Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-08-06

and quality of water to be obtained at
reasonable depth near the roadbcd at
Kiowa Test holes were bored and the
| water drawn from them sent TO Ciiica-
goto be analysed as to its quality for
drinking and mechanical purposes.
The hole bored reached the srbter-
ranean water level at only 40 feet, and
every attempt made to lower the water
in the well with pumps of large capac-
ity has utterly failed.
Grandy has resigned the position of
master mechanic of the Middle and the
Oklahoma divisions OF the Santa Fe,
with headquarters at Newton. Mr..
Grandy is well known to railroad men
along the Santa Fe. He came to New
ton when the shops were moved there
from Niclserson in &c, and has been
master mechanic for several years. He
will be succeeded by A. Oman, who
comes to the Santa Fe from the North
western.
KANSAS MooSsHINERs. inspectors
| of the internal revenue department. are
after Illicit stills operating in Kansas,
They have seized one still in Russell
county and are after two others in
Western Kansas. They have been told
there are two concerns of that kind in
Wyandotte county and one in Shawnee
and are searching for them. $50 far
as we can learn there are perhaps a
dozen illicit stills in the state" said
Frank FlennilSen, of the United States
marshal's office
THREsPING In FULL SwAY.-Frlly
go machines are stationed over Barton
county and the wheat yield is of much
better quality than was expected.
Wheat that has been threshed near
Great Bend has been averaging TWEEN
ty-five to thirty bushels an acre, and
testing sixty to sixty-three pounds.
The Barton county yield this year will
be between 100000 and 5000, 900
bushels. Corn is in fine condition at
present, having had good rains.
BoUGHr GREEN land FARM-State
| Treasurer Kelly cashed a voucher for
$4,000 in payment of the Greenland
property, adjoining the penitentiary at
Lansing as authorized by the legisla-
ture last winter. BY the purchase of
the land the extension of the peniten-
tiary mine under Staiger's ISLAM is
made 1,nSSil,1a @f
new shaft on the island, which would
be an expensive undertaking, avoided.
CAN Do BETTER. William Eisey
Connelley. special pension examiner
with headquarters in Kansas City. sent
his resignation to Commissioner Ware
The place pays $4,000 year. "Iilnes
are too prosperous in the Sunf1over
state for Il man to waste his time work.
ing for So. 900 Il year." said Mr. Con-
nelley. Il doubt if the place will be
filed
the new auditorium at the agricultural
college has been let to Henry Bennett,
of Topeka. This building will cost
$40, 900, will have 4 seating capacity of
5000 and is to he completed by next
June. John Winter has the contract
for erecting a new creamery building
| at cost of SIS. 900, to be completed by
January 1.
To LIGHT Fort RILEY.-The war de-
partment has awarded the Junction
City Electric Railway, Light and Ice
company the contract for the electric
lighting of Fort Riley,s streets and
buildings.
TOPEKA MAN At RAToN.-A Har-
| riety, of Topeka, is appointed master
mechanic of the New Mexico and the
Rio Grande divisions at Ration to sue.
| coed D. A. Sullier.
AFTER % YEARs-Two brothers. one
| living in Harrington and the other on
farm near Hope, just lately came to-
gether.
TEACHERS MAREY-The school
boards in Chautauqua county have in
serted in their contracts with teachers
this year clauses that prohibit either
counting or marrying by the teacher in
the school term. Many schools were
badly interrupted last year by the mar
riage of the women teachers, most of
whom resigned. Others neglected their
school duties and gave their time to
counting. The boards are now making
the salary contingent upon the teach
ers of both sexes refraining from mar
| rying.
NEW MASTER MECHANIC A. Oman
is appointed master mechanic of the
middle and Oklahoma divisions of the
Santa Fe to succeed w. ). Grandy, who
has resigned to take place in the Rock
Island mechanical department at Chi
cago.
A Busy PLAcE.-Blue Rapids has
well paid before. There is work for
every able-bodied man and boy in town.
The permanent dam and the bridge
| tine new channel has made necessary,
will give work all summer.
PREFERENCE TO VETERANs.-Judge
| Moore, of the eighth district, in case
where IL mayor appoiD ted a city attor-
ney who was not an old soldier while
there was veteran of the civil war u
candidate, decided that the mayor was
the sole judge of the competency of the
applicaut and that the law eriyinp
precedence to old soldiers carries the
| clause ''if competent"
A CIGAR THIEF. Holt Sneider,
charged with stealing 1000 cigars in
Saiina. has been captured by the po-
lice at Lincoln, Nebraska.
REvoKEs GRAY's LICENsE.-The state