Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-05-26
KANSAS COMMENT.


existence this year
ANOTHER GREATEsT.-The greatest
oil we'll in the Kansas field was recent
ly shot near Humboldt.
FOUR INCHES OF RAIN.-Wellingt
reports nearly four inches of rain dur
ing the first 10 days of May.
For oN.-Congressman Muir
dock gives out cheering news for irri
cation interests of Western Kansas.
BIS PRODUCING WEILs.-Neosho
county claims to have 315 producing
oil wells not to mention the wild cats.
SALINAS FIRST ScHooL.-It was in
1862 and there were ID pupils. There
was no legally organized school dis
trict.
KILLED BY A BLow.-A coroners'
jury at Neodesha decides that Sherman
Howard died from blow on the head
from Robert Kelley's fist.
STRIKERS ATroRNEYs.-The attor-
neys employed by the Santa Fe strikers
at Topeka have filed motion to have
the restraining order removed.
For CIVIL SERv1cE.-A civil service
examination will be held May % for
the position of clerks and letter car
riers in the postoffice at Parsons.
TEACHERS WAeEs.-In the matter of
salaries paid to high school teachers
Kansas City, Kansas, stands at the
bottom of list of fifty-eight cities.
AFTER A YEAR.-Over a year ago
Hutchinson boy was shot in the face
with a rifle. Last week while his nose
was bleeding the bullet was discharged
from it.
Young CoCKLEBURS.-The farmers
around Simpson are losing numbers of
cattle from eating young cockleburs.
Young cockleburs are said to be very
poisonous.
Towns ON THE SANTA FE.-The new
map of Kansas to be published by the
state board of railroad commissioners
will show fourteen new towns all on
the Santa Fe.
ATCHIsoN ScoREs.-Miss Roberta
Helm, formerly of that place, has just
been married in New York city to
Eberhard Faber, the millionaire pen
Gil manufacturer.
SOME KANSAS FACToRIEs.-Topeka
factories, according to the assessors
returns, employ 1000 more people this
year than they did one year ago. The
payroll is nowS3, $50, 900 annually. Dur
ing the past year over SIP 200, 900 worth
of raw material was used and SIT, OOO,-
600 worth of products were manufac-
tured.
FIVE ORGANIZATIONS was
crowded to the wall by the presence of
five organizations which sprung up
from the civil war, viz: The annual
encampment of the Kansas G.. A R.,
the Womeu's Relief Corps, the Ladies'
of the G. A. R., the Sons of Veterans
and the Ladies' Aid Society, each of
which held separate conventions.
SPECIAL CROP REPoRT.-A special
crop report gathered by the officers of
the Leavenworth, Kansas & Western
road shows that winter wheat is in
fine condition in Jefferson, jackson,
Pottawatomie and Clay counties. Some
oat fields were plowed up which were
injured by the cold weather in April.
Two inches of rain fell in Onaga, Hol-
ton, Garrison and along the line of the
road in week. The hay crop will be
very large. Corn is reported little
backward, owing to cold weather and
too much rain.
Col. CLIP DEAD.-Colonel E. C. Culp.
of Salina, one of the best known men
of the state, is dead of cirrhosis of the
liver, after a long illness. He was
chairman of the committee of cere-
monies for Kansas at the Louisiana
Purchase exposition and held similar
position at the Chicago worlds fair.
Corporation STATIsTIcs.-A repre-
sentative from the department of COM
merce is in Topeka gathering statistics
on corporations in Kansas. He is go
ing over the charter files and reports
in the secretary of states office.
BOYS BURN iD.-Willie Ong, aged 10.
and playmate attempted to light an
abandoned gas well near the old brick
plant at Neodesha. "A lighted match
was thrown into the escaping gas, and
the boys were badly burned about the
head and face. The extent of their in
jnries cannot be told, although the
burns are very severe and quite pain
full.
HIGH SCHooLs-There are quite a
number of Kansas counties which are
now agitating the establishing of
county high schools.
DENIES THE REPoRT.-Lucien l. Blake.
professor of electrical engineering at
the University of Kansas, and the in
ventor of several valuable electrical
processes. for use in gold mining, de-
MES the report that he is to leave the
university.
THE PIPE LINEs.-The pipe line men
are at Humboldt and are at work Law
ing the eight-inch pipe line toward
Kansas City. The pumping plant to
be installed at Humboldt by the Stan.
dard Oil company will be of 600 horse
power.
LARGEST GLASS PLANT. S. Allen,
of Fredonia, is about closing a contract
for the largest plate glass plant located
in the west. The plant will be located
near Fredonia and will employ IT'S
men with pay roll of $4,000 per
month. There is now little doubt but
what the plant will soon be put in.
CAN PAY THE Ministerial well
which is good producer is completed
on the church lot in Peru. The royalty