Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-20

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found that a number of persons had re-
ceived very slight wounds, such as
small scratches where bullets just
touched them. There was quite
number of these.
/ Maternal TOO HIGB.-The Topeka
Masons have abandoned the PROPOSE
ton of building temple at the corner
of Eighth and Quincy streets. The
price of material is high and tits found
! it would cost good deal over the s7o,-
| 600 estimate The Scottish Rite Ma
sons have bought the building which
they occupy at present and are recon
structing the interior.
| KANSAS GIRL, OF CouBsE.
Georgia Cubine, Kansas gir;, has
broken the swimming record for women
on the Pacific coast. At Santa Catalina
island she swan mile in the Pacific
in thirty minutes. That lowered the
record for women by eight minutes.
Miss Cubine lives at Coffeyville.
/ A PAvI.G RUsT.-The Topeka paw
ing trust has about driven to the wall
the. independent paving concerns.
Ramsey & Ramsey are the leading in
dependent contractors and recently
they secured contracts to pave several
Topeka streets Now they find thai
they cannot buy paving brick.
TEXAS FEvER.-The disease has de-
veloped at Carbonate. About the
time OF the Kaw river flood a long
trainload of Texas cattle was side
tracked and remained for several hours
in Carbonate, and it is the general
opinion there that the ticks were left
by that train.
HARD LUCK SToRY.-J. B. Case, of
Abilene has l, 200 acres of land in the
valley. The flood destroyed 400 acres
of corn. 400 of wheat, 300 of alfalfa,
of alfalfa and some other crops. One
! so-acre piece of corn escaped the flood
but big hailstorm came along and
wiped it out.
A CLOSE CALL.-Lce Murphy, of
Shawnee, o. T., and four others were
sleeping In barn one and half miles
south of Hunnewell. lightning struck
the barn and burned it down. 1t set
fire to pile of straw seven or eight
feet from where they were sleeping.
TESTING ENGINEs.-One of the Rock
| Island ''battleship" engines was sent
ont of Herington drawing 100 loaded
freight ears. Sixteen of the cars were
set out between that place and Wichita
there being still 81 ears in the train
at the time OF its arrival in Wichita.
OLD SETTLERS PIcNIc.-Hon. Frank
Nelson, former state superintendent,
addressed the crowd at the 32nd an
nual picnic of the Harvey county Old
Settlers association in Riverside park,
Halstead. Five thousand people were
in attendance.
TO JUICE HoRsEs.-S. K. Douglas,
of Kansas City, has been selected to
Judge the horses at the Wichita fair by
the Southern Kansas Fair and Carni-
val association. The cash premiums
announced amount to nearly s12, 900.
BILL WAS CUT DowN-The Rock Is
land sent in bill of S574.5 SO for hand
ling the militia sent to Cheyenne coun-
ty. Adj. Gen. Kelsey cut it down 20
s195.56, or one cent mile, which the
road declined 20 receive.
KILLED BY BASE BALL.-William
Higgins, 20 years old, was killed i'll a
base ball game at Fontana. While
running between bases he was struck
on the temple by ball.
NATIVE KANsANs' DAY.-September
90. 1904, has been set aside by the St.
Louis fair management as Native Kan
sans day.
DEPENDS ON WoMEN.-D Director OF
Horticulture Schell will depend upon
the women of the state to fix him up
an exhibit of jelly for the Kansas de.
) partment at the worlds fair. Mrs.
Dassler, of Leavenworth, has agreed
to get the women interested.
FIREkEN's ToURNAMENr.-It is to be
, held this year at Salina on Septemb Der
! to 10. Salina bid $500 for the tourna
; ment, Beloit 700, Junction City, GOO
Clay Ccuter and Ottawa, 500 each. In
addition Salina offers a championship
banner
TEAMS AND MEN BUsY.-Because o.
, the big wheat crop and the genera
rush of farm work it has been impos
sible to secure men to work on the new
: building at the western branch of tht
) state normal at Hays City. The teams
: and the men needed for the work arc
: all busy.
LIVED THERE 4s YEAEs.-Captain w
: w. Phillips, a pioneer of Topeka, ii
only about ten days He came to Kan
sas in 1856 and has resided since tina
time in and around Topeka.
To THE STUCCo BEns-The Santa FL
2 has resumed work, interrupted by tht
| May floods, of building branch t.
Longford, to reach the stucco beds
The Union Pacific is expected to put Z;
branch across North Dickinson county
: to the beds either from Chapman OIL
Junction City.
SALT WELLS WEAKEN.-Those a
Solomon have 19 per cent less salt thar
: before the food. The salt seems Il
t have been distributed by the flood a!
many wells in Solomon have become
salty.
= PRoDUCr OF ONE AcRE.-NIrs. Tim
5 norman, near Ottawa, has one acre o
' ground which is set in apple trees
, BESIDES apples she has sold this yea
S163 worth of fresh straw berries, 81
. | ..a,-tla Of iala oil i,ar.,-ias o-s a