Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-11-19
KANSAS COMMENT.
KANSAS

commission has been notified that the
Kansas building wir1 be completed and
ready to turn over by November 20
Cosr $40. ooo. = The Kansas building
at tire ST. Louis exposition is practically
completed and will be turned over to
the Kansas commission Oh Nov. 20. 1t
has been erected at a cost ofabout $50,
600
SnAwxEEe 1OII--There is, y. good
deal of excitement regarding the oil
well of the Northern Shawnee Dcvcl-
opmcnt company near Shorey and it is
thought that tie driiiers at the well
may strike a vein of gas.
DIED AT KINGMAS -Franl, Russell,
former professor of anthropology at
Harvard university, died there. He
was connected with tie bureau of eth
nology and made many investigations
among the Indian tribes OF Arizona.
TAUGHT % YEARS. Miss Leona Sui
Ivan, of White Cloud, probably holds
the record in Kansas for continuous
service in one school room. SIC has
taught twenty-threc years in the pab-
lie school there and has just resigned.
A KANSAS MAS.--In the recent cleo
ton of officers of the first year class,
department of medicine, Columbian
University, of Washington D. c., Paul
Jones Smith, of Kansas, was selected
as chairman of the executive commit
tee. The class numbers eighty this
year.
No SUCH CoMPANY.-Topeisa attor-
ncys are receiving letters from people
who have invested i'll the ''Surcty Loan
& Trust Co., of Topeka, but the at
torncys can find 10 such company in
that city. The only clue TO its address
is the direction to wonld be investors
to mail letters to a certain box in the
Topeka postcffice.
OF R. rs KANsAs DvIsIoN.-E. r.
Sutherland, formerly trainmas:cr for
the Rock Island with headquarters in
Topeka, las been appointed assistant
supcrin tendent of the Kansas division
of the RocIe Island, succeeding l. H..
McEwen, who resigned on November l.
For the past year he has been with the
Cincinnati, Richmond & Muncie rail-
way.
IN COLD SToRAeE.-Tnere are in cold
storage in Wichita about 1000 barrels
and the men who own them are rca-
sonably certain to get fancy prices for
them. These apples are mainly JON
nthans, Grimes Golden, Ben Davis,
Missouri Pippin and Winesap varieties,
all of them hand picked and we'll Sc
lccted.
GLASS FACTORY TREBIED.-The COT
foyville Bottle and Glass factory de-
cided to increase the size of the plant
from twelve blowers to thirty-six blow
crs. This will bring seventy-tive more
men TO the city and will increase the
capacity of the plant from 80 gross of
prescription bottles u day to 300 gross,
or carload, day. The vast number
of orders for bottles is the reason for
the increase.
FARMER IS SURPRISED. John Schie-
reclz, Lane county farmer, had his
stacks blown to pieces several times
and heavy rains had soaked them
through and through and his outlook
was so bad that he offered to sell his
whole crop to anybody thai would pay
hpn for 5000 bushels at the market
,,,.;ro NOno1,, toOl- him I'm aud loS =
week he threshcd and the machine
turned ont II, 900 bushels of fine bright
wheat.
"A LOADED GUN. While Mrs. John
Reeves, living two and one-half miles
south of Blaine was cleaning house she
knocked down loaded shotgun which
was discharged by the fall, ard the
contents entered hcr head killing her
instantly. She was about 25 years of
uge.
DEATH OF A CAITLEMAN.-I. T..
Teeters, one of the best known cattle
men of Northwest Kansas, died AZ his
home in Oakley. He had lived in that
county sine, 1875, and was noted for
his hospitality and generosity.
SANTA FL AND OR1ENT-The rail
roads have settled their dispute over
right of way in Emporia by The Santa
Fe selling the Orient the required land
for nominal sum. II is said tina.
neither road wanted to win in the sIlit
but that the suit was needed by 5otn
as precedent.
INVITED TO Sr. LOUIS. The Kansas
Press association has been invited and
offered special inducements to visit the
St. I.onis exposition during the week
of May 16, when the Worlds Press
Parliament will be in session.
A LIGHT DocKET-Thc present term
of the district court at Junction City
has the lightest criminal and civil
docket that it has had there in years,
but the civil docket contains thirteen
divorce suits, the largest number for
any single term of court i'll the history
of Geary county.
DEATH REVEALED IT.-Tn Franklin
county II man died, and it developed
that he possessed an estate worth S7O,-
600. 1t developed also that he had
been paying taxes to an average of
only S45 a year.
KANSAS so YEARS OLD.-'May 80,
1904" notes George w. Martin, presi-
dent of the Kansas Historical society,
will be the fiftietli anniversary of the
act of congress creating the territories
of Kansas and Nebraska" and the Sec
rotary proposes that there be general
celebration at that date.
CATTLE HAVE I.ocKJAw. -Lockjau