Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-02-04
KANSAS COMMENT.
KANSAS

FOUND Ills w 4NCn lOll AA4tLh
lost his watch in hay stack. Two
weeks later he found it in the manger.
EXCITED ABOUT oIL.-Dodge City is
lust little excited over what appears
to be find of oil underneath the
ground.
FROM CLARK COUNTY. Peter Haverty,
formerly of Clark county, Kas., was
recently killed in runaway at Hau-
chuca, Arizona.
FoR SWEDISH CoLLEGE.-Subscrip-
tions, to be paid in installments, are
being canvassed for at Mcpherson for
Swedish college.
ASKS CHANGE OF REcoED.-The wild
ow of Major Henry Inman, soldier and
author, is making an effort to secure
correction of his military record.
Too MUcH.-W. o. Prater, of Sumner
county, has an 11-year-old boy who put
in condition ninety acres of wheat
ground ready for the drill last fall.
OVER RURAL ROUTES. at
Abilene think of sending a man out
over the rural mail routes one day each
week to take orders for goods to be de-
livered the next day.
MODERN WooD,JEN.-Many hundreds
of Modern Woodmen from Oklahoma
Indian Territory and Missouri, as well
as from Kansas attended the nationcl
TAXES S313 A MoNTH-The editor
of the Winfield Courier has just paid
his taxes and finds that he has to pay
the county treasurer S3.13 per month
for the privilege of living in his own
house.
DIED IN BUGGY.-Mr Green, of Con-
way Springs, had taken Mr., King out
of town to look at a piece ofland. Mr..
King noticed Mr.. Green breathing
heavily, but thought of nothing seri-
GUS being wrong. Finally Mr.. Green
became unconscious, dropped the lines
and died almost instantly.
FELL FROM TRAIN.-W. c. Floyd, a
cattleman of Kansas City and Southern
Kansas, fell from a train near Garnett
He lit on a soft embanBment and, it
is hoped, is not seriously hurt 1t is
believed that Mr.. Floyd was asleep.
He made his way to a farm house, in
the night, and was first refused shelter
because the farmer did not believe his
story. The farmer finally let him in
after Floyd had put up $50.
A LYON COUNTY BoY.-Captain Har-
bord, who is chief of staff in Manila. is
Lyon county boy, son of George w.
Harbord, Agnes City. Captain Jim
grew up in Lyon county near the old
Agnes City postoffice. Recently he
won first prize offered by the U. S.
cavalry association for the best paper
on 1.-The History of the Northern Vir-
gilman (Confcderate) During the Civil
War" Hartford is friend of General
Woods and he is climber.
WHEAT STORED ON PRAIRIE.-The
work of cleaning up wheat, stored on
the open prairie and without shelter
has been going on rapidly and now
but little is left. At Belpre D. G. Don
AVIAN filled his elevator and then put
60, 900 bushels in ten piles on the sod.
Not until after October 10 did he COM
mence to clean up this surplus, and the
last of it has just gone to market. He
lost practically none of it, as the dry
weather prevented the molding even of
that next the ground. By running the
bottoms of the piles through a cleaner
he made No. wheat of the entire CO.
900 bushels This has been the experl-
ence of dealers generally.
ORAToRICAI. CoNTEsT.-The inter-so-
ciety oratorical contest at the agricul-
tural college resulted in victory for
the Ionian society, Miss Wilma G. Cross
being awarded first place. This is the
third consecutive year this society has
received the honor. The subject OF
Miss Cross Grafton was citizenship as
a Factor in Government"
FILIPINO AT X IA Filipino boy
named Sierracco Dag Dag is attending
Kansas University at Lawrence. He
made speech before the high school
pupils.
CITY MAIL BoXEs.-Topeka has been
designated as the distributing point
for the city mail boxes. If any of the
towns in Texas, Arkansas, Kansas OF
Oklahoma need boxes for the free city
delivery they will come from Topeka.
OF course the applications for the
boxes must be made to Washing.
ton.
KANSAS BALL PITcHER.-Dummy
Taylor, the famous base ball pitcher,
who was raised at Winchester, Kansas,
is teaching in deaf and dumb school
in North Carolina this winter.
TRY BETS AGAIN.-Farmers inter-
ested in the sugar beet met at Emporia
and decided to buy seed this spring
and give the beets another trial. One
hundred and thirty per-ons got seed
last year and only forty or fifty re-
ported.
OhAhUrAb WIN Cl1 III
dictments were returned by the special
grand jury in Wyandotte county.
Three men are indicted on charges of
bribery and seven are charged with
violation of the Cubbison gambling
law.
THE RUSH OvER.-The large number
of trainmen, engineers and fremen
who were brought to Junction City by
the Union Pacific from Nebraska, Col
orado and Wyoming during the big
rush in traffic on the Kansas division
of that road in December and the first
of January have returned to their re-
snactiua divisions