Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-11-10
KANSAS COMMENT

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Tours Of Inspection.-Col. A. L.
Wagner of the general staff has ar.
rived at Fort Leavenworth to in
'spect the infantry and cavalry school
Cannot vote.-Attorney General
Coleman has held that inmates Of the
penitentiary and reformatory out on
parole cannot vote at the coming cleo
ton.
Wreck ON the kssy.-A southbound
M. K. & T. passenger train was partial
ly wrecked six miles south of Kincaid
The engine and baggage car left the
track. The engineer and fireman were
both seriously hurt. All passengers
escaped injury. 4,
Run Over by Train.-A young son
of Rev. Hitchcokck was run over by
a Santa Fe freight train in the yards
at Leavenworth and his right leg was
cut off. He was attempting TO get
out of the way of one train and he
stepped in front of the freight.
Explosion of Turpentine.-At Atch-
son Mrs. NJ. M. PEBBLES, manager of a
Soldiers Orphans Home cottage, re-
ceived what is believed fatal burns
from the explosion Of turpentine and
parafine, which she was heating with
the Intention of waxing the floors.
High Price Of Wheat.-At Garden
City two frosts killed all vines but
alfalfa is growing and If this warm
weather continues a few days longer
another crop will be cut. The largest
acreage of wheat is being put in, since
the big wheat years of 1892. The
ground could not be in better condi-
tion, two soaking good rains have put
the ground in the best possible condi-
ton, and only the high price of seed
wheat, being 81 bushel, prevents
more being sown.
Apples in Cold Storage.-Produce
men say there are now in cold storage
in Hutchinson something like 200 cars
of apples. The crop is nearly all pick
ed and the select fruit that is to be
held is about all in storage. There has
been a continuous heavy shipment of
apples from Hutchinson ever since
the early summer apples began to
come in and scores of cars of the
fruit have been sent out in this way
besides the carload shipments. There
are great many lots being held in
the farmers cellars all over the
county.
Postoffice Robbed.-On the night of
October % the postofice at Leona was
hrnL int
tered through the back door by re-
moving part of window glass and
turning the key which had been left
in the door. They also entered the
grocery store of ]. Ritterbush in the
same manner. The loss is not yet
known, but it is thought to be light, |
with the exception of jewelry taken
from the postofice building and dam
age to cash registers, which were
removed from the buildings.
Develop New Field.-About thirty oil
and gas leases have been filed with
Register of Deeds Carl Delfs in the
past few days, and there are indica- |
lions of an old boom in Leavenworth !
county. In some localities the for
black fluid is found oozing out of the |
ground in several places. Gas has |
been struck at Boner Springs in Wyan-
dotte county, and arrangements have
been made to drill wells at Linwood /
and Wolcott. Many of the farmers are /
quite enthusiastic. Warden Jewett re- !
Gently suggested that an appropriation
might be asked at the next legislature /
to sink a we'll by convict labor near /
Lansing and there is a strong proba-
bility that an effort will be made to
do this.
College for Negroes.-The colored !
people of Crawford and Cherokee
counties are taking the preliminary |
steps toward the building of a col /
lege to be used exclusively for the |
education of their race, and for their
general improvement morally, intel
lectually and religiously.
Mystery Broken.-G. G. Jordan, the
picture man, who was reported as
mysteriously disappearing from Stat |
ford. has been heard from. He sent |
a cipher message to some brothers,
who did not disclose the fact, but
went to him. 1896 !
Expect Big Time.-The next annual
meeting of the Kansas State Survey
or's Association will be held at Nc
Pherson December 1921. 1904. Nc
Pherson is on four railroads, A. T. &
S. F.; U. P; Mo. Pac. and Rock Is
land. Holiday rates will prevail at
this time. The program will be an
nounced later.
Scarlet FeVer.-The schools of
Humboldt have been closed indefinite
ly on account of scarlet fever. One
child has died from the disease.
James Hayford, seven years old Anoth-
er child in the same family is very i'll
| Prehistoric Bones-Two large bones
found by William Mansfield, south of
Arkansas City, and believed to be a
part of the skeleton of some prehis-
toric animal, have been shipped to the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, where
they will be shown to government ex-
perts and an endeavor made to inter-
est Smithsonian Institution officials
in them. --
Missionary School.-Miss Alice
Cooper Of Jewell, starts November Is
for Calcutta, India, where she will
teach in a missionary school for ten
years. II
Says it is Unprecedented Nineteen
counties out of the seventy reporting
to the board of health secretary show
epidemic or sporadic cases of diph- +.
liberia, and twenty-four cases of scar
let fever. These reports are for the
three months ending September go {
The secretary. DR.. ]. S. Crumbine, de-