Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-10-13

| fresh meat to its members. The Of
ficers are: ]. M. Tuley, president; T..
T. James, secretary; NJ. H. McLennon
treasurer; w. H. Bell buyer and
butcher Each member is required to
! pay into the treasury five dollars
which is used as a fund to buy stock
with. When a beef is killed the meat
! is sold to the members at a slight ad-
! vance over the cost of the beef and
! the expense of butchering it. The
company has a set of bylaws and one
only first class beeves shall be butch
cred. L. H. Vandervort brought the
idea from Iowa where he says similar
| organizations have been running for
two or three years.
Strikers Hopeful-A. E. Ireland, one
of the leaders of the Santa Fe ma
| chinists' strike, has returned to To-
| peka. Other leaders are now on a
! trip of inspection over the Santa Fe
! lines. 1t is expected that another
| effort will be made then to secure a
| conference with the Santa Fee officials.
/ ~NOhN hoo DCCA al al h6O0 yCt- hC
| strike leaders claim that they have
things in such shape that the road
. will be glad to confer with them be
fore long.
| To Wreck Train.-An attempt to
wreck passenger train No. on the
Santa Fe, at Raymond. a station u
miles west of Sterling was frustrat-
/ ed by the carefulness of the engineer
who discovered the switch lights out
in time and stopped before reaching
switches which were found to have
been thrown open and locked Sus-
picion points to some former railroad
men and search is being made for the
/ key that locked the switches.
! New Sugar Rate.-The announce
ment comes from the Santa Fee general
Offices that new rates have been made
on sugar in car load lots. The rate
| from New Orleans to Missouri River
points, which has been 80 cents per
! 100 pounds, is now 20 cents. Rates to
other points are cut proportionately.
! The rate from the Atlantic seaboard
will be 80 cents to Missouri river
| points and 81 cents to Kansas jobbing
points, such as Wichita.
! Irrigated AppIes.-Wm. Bainum, OF
Kingman Co., took a load of apples
/ TO Kingman. They were prime apples
! from his irrigated farm, and by the
way, one of the best farms in the
| county. He left a sample ear of his
! 80 day corn, and it is something won
| derful. 1t is a 16-row corn, purple
and picked September 9th, and is
! dry enough to shell. Who can beat
| that record?
At Any Time.-At Arkansas City
| the Mountaineering company that
is boring on the Hill Investment COM
pany's land is now down more than
600 feet and is expecting to strike a
flow of gas or oil at any time.
! Bore for Gas-The Lane County
Prospecting and Oil Developing COM
pany has been organized at Dighton
| to develop the mineral resources of
! that section of the state. Local CAPT.
tai has the controlling interest.
! Corner Stone Laid.-At Coffeyville
the cornerstone of the new hall was
laid on Sept. 10Th by the local Masonic
lodge, Grandmaster Thomas G. F itch
of Wichita officiating. The building is
to cost $4,000.
Statutory Rape.-George Scott and
| Fred Weaver have been arrested at
Topeka on a charge of statutory rape
sworn to by Mary Larsen, IA years of
age. Scott and Weaver gave bond.
| On Serious Charge.-David Brown.
one of the negroes charged with at
tempting to kill w. T. Sanford and
Joseph Burt at Topeka, has been ar.
rested at Sedalia, Mo.
New Rural Routes.-Rural Free De-
livery routes Nos. and have been
ordered established November l at
Junction City, Geary county, Kansas
Big Duck Hunt-One of Great Bend,
! bird brokers bought more than 1000
! wild ducks that were killed in the
Cheyenne Bottoms. The birds are be-
ing slaughtered in great numbers, one
sportsman having made a record of
1872 birds in six shots with a maya
zine gun.
Out of Business.-The rural routes
have put another postoffice out of bus
mess in Sumner county. The postmas-
ter at Ewell is said to have been
obliged for the last two months to
write letters to himself in order to
pay expenses.
Must Serve her Blanche
Boise, one of Carrie Nations home de-
! tenders, who got into trouble at Wich-
ita, was taken back to her home in
Topeka and lodged in Jail She was
paroled from the Jail some months ago
upon condition that she would not raid
any more joints. She violated the pa
role at Wichita and will now have to
serve out her thirty days sentence.
Unearthed Skeieton.-While exca-
waiting for building at Topeka work
men dug up a skeleton of an old-time
citizen who had died some forty years
ago.
Tied Police Officer.-The Kansas
university students tied a police of.
fcer while the latter was endeavor.
ing to take a freshman named Grain
to the station for disturbing the
peace. The police officer succeeded in
breaking the bonds and held onto ais
prisoner whose fine had to be paid.
Serious Task.-Franklin county has
an oil well and has oil, but it also
has heavy charge of nitro-glycerine
buried under several hundred feet of
dirt, to recover which it may be nee
essary to begin operations in the vi
cinity of Shanghai.
Visits Old Home.-W R. Bingham