Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-08-24
A, Bio Flock of sheep.-A party OF

A. Big Flock of Sheep.-A party OF
Rocks county men start this week to
trail $4,000 sheep from Colorado to
Kansas 1t will take about six weeks
to get them through.
Stalks and Ears.-J. N. Baker; post
master at Greeley, is exhibiting a
stalk of corn with nine ears on it.
What a fine eavesdropper that stalk
would be, stalking around Greeley
Bell Phone Franchise.-At Parsons
the city council granted a franchise
to the Missouri and Kansas Telephone
Company, allowing the company to do
business in the corporation limits for
twenty years.
First White Woman There. - Mrs.
Conrad Myers, the first white woman
to settle in Republic county, still
lives on the homestead which she
filed on the day she landed in that
county forty-four years ago.
Biggest Wheat Yield. - ]. C. Nc
Crum, Of Minneapolis, is entitled to
the banner for the biggest wheat
yield Ibis year in Kansas. He had
thirty acres of wheat which yielded
LOGO bushels, or fifty-three bushels to
the acre.
Charged With Assault. - James
Teel, married man of Severy, aged
80 years, was arrested by the local
authorities in Fall River, charged
with criminally assaulting Mrs. Myr-
tie Broderick, of that city, while her
husband was away.
Potato Bug Discovers AlfaIfa.-An
insect known as he stripped blister
beetle has attacked a field of alfalfa
near Newton and is doing much dam
age. This bug is the same that some
times appears on potato vines, and
some years proves very destructive. G
Clark Makes DeniaI.-George Clark,
ex-state printer, said today that there
is no truth in the story that the profit
of the state printing for the last term
was divided between him and Henry
j. Allen. Clark said that Allen and
Leland were his friends and he would
let them fight the present out.
Population Increasing. - Early cen
sus reports received at the Office of
F. D. Coburn, secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, indicate that
creased and the total figures may
reach 100000. The compilation of
the reports will not be completed I'M
til in September.
New X. U. Professor. - Lawrence
Hodson has been selected to fill the
chair of mining engineering in the
University of Kansas. Prof. Hodson
graduated in civil engineering at
Ames, Ia, ten years ago. He then
went to the Michigan state school of
mines at Houghton, and after two
years of further study was graduated
in mining engineering with high
honors.
Melvin Found GuiIty.-At lola C. L.
Melvin, the joint dynamiter, was
found guilty on the charge of ma
licious destruction of property, and
sentenced to six months in Jail and
to pay the costs of the case. His at
torney gave notice of an appeal. Two
other charges still remain against
him. Melvin wrecked three saloons
with dynamite, and other adjoining
property was damaged. He fed and
was arrested in Iowa.
Options Extended. - Colonel J. F.
Mundy, one of the promoters of the
Gulf pipe line, informed the produc-
ers at Chanute that if the options are
extended until September Is he is
sure the deal will go through. All the
producers agreed to the extension of
the options. 1t develops that the only
difficulty is in the forming of a syndi-
cate to handle the bonds of the line.
The Union Trust Company of Pitts
burg agreed originally to underwrite
the bonds but the Standard Oil Com
pany interviewed and the Union Trust
Company backed down. The MELONS
are now forming another syndicate
in New York.
Philippine Army Society. - A local
branch of the National society, Army
of the Philippines. will be formed in
Hutchinson. Robert Campbell, Rue
Thomas and Alfred Emmett are Sc
curing the signatures of eX-Philippine
soldiers and will secure a charter.
There are probably 200 men within
reach of Hutchinson who have served
in the islands. General Wilder S. Met
calf of Lawrence is one of the ma
tional officers and is urging the Hutch
inson soldiers to get together. The
object of the organization is much the
same as that of the G. A. r.
Blue Grass Seed.-For the past two
years several farmers have been try
ing an experiment in raising English
blue grass on the white soil near
Hallowell. Last year they raised a
fair crop, but this year it has gone be-
yond their expectations and they have
proven that there is big money in
blue grass in Cherokee county. Mr..
Ardman, who has a field of 16 acres,
threshed his crop and realized IA
bushels to the acre. This is consider
ed big yield. Several of his neigh
bors have pieces that have threshed
from 10 to Is bushels.
Invention of a Farmer.-Frank Fur
guson of Republic county has perfect
ed a threshing machine operated by a
gasoline engine stationed on the sepa-
rator, which promises to eclipse any
thing before invented. 1t requires
only one man to run the entire ma
chine 1t is said that Mr.. Ferguson
has refused $4,000 for his patent.
For Fort Hays NormaI.-A Topeka