Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-05-07
KANSAS COMMENT.

thoroughly soaked, which the crops
needed. There was much thunder and
lightning.
CHURCH AT ANTnoNY.-That city has
been chosen as an Episcopal station
for district about her, and a church
is to be erected there.
SELL. BoHDs AT HolfE.-The gas
bonds issued by the city of Ernporia
are for s1O0 each, SO made that home
parties will buy them all.
RESIGNS FROM Mo PAc.-Superin-
tendent C. NJ. RathDurn, report says,
has resigned his position in the opera
ton of Missouri Pacific lines north and
west of Kansas City.
KILLED BY TRAIN.-While taking
milk to the creamery Mrs G. W. Town
send. of Dickinson county, was killed
by passenger train. She was among
the earliest settlers of the county.
New NORTH AND SOUTH RoAD.-The
Kansas, Nebraska & Gulf, the new
north and south railroad which is to
be built through Kansas, has paid its
charter fee to Treasurer Kelly. 1t
amounted to S7OO.
OIL AT SHAw.-Well No on the
John Haviland farm near Shaw, Neo-
sho county, was shot and after repeated
efforts to bail out the attempt was
abandoned. The best experts place
the we'll at IS to 100 barrels per day.
A VETERAN DEAD.-Joseph c. Dick
ey, of Waterville, is dead at the age of
65. He was veteran of the civil war
having enlisted in the 12th Indiana in
fantry and transferred to the 129th in
fantry in which he served as first lieu
tenant and was later promoted to a
captaincy. He desired to enlist in the
Spanish-American war but he was
turned down on account of his age.
TREES IN WESTERN KANsAs.-The
growing of trees in Western Kansas is
to he studied during the coming sum-
mer by the bureau of forestry of the
United States department of agricul-
ture under the direction of r. 5. KEEL
lOgg, of Russell, who is the agent of
the bureau. Especial attention will be
given to the territory north of the Ar
kansas river and west OF line drawn
through the towns of Osborne, Russell
and Larned.
FRUIT REPORTS FAVORABLE. The re-
ports in regard to fruit conditions over
the state are still very favorable and
the indications are for larger yield in
all kinds of fruit than Kansas has had
in some years. AS the season advances
there seems to be more reason to be-
more reason to believe that the reports
early in the season in regard to the
killing of peaches by the late frost
were exaggerated. From all parts of
the state where the peach crop is any,
thing of an item come denials of the
report.
SHOT BY A TRAMP.-Jules Treatbar,
wealthy farmer living near Inman,
was shot four times by a tramp and
wounded so severely that he will prob
all the other members of the family
were away from home. When they re-
turned they found him lying uncon-
scious on the floor. Restoratiyes were
applied and after time he was able
to talk. He said tramp wearing a
black coat and black hat had entered
the house and demanded his money
He refused to give him any money and
the tramp began firing. -Four shots
were fired in all, two taking effect.
CLASS DEvnTRY.-While engaged in
it with paint, with which two classes
were vieing with each other to do the
meauest thing, u preacher endeavored
to stop the row and stepped in bucket
of green paint, upset it and sat down
in the spilled contents. The reader is
now wondering where all this occurred.
1t was at the Southwestern College of
the M. e. church at Winfield.
DROPPED IN.-After an absence of
of seventeen years former Quenemo
citizen dropped in" this week to visit
with his wife and children.
No FoRECLosUREs.- foreclosure
of a mortgage has occurred in Dicl<in-
county for more than II year. In the
past fourteen months not an action has
been on the court docket. The last
mortgage foreclosure was in March,
1902, and was for only S625. The sher-
iH Nd fha
reconciled to the shrinkage of their
earnings.
ENFORCE FISH LAws.-Citizens of
Minneapolis have organized to protect
fish in that district Dynamite and
drag nets are used in defiance of law.
Orr For ST. LoUIs.-Troops 1 and L
batteries, field artillery, and the Fourth
cavalry and Ninth artillery bands left
Fort Riley to take part in the dedica-
tion of the Louisiana Purchase exposi-
ton. The horses and field guns left
on one train and the troops had two
trains.
WRECK IN KANsAs.-A Mo. Pac
stock train struck a work train just
north of Buffalo, and eleven men were
killed and twenty-five injured. The
men en- the work train were Greeks.
H. G. CLARK APPoINrED.-The for
mer superintendent of the Choctaw,
Oklahoma & Gulf, has been appointed
superintendent of of the Missouri Pa
cific at Atchison to succeed c. M. Rath-
burn, resigned. His territory will be
north and west of Kansas City, includ-
ing the Central Branch.
BoYs ESCORT RoosEvELT.-Ex-May
Hughes, of Topeka, organized COM
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