Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-05-04

Kiiled BY Trolley Car. = Robert
the 19-months-old child of
Mr. and Mrs Charles Dewing of
was run over by an electric
car and instantly killed. The child
was playing along the track, and as
the car neared him he attempted to
run across the track His head was
ground to pulp beneath the
wheels.
Lawrence a Dry Town.-The sheriff
and police of Lawrence made a raid
on numerous joints - that have
been operating in the city. Four ar
rests were made and a large amount
of contraband stuff was captured.
The town is remarkably free from
joints and drinking clubs. and
the city and county officers intend
that it shall remain so.
Still Probing in Kansas. = While
Commissioner Garfield has left Kan
sas the investigation in the Kansas
oil fields is still going on. Before his
departure Mr. Garfield left a half doz-
en- more inspectors come ON from
to continue the work.
He outlined to them what informa-
ton he wanted. He took his three
original inspectors west with him.
Looks Like Military Post. - Adju-
tant General Hughes is now getting
ready for the annual auction sale of
discarded military supplies of the
Kansas National Guard. Enough such
stuff is sold each year to clothe
good portion of Topeka. So much
of this stuff is bought annually and
worn by ToTyIa people that strang-
ers think the town is a military post
Woodman Building Burns.-Fire de-
stroyed the Woodman building at
Wamego. McKelney's general store
on the first floor burned. An enter
tainment was in progress in the hall
when the fire broke out. The people
left the building in an orderly man.
ner, and nobody was hurt. The
building cost $4,000. The township
had an interest in it. The origin of
the fire is not known.
Gives College Library. = Andrew
Carnegie has donated to the German
Baptist college of Mcpherson $4,000
for library building. The gift is de-
pendent upon the college providing a
like sum of $4,000 as an endowment
fund for the future support of the IL
brary. At meeting of the faculty
it was decided at once to accept the
gift and to take the necessary steps
to raise the endowment fund.
Hansan to Wisconsin.-Prof w. H.
Carruth of the University of Kansas
will conduct the classes in German at
the University of Wisconsin during
the summer session of that school.
The session at Madison will not be-
gin until June &c, giving Prof. Car
ruth, who has charge of the summer
school here, opportunity to get the
work well under way before he goes
to the other work.
May End Fights. - May Day has
been declared a holiday at the Uni
versity of Kansas. in honor of the
sophOmores, the class of 1907, who
have decided to take no part in any
May Day demonstration such as have
occurred in the past at the institu-
ton. The chancellor and members
of the faculty of the school are much
gratified at the stand that has been
taken by this class. which if adhered
to, will bring to an end the disgrace
full fights that have hitherto marked
the day.
Gas For Small Towns. - Frank L.
Epps, engineer for the Kansas
Natural Gas Co., appeared before the
councils of Gardner, Edgerton and
Wellsville this week, asking for gas
franchise for the company. If fran
chises are secured he says that the
work of putting in mains at these
places will be begun at once and
that gas will be supplied by June
1. The company asks for a maxi
mum rate of As cents, to be increas-
ed to so cents at the end of five
years.
Experiment With Oil. - At Ottawa
plans are being made for grading
long stretch of South Main street, to
be treated with oil from the Rantoul
wells by the oil promoters, the rail-
road and the township and city au-
thorities by common contribution, as
an experiment. If it proves success
full use will be found for the surplus
production of the Rantoul wells in
road-making, until a better market
opens up.
Fuel Oil Tank Line.-The Wichita
Fuel Oil and Tank Line Company was
organized. 1t is a corporation and
has a capital stock of $4,000. The
incorporators are: w. D. Rice and 1.
S. Woodward of Wichita; D. w.
Blaine of Pratt, H. c. Taylor of Ly-'
ons, E. E. Frizzell of Larned. The
purpose of the company is to supply
crude oil to the people of southwest
ern Kansas for fuel purposes. A line
of twenty tank cars has already been
purchased and the company will pro-
coed at once to build two 10,000-barrel
storage tanks here for the purpose of
supplying oil to Wichita consumers.
Tanks will also be built in other
towns as rapidly as possible.
Pasturing Wheat. - Much of the
wheat on the bottom land along the
Smoky Hill river has been growing
so rank that many farmers continue
to turn their cattle onto their fields
to pasture. Especially in the parts
flooded last year and the year be-
fore, where fertilizing deposits were
left by both floods are crops further
advanced than usual.
Grapevines Winter-KiIIed-All the
grapevines in the Geary county farm
vineyard, an eleven-acre tract, which