Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-05-05
KANSAS COMMENT.


has doubled its capital stock.
SEDAN WAS SKIPPED.-The only
town reporting no rain during the re-
cent storm period was Sedan.
5STREAMs MILE WIDE.-The Marina
ton and the Yellow Paint were a mile
wide in the vicinity of Fort Scott
WAS FOUND DEAD.-The four-year-
old son of Adam Betz, of IngersoH,
was blown away by storm and was
found dead.
Productive Notwithstanding to
the Inman Review every family in In
man but one produced new member
this past winter.
BABY IS BETTER.-Elsie Wells, the
one-year-old child who fell from the
third story window of the Hackney
block in Winfield, is getting along
nicely and is able to play around.
FARMERS ELEvAToR-The farmers
of Ottawa county have organized and
will erect large elevator to be known
as the farmers elevator" The COM
pany is composed of leading farmers
and business men.
SMALL ToREADo.-Cunningh on
the WiRhita & Western branch of the
Santa Fe, was hit by a small tornado.
The damage done was principally to
railroad property. No one was in
iured.
A MONTHS PAPERs.-The Topeka
postoffice, during one month, sent out
6,971 sacks of papers. Of this number
6,o55 were direct sacks, that is, sacks
made up to contain only mail for GER
tain states or cities.
FIRE FROM CIeARETTE.-At Fort
Scott one of the large barns at a horse
and mule market burned and about
20 valuable horses were burned. The
loss on the building is placed at S1o,-
900. The fire started from cigarette.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS. - This
body reorganized by electing ]. c. o.
Morse, chairman; Cyrus Anderson Sec
rotary, and E. c. Sinner, stenographer
Mr.. Morse and G. W. Wheatley did the
voting. A. D. Walker, the retiring
chairman was not present.
COMBINATION SALE.-The Harvey
County Breeders Association held its
first annual combination sale of horses.
cattle and hogs in Newton. Farmers
and stock raisers from various parts of
Central Kansas were present, and the
pure bred stock sold brought good
prices. Seventy-ive Harvey county
, breeders contributed to the sale.
PROSPEROUS MININe.-W. f. Bolton,
cashier of the Scranton State bank
says the coal interests of Usage county
have not been in better condition in
many years than at the present time.
"Many of our miners are making from
$50 to $40 month, and they have all
the work they want" said Mr.. Bolton
''The operators are also doing well,
and new coal lands are being opened"
j. c. REDFIELD.-This Kansas pio-
neer died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on April
Ohio some two months ago to visit
children living there. He was Just
past 70 years old. He came to Kansas
in the early fifties and served in Uni
ted States land offices in Humboldt
and Wichita. He served two terms as
Sheriff of Allen county. In Wichita
he filed the places of justice of the
peace and county commissioner. A
truer man and Christian could scarcely
be named.
BONES OF MAsToDoN--Two bones
which are declared to be the bones of
a mastodon, were found near Junction
City in ravine near the Republican
river. Each bone weighs about fifty
pounds. Their surfaces are petrifed
but their centers are unchanged, being
porous.
FOREIGN Born CoNeREssMAN.-Oft the
sixteen foreign born members of con-
gress, Kansas has one-Philip P Camp
bell, of the Third district. He was
born in Nova Scotia and left there
when he was four years of age.
OLDEST ENeINEER-Mr. and Mrs. W.
w. Brownhill celebrated their golden
wedding at Leavenworth. Mr.. Brown
hill is the Oldest engineer in the west,
both in age and years of service. He
first entered the railroad service as an
engineer in 1852 when 10 years old
He has lived in Leavenworth since
1872.
CARRY MOST LIQUOR LICENSES.
andotte county holds 24s liquor licenses
and the banner is awarded. Leaven-
worth gets second prize on record of
237.
ANOTHER KANSAS BoY.-H. s. Jor-
dan, Hutchinson boy, was on the
Missouri when the explosion occurred.
He writes home that it is supposed
that the powder we 1T off before the
breech was closed, blowing the charge
down into the magazine.
DURING THE SToRM.-During the
heavy rain and electrical storm Richard
Hoppie's barn near Goddard was de- |
stroyed by lightning, together with
granary and large quantities of grain
and hay. In the barn seven horses |
were burned.
New HoTELs.-Sedan will soon have |
a new $4,000 hotel Local business |
men have formed a company with a |
paid up capital and plans for the new
structure are being prepared. hide
pendence lis to have a new $50, 1000 |
opera house, and a $4,000 hotel has
been planned for Coffeyville. All
three towns are'oil producing.
WHEAT PRosPEcTs.-The Caldwell