Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-28

| one OF the Oldest residents OF Saline
county, is dead at his home north
Of Salina. He was aged II years. Mr.
Gardner was a native of Rhode Island,
but came west in 1859, when he went
to the gold fields in Colorado. He
later returned to Saline county, and
settled down on a claim on the Saline
river. In 1864 he was driven away by
the Indians, and remained away for
two years, when he returned and has
lived on the place since.
No Nearer Settlement.-At Pitts
burg the miners and operators are
no nearer a settlement in regard to
the new scale than before. The min
ers are maintaining that the operators
can afford to increase their pay, and
have statistics which they claim show
that the cost of living has increased,
and the operators are better prepared
to pay more. The operators, however,
| stand pat in their declaration that
they cannot pay more than their COM
petitors in the Eastern districts.
Wheat At PhiIlipsburg.-Thr
has begun in several localities and
the yield of wheat is not as large as
was expected. That so far reported
averages about ten bushels to the
acre, and the grain tests about Sc
pounds to the bushel. Black rust,
| caused by the heavy rains just be-
fore harvest, is the agent that did
the damage.
Wheat Tests Light.-Two hundred
bushels of the first of this years
crop of wheat to be threshed in this
county has been sold at Junction. 1t
tested only fifty-four pounds to the
bushel, and came from one of the best
| pieces of upland in the country. The
grain was all very wet, even before
the rains of the past few days.
Phone Officers EIected.-The annu-
al meeting of the Northern Kansas
! Telephone association held at Con-
cordia, elected the following officers
for the ensuing year: ]. M. Doyle
Belleville, president; c. w. Baldwin,
Osborne, vice president; G. G. Hill,
| Concordia, treasurer; D. C. Tyler, Cliff
| ton, secretary.
Hurt BY Mule.-William Britain,
son of T. Britain, a farmer several
miles northeast of Perry, Kan, was
| found in an unconscious condition
with his skull crushed. He was hand
ling pair of mules and the suppose
! ton is that he was kicked by one of
the animals. 1t is thought he cannot
| recover.
! Rain At Atchison.-A fine rain fell,
and the farmers say that while the
rain will keep them out of their
fields, it is timely in that it will soften
| the encrusted ground caused by the
beating rains that had previously fall
en-. The ground is so hard that it
was almost impossible to pillow.
Wet In Brown County.-On July 20
nearly two inches of rain fell. AS the
farmers here are in the midst of har-
vest this wet weather will cause con-
half the wheat has been cut and the
corn is also in bad shape on account
of the continuing rains.
! Bond Election special election
held in Eureka in the proposition to
issue school bonds for a new twenty
! five thousand dollar high school build
ing resulted in the carrying of the
bonds by majority of nine votes. 1t
was the most holly contested local
election in the history of the town.
Detailed BY Attorney General
| Judge S. S. Ashbaugh, of Wichita, has
been detailed by the attorney general
| to take the testimony for Kansas in
| its suit against Colorado to enjoin Colo
| radios appropriation of waters from
| the Arkansas river.
Reviving Grange.-President Ira
! Jones of the National Grange Society
! spoke to farmers at the Grange pic
| mic. The Grange order is being re-
vived among the farmers of Garrett.
Atchison At Observation-Disclosures
has been represented at the South
Dakota land drawing by three hundred
men and about twenty women.
Log RoIIing.-At Salina bills are out
announcing the Woodmen picnic,
which will be held in Oakdale park,
| the 28th of this month.
Cowley County Wheat-Wheat that
under favorable conditions would test
from 60 to 62 pounds, is showing from
SO to Sc. The market is from 60 to
81 cents per bushel.
Lutheran League To Meet.-The
second annual convention of the Kan
sas conference Lutheran League will
be held at Kackley, Kans., August 10,
20 and 81.
Overcome BY Heat.-W. H. Repp. a
laboring man in Eureka, while unload
ing household goods into a car at
the Missouri Pacific yards, was over
come by heat.
Drowned While Swimming.-Daniel
Brinkmeyer, son of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
F. Brinkmeyer, was drowned in the
Wakarusa river five miles south of
Lawrence. He was swimming with
several other lads, but they could not
help him out.
Man Found Dead.-The body of a
man was found near the stock yards
at Bridgeport, lying face downward in
pool of blood. The citizens did not
permit the body to be moved, but
telephoned for the coroner in Salina.
The man had the appearance of Ia
| borer.
Northern Kansas Has Tramps.-
This part of the state is overrun with
tramps. Farmers were in Concordia
looking for harvest hands to work
at 81 per day and board, but could not
persuade the idle men to take jobs
Stringent measures will be adopted
by the towns in northern Kansas to
get rid of this increasing evil.
Little Wheat FIoated Away-The ap-
proximate amount of damage done by
the floods where the wheat shocks
and bundles in the low lands fioated