Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-08-03
KANSAS COMMENT

FOR several years the cry Of the
farmers in the wheat belt has been
for more box cars in which to ship
their wheat.
Fill in Flood Holes. = At Wichita
Mayor Ross announced that the street
car company had agreed to haul any
amount of dirt to South Riverside
park to fill in the low places caused
by the flood of last year and the rails
ing of the levee along the river.
Good Crop of Apples.-The prospect
for an abundant crop of apples was
never better at Great Bend than at
present and the different orchards
around over the county are loaded
with apples and the early varieties
are selling for good price now.
To Increase Endowment.-The Rev.
A. W. Lindquist, pastor of the First
Swedish Lutheran church at 1898
Penn street, Kansas City. has &C
cepted an invitation to go to Linds-
borg, Kas, for two months and as
sist in the work of Bethany. Tia
Rev Mr. Lindquist will work to in
crease the endowment of the college
and pay off its'debts.
Fighting Impure Food. = Secretary
Crumbine, of the state board of health.
will join with the chemists of the
state educational institutions in a
warfare on impure food. Just as
soon as the professors get back from
their summer vacations the war will
begin" said Crumbine today. "The
law passed by the legislature last win
ter gives us ample power to drive out
all doctored foods
Test With Fuel as OiI.-The first
test of fuel oil on the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe railroad system will
be made soon. The engine with
which the first experiment is to be
made passed through Chanute bound
south. The test will be made on the
part of the Southern Kansas division
between Havana and Cedarville. Mr.
Fox, superintendent of the eastern di-
vision, is in charge of the engine.
Station Burned at Vesper. - The
station at Vesper, Kan. caught fire
and burned down. The cause of the
fire was a defective flue. Nothing
was saved from the building but a
few trunks that belonged to travelling
men. The Central Kansas Publishing
Co. had just sent a big order of books
and stationary to Vesper for the new
State bank of Vesper, which was to
open as soon as they got the books.
They were all burned.
Briston at Salina. - When Joseph
L. Bristow left Washington recently
it was announced that the former
fourth assistant postmaster general
would locate in either Ottawa or Sa-
line and engage in active work on one
terested in, the Ottawa Herald or the
Salina Journal. Mr.. Bristow has now
decided to go to Salina. That city
will be his home and he will be the
active editor and publisher of the Sa-
lima Journal.
Issues Rules For EmploXes.-The
Rock Island has notified it's employees
that the following rules will apply to
garnishments and assignments of
wages: When the first garnishment
against any employee is filed he will
be suspended while garnishment is
pending and warned that a second
garnishment will be cause for dismis-
sal. Assignment of wages will not
be permitted under any circum-
stances, and the first assignment will
be cause for immediate dismissal y
Gas at Three Cents.-Gas for manu-
featuring purposes will be cheap in
the gas belt. The Kansas Natural
Gas Company which was being bit.
terly fought by the Gas Belt Protec-
tive League, has come to an under
standing with the company by which
they agree to furnish gas for manu-
featuring purposes at three cents a
is cheaper than for the concerns to
own their own gas plants.
Burned Wheat Stacks. = Many
wheat stacks along the road between
BUTLER and Hutchinson have been set
on fire by a man who was driving
through the country, and no fewer
than fifty of them were burned. A
granary near BUTLER, which contained
$50 bushels of wheat and $3.50 which
had been received by the owner for
wheat the day before and hidden in
the granary, was burned. This farm
er also lost three stacks of wheat.
Twelve farmers are known to have
suffered losses at the hands of the
firebug and the loss of grain will
amount into the thousands of bush
els.
lola Wreeker at Large.-C. L. Mel
win, who wrecked the lola saloons, has
dropped out of sight as completely as
If the earth had swallowed him I'D.
He could not long remain here with
out food or shelter and it is not be-
lieved that any citizen of Allen coun-
ty would afford the wrecker either
1t is thought that Melvin has gone to
South Dakota
Asked to Lecture.-E. H Funston,
of lola, has been asked to deliver a
lecture in Chanute on Law and Or
DER" and the proceeds derived there
from to go to the relief fund.
Harvey County Robbery.-The gen.
eral merchandise store of l. NJ. Wood.
all at Walton nine miIeS eact NJ
Newton, was broken into and robbed
of 800 worth of clothing and other
articles. Two suspicious characters
seen loafing around the place are sup
posed to have been the thieves.
Harvested the Harvesters. = A. S
Roding and A. ]. Lattimer, harvest
hands from the East, had managed to