Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-07-21
KANSAS COMMENT

Pioneer Minister.-The Rev. Samuel
E. Pendleton, a pioneer Methodist
minister in Kansas, and trustee of
the Baker university, is dead at Bald
win.
Good Chance For Wheat.-Heavy
rains at Woodston, Kans., have dam
aged the crops. Wheat is not ripe
enough to be damaged much, and har-
vest will begin in few days. The
prospects are favorable for a large
yield.
First New Wheat-The first load
of the new crop of wheat was brought
to Mcpherson by Blackman brothers
and was sold. The wheat tested fifty
five pounds and had a good color. 1t
sold for IS cents. The machine meas
ure runs fifteen bushels per acre.
Kansans Want Free Farms.-Fif-
teen men left Eureka over the Mis-
souri, Pacific, and the Santa Fe
took out a number with more to fol-
low, all bound for Yankton, South
Dakota, to register for farms in the
Rosebud reservation, which is being
opened for settlement
Saloon Victim Asks Damages.-For
the first time in the history of Kan
sas the supreme court is asked to
award the victim of a saloon smash
ing damages. The destroying of G.
B. Stevens saloon stock took place
in Anthony in 1901, and the work was
done largely by women. Stevens
lost his case in the lower courts. He
asks for $4,000 damages.
gust Meill, a German of Reno county,
who has been found insane. will be
taken to Chicago Immediately, where
he will be turned over to the immi-
grafton Office for deportation to Ham
burg, Germany, which country he left
ten months ago. The state asylum
would not receive him because he
had not gained residence here, and
County Attorney Brown took the mat
ter up with the government agent,
who will have him sent home.
Negro Mistreato Charlottesville
the 11-year-old daughter of John
Fronke, with her 8-year-old brother,
were picking berries near Atchison,
a negro compelled the girl at the
point of a shotgun to walk to re-
mote place in the woods, where he
attempted to mistreat her. He COM
PEELED the boy to go along, so he
would not raise the alarm. Both of
the children screamed, and the negro
finally ran. A few hours later ne
gro named John Mitchell was arrest
ed, and he confessed to the crime.
He is now in the county jail.
To Close Stock Yards.-The stock
yards at Davidson, Kan, are to be
closed if the county attorney can do
so. The yards have been used to
unload Texas cattle for the Usage
and Kaw country pastures for years.
After the cattle fatten upon the grass
in the reservation they are shipped
to market from the same point. The
farmers have had much trouble
caused by southern cattle breaking
into native pastures and are demand
ing that the yards be closed. The
Missouri Pacific has been operating
the yards and will lose much bust
ness if they are closed.
Plans to Protect Track.-Santa Fe
engineers are planning to make i'm
provements on the Southern Kansas
help do away with the annoyance
and inconvenience caused by high
water every spring and summer in
that section of the state. The plans
of the engineers are that the road
bed will be raised several feet at
every point where the tracks cross
a stream or where there has been
trouble with high water. Surveys
will be made and estimates will be
made on the cost of the work at
once.
Around Conway Springs.-A report
from Conway Springs declares it diff
ficult to make a close estimate, but
it is presumed that probably not more
than one-third of the wheat in that
locality remains uncut, and some of
that will probably never be cut, as
much of it is down and it will be i'm
possible to get in some parts of the
fields with machine in less than a
week, even if it should quit raining
now.
Bailey at Girard.-W. J. Bailey de-
livered the Fourth of July address at
this place.
Caution About Well Water.-1
think it would be we'll to caution the
people," said a we'll known physi-
clan, concerning the use of well
water during the flooded condition
of Wichita. City water should be
used exclusively. Persons not hav-
ing access to that kind of water
should boil that taken from wells
fully twenty minutes before using. 1t
will prevent all kinds of disease"
In Spite of Mud.-A Mcpherson
county farmer is harvesting in spite
of the mud. He wraps the wheels
of his binder with canvas.
Ran Prices Up.-The merchants in
some of the flooded towns of Kansas
took advantage of the people and
tried to hold them up for higher
prices on vegetables, and in fact,
everything to eat. However, this
only lasted for few days until the
farmers could get to town.
Citizens Surprised.-The people of
Winfield were very much surprised
when the surveyors of the interurban
line, which will enter the city from
Arkansas City, reached there. This
line will be the only electric line in
Cowley county
Put in Guages.-The United States
department of agriculture will place
new stations and guages at various
points along the Kaw river. After
these guages are in there will no
longer be any difficulty in securing
reliable and authentic information
regarding the height of the river-as
has been the case during the recent
high water.
Appointed to West Point Ernest