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

lamp exploded. burning the house.
Thauer is the same party who was
robbed a few weeks ago by tramps Of
$500.
KASsANs Ar HEPPNER. family
of William Krugg, including the faith
err, mother. and four children, all OF
whom were drowned in the food at
Heppner, Oregon, used to live in To
pe'sa. Mr.. Krugg was a brother OF
Bert Krugg, an employee in the Santa
Fe water service. William Krugg was
at one time motorneer on the Topeka
street railway.
TRACK WAS CRIBBED. East of Fort
Riley 4,0C0 feet of new track had 10 De
put in. Three hundred feet of it was
laid on a cribbing built OF ties. The
roadbed has completely disappeared at
many places. For days the men who
were employed in this work were in
the water TO their knees and sometimes
to their necis.
OTHER LE6IsI.ArIOS.-In 1882 the
special session of the legislature, the
foot and mouth disease session, i'm
ncdiately upon converting adopted IA
joint resolution that no other business
be transacted and the Legislature stuck
10 it. This special session, it is likely,
will follow that precedent.
WAS IN 2OTH KANSAS Deweys
are thorough cowmcn, good riders and
dead shots and Clyde Wilson, one of
the prisoners, was sergeant-major in
the twentieth Kansas. Mcbride, the
other prisoner, is Leavenworth man.
His wife lives on the Dewey ranch and
is herself crack shot
NEGRO FREIGHT HANDLERS. Two
coaches passed through Topeka which
were flied with negro laborers
on their way to Kansas City to take
the places of the Santa Fe freight han
dlcrs who went out on a strike several
days ago. About twenty-five men
were secured at Topeka.
THE Governments Loss.-At Leav-
enworth the 600 acre farm at the fed
eral penitentiary was swept bare of
the growing crops by the floods. War
den McClaughry says that the property
destruction in Kansas was much great.
er than Galveston suffered by the great
tidal flood.
THREE FROM CoSCoRDIA. Among
the victims of the cloudburst ut Hepp-
ner, Ore, were three former residents
of Concordia, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Daw-
son, vino went to Oregon four or five
years ago, and H. NJ. Geiger, marble
cutter
FIEsT PASSENGER TEAIN.-The first
passenger train on the Union Pacific
since May % arrived at Junction City
on June IT, and the first train of any
kind on the same road came in from
the east on tine same evening.
Fort SccTT SENDS MoRE.-The com.
mercial club of Fort Scott has sent
81, 900 to the state relief fund and has
shipped carload of clothing, bedding
and provisions to Kansas City, Kas.
The KANSAS WEsLEYAN.-T. w.
Roach, eX-mayor of Salina and now
the head of the Kansas Wesleyan Bust.
ness college, has been chosen president
of the Kansas Wesleyan university.
Took Thirty DAYs.-The flood
caught the 10th battery AT St Mary's
where it was detained II days. 1t was
marching to Fort Riley with four seven
inch guns.
ton of the federal building at Law
renee is held mp for an indefinite time
at the request of Congressman Bower
sock.
APPLE CROP.--State Horticulturist
Barnes looked over the apple crop about
Wichita and said it was ali right.
INSURANCE Co. MUST Go. The state
superintendent of insurance proposes
to drive the Wayne Mutual Life Insur-
ance company, of Indianapolis, Ind. i,
out of the state. The company is do
ohoiACoo AL AftHotto nlbAOuG IL
cense. 1t is probable the local agents
of the company will be prosecuted.
SnoET ONE DAY.-Thc inmates of
the Soldiers home at Leavenworth had
little taste of old war time trouble
during the water tie-up. On account
of the inability to get supplies they
were on short ratioDs for one day.
SIMULTANEOUS STATEMESrs.-A call
is made upon national banks for a
statement of their conditions OIL June
0. State Bank Commissioner AlbauglI
will issue call at once on the state
and private banks for statement of
their business up to the same date,
with the intention of consolidating the
reports
PAYS TO Plant TREEs.-A Rice
county man has lived 20 see trees which
he planted when lie first came to Kan
sas grow until they supplied him with
material for barns, fences, etc
AFTER DIAMONDS Now.-H. :. An
now on his way to Kansas from Brazil,
where he has purchased 1OO,O 900 acres
of diamond and gold land in Central
Brazil. Several Saiina parties are in
terested with Anderson.
To SUCCEED PENNY.-The board OF
regents of Kansas university has APP
pointed Charles 5. Sl1ilton, Yale 80
now of Trenton, n. j.. as dean of the
school of fine arts, to succeed Prof G.
E. Penny, who resigned to go to WASH
burn college at Topeka
SALIVA RECOVERING is fast
recovering from the effects of the flood
and the town is progressing as though
rothing had ever happened. New
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