Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-21

Will Be No Encampment.-Govern-
or Hoch approved the order of the
military board capcelling the We'll
lington encampment The Kansas
troops will therefore not be assembled
for inspection this year.
Want Cooking Teacher. - If the
school board can get a competent
teacher in cooking, at a reasonable
price, it has about decided to organize
a class in this department for the
high school at Salina.
Valuable Wheat crop.-D. A. Stubbs
has just balanced accounts with his
wheat crop on his Scott county farm.
He had in 120 acres of wheat and this
years crop paid for the land. for
breaking the prairie. for putting in
and harvesting the wheat and left
5000 besides to buy more Scott county
land.
National Life Wants Securities. =
The National Life Insurance Company
wants the 100000 in securities which
the state is holding to protect policy
holders of the old Union Life Company
Of Kansas. The Union Life had that
amount on deposit with the state to
protect its policyholders. 1t sold out
to the National Life.
Attached Interchangeable Interna.
tional Harvester Company tries to
dodge its taxes just like other people.
1t failed to pay $3.50 in taxes in Re
public county last year. The sheriff
caught a carload of it's machinery in
the railroad yards at Belleville the
other day and attached it for the taxes.
The company had to dig up.
Civic League Rejoices.-At Win
field large and enthusiastic meeting
of the Civic league was held at the Y.
M. C. A. building. About fifty mem
bers were present. There was no set
program but all of the members uni
ted in a general praise-service on &C.
count OF the work of the past week in
causing the joints to be closed.
Hiding in cornfieIds. - David r.
Coulter, an inmate of the state refor-
matory, escaped from the cane patch
where he was engaged in stripping
cane for the sorghum mill of the in.
stitution, and has not been heard from
since. A field of corn adjoins the cane
patch on the east, and the convict is
supposed to have gone in that direc.
tion
Naval Cadetships Coming. - Al
though Kansas is entitled to twenty
scholarships in the naval academy at
Annapolis, she only has seven stu
dents there. This is not the fault of
the school, but of Kansas. Her boys
seem unable to pass the examination
required. Only one Kansas boy-Will
Leland, son of Cy Leland, passed the
last examination. Six failed.
Hand Torn off.-C. A. Carlson, of
Mcpherson county, met with serious
accident which resulted in the loss of
his right hand. He was feeding
broom corn shredder, when his fingers
were caught in the machine. His hand
was pulled in and horribly mangled.
A doctor was sent for from Lindsborg,
seven miles distant, who came at once
and amputated the member.
Must Not Use Passes. - Carr Tay-
lor, attorney of the railroad board,
who carries annual passes on all the
railroads by virtue of his office, has
thrown bomb among the other state
officers by threatening to prosecute
them for carrying passes. There is
no direct law in Kansas against pub
lie officials carrying passes, but Tay-
lor thinks he can get at them by indi-
rect means.
Say It's Petty Graft. = At a well
attended meeting of the State Grain
Mems Association, held at Topeka,
the grain men almost unanimously de-
cided to employ legal action at once
to stop the custom of grain commits.
sion firms at Kansas City of deduct.
ing 100 pounds from the weight of ev.
cry car of grain regardless of quality
or price they receive from shippers.
The grain shippers argue that it is
a petty graft and propose to stop it.
Caught Big Catfish. - One of the
largest catfish ever known to have
been caught in the Republican river
at Clay Center was caught by Ernest
Obenland. 1t weighed forty-six pounds
and was caught with an ordinary pole
and line. 1t was more than three and
half feet long and its mouth when
closed measured eight inches across.
Old fishermen say it must have been
20 years old. Obenland also caught an
1S-pound fish shortly afterwards.
Rain Washes Out Salt. - A heavy
rain at Sedan washed the salt water
out of the Caney river which had gone
from the oil wells. Several indus
tries that had shut down in order to
avoid the use of salt water in their
boilers may resume again. The Mis-
souri, Pacific has been running water
cars on its trains from Coffeyville to
Cedarvale rather than use salt water
when passing through Chautauqua
county, where its water is taken from
the river
Precaution Against Fever. - The
state board of health will meet this
week to consider the matter of fumi-
eating cars. This is supposed to be
a precaution against yellow fever.
Cheap Protection. - At its annual
meeting at Wichita last week the
Anti-Horsethief association found that
it had cost them only Is cents each
to recover the animals stolen from
the various members during the
year.
Alfalfa Seed vaIuabIe.-M. T. Will
liams, near Medicine Lodge, last week
threshed an alfalfa seed crop that the