Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-09-24
KANSAS COMMENT.

week ut Salina, Burlington and Win
field.
DEXTER Is THIRD is ranked
third in personal property valuation in
cowley county.
SHEEP AND Does.-According to the
assessors returns there are 190,553
sheep in Kansas, and 12o,955 dogs.
D1ruruEErA IN scnooLs.-The public
schools of Baldwin, Kansas, are closed
on account of the prevalence of diph-
liberia.
Bon. WATER FOR ScnooI.s.-Super-
intendent Davidson of the Topeka
schools has arranged to supply the
schools with boiled water.
New DIVISION SUPERINTENDENT. &C.
w. Strain has been appointed division
superintcndent of the Frisco at Wichita
to succeed Il. T. Dunn, resigned.
KANSAS CoAL.-The coal mines Of the
state gave work during the past year
to 400 miners. The total production
for the year was $3.50, 433 tons OF coal.
A PROPER AcT.-A woman horse
whipped young man at Arkansas
CITY. He had hit her with one of those
little rubber balls that always come
back
TAX VALUATION. The total tax val
uation for Cowley county has been re-
turned at Sc, 1oO,717. This is s193.o2 for
every man, woman and child in the
county.
UIAwATuA FAIR-The Brown coun-
ty fair had one day of good weather.
Several thousand people were on the
grounds on that day. It.was the 37th
consecutive annual fair.
To BoRE FORTY WELLS. Ohio parties
have concluded deal at Independence
for a lease of 1000 acres under con-
tract to bore not less than 40 wells.
The land is in two tracts not adjoin-
ing.
HE COUNTED TIE EARs.-Walter
Darlington, of Concordia, the largest
cattle feeder in Northwest Kansas, has
n field OF corn in which he coun ted the
ears on one acre and estimates that the
field will average 100 bushels an acre.
STORM NEAR DERBY.-Mrs. Ferrel
and her two-year-old child met death
In wind storm which passed just
north of Derby. The Terrell family
had taken refuge in a school house
northeast of Derby. Early in the even
ing the storm arose, passing directly
over the school house, demolishing it
completely and killing both the woman
and her child, besides injuring slightly
her husband and a boy.
PLowING BY STEAM.-A steam plow
has been ut work on the Amos johnson
place between Great Bend and Elm
wood. A disc gang plow throwing i've
12-inch burrows is attached TO a trac-
tiou engine The worl, is very salts
factory. Flowing can be done in this
way when it is entirely too dry to plow
with teams. The engine can be run
from daylight to dark and in the
ighborhood of fifteen acres turned
over day.
COLLECTING SEED ACCOUNTS.
ant Attorney General Pestana mas re-
turned from trip through the South
western counties, where he went to
collect moneys due from the counties
to the state on seed grain account.
He got $3.50 from Greeley county and
SG7O from Meade. Greeley county
owes 81, 500 all told, but it has agreed
to pay up in annual installments.
Meade paid it's account in full. Pratt,
Stafford and Pawnec agreed to pay
theirs next month.
WOULD Nor FEED HIL-A negro
employee of Chanutc hotel stopped at
his father. He tried TO get something
to eat at every eating house he could
could find, but was refused service and
had to leave hungry although he Of
fered double prices. This is the Negroes
story.
CAUSED BY RURAL. Routes. The
rural route service has wiped out So
Kansas towns or pos oflces, caused
twenty new towns to be named and
nine to change their names.
ARTEs1AN SALT WATER.-The drill
ers who are at work putting down a
gas well at Bison struck an artesian
flow of salt water at depth of 495
feet. The water is clear as crystal and
very briny. They continued drilling
and found 300 feet of the sand produc-
ing salt water. Tho flow is very
strong.
No UNDRnLED RECRUITS. Adjutant
General Kelsey advises captains OF
militia companies to avoid taking raw
recruits into the maneuvers at Fort
Riley.
PUBLISHES DEUNKARDs. = Police
Judge Dryden, of Chanute, believes
that publicity will prove an effective
cure for the liquor habit Whenever
a person is before him twice for drunk
enness he will publish the fact in the
newspapers and on posters and will
warn the druggists not to sell the
drunlSard any more liquor.
A WEDDING OUT.-Insurance commits.
sioner Luling is refusing permission to
do business in Kansas such insurance
solicitors who do not have good rec
ord as straightforward business men.
CATTLEMEN MEET.-Cattlemen from
all over southern Kansas will meet in
Wichita on September 80 to form a
permanent organization for the pur-
pose of fighting freight rates and COM
polling the railroads TO give them bet
ter service in the shipment of cattle.
Many prominent cattle raisers are
working actively for the new organiza-