Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-03-10

work for the Santa Fe in 1868, ON the
track between Atchison and Topeka in
charge of construction gang and he
has never left the service since For
fourteen years in succession he did not
even lose an hour in laying off," At
eighty years of age he is still hale and
hearty and until recently has had
charge of the reading room at Dodge
City. He is now on the company's
pension roll.
DRILLING IN SAND HILLs.-An oil
man representing one of the big oil
concerns in Southeastern Kansas, has
leased several thousand acres of land
in the sand hills just north of Hutchin-
son, and has moved the big well drill
ing outfit of the Hutchinson, Kansas.
Salt Company there. Work will be
started and hole will be sunk 1900
feet at point on the south slope of
the hills, where evidences of oil have
recently been discovered.
STEEL BRIDGE OVER KAw.-The per-
manent steel bridge is being built
across the Kansas river at Manhattan
to take the place of the one washed
away during the recent food. The
temporary pile bridge used since the
flood is being torn down and ferry
boat is in operation during the con-
struction of the new bridge.
CHURCH INJURED. the sand
storm the front gable of the EInporia
Avenue Methodist church in Wichita
was blown out. 1t is brick building
There were no windows broken. The
top Of the chimney for two feet down
was found in the middle of the street
unbrol1en.
FELL 80 DEGREEs.-In IA hours the
mercury fell 80 degrees at Dodge City.
When the cold wave came the Their
mometer registered 80 degrees and sew
eral hours before had reached sc de-
grees The following morning the
mercury stood at six degrees.
MINE INsPECToRs.-James Orr, the
newly elected mine inspector, has ap-
pointed as his deputies, George Murphy
of Nelson, for the Pittsburg field; Abe
Walker, of Leavenworth, for the Leav-
enworth field. and Frank Gilday is the
deputy for the Usage field.
DUNDEE BANK REsUMEs.-Thec comp
troller of the currency has authorized
the National Bank of Dundee, Kansas,
to resume business and has instructed
the receivers to surrender to the board
of directors all the assets of the bank
in their possession.
capacity of 500 barrels day will be
built in North Topeka by the Taylor
Grain company, which already runs
elevator "a" on the North Side, and
the mill will be run in connection with
it.
For FORT RILEY.-The proposals for
the construction of number of large
| buildings and the alteration of several
old buildings We're opened by the post
! quartermaster. The sum of thu lowest
bids on all the work is S126,6es.
CARE OF THE SICK.-Assistant Attor-
ney General pestana has handed down
decision that all cities having Or
dinances governing health regulations
and boards of health must take care of
the sick who come to the city.
A JUROR SICK.-The court in the
Dewey murder trial at Norton ad-
journed on account of the illness of
Orville Darling, one of the jurors. The
| trial was about concluded at the time
of adjournment.
DRILLING AT AssARIA.-The drillers
there struck heavy flow of water at a
depth of 925 feet. The water stood at
500 feet at first but the next morning
was almost at the top of the we'll
Nor WRONG Naturalization peo-
pie call slot machines ''crime incuba-
| tors"
BOND ELEcLIoNs.-Five townships of
Pottawatomie county voted on issuing
bonds for the Topeka, Frankfort &
Northwestern railroad and in four of
the townships the bonds carried four
to one. In one township the PROPOSE
ton was defeated by two to one.
STERLING COMMERCIAL CLUB.-At a
meeting of the citizens and business
men commercial club was organized
Henry J. Arnold was elected president;
r. ]. Shea, vice president; w. H. Quig-
Ter, secretary, and ]. E. Junkin, treas
urer.
| THE DEWEY RANCH.-Instead of dis
posing of their ranch in Northwestern
Kansas the Deweys propose to operate
on a bigger scale than ever. In the
past they have handled cattle only.
Now they propose to add sheep. A
vast amount of their land is rough and
useless for cattle purposes. 1t is ideal
range for sheep and the Deweys expect
to stock up with 10000 or more head
of sheep this summer.
For ELECTRIC LINE.-The business
men of Humboldt have raised S1O,O
to push the electric line to lola.
RAISE RTGAGE.-The alumni of
Bethany college at Lindsborg met and
decided to raise the last of the mort
gage on the ladies' dormitory and also
to endow Swedish chair. Two thou
sand dollars have already been raised
and before March several thousand
more will be raised.
| WERE BURNING TRAsH.-Farmers in
Saline county were burning trash
when the dust storm came, and a fire
started which did $4,000 damage on
one farm. Much damage was done
| over a considerable area.