Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-11-03


of BUS" Cartwright, a negro. The
writ is alternative and the board is
allowed until November to show
cause why the negro children should
not be allowed to enter the white
schools. The case results from fight
of two years standing, which the ne
groes have made to have their chill
sren admitted to the white schools.
Line to Oil Field.-The Kansas
Southern Electric railway company, of
lola, has opened negotiations with Of
tawa with view to securing fran
chise for an electric line from Kansas
City to the oil fields. A letter from
the president, Frank V. Crouch, says
that surveyors will be put to work in
few days. Ottawa has granted a
franchise to Hugh Holmes of Kansas
City, who agrees to have a hnesfrpm
Kansas City in operation within Is
months. The Holmes company has
most of its right-of-way secured.
Students at Misunderstanding Kan
sas State Agricultural college is again
in position to tell it's patrons that
there has been an increase of students
this fall term in nearly every one of
its courses. The count shows total
attendance of 1882. Compared with
the initial attendance of last fall, this
count shows an increase of fourteen
seniors, decrease of seventeen jun
iors and an increase of six sophie
mores.
Paying for Fun.-The Kansas uni
versity. boys are paying for their
fun" Will Carson was fined $50 and
costs in police for attempting to in
cite riot and w. D. Deeger was fined
$40 and costs for shooting a Roman
candle. The cases were appealed. The
students were defended by the dean
of the law school and one of the fac
ulty and the case was tried before a
graduate of the same school.
Prisoners confess.-C. B. Ennis, a
prisoner in the federal penitentiary in
LeaVenworth, and William Briscoes, of
GAINESVILLE, l. T., have confessed that
they furnished the pistols to the fed
eral prisoners On November 6, 1901,
with which they successfully mutt
MED on November Z. Briscoe is I'M
der arrest and will be brought to To-
peka and placed in the county jail
awaiting action by the court.
Ballasting Roadbed.-The Rock Is
land road has large force of men and
several work trains ballasting the
main line to the south of Wichita and
when the work is completed the road
will have one of the best roadbeds in
the country. The road has already
been ballasted from Harrington to
Wichita. Crushed rock about a fooN
thick is being put on the road.
ExiIed Nuns Arrive.-There arrived
in Atchison five nuns who had been
exiled from France by the fight the
government of that country is max
ing on the Catholic church. They
were of party of twenty-nine which
landed in New York last week, and
are from the Convent Flavigny-sur-
Moselle, Nancy, one of the oldest in
the world.
Dead in Bed.-Jethro Cochran, who
was found dead in his bed at Garnett,
was Cowley county farmer for thirty
years. He is a man who will be miss
ed with regret by his neighbors, a
tribute that can be paid truthfully to
but few men.
Given Satisfaction.-Dr. Dinsmore
of Troy, has held the position of cor
oner in Doniphan county for 26
years and has been nominated for
another term. He has given satisfac-
ton to the living and the dead have
made no kick.
Raising Track.-At Winfield a large
force of men are raising the track of
the Santa Fe from the Frisco crossing
TO the river. Two new steel bridges
are to be put in. 1t is planned to get
the tracks above high water.
New Experiment.-The batteries of
field artillery at Fort Riley have been
experimenting with different sizes of
megaphones to ascertain their useful
ness on drill. Several sizes of mega
phones have been distributed to the
five batteries for a practical test
The largest megaphones have proved
nwieldy, and during the test the
smaller sizes have been found very sat
isfactory.
Plenty of Wheat.-Wheat is being
put out in Meade county at the rate of
forty acres per day. Disks and drills
are pulled by threshing engine
Movement of Wheat.-From so to
rs wagonloads of wheat were the daily
market at Junction City last week by
farmers who have been holding their
grain for 81 per bushel. Most of the
wheat tests fifty.nve or fifty-six
pounds to the bushel, and this week
the farmers have been receiving 90
cents to S1.e1 for this grade. A SIM
liar rush of grain to market exists at
a number of places on the Union Pa
cific west, and the railroad men ex-
pect the big fall movement of wheat
to the east to commence in a week or
two.
Kept His Head.-Locking the in
mates of the state reformatory for
boys in the dormitory and calling out
his boy fire brigade organized from the
reformatory. Superintendent Drake
succeeded in extinguishing a blaze
that threatened destruction to a S14,-
900 building. The loss will not exceed
$4,000
Did Some Damage.-The thermom-
eter at Dodge City on the 26 registered
26 degrees above zero and ice froze on
small bodies of water. leaves froze ON
trees and considerable damage was
done.
Stole Sealskin.-A woman whom the
police at Topeka have so far been I'M
able tn caDture stole SaalSl,ip coof