Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-29

Southwestern Kansas counties, the
people there have more money per cap
tia than the people in any other Sec
tion of the state. They are nearly ali
cattlcmen and count their money by
the thousands. A Western Kansas
newspaper recently took census of
Grant county and found that it ha'i
500 in cash on deposit for every man,
woman and child in the county.
MONEY III Wolves. MANY Western
Kansas men are now maleing money
killing wolves. Counties are author
lied TO pay a bounty for wolf scalps
and nearly every county in the western
third of the Stale is offering bounties.
The wolf crop is heavy. Wolves are
overrunning everything. The scalp of
gray wolf is worth 81 His pclt is
worth So more. One wolf a day makes
good wages far hunter. Some arc
averaging from two tc Eve.
TAXES PAID IN CowTnY.-Thc Cow
Icy county treasurer has just completed
his annual tax settlement for 1905 and
it shows the best collections in the his
tory of the county. The delinquent
list was only ~ pea cent of the total.
The United States school census EMU
mcrator found that the valuation of
school buildings in Cowley exceeds
that of any county in the state.
SAMPLES OF JURORS Forty-fivc men
we're examined in the federal court at
Leavenworth for jurors and each one
asked if he had scruples against rem
dering sentence of conviction where
the penalty is death, and every one of
the forty-ive answered they had not.
From this the Times argues that the
people of Kansas are not opposed to
capital punishment.
KANsANs REACH Our Kansas cap
italis:s are becoming heavily interested
in banana planting i'll Central America.
Lawrence men, the Woodwards and
Mr.. Bloomelseictz, have a plantation in
Spanish Honduras, Central America.
Their Las Palmas plantation has 500
acres ready for harvesting. About
500 acres more will be ready for gather
ing in the spring.
CAPTURE MADE.-Federal officers
raidcd the Fred Whittlinger place at
Gerardy, five miles north of Hanover,
capturing Fred Whittlinger and two
~ Il 81
linscr is supposed to be the headquar
tiers of a gang OF postoffice robbers op-
Grating in Kansas, Missouri and Nc
braslsa. The capture is probably an
important one.
SAC AND Fox INDIANs.-That portion
of the tribes, now all about 60 years
old, who refused to sign the treaty
made forty years ago, ccding their
lands in Franklin county, are again
asserting their rights to the land.
HUMBOLDT ADVANCES. That place
has attained the dignity of being pro-
claimed a city of the second class The
! development OF the oil industry has
made the town grow to a population of
| 1000.
| LOST IN OKLAHOMA. Willis Hem
nigh, of Farnaington, Atchison coun-
| ty, left three weeks ago with ST, oOe,
for Perry, o. T., to buy farm. Moth
ing has been heard from him since
tEen.
Or LoNoBELL coMPAEY.-Samuel
H. Wilson, vice president and general
manager of the Long-Bcll Lumber
company, is dead. This company has
a number of branch yards in Kansas
towns
PHEMiTM STAMPS REFUsEp.-The
merchants of Empora, after persist
ent canvass by agents of premium
stamps company, held meeting and
decided not to take up tho scheme.
For CrrY PARK. n special cleo
ton at Wellington a special tax was
levied for the purchasing, improving
and maintaining a city park.
TWENTY BLAcKLIsrEp. Pro-
bate Judge Jeffries has requested the
druggists OF Chanute not to sell 81 citi-
zcns, who are listed, any Intoxicating
liquors for any purpose. The drug
eists will obey the request as though
it were a command, to protect their
licenses. The list includes some prom
incnt citizens.
E,iPoRIA AFTER GAs.-The city of
Emporia has let the contract for its
first gas well. The well will be drilled
in one of the city parks by Follens bee
& Perkins, of Chanutc
ZINC IN Coat MIyE.-While miners
were sinking Il coal shaft on the Exlev
farm, southwest of Pittsburg, they
passed through four feet of an ore ut a
depth of forty-two feet, which is de-
clared to be good specimen of zinc
ore. The nearest zinc mines are at
Galena, nearly thirty miles from there.
A FINE INSTRUMENT Prof. b. W..
Truesdcll, of Friends university, has
recently added u $50 compound micro
scope, IL fine barometer and some othct.
needed appliances for the use of lis
classes in and chemistry and biology.
RESULT OF TIE FLooD.-County war
rants are now stamped mot paid for
want of funds" in Pottawatomie coun-
~. This is a result of the great floods
the past spring. 1t is the first time
such thing has been necessary in
many years. Some of the banks are
now paying interest on daily balances
to help out the county.
FRIENDS RAISED FUNps.-At the
/ yearly meeting OF the Kansas Qual1crs
there was raised sci, 1876 80, of which
| S1s,s was tine endowment of the
Friends university