Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-01-22

locate and build a county high school
at Leonardville If this cooperation
is promised Leonardville in return will
give her support to Manhattan in erect
ing county court house there. Man
haitian has always been the seat of
Riley county, but without a court
house, for the reason that the Leonard
vile people have wanted the county
seat moved.
CoBUIS OFFERS REsIGNATIoN,-F. D.
Coburu has ten Tered to Governor Bailey
his resignation as regent of the Kansas
Agricultural college. His letter of
resignation states his conviction that
the executive should be free to choose
persons for appointment who are his
personal choice without being hamp-
cred with the fact that some parties TO
be displaced are his personal friends
also, and are qualified to fill the posi-
tions.
WAR ON INSURANCE TRUST. W.
Orr, mayor of Atchison, will conduct
such war locally. The state rate
agent of insurance companies rounded
up the local agencies and fixed sched-
ules greatly increasing rates on many
Atchison risks, in violation of the laws
of the state of Kansas. Mr.. Orr asks
the county attorney to take action to
dissolve the trust and punish the vio-
lators.
CORN YIELD IN DoNIPHAN.-M S.
Peck, of Highland, has finished gather
ing 15o-acre field which yielded an
average of IS bushels to the. acre. J.
E. McConly got the same average for
100 acres. A great many farmers in
that section have fields thatlyield from
fifty to eighty bushels to the acre and
the average is about the best ever
known there. From 80 to 80 cents per
bushel is being offered.
GAS FREE TO SELL LoTs.-The Win
field Gas and Mineral company, the ].
2. Baden Produce Company and Stat
ford & Albright have contracted with
Brandt 6 Williams, of Fort Scott, to
sink three wells for natural gas. Stat
ford & Albright will sink their we'll
on the Platter farm east of town for
the purpose of furnishing free gas as
an inducement to those who will buy
lots and build.
A UNION MAN.-The new superin-
tendent of insurance, Mr. Luling, sent
for box of cigars for his friends at
the reception given by the the new
state officers in their official apart
ments. Luling looked at the box and
sent the messenger back with the order
to bring cigars which carried the union
label. He is member of the typo
graphical union at his home town of
Wichita
THE VoTE AT SOLDIERS HoME.-Un-
der the law veterans of the Soldiers
Home at Leavenworth are given the
right to vote for county officers in
Leavenworth lcounty. In contest
oser the election of county treasurer
the constitutional right of the old vet
Grams to vote under that section of the
law will have to be determined by the
supreme court
STATE ORAToRY.-C. j. Hickey, of
Usage City, has been elected by the
Oratorical association of the College of
Emporia to be secretary of the state
association. According to rotation
adopted this is the year in which the
College of Emporia is entitled to that
office.
WEHEP WANTS PLACE.-E. c. Wei
lep, of Galena, ex-representative from
Cherokee, is an applicant for the po-
sition of Democratic member of the
railroad board to succeed j. n. Fille.
LOST WATCH AND CHANGE.
Smith, of Kinsley lost them from his
clothes in his room at the Copelnnd
while he slept.
LADY FARMEE.-After blowing
the ground on her farm near Wells
vile, planting and Tending the crop
and watching it mature, Miss Ida Nc
Carroll finished the work of shocking
and cribbing $500 bushels OF corn.
Besides running the farm Miss McCar-
roll. did all the homework and took
care of her invalid father. Her only
assistance was that given by a 14-year-
old neice.
Ice CoNTRACTs.-A Hutchinson firm
has con tracted to furnish the Rock
Island with 7, 900 tons of ice.
The BIBLE IN SCHooLs.-Judge Ha-
zen, of the district court of Topeka,
decides that the mere oral repetition
of the Lords Prayer and the Twenty
third psalm does not constitute a form
of religions worship and therefore is
no violation of the bill of rights, as
was claimed by Billiard.
THE GRAND OLD MAN-Ex-Chief
Justice Samuel A. Kingman, who re-
signed Office twenty-seven years ago
because he thought himself too old to
be in politics, had front seat at Gov
'ernor Bailey's Inauguration.
Town OF HAMLIN BUENED.-The en-
tire business portion of Hamlin, Brown
county, on the st. Joe &. Grand rail-
way has been destroyed by fire. The
postofice, Euger Bros drug store and
L. B.-Burdicll's hotel are among the
heaviest losers. Loss. $50, 900.
LAI.eE Corn CRoP.-A j. Taylor,
one of the men who farm on a large
scale in Geary county, has just finished
shocking 1000 bushels of corn, all of
excellent quality, and has over 500
bushels in shock to shucls. He is hold
ing his crop in cribs at his farm.
LARGE DOUBLE BARRAcK.-The large
double artillery barraclz which has Just