Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-04-28
a. d. snrpARD DEAD. o. shep-


go years old and came to Kansas in
1868. He entered the mercantile bust
ness at Burlingame and became rich at
it. At the time of his death he owned
the Shepard opera house, the Burlin-
game bank building and other valuable
property. He organized the Burlin-
game bank and has for several years
been its president. Mr.. Shepard also
took some part in politics, serving his
district in the Legislature in 1880, and
was for six years the mayor of Burlin-
game. Mr.. Shepard was a leading
member of the Masonic fraternity.
SEVEN BRIGHT BoYs.-Marion has
juvenile Archaeological society COM
posed of seven bright boys, all under
16. The society was organized last
July ''for the purpose of collecting and
studying the relics of the prehistoric
races of America, the American In
dian," as their constitution says. The
club limits members to ten, and the
minimum age of members is fixed at
~ years. The present members are
Chester Evans, president; Wallis Hoch,
secretary; Louis Keller, treasurer;
Willard Keller, Harry Rogers, Leroy
Frazier and Leslie Bryan.
ORANGE SHIPMENTS. According to
statistics compiled at Santa Fe head
quarters in Topeka. that system
shipped during March, 1881 cars, the
best showing ever made in the same
time. The total exceeds by 1874 cars
the record of any other month. The
next best showing was made in April,
1901, when Santa Fe shipments agge-
gated 2,137 cars.
WHERE ARE THEY.-Of the medals
prepared and paid for by the Kansas
G. A. r. posts for each member of the
Twentieth Kansas regiment, there are
1T medals uncalled for. They are de-
posted in the Office of the department
commander in the state house in To-
peka.
ANOTHER LARGEST WELL.-The larg-
est oil well ever reported in Kansas
was brought in near Humboldt. IL is
estimated at 5000 barrels day. This
we'll is owned by the st. Joseph Oil &
Gas company. Their manager, Mr..
Clarke, is a new man at the oil bust
ness.
DIED ON TRAIN.-Engineer William
Downey, who was injured in the
switch yards at Guthrie, died on the
train enroute to the hospital at Topeka.
He had been an engineer on the Santa
Fe for 20 years.
KANSAS G. A. R.-The department
of Kansas G. A. R. will meet at EN-
poria for its annual encampment May
IS, 10 and, 20. The city expects 1000
visitors and will be decorated accord
ingly.
STONE ARCH BRIDGES. = The city
council at Wellington has adopted a
policy whereby the wooden bridges in
the city are to be replaced by stone
arched crossings as fast as the old ones
become worn out.
HAD IT IS YEARS. "A Concordia
former slave girl has a pearl handled
knife that her mistress gave her way
down in Alabama IS years ago.
INVEST IN on LANDs.-The Kramer
brothers, of Wellington. have put S21,-
600 into section of land in the oil
district near Fall river.
To SINK FIVE WELLs.-A company
has organized at Junction City for the
purpose of sinking five or six prospect
wells near the city.
SERVED 90 YEARS. = The Missouri
Pacific agent at Pontiac has resigned
after 20 years of service.
BRICK WALKs.-Halstead has been
very busy and now has five miles of
brick sidewalks.
SPIDER-WEBB.-AtB Burns Mr.. Spider
recently married Miss Webb.
PUMH1Ne Standardization City is
placing in its water pumping station
the largest pumping engine in that
part of the state. The city had the
engine built at cost of about So, 900.
Its capacity is 100000 gallons daily
The city owns its own water works
system. Heretofore its plant had a
capacity of 1000, 900 gallons daily, but
the cheap water rate increased the de-
mand beyond the plants capacity.
DIVIDES FUNDs.-The Harper county
funds have been divided up among all
the different banks in the county.
LARGE ORCHARDS. II. Hoover, of
Sedgwick county has been selling
apples from 160 acre orchard for
some years. This year he has planted
100 acres more, all to apple trees. Last
year he marketed $4,000 bushels of
apples from his old orchard. He en-
ploys several men the whole year to
take care of the trees, and during the
picking season last year he employed
forty additional men.
DEPOT BURNED.-The burning of the
Rock Island depot at Phillipsburg is a
heavy loss to the railroad company.
NORTHERN KANSAS WHEAT.-James
Russell, superintendent of the Missouri
Pacific when he returned from a trim
over the Central Branch lines, said that
with the exception of very few spots
the condition of wheat is as good as it
was at the corresponding period last
last year.
TELEPHONE AssEssMENT.-The state
board of railway assessors fixed the
rate of telephone valuations practically
on the basis of 1903. The only ma
terial change was to reduce the value
of instruments from 81. so and SIS to 81.
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