Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-06
KANSAS COMMENT.

of it.
WIcuITA's D1EEcToRY.-The new
one shows 81, $50 people live in the city.
This is an increase of over 1000 since
the last directory was made.
FIVE 100 DEeEEE DAYs.-This threat
ems the corn in Dickinson county,
which varies in growth from is inches
to six feet, because of rcplanting.
A woMAS's WARD.-The appropria-
ton made last winter for "a woman's
ward at the state penitentiary is to be
expended for that purpose this season.
LADIES BANDA Ladies' Cornet
band has been organized at Elmdale.
The members are taking lessons and
expect to make engagements for fall
events.
KILLED VALUABLE ANIMALs.-Homer
Woodcoels has confessed to killing
number of valuable animals south of
4 Topeka His crimes were committed
last winter.
AFTER HARPER COUNTY LAND.-A
party of Central Illinois capitalists
went to Harper county last week to
lool, at 12, 900 acre ranch and other
properties to buy them.
DRY AND HoT.-The word comes
from Pratt that on account of pro-
tracted drouth and unusual heat the
corn crop is ruined. The wheat aver
ages about 20 bushels to the acre.
WRECK All JUNCTION Sixteen per-
sons We're injured, two fatally, in
wreck of Santa Fe eastbound tt ain No.
and Missouri Pacific north bound
train at the junction west of Hutchin-
son.
FIeHT New RATEs-Thc Lyon Coun
ty Cattlemen's association are securing
some cooperation with other cattlemen
of that part of the state to fight the new
cattle rate, which is announced to take
effect on September 1.
WEBB Is PROMOTED. z. WEBB,
of Stafford, Kansas, has received no
tice from the department at Washing
ton that he had been promoted to the
position of special agent in the rural
free delivery service.
WOLF SCALPs.-In Lane county the
commissioners have abolished the
bounty hitherto paid for wolf scalps.
The wolves were increasing under the
bounty system, as the hunters pre-
served the females 10 let them breed.
Furthermore it was found that scalps
had been cleverly manufactured ont of
other parts of the hide, and that scalps
were being brought from other coun-
ties.
A NOTED EARLY SETTLER.-Mrs.
Cynthia Merritt Roscoe, wife of Nelson
]. Roscoe, one of the first settlers of
Kansas, died at her home in Paola.
Mrs. Roscoe was cousin of General
Wesley Merritt. She came from New
York to Osawatomie in 1854. She was
closely identified with Captain John
Brown, of Osawatomie, and in the ia
nous battle at that place the Roscoe
home was the only one not burned.
OPERATORS AND M1NERs.-The sub
burg, of the coal miners and operators
reached an agreement upon the scale
for the Cherokee district, which in
cludes Crawford and Cherokee coun-
ties in Kansas and Vernon and Bates
counties in Missouri. Seventy-two
cents per ton will be paid in this dis
trict for year and the Illinois day
scale of wages. An increase of 121@
cents will be paid for entry yardage
and dead work.
MANUAL. TRAINING.-The new state
manual training school at Pittsburg
will open on September S. On Sep
TENDER and there will be examina-
tons for admission. The school is
a branch of the state normal college at
Emporia and will be under the direc-
ton of Prof. r. s. Duss, for some time
superintendent of the Pittsbnrg city
schools. An annual appropriation of
$4,000 has been made for the support
of the school by the legislature. II is
the only school of the kind west of the
Mississippi.
SEVEN SPECIAL TRAINs.-W. J.
Black, general passenger and ticket
agent of the Santa Fe, announced that
the Santa Fe would run seven special
trains to California on account of the
national encampment of the G. A. R.
Stopovers will be allowed at points
west of Denver. Passengers not wish
ing to make and stops may take the
California limited.
FOUND DEAD.-Wm. Mulberry, a
wealthy farmer living south of Had
dam, was found dead in his feed yard
with gunshot wounds in his head.
The FOURTH REeIMENr.-The COM
missioned officers of the Fourth rcgi-
ment. Kansas National guard, will hold
meeting at Newton on August 4, to
elect a colonel, lieutenant colonel and
major. The regiment wants to get in
shape to participate in the Fort Riley
maneuvers.
OSBORNE COUNTY WHEAr.-In Os-
borne county there are thousands of
acres of wheat cut and bound, lying
unshocl<ed for want of men to do it.
Threshing is going on. The yield is
from Is to "a bushels to the acre.
EXPLOSION OF GAS MAMA steam
thresher engine was driven over four
inch gas main near Neodesha, breaking
the pipe. Fire from the engine ex-
plodcd the gas and the two men were
blown off the engine. One of them
died hours later: the other was
burned about the face and hands but
will recover.
FROM BUTTER FAr.-The farmers of