Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-09-10
KANSAS COMMENT.
KANSAS

Holton, u former X. U. student, has
coasted along the shores of every coun-
try but Australia.
INVESTIGATE COAL Governor
Bailey is preparing to maize an investi-
cation to ascertain whether or not an
illegal combination exists among the
coal mine operators in the state.
NATIONAL GUARD APPoINTAENT.-
Gov. bailey has appointed William j..
Hooper, of Atchison as second lieuten-
ant of K company, First regiment,
Kansas National Guard. Nearlg all
vacancies in the guard have now been
filed.
FRoM Farm TO YALE. Miss Anna
bel, a graduate OF the state university
whose home is on a farm east of Salina,
received word that she is the winner
of the Bulky fellowship prize at Yale,
which entities her to a years tuition
at Yale and S4O0 in cash. She VII
leave for Yale this month. Miss Abel,
by her own efforts has secured a schol-
arship in Columbia university.
EXPRESS OFFICE RoBBED.-The trans
fer office of the Wclls-Fargo express
company at the Frisco station at CO.
lumbus was robbed while the transfer
agent was on the platform and $500
in silver taken. A package containing
$500 in currency was just beneath the
bag of silver, but it was not taken.
The safe was unlocked. Two valuable
watches were stolen from the same safe
week before.
In SCOTT CoUNTY.-The crop condi-
tions in Scott county were never bet
ter. The wheat, barley and oats crop
was excellent and is in stack. In some
places in the county threshing has
commenced. The wheat will yield
from 20 to 40 bushels per acre and the
quality is fine. The corn crop will be
larger than usual and the cane, millet
and hay crops, too, never were better
and more abundant
MITCHELL COUNTY CRoPs.-Owing to
continued wet weather farmers are
making but little progress with their
thrcshing. The grade of wheat mar
lxcted is low from the same cause. The
yield per acre seems to average about
IS bushels, many fields making as high
as 25 and few as low as 10. The
prospect for corn never was better at
this season. Some of it is late, but all
0f
corn in the county.
JOHNSON COUNTY CHors.-Corn is be-
low the average and will yield about
60 per cent; wheat average yield is
about 12 bushels. Potatoes on the
Kaw bottom are practically ruined.
Bluegrass seed is yielding about bush
els to the acre; two-thirds crop. Oats
go 80 bushels, or about rs per cent of
the average. Timothy hay is fine
yield. Glover average, so per cent or
more; millet, 90 per cent The apple
crop is below the average.
RUSH CLAIMS BANNER.-Rush county
raised 700 bushels of wheat for every
Inslu, woman anu CDllO III OilC COUNTY.
This is the highest ''per capiter" of
of any county in the state. A census
of the county shows that every man in
t, with the exception of fifteen, had
in some wheat this year. These fifteen
were loborers on the railroad and
around the towns. Each business man
nd merchant in the county had wheat
out Every business man at La Crosse
each. The acreage next year will be
even larger than that of this year.
Everybody is planting more wheat.
An OFFICE Row. H. Eagan, who
became ar Office boy in IL bank at
Hutchinson twenty years ago. and who
studiously refrained ever since from
entering politics. has gone to Chicago
as president of million dollar trust
company.
FRIENDS UNIvEEsITY-Tbe man
ayers of this Wichita school announce
that the faculty is completed for the
coming year by the election OF Prof.
VIM. p. Trueblood, who will do work
in the departments of history and PHI
losophy.
MANGLED AND ScALDED. -Charles
Wilson, of Chase county, was fright
fully injured by the explosion of a
threshing machine engine six miles
east of Emporia. His right arm was
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badly mangled and he was terribly
scalded.
WOMEN CAN VoTE FOR BoNDs.-Thc
attorney general holds that under the
now city charter act passed by the last
legislature women in cities of the first
class can vote on any proposition which
pertains to the city.
On GOVERNMENT Bun.DINe-Thc
stone cutters on the government build
ing at Emporia were called out by the
local union. The grievance is that
some of the stone work is cut at Bed
ford, Indiana. The contractors also
state that all their stone cutting will
now"be done in Indiana.
AFTER HE WAS sO.--Malachi Salter,
of Clay county, recently died. He sur
vived six wives and 90 children and
had buried four children. The last
two of'his children were born after he
was so years old.
LIGHT PLANT BUBNED.-The electric
light plant at Horton is destroyed by
fire. A chest of tools near door was
the only thing that was saved. The
loss is total and besides tine plant itself
much material for the new plant was
destroyed. There was $4,000 insur-
ance which will cover about half the
loss. The city will be without lights