Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-09-03
KANSAS COMMENT.
KANSAS

GRAPES 4 PLENTY.-Meade county
reports an immense grape crop this
year.
KANSAS POPULATION. The last sum
ming up of the assessors count gives
Kansas population Of 1, 494, SAT.
THAT PACKING HoUsE.-The founda-
zion for the packing plant at Arkansas
City is completed and brick work about
70 be pushed.
A CoMPARIsoN.-Miss and Ne
braslSa both pay teachers wages which
average more than the wages Kansas
teachers receive.
A TALKING Observation-Disclosures
state fair is to have convention OF
auctioneers which will have competi-
tive talking match for prizes.
SIMMONS REsIGNs.-John Simmons
has resigned as Superintendent of the
Hutchinson reformatory because his
own affairs require his time and atten-
ton.
A NEW FEATURE.-At the Wichita
fair it is expected that from 5000 to
5000 members of the i-Horsethief
association will appear in the parade
on horseback.
ARTILLERY PRAcIITE.-The annual
artillery practice at Fort Riley has
been going on for some weeks with
some new features, one being the dis
appearing target.
WANTED FOR FoBeERY.-Dr. r. L.
Cromwell, charged with passing
forged check upon an Emporia hotel
man, is under arrest in Michigan and
will be brought back.
TELEPHONE Cons cTIoNs.-Arliansas
City will soon have telephone connec-
tions with Silverdale, the stone quar-
ries, Davidson, Townsend and Maple
CITY. 1t also will have 16 rural phones
on the same line.
DAMAGE BY CLoUDBURsT.-The dam
age to farms in Nemaha and Marshall
counties by cloudburst is greater than
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$500, oO0 Great quantities of hay,
wheat and oats in stack, besides wheat
and corn in bins were swept away,
while many farmers lost all their cat
tie and hogs.
GATHERING HIsToRY.-The Old Set
tiers association Of Cowley county
held its annual meeting at Dexter.
The program was made up of histories
of different townships of the county,
and some of the old settlers told their
early experiences. This material will
be preserved and published in a his
tory CT the county.
PROGRESS OF "ORIENr. The Kan
sas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad
company has graders at work in Chase
county surfacing an old road bed
toward hatfield Green. The right-of-
way men are almost ready for the
graders in Lyon county. The COM
pany finds some men who refuse 500
an acre for land and some will not take
$40 apiece for apple trees.
WAS WE'LL TnEATED.-Owen Patch
en-, of Ottawa, was badly injured in
the Stillwell wreck. When the claim
agent Of the Santa Fe went to him to
settle and asked him how much he
claimed damages, Patchen replied that
he wanted what was right, and no
more, and that he would not sue even
II the company allowed him nothing.
Thereupon the company settled with
him for 81, 600 cash, besides paying all
his hospital expenses and giving him
round trip ticket to Indiana. He got
more than he could have secured in an
Nction at law.
STORES UNDER WATER
creek, south of Frankfort, was &c feet
above low water mark and nearly all
the business houses at Frankfort had
water covering their floors from three
to eighteen inches deep. At Barrett
also on the Vermillion, water ran over
the counters in the stores.
Order of Journeymen Stone Cutters
have ordered contractors to stop ship
ping cut stone into the city and they
declare they will not work such stone
IL it comes from any other place.
RAINED FIVE DAYs.-Barton county,
during the past two weeks, had five
days of heavy rains, soaking the ground
aud preventing blowing and delaying
threshing. Corn is in excellent con-
dition, never known to be better at
this time of the year. Creeks and
small streams are swollen to their ca
pacity and it is feared many wheat
stacks may be ruined.
KANSAS BONDs.-The state has out
standing bonds amounting to S632, 600,
and they are all held by the school
fund.
SPECIAL MILK TRAIrr.-The Rock Is
land company will put on a special
milk train between Belleville and
iGoodlaud with the proviso that the
Continental Creamery company shall
guarantee to furnish business to the
amount of $3.50 daily. This is salts
factory to the creamery company.
AFTER EASY MoNEY.-Kansas pol
,iticians of the upper strata are all in
veIting in oil and gas lands in south
eastern Kansas. Several companies
have been acquired and agents are
securing the gas and oil belt for leases.
OLD SETTLERS GATHEE.-The Jaclt-
son county Old Settlers association
held their annual session at Walkers
park in Holton. Several hundred old
settlers of the county spent a pleasant
day recounting "reminiscences of early
history. A feature of the celebration
was barbecued OK.