Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-03-05
KANSAS COMMENT.

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Just finished breakfast when he dropped
dead.
K o. Boys Cot is expected that
300 students from the state university
alone will attend the state oratorical
contest to be held in Atchison on the
9TH of March.
NEVER MISSED A DAY.-In the thirty
nine wears that c. T. K. Prentice has
been marshal of Lawrence he has not
lost day on account of sickness. In
the ten years that Albert Nash has
served as driver for the Lawrence fire
department, he has never missed a
single fire.
CONFERENCES CONTINUE. -Confer-
ences between Santa Fe officials and
large delegation of trainmen have been
going on for some time at Topeka, and
it seems to be still uncertain what will
result. There exists personal esteem
between the parties and all negotia-
tions are friendly, yet the trainmen re-
fuse, SO far, to accept any compromise
of their request for an increase of
wages.
AFTER FORTY YEARs.-The son of ].
]. HedriclS, of Hutchinson, works in
the postoffice department at Washing
ton. Recently in looking through
the museum of the dead letter Office
young HedriclS came upon photo
graph of his father which had been
lost in the mails more than forty years
ago, The elder Hedrick was one of
twenty brothers and half-brothers who
enlisted on the Union side.
REGISTERED SHoRTHoRNs.-Manh
tan is fast becoming a central point for
the sale of fancy and pure bred stock.
c. P. Dewey has just completed large
sales arena at the Manhattan livestock
sales yards and the first big sale was
the ]. S. Mcintosh herd of registered
Shorthorns Sixty-eight head of the
Bluegrass herd were sold. The top
bull sold at s21o, top COW at sos and
the herd averaged STA.
STUDENTS WHO ARE PooR.-The will
of Miss Jennie 1. Ford was probated at
Emporia and it specified that Miss
Ford leaves the bulk of her fortune to
send energetic and deserving poor to
college. She left large estate, part
of which was in Lyon county, and was
sold last week for $1,000, in settling
her estate. Miss Ford was an Emporia
school teacher until several years ago
when she moved to Laport, Pa, where
she died.
WAS AGENT THERE. W. Tedford,
assistant general freight agent of the
Santa Fe, with headquarters at Chica-
go, has resigned his position and will
leave the service of the Santa Fe on
March 1. He will have charge of the
traffic department of the Sharon Steel
Hoop company of Sharon, Pa. About
ten years ago Mr.. Tedford was the
agent for tina Santa Fe at Hutchinson
where he still has many friends who
rejoice over his success.
INSURANCE TRUsT.-James NJ. Chal-
lis, of Atchison, county attorney, has
commenced proceedings against the al
legged insurance trust. He cited all the
local agents to appear in the district
court to give testimony regarding a
combination which is said to exist for
the purpose of controlling rates His
action is the result of a note from
Mayor Orr, calling his attention to a
meeting of insurance men recently
held for the purpose, it is said, of regu-
lating and raising rates.
A New CHURcH.-The new Meth
odist church in Holton was dedicated
Sunday. The structure, which has
just been completed, is one of the finest
in the state and was built at cost of
about SIS, 500.
LARGE SALE OF CoRN.-Sid Lucas, a
Doniphan county farmer, sold Is, 900
bushels of corn at one Clip this week,
netting him Sc, 900.
HAS 16 JoINTs.-Although Salina has
sixteen joints there is but one criminal
case on the calendar of the district
court of Saline county.
A STUDENT DRowNED.-B. p
Schmidt, a freshman student of the
Agricultural college was drowned
while skating on the Blue river. The
river was not completely frozen over
and Schmidt went down in channel.
The body was not recovered. His home
is at Inman, Mcpherson county.
For NEWTON PosToFFICE.-Mr. Long
has introduced in the house bill to
provide for the purchase of a site for
the erection of a public building there
on at Newton, Kansas, at cost not
exceeding 100000.
SAC AND Fox PAYMENT.-The mem
bers of the combined tribes of Kansas
were recently paid on the Great Nema-
ha reservation in Brown county The
Indians altogether received Sis, 900.
Each Iowa gets S346, or a total of S7s,-
600 for the tribe. Each Sac and Fox
received S477. About SEQ, 900 is paid
out each day and no collectors or ira
ders are allowed on the agency at the
time of payment. Every Indian will
be paid except those under Is years,
their shares being kept in trust by the
government.
WHOLESALE GROCERY FIRE-ware-
house No. 2, one of the largest of the
five owned by the Ranney, Davis Mer-
camille Company, of Arkansas City,
burned with $50, 600 loss on stock and
S45, 900 insurance. Other buildings, in
Guiding the sompany's main building
across the str Get were threatened but
were saved. The building was insured
for 81, 500. The contents of the build
ing amounted to about 200 carloads