Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-02

colored woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Law
ton, who was one of the two thousand
slaves brought: by him from Missouri
in 1851 and set free, he being then an
an army chaplain under General James
H. Lane. Size is also probably the
only woman shot in Quantrell's raid on
Lawrence in 1868, she receiving bull
let in the right elbow, which disabled
her for life
WAsHBURN COLLEGES Loss.-Wash-
burn college lost about $4,000 because
of the flood. The college had two
mortgages on river bottom farms near
Wamego. The river cut across one
farm and washed it entirely away. 1t
cut into the other farm and washed
away five acres of it. The farm house
on the second farm was left hanging
to the edge of the river.
MUCH Brass SToLEN.-The Topeka
police found half carload of brass
and copper. covered with rags and
ready for shipment 1t had all been
stolen, most of il from the Santa Fe
shops and yards. Junk dealers had
loaded the car. A negro had sold it to
them for SIS cents pound; the price
he paid the individual thieves was 4
cents a pound.
CHANUTE TEACHERS AT MANILA
Will J. Skinner, of Chanute, has been
two years in the Philippines teaching
school at 81, 400 year. His wife got
tired of living 10000 miles away from
her husband, SO she applied for and
received job of teaching in the same
islands at 5000 year. She starts from
Chanute for Manila in few days.
BowERscCK's MILL.-The congress
man stated that the rebuilding of his
big flour mill at Lawrence, which was
destroyed by the food, depends upon
the action Of his city and county in
forcing the Kaw back into its original
chanuel. The river washed out the
north approach to the bridge and cut a
new channel north of the dam.
BLANCHE BOIEs SENTENCED. blanche
Boies was given a sentence of thirty
days in the county jail and 500 fine by
Judge Hazen, of the district court of
Shawnee county. The cause of the
sentence was the conviction of Miss
Boies for smashing saloon windows in
Topeka, February IA.
EVERYTHING William
Wyckof describes his losses on his
Sumner county farm thus: EVERY
thing destroyed; will have no harvest
ing; wheat, oats, corn, garden all gone;
twenty-three window lights broken;
shingles on roof broken into splinters. :"
GARDEN CITY DEFEATS BoNDs.-The
proposition to vote SILL 900 worth of
bouds for an irrigation plant to water
the Garden City irrigation district was
defeated by vote of II to &c. 1t
would have required three fifths ma
jority to carry the bond Issue.
LOST $50 ACRES OF WHEAT.-Jacob
Meyer and his three sons, in Sumner
county, had three hundred acres of
wheat caught by the hail storm. The
grain on ESQ acres is total loss; that
on the remaining fifty is badly damaged.
BELoIT LAWYER HEARD FRoM.-A
former resident of Beloit who is now
living in Lawton, Ok, says he is one
of about 300 lawyers in that city of
5000 people.
SIX SKELEToNs.-They were found in
hole that h;td been washed out lust
west of North Topeka. They are sup
posed to have washed from some old
grave yard.
Our OF BANKs.-The Arkansas river
got out of it's banks and froliclsed on
the bottoms about Sterling on June 25.
The rise was caused by local rains
MACHINE GUNS. The state military
board has decided to add two machine
guns 10 each battery of the Kansas
national guard for use in riots
FIRST IN 90 DAYs.-The first train
over Rock Island crack for % days ar
rived at Abilene June 20. The track
to the west end of the branch, Salina,
will not be repaired for several days.
Long stretches of track are rods from
the right of way in the cornfields.
MOVE THEIR CAR SHoPs.-Worl< is to
commence soon en- new buildings at
the Dold packing house in Wichita for
car shops. This branch of the Doid
packing plants is to be located in Wich-
tia instead Of Kansas City, as Dold has
no packing house there now.
CARLOAD OF SUPPIIEs.-From the
accumulations of clothing, bedding and
! supplies received for state relief a car
load was sent to Argentine Argen
tine, separate municipality from Kan
sas City, Kas., received but little at
tention for while, although it suffered
much by the flood.
SALARIES RAISED. board of re-
gents of the state agricultural college
have increased the salaries of the fac
ulty ten per cent. President Nichols
| salary was raised from $1,000 to So
500
OWNED At ToPEKA.-Oiler No. OF
the Federal Oil and gas company was
brought in and proved to be gusher.
An hour after being shot it threw oil
over tue top of the derrick This CON-
pany is owned principally by Topeka
people.
RELIEF FUNDS INCREASING. The
food relief fund is growing. The larg-
est additions now are to the state fund.
The Milwaukee chamber of commerce
has sent $1,000 The city fund received
5000 from the mayor of Indianap-
oils.
MoRE KAHsANs.-The Curtis family,