Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-06-16


year 137 new buildings were erected at
a total cost of 1874, o49. The value of
all public school property is estimated
at 80, ISL, 94s. Reports from the vari-
Gus county superintendents to State
Superintendent Dayhof show that TO-
673 teachers were employed during the
past year. They were paid s3,475, s07.
The sum of s5,s12, 7os was spent for all
purposes in the schools.
300 MILES IN A CANoE.-Ed Davidson,
Ralph Martin and Monte Schermer-
horn took a voyage In a steel canoe
during the subsistence of the recent
flood, from Wichita to Ponca City,
distance of 300 miles, by river. They
had a number of narrow escapes from
collisions with bridge piers, etc. Many
cattle were seen that had been caught
in the overflow and stranded on the
islands when the water went down.
TRAINED NURSES GRADuArE.-At the
seventh annual commencement Of the
Wichita hospital training school for
nurses there were seven members of
the graduating class. The Wichita
hospital was founded in 1856, and was
converted into a training school for
nurses in 1898. The course of study
includes two years work. The build
ing used was given for this purpose by
Mr. Cutler, of Boston.
IA PIONEER ED1ToR.-J. B. Busacl1,
one of the pioneer newspaper men of
Kansas, is dead at the age of SO years.
He. came to Kansas from Tecumseh,
Neb., where he had published the
Chieftain. His Kansas work was on
the Clay Center Dispatch and after
wards he was the editor of the Wash
ington, Kas., Republican and Register
for more than twenty years.
New EATING HoUsE.-A runor is
afoat that an eating house will be
erected by the Missouri Pacific at
Council Grove and will be operated
like the Harvey eating houses. Some
been ordered on the Missouri Pacific
and Council Grove is among the num-
Der.
On HOWARD BRANcH.-By working a
large force of men up to their waists in
water the Santa Fe was enabled to
open its Howard branch, on which a
quarter of a mile of track was washed
out. The NJ. K. & T. has been unable
to run trains except for short distances
on its Neosho river branch.
On. AT GARNErr.-A good thirty to
fifty oil well was struck six
miles northwest of Garnett. The well
is strong one and in practically an
undeveloped and new section. New
companies are being formed and other
wells will be put down at once.
KANSAS BLIND ScHooI.-The pupils
of the Blind school of Kansas, in
charge OF Prot. Lahir Williams, gave
an entertainment at the Kansas build
ing at the worlds fair.
MOVING A BoILER.-A. w. Stevenson,
member of the Salina city council, was
seriously hurt while moving a large
boiler. Both his legs were fractured
and his head was cut.
SUES CHURcH-D. NJ Harris, until
recently pastor of the Christian church
at Chanutc, has sued the trustees of
the church for see. SO, which he claims
to be due him.
600 DELEGATEs.-There were fully
| that number in attendance at the
thirteenth annual meeting of the Kan
sas State Sunday School association at
Clay Center.
SPURIOUS CoINs.-Three men are I'M
der arrest at Parsons for flooding the
town with spurious coins thought to
have been made of linotype metal.
FIFTY CADETs.-On a train on the
Rock Island fifty cadets from the st.
John military school left Salina to
spend a month at the worlds fair.
CITY EslPLoYE PENsIoNED. - VIM.
Hoover, assistant chief of the fire de-
partment at Atchison who has been re-
| bttCo OA dCCOuhb Vi olCAl
after % years of faithful service, with
an allowance of s35 a month, is also an
old soldier and receives SO month
from the government.
BOTH FROM X. U.-Senators "Jim"
Owens and John Bush, Of Colorado, are
both graduates of Kansas University
and returned there for commencement
They are prominent members OF the
Colorado legislature.
BUSY JURYMEN.-Judge Madden,
who has been holding court at Cotton
wood Falls, discharged the jury, which
was composed mostly of farmers who
wanted to replant corn. All the jury
cases in Chase county were continued
to the fall term.
KANSAS SCHOOL ExHIBIT.-The Kan
sas educational exhibit is one of the
best at the worlds fair and the public
schools of the cities of the state, as
we'll as the county high schools and
the institutions for higher education
are well represented.
FIRST DEATH IN FIFTY YEARs.-Mr.
and Mrs. w. W. Johnston, of Wichita,
lost grandchild by death at Indianap-
oils, Ind, recently. This is the first
death for fifty years in the Johnston
family.
LARGEST CAUSE.-THE graduating
class at the Emporia state normal
school numbered 252 members, the
largest class ever graduated from a
Kansas institution.
heavy rain storms Emporia Junction
was in an overflow Ave miles wide.
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