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

teers as surgeon and besides serving
under General Grant and organized
jefferson barracks under his instruc-
tions. At one time he was surgeon
general of Kansas, served on the ma
tional board of pension examiners and
for many years vas company surgeon
for the Union Pacific railroad.
MANUAL TRAIyINe.-It is believed
that the new department of manual
training will be established in many
of the public schools of the state next
year, and there will be a large demand
for teachers. The state board of edu-
cation has arranged to examine appli-
cants for certificates to teach manual
training August "a and %. The exam
nations will be in Emporia, Manhat-
tan, Topeka, Lawrence, Pittsburg and
Kansas City.
DEATH OF A PIoNEER.-Mrs. Anna
Sharp, aged IS years, wife of the late
James Sharp, one of the original pio-
neers of Central Kansas, is dead. She
died on the same farm which her hus-
band.filed claim on forty-four years
ago. She had resided on the home
stead continuously for almost half a
century. Before and during the war
she saw much of the early Kansas
struggle. Her husband died eleven
years ago.
AN ERROR IN THE LAw.-Through
an error the law authorizing county
superintendent TO issue temporary
certificates was repealed by the legis-
lature at the recent session. As re-
suit teachers who plan to not attend
the county normal institutes this sum-
mer will be compelled to take the reg
ular examination for certificate or
quit teaching.
LenneclS, a prosperous farmer who lives
fifteen miles west of Emporia, was
driving posts with an AK when his lit
tie 5-year-old girl, who was playing
out the father knowing it. In swing
ing the AK for Il blow it struck the
child and completely severed one side
of her face.
A DAM GIVES WAY.-At Valley Falls
the II foot dam across the Delaware
river which affords water power for an
elevator, mill, the electric light plant
and the Santa Fe pumping plant, has
given way on account of high water.
No serious damage was caused by the
break as it can he repaired quickly
when the high water goes down.
ANOTHER DEFECTIVE LAw.-On ac-
count of Il defect in the appropriation
bill no funds will be available to run
the public school at Lansing for the
next two years. This school is main
tanned at state expense and is attended
mostly by children of employees at the
penitentiary.
MURDoCK's Standardization Muir
dock, congressman-elect, rendered to
David D. Leany the position of private
secretary and Mr.. Leahy accepted it.
Mr.. Leahy will probably do the Wash
ington correspondence for an Iowa
paper during the congressional ses-
Sions.
The DEXTER WELI.-A dispatch
from Winfield states that the Dexter
gas well was tested and found to have
u flow of 7,25O,OOO cubic feet This
well is $50 feet deep and has the great
est flow of any well in the state for the
depth.
CAPTAIN IN slsT KANsAs.-Charles
Stacllhouse, once postmaster at Usage
City, and during the war with Spain
captain in the 21st Kansas, died of
heart disease recently at Moberly, Mo-,
where he had been engaged in mining.
OLEo DEALERS INCREASED. Since
the passage of the Grout anti-oleo bill
| dealers in Kansas has increased.
| Under the old law there never were
more than 275 retail cleo dealers in the
state. At the present time there are
about 1. 500.
Town IN A housekeeping half
mile on the north, Neodesha was sur
rounded by water. Fall river and
Verdigris river were both away ont OF
their banks. nearly surrounding the
! townsite.
KANSAS LIQUOR DEALEEs.-The rec.
oris in the internal revenue collectors
| Office show that there are about 2,6OO
retail liquor dealers in the state-2G
to each county. OF course, they are
not equally distributed. Some of the
far western counties only have from
five to ten, while some of the counties
with big towns, in eastern and central
Kansas have from 100 to $50.
CONTRACT FOR GAs.-Independe
has contracted with a gas-lighting
company for 200 street lights at the
rate of SIG per light per year.
ELEVATOR BURNED. John Lynd's
mill and elevator at White Cloud, Kas.,
was set on fire by bolt of lightning
and totally destroyed The loss is
over $4,000. partly covered by insnr,
ance. A great deal Of grain and houl
was destroyed.
OTTAWA FIGURES. The returns from
the city assessment give Ottawa "a pop
ulation of 1857 and personal property
valuation, less exemptions, of Ss23, 1878
This is "a gain of 2s1 in population over
a year ago, and gain of ss5,297 in
personal property.
TWELVE INCHES OF RAIN.-At Lyn-
don the people believe that twelve
inches of rain fell in three hours, al
testing Jars being oyerfiowed. There