Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-03-26

instructor. The college owns two
thoroughbred mares and others were
loaned by Avery & Son, of Wakefield,
and other horse breeders of Manhat.
tan. II. W. Avery is graduate of the
college and is assisting in. the work.
The horses were Percherons, one OF
them weighing over a ton. There was
atwo-year-old FLY that weighs 1900
pounds and two-year-old stallion that
weighs 1850 pounds. There was a
pair of e-months-oId colts that weigh
900 pounds.
WIRES GRoUNDED.-The Santa Fe
wires were again useless all night on
the line south of Arkansas City, near
the place where the wires were cut
some weeks before, at the 1o1 ranch.
The wires were not cut this time but a
fine wire was tied to Them. grounding
every one and stopping the service. 1t
is likely the trouble is the result of the
same mems work, The Santa Fe Off
GERS are investigating.
WORK REsUMED.-After q weeks
strike work was resumed at the shops
of the Kansas City & Southern railroad
at Pittsburg. Ninety-one non-union
machinists, boiler-makers and black
smiths were brought there and high
stoclxades were built around the shops
with force of SO deputies with Win
chesters on, patrol duty.
LYNcHED THE WRoNe MAN.-The
father of Mont Cooley who was lynched
at Pittsburg has started suit for S10,-
600 damages against the city for the
death of his son. It is now known that
the negro lynched did not shoot po-
liceman but that his brother did the
shooting.
PROMOTER VAMosEs.-F. NJ. Ceyes,
the man who first promoted the inter-
urban electric line from Mcpherson TO
Arkansas City, has disappeared after
cashing some worthless checks. He
aroused considerable interest, resulting
in local company procuring a char
ter.
ERIE HAS A GUsHER.-A new gas
we'll has been opened there that has
the strongest flow of any of the wells
yet struck. 1t has flow of more than
5000, 900 cubic feet per day at pres
sure of 325 pounds to the square inch
MUST Grow ALFALFA.-Lo-i Scully
who owns 40, 600 acres of fine land in
Marion county and leases it all, has
added a new clause to his leases pro-
viding that every renter shall plant at
least 20 per cent to alfalfa
BONDS For ORIENT.-Osage City gave
the bond proposition 335 majority.
Ninety per cent of the registration was
polled. The bonds so approved are for
$50, 900 in aid the K. c., Mex. & Orient
railway.
SLUss REAPPoINTED. Henry
C. Sluss, of Wichita, has been reap
pointed again as associate justice of
the court of private land claims, a po-
sition he has held for a long series of
years.
DOUGLAS Won DEBATE.-The Doug
las county teachers won the debate
from Franklin county, showing that
organized capital is more beneficial to
the laborer than independent COMPETE
ton.
New STATE BUILDINGs.-The Indus
trial school for girls at Beloit is to have
new school building and dormitory
and the school for the deaf at Olathe
gets new building.
TEXAS DRoPPED.-Texas has been
dropped from the tri-state racing asso-
citation. Kansas and Oklahoma are left.
INTERUBBAN FRANCHIsE.-Iola has
granted franchise for the Humboldt
Chanute-Iola electric line.
MONEY IN MULES. recent sale
in Saline county span of mules
brought $3.50.
BoUGHr AT PEABoDY.-E. w. Cline,
a representative of the Rock Island
company, has purchased the 16o-acre
farm of Emmett Umsted for Sc, 900 and
80 acres from William Gray for So, 400.
The land is three miles south of Pea
body. The Rock Island road will
build large reservoir on the land to
supply large water tank which it will
erect soon in Peabody.
On. AT CAsTLEToN.-Reno county has
oil. 1t has been found in a water well
at Castleton, and the town is enthusiast
tic over the discovery.
MEXICAN WAR vETERAN.-Captain
John R. Row is dead at Toronto at the
age of 90. He was a captain in the
Texas rangers in 1896. He was an Off
Ger in the Mexican. He fought on the
Kansas side in the border wars. He
settled in Woodson county in 1854.
WERE GRADUATES. of the new agri-
cultural college regents C. E. Friend
and ]. W. Berry are graduates of the
college. r. j. Brock, of Manhattan,
who was appointed a month ago, is
graduate also. This gives the alumni
three members of the board.
DIED AT 11s.-Mrs. Susan Bright, of
Topeka, white woman 1l3 years of
age, is dead. She was born in 1889.
Her husband served in the war of 1912;
her son in the Mexican war; several
grandsons in the civil war, and great
grandson in the Spanish war. Her
youngest child is ~ years old
CIGARETTE VIcTIM. -Leroy Nolan, a
15-year-old sehoolboy of Hiawatha has
been smoking cigarettes until he was
fast losing his mind and was taken be-
fore the probate court and was sent to
the reform school to be treated.
EIGHT OcToGENARIANs.- unusual