Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-06-04

rivers ut Manhattan became alarming.
About and below Manhattan .here is
large area of low farm land and the
greater portion was submerged, deyas-
| tating hundreds of acres of growing
crops. A large number OF dead hogs
and other dead animals hoated down
the rivers. Eight feetof water covered
the Blue Valley railroad for several
miles north OF Manhattan, and just
east of town the main line of the Union
Pacific was under several feet of water
for distance of about six miles.
HIS LAST RuN.-'sDad" White, con-
ductor on the Ellinwood branch of the
Santa Fe, asked and received permits
sion to make the trip from Ellinwood
to Florence and return for the purpose
! of completing so years of service in the
railroad business. A. II. White is IS
years of age, and six months ago was
obliged by failing health to lay of
from his run. He is mentally as com
petent as he was fifty years ago. Su
perintcndent Fox and Trainmaster Mo-
Clure accompanied the old conductor
on his last run.
Col. HARRISON RErEATs.-Colonel Il.
w. Harrison, of Topeka, has made
deed to Washburn college of an i'm
proved farm of 160 acres in Central
Kansas, valued at $1,000. for the pur-
pose of aiding in establishing Il theo-
logical department and making Wash
burn veritable university. Last year
he dona ted his law library of 1000 vol
umes, valued at $1,000, to Washburn
college for the purpose of aiding in es-
tablishing a law department.
Co-oPERATIvE SBIPPINe.-The Kan
sas Cooperative Shipping association
was organized by farmers from Ncbras-
lsa, Kansas and Oklahoma. The Off
GERS of the new company are: James
Butler, Topeka, president; J. C. Going,
Topeka, vice president; FL. H. Shull,
secretary and treasurer; S. H. Allen,
Oskaloosa, attorney.
PROMPT RELIEF.-At Eureka the
subscription fund for the relief of the
sufferers soon reached nearly 81, 800.
The Odd Fellows, Masons, Woodmen
and Knights of Pythias have each suo-
scribed 500. Fire Chief Evans called
a special meeting of the Eureka Volun-
teer Fire department. which subscribed
5000.
MAPLE HILL HAS FAcToRY.-A
manufacturing company there has in
corporated capitalized at Sc, 900 and
proposes to build metal water tanks
and mail boxes
He Is s6.-Uncle Joe Cheney has the
finest and largest garden in Lincoln
and has done all the work in it him
self. He is Sc years old.
THIRTY YEARS OF HEALTM-After
such an experience DR.. Muir, of Har-
per, did not know what TO make
of two days illness.
THEY Do SAY!-That the richest man
in Wellington took home a crate of
Strawberries from Wichita in order to
save few pennies.
Snow SLIDES MORE FATAI.-There
are more lives lost in Colorado from
snow slides than there are lost in Kan
| sas by tornadoes.
RAILROAD IMPROVEMENTS is
to have Il new Union Pacific freight
warehouse, railroad yards and round
house.
GAINED III SIX YEARS. less than
300, 900 farmers of Kansas are worth
5000, 900, 600 more than they were in
| 1897.
RELAXING TRACKs.-The Santa Fe
is putting down new s5-pound steel
rails between Newton and Hutchinson.
New BANK AT LINcoLN.-The Farm
ers' National bank has opened there
with a capital of SIS, 900.
WHEAT FLAT -Cowley county farm
ers report that wheat is down and much
| listed corn is washed out.
LIGHTNING STRUCK r. r. SHOPS
During sharp thunder storm at To-
pella lightning struck the flag pole on
the south end of the Santa Fe carpenter
shop, splintering the pole and knock
ing it down. All the fuses on electri-
cal appliances in the building were
burned out, and Robt Wells, clerk
| in the Office near the base of the pole,
was knocked down but not injured.
Ell DORADO WIND.-A terrific wind
4
and rainstorm struck that town. 1t
came from the southwest, unroofing
several houses and barns.
WHISKY Dip IT.--Henry Mullen got
drunk and stole team of mules.
Judge Foust, of lola, gave him year
in the pen. In Wichita Mullen has a
wife and three little boys who will
have to shift the best they can during
the year Mullen is in Jail.
THEIR WIVES DIP IT-It is said to
be d fact that the two cleanest, neatest
stations in Kansas on the Santa Fe are
those at Stafford and Lyndon. The
wives of the agents are said to be to-
tally responsible for the good condi-
ton of both stations.
WALNUT RIVER GETS HIeH.-Three
and one-iialf inches of water fell all in
the night at Winfield. 1t was the
heaviest rain that has fallen for the
length of time in twenty-f four years.
The Walnut river raised rapidly and
the small streams of the county over
flowed.
RELIEF FUSDs.-Relief for the tor
nado sufferers in Dickinson county has
reached several hundred dollars and is
increasing rapidly. Fifteen families
are without homes, implements or