Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-10
CURRENT KANSAS FACTS.
BRIEF MENTION OF INTEREST.
ING EVENTS OF THE WEEK,
KANSAS COMMENT.

burned and twelve horses were burned
| to death.
GOOD Fon WnEAr.-The snowfall
last week, wherever there was much
of tits said to have been beneficial to
growing wheat
LANE COUNTY WHEAT.-Wheat will
average % bushels to the acre in Lane
county. The total yield for the year
is 1,l6l, 16o bushels.
FIRE AT CoLuMBUs.-hn implement
warehouse in the second story of which
were the Odd Fellows and Masonic
halls, is destroyed by fire.
AT WORK AT so.-Mr. Heap, man
over 80 years old, is foreman of the
gang putting in q filter at the Rock
Island station at Whitewater.
| PACKERS ARE COMPELLED. The local
butchers of Topeka have forced the
| packers to reduce the price of meat to
them 10y killing animals themselves.
FoID CoUNrY's PRIzEs.-At the OK
hibit of farm products from Kansas in
Chicago, Ford county won twelve out
of the seventeen prizes awarded by the
committee.
BRIDGE CoMPI ETED.-The new bridge
across the Chicasllia river at Drury is
completed This bridge was built by
the county and farmers near Drury.
The county pays $500. while the farm
crs will pay over $500.
POPCORN CRoP.-It is estimated that
between so and 60 carloads of popcorn
will be shipped from Wichita this sea-
son. Mr.. Wilson, WHO lives in 4 suburb
of that city, raised IT acres of popcorn,
which has yielded about ton to the
acre.
TAUGHT rs YEARs.-Mrs E. NJ. Col
Inns is now teaching her twenty-five
term in the public schools of Seneca.
In her honor a public meeting was
held in the court house and she was
made the recipient of Il memento suit
able to the occasion.
STEAL MUCH WnEAT.-Wheat thieves
are working industriousiy about Ar
kansas City. II. F. Probst operates a
| line of elevators on the Kansas South
western railroad and lately several of
his storage bins have been broken
open. The thieves have made away
with wheat by the wagon load.
SEVEN You've RoBBERs.-Scvcn
young men of Ncodesha are charged
with being members of n gang of
| freight car robbers, and one OF them,
Robert jackson, is under arrest. The
gang is charged with robbing Frisco
merchandise cars along the line from
Columbus to Ncodesha for the past
nine months. Occasionally they would
make trips to Weir City. Cherokee and
Pittsburg, where cars have been robbed.
Their stealings are said to be extensive
and their work very smoothly done.
OUTSTANDING WAREANTs.-Chero
county has about $50, 900 in outstand-
ing warrants and 10 funds with which
to pay them. County Attorney Will
liams is trying to devise u scheme to
| liquidatc them. His idea is to have
them taken to the county treasurer
and stamped mot paid for want of
funds" and then let the people at the
next general election vote upon !, prop
osition to issue bonds to take them mp.
He has advised with the attorney gen
eral over the feasibility of the
| scheme.
PARSONS DEPOT ROBBED. The Frisco
| depot in Parsons was broken into and
| the safe blown open with nitroglycer
| inc. The robbers secured 5000 in
drafts, 500 in money and $50 worth of
jewelry. The job was evidently the
work of experts. There is no clue.
KILLED BY TREE.-Alfrcd Treadway,
1O-year-old boy of Lyon county, had
his neck broken by a falling tree. He
was i'll the timber alone and cut off Il
limb which was supporting tree that
had been cut down. His body was not
found for several hours.
SANTA FE Loss Ivy FIRE.-Fire, sup
posed to have been caused by sparks
from an engine, destroyed the Santa
Fe carpenter shop in Wellington, 10
gethcr with large amount OF paints,
oils, lumber and other supplies stored
in adjoining buildings. Officials of the
company estimate the loss at 81, 600.
Mo. PAC. EXTENSION is reported
on good authority that the manage
ment of the Missouri Pacific railroad
has finally decided to extend the road
from Mcpherson to Marquette, dis
tancc of sixteen miles.
CRIME IN SMITH CoUNTY.-Smith
county has been overrun with crime
during the past few months Two or
three mysterious murders have been
committed, bank has been robbed,
several business houses burglarized,
numerous houses robbed and half
dozen or more people held up by high
waymcn.
THINK IT Is GoLD.-Gold has been
discovered on the farm of C. L. Beckett,
near Deerfeld. 1t assays SIC ton
from surface and at SO at lower level
Experts believe it will run higher.
Is DRILLING Now.-The Standard
Oil Company is drilling in Ellsworth
county, about three miles north OF
Ellsworth, and about half mile from
where there is remarkable oil found
in n well about twenty feet deep. The
company is taking oil leases in differ
ent parts of the county.
FRAUDULENT PAPER Snow,
charged with paying for large ship
ment of horses from Geary county
with fraudulent paper, was arrested in
New York. The sheriff has gone to