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

mules were sent from Frankfort to the
south last week.
PAYING 80 CENTs.-The farmers of
northwest Kansas are getting 80 cents
bushel for wheat.
You've WOMAN WILL RUN.-Miss
Elsie Sechler, of Fort Scott, is a can
didate for county clerk.
PRATT's GAS PLANT.-A proposition
to build gas plant is the talk just
now of the people of Pratt.
DOMESTIC STANDARDIZATION for a
domestic science department in the
Augusta schools has been started.
WOMEN WoRKERs.-An Ottawa wo-
mans Saturday Afternoon club has
raised $3.50 for the Y. NJ. C. A. fund.
IMMIGRATION AeENTs.-The immi-
grafton agents of the Missouri Pacific
will hold meeting in Wichita on Feb
ruary &c.
BANQUET TO DAUGHTERs.-AtT Topeka
the sons of the American Revolution
held banquet for the Daughters of
the Revolution.
THE UNDERTOOK. - Congressman
Murdoch is sanguine over the prospect
for getting the government to investi-
gate the underhow.
IMPROVEMENT LEAeUE.-Salina's Inn
provement League added $4,000 to its
bank account the past year. This or
ganization is governed by women.
SAFFoRDvILLE GRowING.-The Orient
depot is to be in the center of the town
near the Santa Fee. Twelve residences
costing from 81, 900 to So, 900 have been
built this winter and seven more are
to be built in the spring.
MAJOR MINIcK DEAD.-Major J. NJ.
Minick, one of the founders of the city
of FL Reno, o. T., died in Wichita,
where he has practiced medicine since
1888. DIR. Minick was a member of the
state board of health and last year
was its president. At the time the
strip was opened he was president of
the old soldiers colony, which made
the run into Oklahoma. He was prom
linen. in Masonic circles. General de-
bility was the cause of his death.
New LUMBER CoMRANY.-The COM
pany is headed by Rudolph Hatfield, of
Wichita, and its members are all Wich-
tia men. The company has purchased
all of the Seneca Indian surplus reser-
walton of 10000 acres, practically in a
body. This land is covered with white,
black and red oak, beech, pecan, per-
simmon and other timber. Five saw
mills have been located, the production
of which will be shipped from Wyan-
dotte, 1. T. The purchased land is
about 20 miles south of Joplin, Mo.
PRIVATE PENSION BILLs.-Among the
10 private pension bills passed by the
house within few days are: For
Henry Frazier, Abilene, 81 years,
raise from S12 to $40 a month; and the
same for Marion Arnold, Manhattan,
who is 81 years old; and raise from
SIT to $50 a month for John T. Collins
Caswell P. Ford, aged rs, was voted
$40 month; another for Benjamin
George, 70 years old and blind, of $50;
VIM. C. Mccormick, Mcpherson, was
given $50; Benz. Putnam served in the
Mexican war and was raised from S12
to $50; DIR. Will c. Folsom, also in the
Mexican war, was raised from S12 to
$50; Levi Remicl>, lola, will get $50
month; James Dougherty, Plainville,
was allowed $50; Mrs. Swird, Winfield,
will receive $50 a month. All of these
are Kansas veterans.
BRICK AT LANsINe.-When spring
opens prisoners of the penitentiary
will be at work making paving brick
The Lansing road to Leavenworth
will require month of favorable
weather for its completion. BY that
time the brick will be ready and the
laying of walks will begin.
SEVEN ARREsTED.-The sensation in
the trial at Norton of the Dewey ranch
men for the murder of the Berrys was
the arrest of seven men who were with
the defendants on the day of the trag
edy at Alpheus Berrys ranch.
USED KNIFE ON TEAcHER.-When
Ray Lowrey, a teacher in country
school east of Wichita, tried to force
Simon Freese, pupil larger than him
self, to obey a command, the latter
drew a knife and cut him in the back,
making two or three serious wounds.
KANSAS TEMPERANCE UNIoN-F. d.
Coburn is reelected president of the
Kansas State Temperance Union.
Rev. j. T. Mcfarland, of Topeka, is
vice president; w. L. Dexter is seere-
tary, and William Macferran, treas
urer.
FoKT RILEY GARRIsoN.-There are &c
officers and APO enlisted men now on
duty. Troops A, B, and D, of the
18th cavalry, are now on their way to
Fort Riley from the Philippines, which
will bring the garrison up to about
1900 men.
HEAVY COAL TRAINs.-The Frisco
has been running some record breaking
coal trains out of Pittsburg with the
big hog" engines, but one of the
longest was taken out the other day.
A drag" of 20 loads was brought to
Fort Scott.
A Prominent CITIzEN.-John S. Will
kin, prominent old soldier and Re-
publican politician, died at his home
in Maple City, Cowley county, of pneu-
monia. He was 60 years of age and
had lived in Cowley county for twenty
years. He was county treasurer for
three terms, had a large ranch and
raised race horses.