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

along the Southern Kansas division of
the Santa Fe, and the branch south
west of Independence is also being ex-
tended, which indicates that this is to
be made the through route TO the Gulf
coast The Havana cutoff now OK
tends to Owassa, 1. T., but is being
built on to Tulsa and will eventually
be extended to Guthrie and connect
with the Santa Fc south from Winfield.
This will give the Santa Ec the short
est line from Kansas City to the
Gulf
SHORTAGE OF Coal Some of the
state institutions are short of coal,
particularly the state Soldiers home
at Dodge City and tile Soldiers Orphans
home at Atchisou. The state institu-
tions are supposed to be furnished with
coal from the penitcD ;iary mines, ship
ments to be largely made in the sum-
mer when cars can be most easily Sc
cured. Cars cannot be had now for all
the state coal shipments. The state
auditor is trying to locate the blame.
USES MISUNDERSTANDING the
methods being tried by Kansas wheat
growers to prevent loss oy Hessian
flies is plan brought to the state by
II. H. Yoder. of Mcpherson county.
Mr.. Yo6er says the farmers in Indiana
have found that Hcssian flies will not
injure wheat which has the stencil of
turpentine about it. He is using about
n gallon of turpentine to every acre of
wheat. He mikes the turpentine with
the grain in his drill.
BUYS ANOTHER RANCH. of the
largest real estate deals ever consum-
mated i'll north central Kansas is the
purchase of the stock ranch belonging
to Frank X. Hamilton, of Ellis, by l..
V. Mink, of Lincoln, i'll which several
thousand acres of land situated in the
counties of Ellis and Rocks were in
the deal. Mr.. Mink will stock his
ranch and operate it in connection
with his Eagle Creek ranch in Osborne
county.
CONVICTED TWICE. Nelson,
who has twice been convicted of muir
dering Albert Norris at Coffeyville,
and who was taken to the state peni-
Tertiary, is back in the county Jail
again. When Sheriff Pruitt reached
Lansing with his prisoner he was
called up by telephone and advised
tnat the supreme court had granted a
say of execution until it could pass
upon the application of Nelson for Il
new trial.
An INSURANCE DIVIDE. clerk of
the board of education in Kansas City,
Kan, has confessed at the meeting of
the board that he received part of
the premiums paid fire insurance COM
panies for insuring various school
buildings of that city. The clerk as
serted that the money was given to
him without his solicitation, and that
he felt that he had perfect right to
accept it.
ONE IN FIFTEEN INSURED. Only one
person in every fifteen in Kansas car
ries life insurance. The total number
of policy holders in the state is s2,7O9.
They carry IA total insurance of $780,
900, 600. 1t costs them So, 500, 900 an
nually in premiums. The companies
only had losses aggregating 1886, 900
last year. or about one third of the
amount they received in premiums.
Tun CORR CHop.-Governor Bailey,
who is Il raiser of big crops of corn
himself and who has been posting up
during his visits to many sections of
the state, puts the crop of the state
this year at 100000, 900 bushels, or 10
per cent of the record crop of 1899,
which was 373, 900, 900 bushels. IT,.
HAVE TO RAISE WAeEs.-Superin.
tendent Dayhoff says: "While the
wages paid to teachers in Kansas are
low, the standard OF Kansas teachers
is high. If Kansas wants to keep
abreast of the times it will have to
raise the wages of its teachers"
WIND AND HAlI.-Such storm
| DdSSCu OfCl nan olOnCo tto
large rs hen eggs fell in places killing
sheep and fowls in the eastern part of
the county and severely injuring sew
eral parties working in the hay fields.
Small buildings, windmills and hay
stacks were scattered promiscuously
and for a short time the storm was II
veritable tornado.
DAVID NATION DEAD.-Hc was an
old soldier, and before becoming too
old was practicing Law at Medicine
Lodge. He died of stomach trouble.
ROLLER MILLS REsUME.-Aftcr an
idlen ess of four years, the Ness City
roller mills will resume operations.
Ness county raised 2,OOO,OO bushels OF
wheat this year. The citizens have or
ganized a stock company and the mill
will be running in three weeks. The
Santa Fe railroad was unable to handle
the enormous crop, which resulted in
the above move.
S. w. KANSAS CoLLEGE.-The en-
rollment in the Southwest Kansas col
lege at Winfield has reached the 900
mark. This exceeds any previous year.
OREoN kent DEAD.-Orson Kent
died at his home in Burlington, Octo-
Der 8, aged 65 years. Mr.. Kent was
one of the most prominent men in that
part of the state. He came there in
1857, and has been in the real estate
business in partnership with J. NJ.
Lane thirty-fve years, making this
probably the oldest partnership in the
state. He was buried October 6.
PREMIUMS PAm.-Thc premiums won
at the Wichita fair, where there were
no contests, were paid as fast as