Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-13
KANSAS COMMENT.
KANSAS

tional and United Brethren churcnes
of Salina have united.
LOST VAL1sE.-Mrs. ". L. Davis,
was robbed of $3.50 in gold and small
er amount of silver at the depot in
Cherry vale.
Is A PREAcHER.-The negro tailor
who killed a man at Larned is a preach
err. The coroners' jury gave verdict
of self defense.
OF HYDRoPHoBIA.-Fran Kinna-
man, a 16-year old boy OF Coffeyville,
died of hydrophobia, caused by the bite
of dog inflicted two months ago.
Buy lie Roy BoNDs.-The state
school fund commissioners have pur-
chased s39, 900 in bonds of lie Roy city
and lie Roy township, in Coffey county.
MISSOURI PACIFIC PAYs.-That road
has compromised good portion of the
claims for damages resulting from the
crossing accident with the Santa Fe
near Hutchinson.
SIX MoRE-That number of railway
have been instructed to make that city
their headquarters. Two of the six
are new and additional appointees.
GERMAN AND LATIN Sumner
county high school trustees have en-
ployed George NJ. Sherrard, of Atchi-
son, to teach the German and Latin
classes in the school the coming term.
BuRLINGAME WILL BoEE.-A COM
pany of local capitalists has been or
ganized to bore for gas and OIL 1t has
raised enough money already to bore
two wells and the machinery is now on
the road.
To WEAR SUNFLowERs.- TO conform
to the law enacted last winter desig-
mating the sunflower as the official
Kansas flower, Adjutan: General KEEL
sey has commanded the officers of the
national guard to wear the sunflower
device on the collars of their full dress
uniforms.
WILL LAY HIM UP.-Ed Key, Hho
has been in the railroad business for
fifteen years and never received an in
jury, fell from street ear in Wichita
while going to work and suffered
severe sprain of the tendon of his left
wrist that will put him off duty for at
least two months. He is employed by
the Missouri Pacific.
SECTION LINE RoADs.-The legislature
enacted a law declaring all the section
lines in Phillips and several other
counties in the northwestern part of
the state to be public highways and
providing that the roads should be 60
feet wide. Many of the roads are only
forty feet wide, and the attorney gen.
eral was asked about it. He holds
that the law applies only to roads not
yet established.
New GRADES FOR GRAIN.-The state
grain inspection commission have
changed the rules for grading No. 1
hard wheat shall be required to weigh
90 pounds to the bushel instead of 61
Badly stack burned wheat is to be
added to the rejected class. No 1 red
wheat, weight same as No. 1 hard, re-
lection same as No. l hard wheat. A
new grade of corn is to be established,
with classification between No. 4 and
mo grade" The grading of kafir corn
has been changed from No. l, ., and
4, mixed, to No. 1, 2, and 4, white,
and No. 1, 2, 3 and A, red. A weight
test has been established for oats. No.
1 oats shall be required to test 30
pounds to the bushel and No. shall
be required to test IS pounds to the
bushel.
CONCRETE BRIDGES. -Discouraged by
the frequency with. which the county
bridges are washed out by the high
waters the Dickinson county commits
sioners are planning to experiment
with concrete arch bridges. They will
build the first one in Solomon City.
TUE BIGGEST HAUL--The officers of
Reno county made a pulling of tn
joints. The county attorney had elev-
en- deputy sheriffs, one at each Hutch
inson joint They got Is persons and
hauled away five dray loads of beer,
whisky and wine.
CHANGE IN SCHOOL CENsus.-It for
merly included all who would reach
i've years during the coming school
and also those who had been twenty
one during tine year past. The result
was that the numbers were large. The
new law requires the exact birth date
and cuts out all not of the required age
STOLE HoRSEsHoEs.-A member of
the Leavenworth city council, who has
blacksmith shop, is under arrest
charged with stealing four kegs of
horseshoes from the government store
house at Fort Leavenworth.
GIVEN WITH DINNER Peck, an
Atchison county farmer, recently in
vited his six children to take dinner
with him. When dinner was over and
the married ones were preparing to go
home he handed each check for So, 900
the gift amounting to $4,000 in, all.
Ike Peck owns 600 acres of land near
Halls Station. His children are in
dustrious and deserving.
ELEVATOR Observation-Disclosures ele-
vator and 5000 bushels of wheat were
consumed by fire at Cleveland, King
man county.
GATHERING TIES FROM FLooD.-The
sheriff of Riley county and railroad
officials have been locating railroad
ties and other material that drifted
from the Blue Valley road during the
recent flood. In driving through the
woods along the Blue river hundreds
of railroad ties were found.
For A REsIDENCE.-The Methodists