Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-06-25
KANSAS COMMENT
KANSAS

has cut the. dead languages out OF IT'S
course.
Cosr OF RErAIBs.-It will cost To-
peka $50, 600 to repair the streets and
sewers of tue flooded district
HIeH SCHOOL GRADUATES. Tho
graduating class of tine Topeka
high school numbered 50, AZ of whom
were girls.
UNION PACIFIC GIVES, Although
that railroad has been heavy loser by
the floods it has given $4,000 toward
the relief funds.
STONE QUARRIEs BUsY.-The quar-
ries of Chase county are busy as there
are prospects of greater demand for
all kinds of building stone.
Potato CROP DESTROYED. Thou
sands of acres of potatoes in the Kaw
valley are total loss. This is the
chief potato district OF Kansas
LAID OVER At OrTAwA.-That town
entertained hundreds of returning
transcontinental tourists who were
held there until trains could go east.
MCPHERSON SCHOOLS -The board of
education has chosen VIM. A. Sinclair
of Ell Dorado superintendent of the
city schools at salary of 81 900 year.
COLEMAN TO AssIsT.-=The attorney
general went to st. Francis to assist in
the prosecution of Chaunccy Dewey
and his cowboys, charged with killing
the Berrys in Cheyenne county.
SUPPLIES SCHEDULED. The Topeka
relief committee adopted regular
schedule of supplies for flood sufferers.
1t has fitted out more than 500 fam
lilies already with household furniture
and utensils Each outfit costs S16.9O.
TEAMS CAN CRoss.-The pontoon
bridge at the north approach to the
Melan bridge at Topeka has been made
strong enough for wagon traffic. and
hundreds of teams are at work haul
ing away slime and debris from the
north side.
FLOUR SACKS SPoILED.-The Kramer
Milling company of Wellington, has
received car of -four sacks which had
been held up by the flood. They are
covered with mud and the printing is
so blurred from standing in the wafer
that the carload is practically total
loss. The value of the entire load was
$4,000.
FIRST TRAIN DITcHED.-The first
Santa Fe train in two weeks north
bound running fast over food weak
ened track was ditched ten miles south
of Abilene. Fourteen cars loaded with
delayed goods were wrecked. Engineer
and fireman saved their lives by jump
ing. A new track built around the
wreck opened the line.
LOSSES ABOUT TECUMsEH-An of the
bottom farmers there have lost all they
have except the bare land on which
they live. The island on which the
I6O-acre melon farm of Obadiah Vaughn
was located has been entirely swept
away. A number of small houses
lodged near Tecumseh which probably
were washed away from North Topeka.
CHASE COUNTY o. K.-Chase county
farmers were not badly hurt by the
floods, although the Cottonwood river
was higher than the oldest settler re-
members. The corn, except in a very
few spots along the Cottonwood valley
is in fine condition, as we'll as alfalfa,
the first crop being harvested. Cattle
are doing well on grass and the hay
crop promises to be heavy. The loss
of livestock was not very great,
HUeE PILE OF DEBRIs.-At the mouth
of the Kaw there is pile of debris, of
houses, tracks, fences, animals and
perhaps human bodies over a mile wide
and two miles long. In the union
yards in Kansas City there is a large
hole filed with water, probably made
by swirl, out of which two engines
and four Pullman cars have been taken
already.
PAoLA RAISED RELIEF.-It amount ted
to $500 in money and 1,5OO worth of
clothing, which was sent to Argentine
and ArmourGale.
OvERwoBKED PosTMAsrEHs. A num-
Der of instances have been reported of
the receipt, after the floods, at post
offices of such large amounts of mail
as to cause the postoffice force to work
all night to work all night to distribute
it. Beloit received &C sacks at one
time
ALL IN SIX MONTHS. Harvey Atchi-
son. six months ago became a inessen-
ger boy at Wichita for the Santa Fe
telegraph department; now he is OBJ
orator for the company on the mann
line, at Saffordville.
STRUCK FLOWING SPEINe.--Parties
in Kingman county who occupy leased
pasture land commenced to dig a well
from which they proposed to get stool,
water with a windmill. They struck a
good vein at Is feet and quit for the
day.. The next morning they found
that the water had flowed from their
well and formed pond.
A NEW GRIsT Mill. are ma
king to build large grist mill at Cot
tonwood Falls on the site of the old
mill which was built some 40 years
ago.
COUNTY BUYS SEEDs.-Shawnec
county has bought up all the seed corn,
inillet. llafir corn, seed potatoes, sor-
ghum and garden seeds they could Sc
cure with the allowance of So. 600 made
to them from the Commercial club out
of the relief fund. These seeds will DE
used to supply destitute farmers and
gardeners of Shawnee county.