Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-03-19
KANSAS COMMENT.

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FISH CoMMIssIoNER.-Gov. Bailey has
announced his selection of Dell Travis,
of Pratt, for appointment as state fish
commissioner.
MRS FoRTER Is ILL.-Mrs. Emma
T. Forter, president of Kansas w. r.
c., is confined to her home in Marysville
with pneumonia.
Cows DRowNED.-Monte Kearse, of
Niles, southern Ottawa county, has
lost IS cows by drowning. They crowd
ed onto the ice and it gave way.
ELEVATOR Is BURNED.-The Rock
grain elevator at Pawnee Rock, is
burned at loss of $4,000. There was
several thousand bushels of wheat in it
Two TO ONE.-The city of Parsons,
bv vote of two to one voted for issu-
ing about $40, 900 in bonds for a site
and school building in the second
ward
S1eN1FIcAN seen a lot of
things around this legislature" said
girl employee the other day, that
couldn't go through the United States
mails"
Low DEATH RATE.-At the Topeka
insane asylum it is five and three
tenths per cent; the lowest reported in
list of 10 asylums in nearly as many
states.
MORE OIL LEAsEs.-They are still
being filed at the court house and cover
more leases in the Mulvane gas and oil
field. The machinery for drilling has
arrived at Mulvane.
RIVER BRETHREN colony
of this religious sect in Dickinson coun-
ty are seeking place to move to.
Fourteen of them have gone to Cali
fornia to spy out the land.
COLLEGE RoDYIsM.-The trouble at
the oratorical contest at Atchison is
having good results in that number
of Kansas colleges are likely to be rid
of the long prevailing rowdyism.
PENSION SUKGEoNs.-Pension exam
lining surgeons appointed in Kansas:
DIR. L. w. Merrick, at Wichita; DIR. j.
A. Rea, at Wellington; j. w. Darling
ton and A. w. Somerset, at Holton.
No SALT PLANT.-Buclxlin's bill pro-
viding for the establishment of state
salt plant at the state reformatory at
Hutchinson has been killed by the
house ways and means committee. The
bill carried an appropriation of $40, 00O
WICHITA RATE CAsE.-The hearing
of the case of Wichita VS.. certain rail-
roads involving charges of discrimina-
ton in freight rates in favor of Kansas
City, has been had at Washington be-
fore the interstate commerce commits
sion.
WRECK AT FLoRENcE.-The Califor
MIA Limited train on February &c,
crashed into local freight which was
standing on side track at Florence.
The Limited was running 25 miles an
hour and when it struck the switch the
engine jumped to the side track leaving
the tender on the main line. The mail
car topped over and two mail clerks,
W. o. Rogers and R. o. MCGEE were
standing in the door ready to throw
out mail and were thrown out and
dragged along the ground. McGee had
a leg broken in two places, while
Rogers escaped with only a sprained
ankle.
BUYS CHANUTE WELLS. &C. j. Devlin
of Topeka has bought controlling in
terest in ITO acres of land in the Cha
mute oil and gas field, which has seven
oil wells, with a flowing capacity for
at least 81 wells Colonel J. D. Norton
of Topeka, is to be manager of the
property.
FARMERS INSURANCE CoMPANY.-A
recent statement of the Brown County
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance COM
pary shows that with over 81, 600, 900
at risk, the loss was only about $4,000,
or less than one-sixth of one per cent
Won GOLD MEDAL.-Grace Tier, of
Furley, SedgwiclS county, won the
gold medal in the essay contest at the
state normal school at Emporia. Her
essay was entitled "The Home of My
Forefathers,' and those who heard it
give the young woman the highest
praise for her work.
DEPOT DEMONSTRATING struck
the Santa Fe depot at Elk City and it
was burned. The ticket rack was all
that was saved. A box car will serve
for ticket office until new depot is
built in the spring.
NEW MISSION CoLLEGE.-The Swe-
dish Mission conference has raised
S45, 900 of the SIS, 900 necessary to es-
tablish the new mission college at Nc
Pherson. 1t is believed that the bal
ance will be made up the coming sum-
mer and fail.
CHAMPAGNE OF KAw WHARF.-THE
senate defeated a resolution instruct
ing the government of the United
States not to use champagne in the
christening of the proposed new battle
ihip Kansas and there were Is votes in
favor of it.
BAKER UNIVERSITY WoN-At the
college contest in oratory held at Atch-
ison the judges awarded first place to
Edward Hislop, of Baker University,
Baldwin; second place to 7. j. Hopkins,
of Ottawa university, Ottawa; third
place to Wallace Thompson, of Wash
burn college, Topeka. There were five
other contestants.
No INCREASE. house committee
of the whole has killed the bill provid-
ing for an increase in the salary of the
supreme court justices from $1,000 to
$1,000 year.