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

Coffeyville will soon be the only roof
thing factory vest of ST. Louis.
HEAVY MAILs.-The Frisco, besides
the regular mails, brought to Wichita
baggage car loaded cram full of
mail
ArcHIsoN PRoMPr.-A carload OF
provisions was among the early receipts
for the relief of North Topeka suf-
ferers.
SIX IscmEs OF MUD.-The North To-
pella flood left i. On top of the lunch
counter in the Union Pacific station in
North Topeka
Ell DORADO $500. the citizens of Ell
Dorado made their first contribution
for the Topeka flood sufferers by wir-
ing $500 TO Governor Bailey.
Boxes or CLOTHES Winfield sent to
Topeka % dry goods boxes filled with
clothing and other articles In two
days time Winfield raised $1,000 in
cash for the food districts.
Nor THE FRsT.-Govcrnor Bailey is
not the first governor OF Kansas to be
married while in office. ). j. Craw-
ford married soon after his reelection
for second term in November, 1866.
GILBERT is MAYoR.--The Kansas SUI
preme court decided the mayoralty
contest in favor of f. q. Gilbert and
issued writ of custer against W. II.
Craddocll, who claimed reelection to
that position.
CLEVELAND. O.. SENDS S1.000.-The
Topeka relief committee of the Clcve-
land Chamber of Commerce wired
Treasurer Bonebralse at Topeka to
draw for 81, 900 as starter on the fund
which will be raised in that city.
HOLIDAY OF WoRK.-Mayor Bergupd-
thai issued proclamation asking all
business to be suspended on June
and that every ablebodied man should
go to the north side with hoes and
shovels to help clear residences of mud.
WICHITA MAsoNs LIBERAL.-Whilc
in session Wichita Consistory No. ?
voted to contribute $500 to the fund to
be used in alternating the suffering and
need of those whose homes and property
were destroyed in the Kaw valley flood.
This money will be sent to Gov. Bailey
to be used where he thinks best.
No WATER SUPPLY.-Thc only water
supply thar the city of Topeka has is
furnished by the Santa Fe railway
company, which connected its pumps
with the mains in the eastern part of
the city, and laid main across the
Mclan bridge to North Topeka. This
work was done without the asking and
without word of bargaining. The
water company is practically doing
nothing.
A SAMPLE HOUSE. -Congressman
Curtis found nearly everything on his
lower floor total wreck. His library
will be total loss and as this WAS
loss will he considerable. The mud
was about two feet deep in his house
and Embedded in this we're dishes, sill
verware and bric-abrac. What is true
of this one residence is true of nearly
all the others.
Gov. BAILEY MARRIED.-W. J. Bal
ley, governor of Kansas, and Mrs.
Weedc, for five years the widow of a
Rock Island conductor, were married
in the First Congregational church of
Kansas City on June o. The couple
were to have gone east on a wedding
trip but the governor could not leave
the state at present on account of his
duties connected with the floods and
other matters of Importance.
Four CENTENARIANs-Am the
people rescued from the North Topeka
food were Sarah Bean who had passed
her 1O2nd birthday and her husband, a
very old man: David Harris, who says
that he can prove that he is Ill years
old, and his wife, Sylvia Harris, who
says that she has just turned the CEN
fury mark.
GOT NO NEws.-On account of the
foods in the Solomon and Republican
rivers Beloit did not hear the result of
the election in the Seventh congress
sional district until June 5.
To SHOVEL MUD-The Topeka COM
mercial club vas ordered to appear in
front of the club headquarters equipped
with boots ane shovels, to march to
North Topeka to spend the day in
cleaning up John e. Frost to head the
procession. Amateur photographers
were warned that they would be shot
on the spot.
Two CARLOADS FROM TROY.-Mayor
Graves of Troy and the county treas
urer brought two carloads of eatablcs
and clothing for the stricken people of
North Topeka.
MAIL BY HANDCARs.-The assistant
postmaster at Abilene and three letter
carriers went to Salina and got two
hand car loads of delayed mail for Alb
ilene AID Junction City. These towns
are without mail and Salinas mail is
still coming from the west.
Down THE KAw IN A BoAT.-B. f..
Crisswell, Il state agent for an insur-
ance company, did not wait for trains
to run, but made the trip from Man
haitian to Topeka in small boat. The
trip was made in about "a hours with
part of a night spent at st. Marys.
MORE WHEAT HEADs.-An old grain
grower of Kingman expects wheat to
turn out better than the people think
it will The weather has caused the
plant to sucker and in place of the or
binary two heads will have several;
not SO many nor so large as when the
plant stools in the ordinary way, but
enough to materially increase the crop.