Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-14

the rebel leader. Quantrell, in 1855,
and then fought against his old teach
er, was in Leavenworth visiting re-
Gently. He is now resident of Ok
lahoma territory, living fourteen
miles northwest Of Lawton. Cord
well says he came to Kansas in 1854
and in 1855 attended school near
Lawrence, taught by Quantrell. Ee
was a member of Jennison's first reg
iment and later member of the Elev-
enth Kansas, being mustered out of
that regiment in Leayenworth in
1865. He fought against Quantrell
in 1865 and followed him to Van
Buren,, Ark, and to Fort Copper.
Harvest Greatly Retarded.-Wheat
harvest has been greatly retarded in
the south by the wet weather. The
wheat is rusting some in Atchison
and Marshall. The oat harvest had
begun in the southern counties, but
was stopped by the rains and in Mont
gomery much of the crop has fallen.
The oats are turning in the central
counties, but have rusted some in
Atchison and Marshall. Corn has
made a good growth in most counties
the ground being too wet to cult
vate.
Amendments Void.-Attorney Gen
eral Coleman has decided that two
constitutional amendments which the
last legislature voted to submit to the
people at the coming election were
void because not recorded in the legis-
lative journals in accordance with the
constitutional requirements. A search
of the records reveals the fact that
the state prohibitory amendment was
not published in either the senate or
house journals. If Attorney General
Coleman's opinion is correct the pro-
hibitory law may be declared void.
New SWindIe.-A new swindle has
come to Kansas. A stranger ap-
proaches the farmer to buy a water
tank, which he guarantees will pre-
vent water freezing in zero times.
Failing to make sale, he induces
has him sign a contract for one tank
to be used as a sample, as Mr.. Strang-
er is very DESTROYS to place one tank
in each township. A few weeks after
two strangers come along with the
contract transformed into a note and
demand payment.
Orient Bonds.-Oficial returns re-
ceived from at the voting precincts
of Sedgwick county show that the
$4,000 Orient railroad bond issue car
ried by a majority of S62 votes. Out
side of Wichita there were but com
paratively few votes cast in favor
of the bonds. In only four country
precincts did they carry, as follows:
West Gypsum, Delano, Viola and
Wichita. Wichita township really is
a part of the city. The city gave a
majority for the bonds of 1917 votes.3
Forty-Pound Pressure.-Arthur At
kinson, miner living in Pittsburg,
was celebrating the Fourth by plac-
ing sticks of dynamite in the ground
and firing them with forty-pound pres
sure caps. One of them failed to go
and he went back to make an exam
ination and as he stopped over the
dynamite it exploded. Both hands
were blown off at the wrists, and his
feet, legs, breast and face were shred
ded as if by a knife. He will not live.2
For Target Practice.-The Fort
Leavenworth artillery battalion, con-
sisting of the Sixteenth siege battery,
the Twenty-eighth Mountain battery
and the Twenty-ninth Light Field bat
terry, left for Fort Riley for annual
target practice. A hospital detach-
ment and supply train accompanied
the battalion which comprised more
than 400 men and 800 animals
Outlook Never Better.-John Keif-
ner, resident of Garden Plain, said
in Wichita that wheat will make 25
bushels per acre in the vicinity of
Garden Plain, and that the general
outlook was never better for all of
the crops, adding that in all of the
twenty years that he has lived in this
part of Kansas he has never seen the
wheat and corn better.
Run Over by Cars.-R. R. McFar-
land, 60 years old, was killed at Blu
cyrus by a westbound Missouri Pa
ciic passenger train at a crossing.
Carried Over Dam.-Thomas Will
liams, painter, was drowned in the
Smoky Hill river, south of Abilene.
He was in a boat with a companion
when the boat was caught in the
strong current and carried over
Browns dam. The boat capzized and
Williams went down before his COM
panion could reach him.
Attend Wedding. = Congressman
Charles Scott and Victor Murdoch,
with their wives, attended the wedding
at Medicine Lodge of Ralph Faxon,
the private secretary of Senator Ches-
ter l. Long.
Prospect Notes.-The Junction City
Oil and Mining company let the con-
tract for digging two prospect wells.
The wells will be SINK 1900 or 1000
feet, and the work will be commenced
in about two weeks. The company
was organized several weeks ago, and
has been incorporated with 500 shares
of stock at $25 share. Local people
have bought all the shares.
Heart FaiIure.-Mrs. Ricka House,
clothing merchant in Lawrence, died
very suddenly at her home, of heart
disease.
Reverses Cause Suicide.-B. F. Set
ties committed suicide at Arkansas
City by shooting himself through the
head with revolver. He has threat
ened to kill himself several times
during the past month and it is be-
lieved that business reverses caused
the deed. He was 43 years of age and
unmarried.
Military Weddine.-A gold braid
military wedding was an event at
Fort Riley. Capt Edgar A. Fry of
Abilene, and Miss Mary Maus, daugh-
ter of the colonel, furnished the occa-
sion.
Will Build Dike-The farmers Iiv-