Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14

the county. Cherryvale gets one,
making four out of this city.
Junction city's New MiII.-The con-
tract for building the mill and eleva-
tor for the Hogan Milling Company
has been awarded to the firm of Zieg-
Ter & Dalton of Junction City, and the
construction work will be commenced
| at once.
Whole Family Has Typhoid.-Mrs.
Herbert Stickney is dead at the
Wichita hospital of typhoid fever
This is the only death so far in the
family of four, all of whom are
| seriously ill with the dreaded fever,
and it is said that the cause of the
disease is that water was allowed to
stand in the cellar.
August Weather-August weather.
according to the monthly summary of
DIR. F. H. Snow, of the University of
Kansas, was about normal in most
respects. On the record kept by DR..
Snow, there have been twenty-six
Augusts with lower average temp
erature and elSven Augusts with a
improvements at Manhattan The
Kansas State Agricultural college
opens it's forty-third session on Sep
TENDER 90 with increased faculty and
equipment. The new veterinary
science course becomes operative this
year. Extended preparations for an
increased enrolment have occupied
the greater part of the vacation.
Bonds Voted in Osage.-At special
election held in Usage City and in
Arvonia township, Usage county, for
the purpose of voting on the question
| of extending aid to the X. c., M. &
Orient Ry., Usage City by a vote of
245 for to IL against, gives $4,000;
and Arvonia township by vote of II
for to 60 against, gives $4,000 in
bonds.
Found Supply of Liquor. - Sheriff
William Hill and his deputy William
Lowell raided the joint of Ellsworth
G. Barnett at Cuba, Kansas. They Sc
cured 126 quarts of beer and IL quarts
of whiskey. Ellsworth served Jail
sentence for the same offense last
winter. Barnett was under $500 bond
to appear at the next term of court.
Both were arrested.
Sudden Death of G. Brockman.-G.
Brockman, a travelling man for drug
company of Kansas City, died on a
Union Pacific passenger train as it
was running into Plainville. Brock
man lives at Plainville and was going
home to spend Sunday with his
family He died of heart disease. He
formerly lived at Topeka, but moved
his family to Plainville about a month
ago.
Found Dead in FieId.-A couple of
little girls going through a field east
of Junction City found the body of a
man The officials in Junction City
were notified and it was found the
man came to his death by stroke
of apoplexy. 1t was the body of
James A. Ketchum of Beman, Kan.
He had been dead nearly two days
when his body was found.
Warden levitt Out.-V. H. Haskell,
state senator, assumed the warden
ship of the Kansas penitentiary. The
invoicing of property attending the
change in wardens was practically
completed and everything checked out
right. The guards and other officers
of the penitentiary with their famil-
les gathered at the prison lawn and
gave reception to Mr.. and Mrs. Jew
EFT.
Injured by Angry Bull. = Francis
Curry, well known farmer, living
about four miles east of Salina on the
Iron avenue road, was attacked by a
vicious bull and very badly injured.
Mr.. Curry has owned the bull for a
long time, and, as far as known, the
animal has not shown a vicious tenn
per before. Mr.. Curry was out in the
field near the house when the animal
attacked him.
Yaggy Picking Sack. - One of the
devices used for making apple hand
ling easy and to prevent the bruising
of the fruit is the Yaggy picking sack,
invented by one of the Yaggy boys of
Hutchinson.
Indians to State Fair.-The war de-
partment has granted permission for
a band of Pottawatomie Indians to
come to Topeka during state fair
week. There will be thirty-two in the
band headed by Rack Rack, the big
chief
Working the Farmer-A new swim
die is being worked among those farm
ers who are foolish enough to want
to sell their good Kansas farms. A
farmer will receive a letter asking
him to list his farm for sale with a
company, which company agrees to
advertise the farm for so many
months. The farmer signs an agree
ment to pay them so cents an acre
when they have fulfilled their part of
the contract. And here is where the
rub" is. They don't agree to sell the
farm, as the farmer finds to his sor-
row, but simply to advertise it. So
there is nothing to do but pay up.
PIowed Through Cattle. = A Cen
trail Branch train killed twenty-five
head of cattle few nights ago, and
the newspapers along the line say the
only explanation is that the cattle
must have been chained to the
track.
Large Normal Attendance. = j. N.
Wilkinson, president of the Normal,
says that the number of prospective
Normal students taking entrance ex-
aminations is greater than at any
time in the history of that institu-
ton at Emporia.
Useless to go Farther. = At the
depth of eighteen hundred feet the