Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-03-24
KANSAS COMMENT.

HAS 30 CHnDBEN.-J. R. Swisher, of
Gypsum City, is the father of twenty
children, all alive and well.
SEC. TAFT CoMING.-Secretary Taft
has accepted an invitation to speak at
Topeka, Kansas, on May 80.
WILD BEE HoNEY.-In tearing down
an old church at Lakin dishpan full
of wild bee honey was found.
SAVED SsOo.-An Atchison servant
girl has saved $500 in six years con-
tinuous service with one family.
Practical BANKINe.-A department
of practical banking and insurance
probably will be established at the
University of Kansas within short
time.
New TRACKS TO CHUTEs. The Santa
Fe is laying two new tracks from Ar
Centine to the chutes at the stockyards
so it can handle live stock trains with
out delay.
STRIKE AT HoRToN-The entire force
of boilermakers and helpers employed
in the Rock Island shops at Horton,
have struck. 1t is supposed that the
wage question has something to do
with it.
FLOOD WARNING STATIoNs.-They
are to be established along the rivers
of Kansas, to be in working order late
in the summer T. b. Jennings, the
director of the Topeka weather bureau,
will have charge of establishing them.
STATE ENCAMPMENT.-The state mill
itary board has fixed the date of the
state encampment of the Kansas Ma
tional Guard for August %. The en-
eampment will be held at Fort Riley
II the government will give consent,
which it likely will do.
CANEY BRAGs.-The claim is made
that Caney has new gas well which
beats all it's forerunners. The well is
$3.50 feet deep, with rock pressure
of $40 pounds, and tested 81 million
feet day. This makes the number
of gas wells at Caney five which pro-
puce 70 million cubic feet of gas every
u hours.
For HIGHWAY RoBBERY.-Robert
Hill was arrested at Cottonwood Falls
for alleged highway robbery commit
ted at Council Grove. A man answer
ing the description of Hill went to the
office of A. S. Root, a real estate man,
and at the point of a revolver, forced
him to turn over a $500 check and can
Gel a mortgage that Root had on his
property.
STORM WAS VALUABLE.-Farmers of
Cowley county report the complete
disappearance of the Hessian fly pest
since the wind storm. They say that
the warm weather had Matched out the
young flies and before they were able
to fly were caught by the wind and
sand and large part of them were
blown away or killed. The heavy
rain that followed the wind drowned
all that remained. They were found
dead next morning by the thousand.
BURLINGAME FIRE.-Fire destroyed
The planning mill of Martin Lund and
the blacksmith shop of w. F. Standi-
ford. The livery stable adjoining and
several residences had a narrow escape
from burning. There was quite a
strong wind blowing and it required
hard work to save the residences across
the street to the north and west, two
or three of which were on fire at diff
ferent times. The loss on building,
stock and machinery was fully $4,000,
partially covered by insurance.
KILLED THE MoTHER.-Mrs. George
Slaven was trying to take a loaded gun
from her children when it was dis
charged, striking her in the abdomen.
She will die. The accident occurred at
Weir Junction, a coal camp near Pitts
burg.
BLOCKS OF SALT.-One of the Lyons
salt companies has shipped five blocks
of salt to the st. Louis fair for exhibit
ton. The largest is six feet long, FIVE
feet wide and three feet deep, and
weighs five tons. The other fonr
blocks are nearly as big.
CADETS ERoM 9TH DIsTRTcT.-An ex-
animation commenced at Emporia on
March Is for the appointments of cadets
from that congressional district. There
were a large number of candidates
Congressman Miller will recommend
af +ha f,,1 E..
appointment to the naval academy at
Annapolis and one for the military
academy at West Point.
MURDOCH SEES AGA1N.-T. B. Muir
dock is recovering from his attack of
blindness which forced him to leave
the Wichita convention.
A HEAVY RAIN.-The greater part
of Kansas received on March 10 the
first heavy rain in four months. 1t
will be of vast benefit to the wheat
covering as it did nearly all of what is
called the wheat belt. The rain has
also put a stop to the prevailing prairie
fires.
BAD PRAIRIE FIRE.-The prairie fire
that ragged south of Florence caused a
large loss of property and covered a
scope of country eight miles long by
Ave miles wide. 1t was stopped only
by heavy rain.
HARVEST HANDs.-T. B. Gerow, di-
rector of the state free employment
bureau, has received his first order for
harvest hands. The order came from
Stafford comfy and called for 1000
men, 100 more than were employed in
the county last year.
ANOTHER JUROR SICK=The district