Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-06-18

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| inspector at Arkansas City, to succeed
j. b. Johnson, who has resigned, to
take effect July !, and L. b. Worden
! of Syracuse as inspector on the western
line of the Santa Fe from Dodge City
to Coolidge Worden will pay especial
attention to the inspection of cattle in
fected with the itch
NOTED MASON DIEs.-Peter j. Ere
! ling, died ut Leavenworth on June 10.
! He was of the thirty-third degree and
grand treasurer u the Grand Chapter
| of Royal Arch 1i:.sons of Kansas. He
was also grand treasurer of the Council
of Royal and select Masters of Kansas,
and was widely known in Masonic
| circles
PURSE For RURAL CARRIEE.-Ed
Briggs, who lost his horse during the
high water some time ago was given a
surprise. The patrons of the route
number two out of Mcpherson, on
which he carries the mail, made up a
| purse of S39 80 and presented it to him.
NEoDEsHA IS LIvELY.-Two women
horsewhipped bus driver of that
place for making derogatory remarks
about them, and mother overhauled
her daughter and her steady at the
bridal altar, licked the prospective
groom and called the deal off
YET THERE ARE IDLEEs. Union
Pacific is working so men repairing
tracks near Abilene, paying as high as
81. 25 cents "a day and board and would
put more men ut work if they could be
had; yet there are a lot of men about
town who are doing nothing.
RAISED sl,O0O.-A committee was APP
pointed at IA meeting of Beloit business
men to solicit subscriptions for the re.
lief of the Topeka food sufferers and
and in Il few hours 81 900 was sub
scribed in cash and u carload of cloth
ing and provisions raised.
DANGEROUS HoIEs.-At several
points in North Topeka where the
sewers have been washed out holes
are appearing in the street. In some
sections whole streets are supposed to
be undermined and driving along these
is exceedingly dangerous.
WINFIELD WILL TRY AeAIN.-The
contract has been drawn up between
S. f. Huselton and the city of Winfield
for drilling a deep well for natural gas
By its terms the driller binds himself
TO go down 1000 feet, or further if
possible, for 81. so per foot.
DIFFERENCE IN RAINFALI--Dr
Shows report shows rainfall during
May of zoo inches at Lawrence, >. So
above the average. The record kept
by Prof. Jones, of the Wesleyan uni
versity at Salina, showed fall for the
month of 1913 inches.
WALNUT LoGs.-Two cars OF them
go from Arkansas City to Hamburg,
Germany, over the Santa Fe to Calves
ton to take ship there. The logs arc
the best to be found in that part of the
country and brought big price.
oToRcNTo OIL WELL.-Capital for
further development of the Toronto
field is plenty since the strike at Il
depth of less than 1900 feet The flow
of oil has not been satisfactorily esti-
mated.
DELAYED FREIGHT.-The Rock Is
lands first receipt at Wichita of delayed
freight consisted of II cars of merchan-
disc which had been stopped at st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, by the floods.
RAISED IN CLAss.-Among the fourth
class postoffices which have been adj
vanced to the presidential class effect
i've July /, is Douglas Kansas
SIX YEARS GRowTH.-Six years ago
the assessors report showed IL popula-
ton in Winfield of 4, 500. This year the
population reached 7,173.
Two CRIMINAL Cause.-The term of
the district court in and for Butler
county has only TWO criminal cases on
! the docket.
| KILLED BY LIGHTNING. st
heavy thunder storm Aubrey Williams,
the 16-year-old son of Joseph Williams,
living west of Concordia, was struck
and killed by lightning as he stood in
the barn door. Another boy with him
was not hurt.
FLOUR MILLS WILL REsUME.-In
North Topeka all dead bodies OF ami
mails and all spoiled meat are being
burned. All of the big flour mills in
the flooded section are being cleaned
out and expect to resume operations in
a week or ten days.
WITHOUT MAIL. TES DAYs.-There
were number of towns along the Sol
ONION, Smoky Hill and Saline rivers
which were without mail for ten days.
The whole county of Lincoln seemed 10
he assembled at Lincoln Center on the
| tenth day when the first mail arrived
there.
DAfAGE AT RossvILLE.-The News
of that Shawnee county town estimates
the flood damages in that vicinity to
be near half million dollars In the
town alone it will reach towards half
that amount.
Hail. FIVE INCHES DEEP.-A strip OF
farm land five miles long and milo
wide, north of Ramona, which is &c
miles south of Abilene, was devastated
by hail, the stones, in some places, fall
ing five inches deep. The damage can.
not be less than $50, 900.
STRAWBERRIES PLENTY-The receipts
of Strawberries at Wichita in one day
last week were two thousand crates.
They came from the south and were
originally consigned to different towns,
not accessible, and were sent to Wich.
tia to be sold.