Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-08-04
On The orient,lTbe Orient track

miles south of Wichita. Track has
been laid through the town of Viola
and was laid across the Santa Fe
tracks east of Viola Monday. Santa
Fe passenger train 502 was the first
to cross the Orient tracks. The whole
force of men employed between Wich-
tia and Milton has been moved to
Viola and the work is being pushed.
Already the road has increased the
population of Viola from so to $50
people.
Wheat Is Good.-Ed. Lyman, sue
cessful farmer near Garfield, raised
1924 bushels of wheat on 80 acres of
land, which tested go to 60 pounds,
which is the best test and yield in this
part of the county this year. The
same 80 acres averaged 81 bushels per
acre last year, and parts of it as
| high as 40 bushels per acre. Mr.. Ly-
man had $500 bushels altogether this
year, part of which he sold for 76
cents per bushel. Mr.. Lyman be-
lieves in thoroughly preparing wheat
ground and his success proves his
| belief
! Lyon NOunIY
Rickabaugh and John c. Davis, pio-
neers of Lyon county, died July 81.
Mr.. Rickabaugh came to Lyon coun-
| ty in 1857 and settled on the farm
! which was his home until he died. He
was a lieutenant in the Eleventh Kan
! SIS cavalry during the Civil war. He
was II years old. A wife and eight
/ children survive him. John G. Davis,
who came here in 1870, died of heart
disease. He was farmer, 81 years
old. He leaves wife and seven chill
! dren.
Wheat To Market.-In Cowley coun-
! ty the wheat that so many thought
would be a total loss, because of the
recent rains and high water, is be-
! ginning to be marketed and is bring
I ing a good price. 1t ranges all the
way from 81 to 20 cents a bushel, as
/ the grade of wheat is concerned, and
is in most localities of good quality.
! 1t is showing yield of from Is to
| rs and so bushels to the acre.
| New Rural Routes.-Rural free de-
livery letter carriers have been ap-
pointed as follows: Larned-Herbert
/ A. Bell, carrier; Robert H. Bell, sub
/ stitute Mineral Point-Egbert P.
CASTOR, carrier; Lillian CASTOR, sub
stitute. Norcatur-John A. Bern, car
/ rier; Buren, Speak, substitute. Pleas
anton-Mary Hazel Baker, carrier;
+ Shadrack McGlothlin, substitute.
| Good Wheat YieId.-Threshing is
! in full swing at Concordia now, and
! wheat is running all the way from
! eight to twenty bushels. The most
! of it will weigh from fifty-six to fifty
eight pounds, and the berry is bright
3 and clean. The average yield the
county over is estimated by thresh-
+ ers at from thirteen to fifteen BUSH
/ els.
/ Ruined BY FIoods-The latest floods
/ killed the beet sugar industry in the
| vicinity of Emporia for this year at
| least. The beets survived the pre-
! vious floods and came out fresh and
/ green, and those who had planted
/ them were congratulated on having
at least one crop that high water
+ could not hurt.
Green Corn Dance.-The Pottawato-
mic Indians began their annual green
| corn dance at Nadeau, Kan. There
| is much interest in the event, and as
the preparations were extensive, it
will be a success. Many white peo-
| pie are spectators.
Building New Pens.-The Santa Fe
is making preparations for a big cat
lie business in Kansas this fall. Ad-
] o,.Ic
built at Emporia and several other
points along the line.
A Working Girl-Anna NJ. Odden,
who drew No. "a in the Rosebud lot
terry, works in Murray's store at Den
ton, Kan. She is an adopted daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. T. T. Odden of DON
iphan county.
Atchison At Rosebud.-Atchison
has been represented at the South
Dakota land drawing by three hundred
men and about twenty women.
Temporary Injunction.-At Winfield
Judge Swartz in the district court dis
solved a temporary injunction grant
ed some two weeks ago, restraining
the Missouri Pacific road from ship
ping cattle at Davidson, Cowley coun-
ty. The order was granted at the
request of farmers in the vicinity of
Davidson, who claimed the cattle were
infected with Texas fever.
facturers of commercial fertilizers
have been licensed by Secretary Co
burn of the state agricultural board
to sell their products in Kansas.
Public Library.-Stafford is to have
a public library through the generosi-
ty of one of her citizens, ]. D. Laribee.
He erects building to cost $4,000
and the city is to agree to maintain
it. Petitions have been circulated and
literally signed asking the council to
levy a small tax to meet the condi-
tionS.
Damage BY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
hoppers are doing some damage in
the Arkansas Valley in Western Kan
sas, but farmers who are using the
poison bran treatment faithfully are
making Roadway against the pest.
Bust OF Swensson.-A bust of the
late DR.. Carl Swensson, founder and
president of Bethany college, at Linds-
borg, has been made by Gustaf Err
iclzsson, of Cambridge, Mass, and pre-
sented to the officials of the ST. Louis
worlds fair. The bust has been placed
in the Swedish building.
Its Seventh WeII.-The Osawatomie
Oil and Gas company shot its seventh
well, and it bids fair to be fine pro-
Queer. This company is operating
from two to three miles north of the
city and has six good wells and one
good gasser.
Changes in Auditors office.-Isaac