Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-10-22
LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF.

worth n million dollars.
A second crop of Strawberries is be-
ing marketed at Aurora, Mo. A few
crates are being shipped.
The Ohio state board of healti, is
to prevent the sale of ''toy pistols and
other explosive appurtenances.
Alvin Richards, of Des Moincs, Iowa,
is on his way to South America with
his family, travelling in wagon.
Republican France gave royal re-
ception to King Victor Emmanuel and
and Queen Margherita, of Italy.
The Missouri river is bisecting farms
in Iowa opposite Plattsmouth, Neb.
One farm lost half its acreage, eighty
acres.
The largest gain in the country in
postoffice receipts for the month of Sep
tember was made at the postofiice in
Omaha, Ncb.
The federal grand jury at st. Louis
frauds and seems to have plenty of
these cases.
The Illinois State Federation OF
Labor convention has refused to 2dopt
a resolution boycotting the state mi
litia.
Rev. J. J. Kahn, arch bishop of st.
Louis, died of disease of'the heart at
Il sanitarium i'll that city, where he had
been since May l..
1t is announced that the call for the
extraordinary session of congress to
meet November will be issued prob
ably on the Goth instant.
General Ian Hamilton, of the British
army, will attend the army maneuvers
at Fort Riley upon invitation of Cen
erals Corbin and Young.
The American board of commissioners
for foreign missions are in annual ses-
sion at Manchester. New Hampshire,
planning for another year.
Minneapolis, Mimi, mills arc now
grinding Kansas wheat and find it
profitable to openly sell the flour as
90 heuoeo NiCtbes
tofore they called it Minnesota wheat
-four.
The National Retail Liquor Dealers
association has adopted a revised con-
stitution with provisions for raising
fund every year for defense of their in
terests in the state legislatures and in
congress.
The farmers and stoclsmen say that
they are being robbed by the packers;
that the packers pay less for cattle and
hogs, and at the same time raise the
prices of meat to the retailers. The
stocl1inen claim that the western states
stock producers have lost, by the
schcming of the packers, $4,000 900
during. the past three months.
Lieut. Col. W. H. Birlxbecl1 of the
British army and Captain Dudley R.
DeChair of the British navy have been
especially detailed to attend the mill
tary maneuvcrs at Fort Riley.
The Dowieites have closed a deal fol-
SO, 900 acres of land in southwest North
Dakota. They propose TO colonize the
land and establish Zion there.
The Farmers Cooperative Associa.
ton. commonly called the farmers
trust, which started in Kansas has en-
tered Nebraska and is incorporated
there.
During the strike of the employees OF
the Pacific Express company all jewels
and other valuables, live stock and
perishable property was refused for
shipment.
The Cook Hotel and Excursion COM
pany proposes to build on the st. Louis
fair grounds three story hotel 1880
by 100 feet, with 1900 rooms.
There were over 5000 in the line Of
the parade of the Union Veterans
Union at Dayton, Ohio. The occasion
was the eighteenth annual convention
of the Legion.
The Catholic Mutual Benefit associa-
ton, at it's triennial meeting at Pitts
burg, Pa, recommended that saloon
keepers and bartcnders should be ex-
cluded from membership.
The Santa Fc is placing two oil tanks
underground to furnish oil to the diff
ferent furnaces in the shops at Albu-
qucrque. The oil is to be pumped by
air, and its use means less cost of fuel
and more work done at the FORCES.
General Ola, leader of the insurgent
armies in the province of Albay. Luzon,
continues to turn out the guns OF his
command to tho American authori-
ties.
Tie American Investment in religious
and educational institutions in Turkey
is Sc, SOC. goo.
Several mail agents running on the
Missouri Pacific have been summoned
to appear before the federal grand
jury Mt Leavenworth. 1t is thought
that there is something mp about
weighing mails and reporting too many
pounds
The department. of agriculture is ex-
perimenting with Japanese paper
pulp plant. The pulp of the plant is
worth four times as much as wood
pulp It is especially adapted for rails
ing in the warmer portions OF this
country.