Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-09
KANSAS COMMENT.
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BEILEvILI.E SENDS FUNDs--Belle-
vile sent her Fourth of July celebra-
ton fund to the food sufferers.
LAST FORTY AcREs.-The last one in
Sumner county has been taken by
Wesley Evans. 1t is not tillable.
: NINE IxDIcTED- grand jury has
indicted nine jointkeepers of Valley
Falls and arrests are being made
SrocKYARDs CoMPANY.-The Hutch
ipson stocllyards company has incor-
porated with SIS, 900 of capital stock.
STATE REuNIoN.-Dodge City has
put in bid at the e. A. R. department
for the state reunion Hutchinson is
also candidate.
HAIvEsTERs RATES. The railroads
ont of Chicago have granted rate OF
one cent a mile from Chicago to the
Kansas wheat fields
HENDERSON REsIGNs.-G. r. Hcnder-
son, superintendent of motive power
for the Santa Fe, has rendered his
resignation TO take effect August 1.
MEADE AS CHIEF.-J. NJ. Meade, res
ident engineer of the Santa Fe, with
headquarters at Topeka, succeeds c. A.
Morse as chief engineer of the eastern
division.
EVERYTHING THEY HAD BURNED
IT,. Slo,rare o,d ~; fa IF RoolxS coun.
ty. attired in their oldest clothes, went
to Bow Creek for the purpose of catch
ing some fish for sick neighbor. In
the night lightning struck their home
and destroyed it, burning completely
everything they had on earth, leaving
them without even presentable clothes
FLAW II THE LAw.-It has developed
that a flaw exists in the law, passed by
the legislature last winter, maliingit
unlawful for the probate judge of a
county to issue marriage license to
those who are mentally unfit. The
law makes it misdemcanor for the
probate judge to knowingly" issue
license to such person, but provides
no way by which he can discover the
facts.
WABNING CORPORATIONS Secretary
of State Burrow is now sending out
blanks TO the different Kansas corpor-
atoms for statements showing their
financial condition. Accompanying
each blank is n circular letter telling
what will happen to the corporation if
tine statement is not made and filed
with the secretary of state. The in
formation is taken from the new cor
poration law.
PRIZES AT STATE FAIRs-Thc worlds
fair commission has issued regulations
governing the awards on county ex-
hibits at the Topeka and Hutchinson
state fairs. Five prizes, ranging from
$500 down to 500 arc to be given by
the commission for county displays.
The prize displays are to be sent to ST,
Louis to help make up the Kansas ex-
hibit In the grain display the regula-
lions call for sixteen different kinds.
MUST mAlNl lain oOhOOL.-SCObO
county established high school some
time ago. The county commissioners
are getting tired of it and ask the at
torney general if they can discontinue
it. The law requires that the commits
sioners shall provide the funds. The
attorney general holds that so far as
controlling the school is concerned
they have no more jurisdiction over it
than any private citizen; that all they
can do is to provide for funds for its
maintenance and this they must do.
AN ESTATE IN GERMANY.-Dr. Will
checks, of Valley Center, recently re-
Gently received word from Germany
that his aunt had died, leaving him as
the principal heir to her large estate.
He left for Germany Saturday and will
stay there until the estate is settled.
He will then return to Valley Center
or Wichita.
TRAIN STRASDED A MONTH"; Rock
Island freight train was caught be-
tween washouts for month four miles
west of Abilene. The repair train
reached it and rescued it on June o5.
SPECIAL FOR TEACHERS. special
train left Topeka on July 1, over the
Santa Fe, loaded with teachers on their
way to Boston to attend the annual
convention of the National Educational
association. The train was one of the
Santa Fe's finest, and it goes through
to Boston, stopping at Chicago. Mag
ara Falls, Toronto. Montreal, Quebec
and Thousand Islands.
IRRIGATION COMMEMORATIVE is
what the Kingman Leader calls the
gatherings there after the arrival of a
lease" or 'keg" from Wichita.
HAD NEIGHBoRs.-P. b. Ross and W.
Boughton, farmers south of Abilene,
were left by the Hood with lake 50
rods wide, a mile long and three to six
feet deep. Twenty-Five of their neigh.
bors with teams, plows and scrapers
met there and dug large ditch, run.
ming the water into the river, draining
the fields so that corn could soon be
planted
Our OF WHEAT BELT.-Tramps arc
unusually plentiful in Woodson county
this summer. Woodson is out of the
wheat belt
BOURBON COUNTY CoRN.-The heav.
lest rain in years fell in Bourbon coun-
tv on June 95. Much of the corn GRO,
had been replanted two or three times
and some of it is just up while many
fields have been cultivated once OF
twice. The wheat crop is better than
had been expected.
KANSAS BooKs-It has become fad