Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-07

while. An examination for the po-
be held July 6. The examination fer
teachers in the Philippine service,
which was to have been held June
1928, was postponed until July 1914.
A great many applications have al
ready been received and the outlook
is that many more will be sent in.
First Month With None.-During
the month of May not one child ap-
piled at the Soldiers Orphans home at
Atchison. This is the first month
since the establishing of the home,
that no applications were received.
One child was received as a ward
last week, the first in seven weeks.
There are now about 145 children in
the home. One hundred and ifty-five
is the usual average number.
Captain at 1a.-R. H. McElwain, of
Lyons, enlisted in the Civil war in
1861, at the age of IA. By 1864 he
was sergeant. Then he was COM
missioned as captain in a Kentucky
regiment, holding this rank before
he was IS years of age. In 1865 he
was mustered cut, but almost imme-
diately joined the regular army and
served three years as sergeant.
A Hustler.-C. E. Denton, of Attica,
who runs the republican campaign
in Harper county, manages a bank,
controls dry goods store. looks after
several hundred acres of farm lands,
and has interests in other towns of
the state, has found an automobile a
convenient thing to pass around in
among his interests.
Handling Tramps.-The city council
of Colby furnishes the women with
meal tickets to give to tramps. The
tickets are good for one meal when
signed by the city marshal. The joke
comes in when the marshal demands
two hours work before he sG ms the
ticket handed him by the tramp.
Old Scout Dead.-Bernard T. Bert
rand, dead at St Marys, was one of
the pioneers of Kansas In the very
early days he was scout and guide
on the Kansas plains. For several
years he freighted goods from West
port Landing to the military posts of
Kansas and Colorado.
Old Brakeman.-Joseph Rocker, a
brakeman on the Mcpherson branch,
was killed at Salina by being caught
between two cars while making a
coupling. Rocker had been a brake
man on the Mcpherson branch since
the road was built. His home was in
Mcpherson.
Bonds Voted.-Wellingto had an
election on issuing bonds for water,
lights and natural gas. The first two
propositions named carried, but the
bonds for prospecting for natural
gas was defeated.
Hurt in Wreck.-Word comes to
Wichita that John McAleer, travelling
salesman of a coal and coke company
of Wichita, has been seriously hurt in
of the state.
Bumper Crop.-Elijah Radcliffe, of
Cunningham, says he has lived in
Kingman county twenty years and he
never saw such bumper wheat crop
as that now being harvested.
After Two Months.-F. A Wilkin-
son, of Ottawa, a pioneer business
! man, died, the result of an injury sus-
tanned in runaway two months ago.
He came to Kansas in 1858.
Saved by Twenty Feet.-A Waverly
man blowing in the heat of the day
left his team to get drink When 20
feet away a flash OF lightning killed
the horses.
Cement Abutments.-H Harvey county
is building its new bridges with Port
land cement abutnents.
Will Pave.-Coffeyville has picked
out 25 blocks of it's principal streets
and will pave them.
In Dickinson .county.-That county
has had a rain that soaked every acre
of the wheat fields with two or three
inches of water. The rain was heavi-
est in the north part of the county, but
| it has given the southeastern portion
heavy moisture also. The wheat
| harvest was about to commence.
Struck by carriage.-One of the
state hospital carriages at Osawato-
mic, struck NJ. Roman, so years old,
injuring him so severely that he died.
The old man tried to cross the street
| in front of the team.
| Destructive Hail.-Within limited
area in the vicinity of Eureka there
was an unprecedented hail storm. The
hail was piled on the ground in drifts
| several feet high. The bark was
beaten off trees and the grass was
hammered out of sight. Many horses
and cattle were injured and. of course.
| crops were wholly destroyed.
Harvesting stopped-Another heavy
rain fell at Sterling, Which stopped
harvesting for couple of days, but
there was no damage done to the
wheat.
Acid on Rars.-A wholesale Jail de-
! livery was attempted at the county
Jail at Winfield. Six prisoners, under
penitentiary sentence, had planned to
burn out the cell bars by the use of
powerful acids. One of the prisoners
told Sheriff Day of the plot.
Agents Transferred.-Georg H.
Mann, who for the past twenty years
has been local freight agent for the
Missouri Pacific in Wichita, has
been transferred to the Office at
Little Rock, and is succeeded by John
| McGinnis of Black Hawk, Colo.
Helps Her Father.-Mrs. May Nor