Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-02

| OFFICIAL. STATE PAPER--The Tope-
lsa Capital has again been chosen as
the official state paper, for another
term of two years. The vote of the
executive council was: For the Cap
ital-Governor Bailey, Secretary of
| State Burrow, Attorney General Cole
man, State Auditor Wells, and State
Superintendent Dayhoff. For the Her
ald-State Treasurer Kelly.
| WORKED 81 YEARs.-W. N. Shields,
known to railroad men as Daddy
Shields, has worked for the Missouri
Pacific 81 years, as car repairer, and
in all that time has had but five months
in lay-offs. He has worked ten and
twelve years at time without single
day of rest or vacation, working seven
days every week.
| ABsTRACToRs' BoNDs.-The attorney
general decides that abstractors, under
the new law, will have to file new
bonds. Under the old law abstractors
were liable only to persons who en-
| ployed them. Under the new law this
liability extends for the protection to
any person who is injured by a mistake
in an abstract.
| HASKELL BANDS CoNTRACrs.-The
manager of the Haskell Indian band
has closed contracts for several weeks
of concert work at points in Colorado
this summer. More than dozen
tribes, from all over the United States,
are represented in the membership of
the organization.
BURGLARS Cor 81, oOO-It was taken
from the Stocllmen's State bank at
Greensburg, besides much damage done
with nitro-glycerine to the vault. The
burglars were discovered and fired
upon, one of them hit, but they reached
their horses and got away toward the
territory.
JUDGE FOR New DISTRICT.
Bailey has appointed Oscar Foust, of
lola, judge of the new 37th district,
composed of Allen and Woodson coun-
ties. Foust will be elected for full
term on May s; meantime he will serve
under the appointment.
ROAR ABOUT BAD RoADs.-The lola
Register tells about load of hay in
the mud in front of the city hall where
the city fire team had stuck the day be-
fore, and says that there is no wonder
that farmers are making a loud roar
for good roads.
IoIA's COURT HOUsE.-The new
court house to be erected in the center
of the square in lola is to be "A by 90
feet, with four entrances. 1t is to be
built of red brick, finished with blue
limestone and cement ornaments.
A WEALTHY SIoCKMAN.-C E. Forde,
a pioneer stock man of Lyon county,
is dead at the age of 60 years He was
well known throughout Kansas by
stocllmen. Mr.. Forde was one of the
richest stocllmen of the state.
CAN CONDEMN CATTLE.-The attorney
general decides that the state livestock
sanitary commission has authority to
kill cattle afflicted with contagious
diseases after they are appraised.
EGGs BY TELEPHoNE.-A poultry
and egg dealer of Solomon pays about
500 ID month for telephone service,
which he uses in buying this kind of
produce from the farmers.
AN ALFALFA CoMPANY.-The Ness
County Alfalfa company has taken a
charter, with capital of SIS, 900, for
the purpose of growing and marketing
alfalfa.
CASH OFFERS FOR ROAD WORK.
Business men of Lawrence are Offering
to give 500 to $500 year for ten years
for good road work in Douglas coun-
ty.
FIRE AT NoRToN.-Fire started in Il
cigar factory at Norton, destroying it.
1t spread to the Peerless hotel which
is complete wreck.
X. U. HAS 90 TEAMs.-Kansas uni
versity students maintain twenty-five
base ball teams.
NEBRASKA FARMERs.-A colony of
Nebraska farmers is locating in the
northern part of Geary county and the
southern part of Clay county. Eight
or ten farms have been bought recently
by them. They are buying some of
the best farming land in that part of
the state.
SOLD HIS CLAIM-W. II. Hornaday,
formerly a Topeka newspaper man, has
sold his Oklahoma claim for s11, 500.
Hornaday purchased, sixteen months
ago, claim No 3, which corners on the
townsite of Lawton, for So, 500.
MAY BE CoUNTY's FAULT.-The at
torney general has held that a person
who has occupied school land for a
year without paying for it is guilty of
trespass unless the county commission
ers have neglected to have the land APP
praised in that time. The settler is
not required to pay for the land until
after it has been appraised.
New PIPE ORGAN-The First NJ. E.
church of Holton has completed ar
rangements for a fine SO, 900 pipe organ
in their new church which was recent
ly dedicated.
MANY Hoes LosT.-In the Robinson
neighborhood in Brown county, a dog,
supposed to be mad, bit hog belong
ing to John Staples. The hog bit
others and the disease spread rapidly,
causing the death of many hogs .One
farmer alone lost animals valued at
$3.50.
A FREIGHT WRECK.-An east bound
Mo. pac. freight was wrecked eight
| miles east of Eureka Seven cars of