Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-11-12
MopEns NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ed.


worthy the name, and their product
was unsought. Ten years ago Kansas
had 567, 1853 mich COWS; creameries of
"a better class were being slowly estab-
lished, but their output begged Il mar
ket. Today Kansas has s02, 73S mich
COWS, or more than at any previous
time, and many high grade creameriea
and cheese factories, including the
largest creamery in the world, hun
dreds of contributory. receiving and
skim stations and their products are
sought beyond the supply"
NORMAL. STOCK SHIPrING. -Severa
stations along the Santa Fe in Western
Kansas are boasting of record breaking
in the matter of stock shipment dur
ing the past week, and claim that the
number of cars handled exceed the
shipment of any previous week for sew
erAl years. The Santa Fc officials,
however, do not profess to see any
thing unusual in the movement of
stock along it's lines, one of them sta
ting that the conditions were not dit
ferent from last year or any previous
year.
For LOWER FEEIGHTs. organi-
zation is being formed in Kansas for
the purpose of bringing about lower
freight rates in the state. 1t will be
called the Farmers and Merchants
Freight association and win have
branches in every county. 1t will be
non-political i'll character and will
make i'm effort 20 have bill passed by
the Legislature to bring about a more
satisfactory condition for shippers.
FIRE AT MEDICINE LoDeE.-Fire
started from telephone wires in the
Chase hardware store at o'clock Il. m.
and their double brick building was
destroyed. A two-s:ory brick owned
by Mrs. NJ. !. Higgins was badly dam
aged. Two buildings across the street
had plate glass windows broken by the
heat. C. Q. Chandler lost Il building
and an automobile. There were sew
eral smaller losses.
CONSUMPTION IN KANsAs.-Thc state
board OF health has published statis-
tics which show that consumption
causes more deaths in the state than
any other disease; being % per cent
greater than either smallpox or typhoid
fever. In the last three months there
have been $50 cases of consumption re-
ported and 14s deaths, in SIS of the los
counties of the state.
EPuEPrICs SANE OR ISsANE.-Under
Il rule just adopted by the state board
of charities the new asylum at Parsons
will admit both sane and insane cpilep-
ties. L: will be an epilcptic Institution
solely. At present only male epiiep-
ties will be admitted. Next year,
when the new cottages are completed,
female patients will be taken care
Of
THREE Crops OF GRAPES M. C.
Briant, a Pratt county farmer, claims
to have raised three crops of grapes
from his vines this year. The first was
killed by the heavy frost, the second
matured and was saved and the third
is now ripe and ready for picking.
ELEVATOR COLLAPSED. The north
side of Mhddcn's stone elevator at Hays
collapsed and 5000 bushels of wheat
piled on the railroad .raols. Cars cam
not be had 10 snip the grain.
MCFARLAND TRUANTs.- McFar.
land the truancy officer found 157 chill
drcn who should have been at school
The enrolment at the school was fifty.
WRECK on Mo. Pacific Missouri
Pacific had a small wheci at Gypsum
City. No one was reported injured.
OCTOBER ARRESTS. There were 227
arrests in Wichita in October and ST.
$40 collected in fines.
GRADUATES GET Schools.
the teachers of the district schools of
Shawnee county thirty-fve are grad
yates of the Topeka high school.
There is big demand for the grad
yates as in nearly all cases they have
made successful teachers.
FoR HARVESTER TRusT.-- Work is
begun at Concordia on Il S25 900 brick
and stone building for the Intcrna-
tional Harvester company, which will
locate n branci, house there. The build
ing will be &c by 16o feet, with base
ment and three stories
IURYMEN DRAWN FROM FAR.-The
petit jury OF the United States district
court for next term will be drawn from
the western part of the state The
trials of the penitentiary mntineers
will come mp and it is desired to secure
Il jury which knows as little concern
ing the trouble as possible.
WHEAT FILLS CAEs. The switches
on the main line OF tine Missouri Pa
cific at Utica and Ransom, III Ness
county, are filled with cars of wheat
Which have been standing there for
thirty days.
No JOINTS Now. Many of the Galena
joints closed on their own accord as
as Soon us the grand jury convened
and the proprietors sought quarters
elsewhere. Now there is not IL joint
running in Cherokee county and it is
safe to predict that all will stay closed
as long as the jury is in session.
Pop Com AT SIN. L. Moore, near
WcstmoreIand, has harvested one thou
sand bushels of popcorn from fifteen
acres, or scventy-fivc bushels per acre
He finds Il ready market for it at 81 a
bushel.
DRAWS CASH AND LEAVES c.
Chamberlain disappeared from his |
home at Everett after drawing 81, oo1
from the bank. His wife is at AtciI-
ison in search of hin, Cl,p,ha,l,;, =;