Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-05-05
BETTER THAN LAST YrAn.-Repe rts

City all of them telling of copious
rains, to the advantage of the growing
wheat. 1t had looked discouraging in
extensive areas until the young wheat
! got its wetting. According to opinions
gathered from half dozen of the
largest receivers on change the out
look now is even better than it was at
the same time last year, which means
another enormous crop.
CITY IS MISUNDERSTANDING City is
building rapidly. A $4,000 high
school, a large storage plant, new
lumber yard and a large addition to
one of the hotels. There are more
than hundred residences being built.
There was not an empty house in town
during the past winter and residences
were never in greater demand. There
is also several hundred thousand dol
lars worth of construction work being
done at Fort Riley by mechanics who
live in Junction-City.
LOST CHILD FoUND.-Eight years
ago Laura, the 3-year-old daughter of
James W. Nation, living at Elwood,
mysteriously disappeared. Every eff
fort to discover her was of no avail
until recently when Mr.. Nation re-
ceived word of child abandoned by
gypsies at Florence, Ala, about the
age his daughter would be now. The
description TALES with that of his lost
daughter. Laura Nation had birth
mark on her lip so that Identification
will be easy.
KILLED IN FIELD.-Two brothers
who live near Haviland were struck by
lightning in a thunder storm while
they were listing corn. One of the
men was killed and the other stunned.
Eight mules, which they were work
ing, were killed,
BRICK FOR REFINERY.-Most of the
brick for the Kansas City refinery will
come from Coffeyville. An order has
been placed for 500, 900 brick and other
orders will be placed as the company
needs the material.
oman BURNED IN CAR.-Fire DESTROYED
the Santa Fe elevator at independence
together with sew eral freight cars.
The charred remains of man sup
posed to be those IF a tramp, were
found in the ruins.
HoRsERADIsH GRowINe.-J. II.
Brown, an Atchissn county man. has
three acres planted in horseradish.
Last year he sold 1000 cases of this
article to jobbers and realized good
profit on it.
SURFEIT OF TRAMPs.-There is talk
OF adopting serious measures to rid
Paola of the tramps who infest the
town in larger numbers than was ever
known before.
UNRooFED A MILL.-A heavy wind
storm blew the roof off the mill at New
Cambria and wrecked a number of
sheds at the Salina Mineral company's
oil well.
INVEST IN OIL LAND.-The Kramer
brothers of Wellington, have put SCI,
600 into section of land in the oil dis
trict near Fall River
LYON COUNTY Contradictions
say that Lyon county has an abund-
ant amount of feed and that there has
been loss of cattle.
HAS A SUBsTITUTE.-The daughter
OF Rev. Guy, of Liberal, breaches for
her father when he wishes to take a
vacation.
NEW School HOUSE. new
school house will be finished about
November 1. The old school house is
for sale.
FATAL PNEUMoNIA.-In one month
80 prisoners in the federal penitentiary
at Fort Leavenworth died of pneu-
monia.
ANTHoNY's ORCHARD. - Rabbits
ruined an sO-acre orchard at Huron
for Colonel D. R. Anthony.
LUL1Ne SAYS SroP.-Several fire in
surance companies doing business in
the gas belt are insuring property
against explosions As none of the
companies was organized to do an ex-
plosion business, State Insurance Su-
perintendent Luling has notified the
companies writing such risks that they
must stop.
A MCPHERSON BoY.-H. B. Collins. a |
Mcpherson boy, was on the battleship
Missouri when the explosion occurred. |
Collins is hospital steward and helped |
care for the wounded sailors.
INTERURBAN CHARTERED.-The Kan |
sas-oklahoma Interurban Railway
company has taken charter for an
electric line between Winfield and Ar |
kansas City. The company is also to
displace the mule car system in the |
two cities. The company is capitalized |
at s., 100000. The directors are bust
ness men of Winfield and Arkansas |
City.
A UNANIMOUS VoTE.-At an election
at Hill City upon issuing bonds for
building a school house every vote was
favorable for the issue.
WELL ROUNDED LIFE.-Samuel |
Thornton and Ann Laphome were
born in 1928, in town of Devonshire,
England. They grew up together and
married at the age of 20 years, neither
having had other sweethearts They
came to Clay county, Kansas, in 1871,
where they reared family of IA chill
dren. Mr.. Thornton died recently.
To SERVE JAPAN.-Joseph Mooney
has resigned his position as travelling
salesman for wholesale dry goods
house in Wichita and will leave for
Nagasaki, japan. to join the army.
To PURCHASE School. BooKs.-The