANSAS VALLEY TELEPuoNE.-The
Bell telephone system is completed
and in operation between Hutchinson
and Great Bend.
HIGHWAYS NEGI ECTED.-The legis-
lature last winter passed law giving
farmers the right 20 pay their road tax
i'll cash. Most of them are paying in
cash. The road overseers are having
trouble finding men to work the roads.
Every body is employed i'll other pur-
suits and as result country roads in
many sections are in a wretchcd con-
dition.
DEFAULTED INTEREST. due
the state school fund from counties,
townships and school districts of tho
state amounts to S217, 1928.
WANT ROADS TO CONNECT. The
state board of railroad commissioners
visited Anthony this week. 1t seems
that each road believes its interests
will be better served by refusing to in
tcrchange business there. Under the
new law the board can compel roads tc
build connections and interchange
, business.
DIED IN Is MINUTES. "A Pratt mar
turned his cattle into n llaffir corr
patch and in fifteen minutes seven OF
them were down, one dead. He is at q
loss to explain their sudden sickness
SCARLET FEvEI.-Dr. Charles Lowry
secretary of the state board of health
received word of the outbreak OF :
{ scarlet fever epidemic at Oswego, La
bette county. Eight cases of the dis
case have developed and all of then
have been quarantined.
REWARD For TRAIN ROBBERS. Gov
crnor Bailey has offered Il reward O
[ $50 for the arrest and conviction O.
, the persons who attempted to wreck i;
Missouri Pacific train on the bridge
over Elk river in Montgomery county
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