Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-06-15
KANSAS COMMENT

was nIeQ IN the supreme cOuTI lIOn
the Allen county district court by the
Big Gum Oil and Gas Company
against H. r. Allen and VIM. Savings
In the Allen county court H. r. Allen
and VIM. Saving, who are well drill
ers, got a judgment OF $1,74S.4s
against the company for work done.
Kansas Man For Panama. - DR.
Charles Andrews, a Hiawatha man
has been appointed government hos
pital physician at Panama and will
soon start for that country to take
up his work. The Panama physicians
have to take civil service examina
lions for the job. DR.. Andrews is al
present health officer for Brown
county.
Will Fight the Law.-Kansas rail
roads are preparing to fight the law
passed by the last legislature and
now in effect, compelling the railroads
to construct side tracks to elevators
and flour mills which may be built
within one-fourth of a mile from any
way station. The railroads claim the
new law is an imposition on their le-
gal rights and in opposition to the
fourteenth amendment.
West Sees Hope. = H. E. West,
president of the Kansas Oil Produc'
ers' Association, said at Chanute that
he had hopes that the Santa Fe would
soon grant the interstate oil rate ask
ed for by the Kansas oil men. He
stated that F. Dumont Smith, attor-
ney for the association, had received
a letter from President Ripley saying
that the rate would be granted.
ConIey Gets Job.-Aaron B. Con-
ley of lola has been appointed mill
tary storekeeper by Quartermaster
General w. w. Dennison. The Office
which is a new one created by the
last legislature, pays 5000 year. The
storekeeper assists the quartermast-
er general in taking care Of the mill
tary supplies held by the National
guard. Conley was lieutenant in the
Twentieth Kansas regiment.
Cooper College Prosperous.-Coop-
er college, located at Sterling, has
just completed a fund of $4,000,
which pays in full all outstanding, the
largest class in its history. Its build
Ing completes its eighteenth year
June 18th, graduating the largest class
In its history. Its building and
grounds are worth between 100000
and $4,000 and its endowment in
first mortgage real estate loans Is
something more than $4,000.
Drainage Refused.-The second at
tempt to organize drainage district
and Smoky Hill Rivers according to
the provisions of a law passed by the
last legislature, was made at meet
ing of the board of county commits
sioners. The commissioners consid-
cred the petition and the evidence for
district and refused to grant the es-
tablishment and organization of the
district.
Nine Varieties of Corn.-The Farm
Department of the Kansas State Agri-
cultural College has planted breeding
plo.s of varieties of corn. Seven of
these contain ear tests in which the
choicest ears from the highest yield
ing rows of last year are planted
separately, so that the selection may
continue to be made according to high
est yield and the best quality instead
of the outward appearance of the
ears. That this work is important is
shown by the fact that some of the
times as much corn as the poorest
row in the same plot
Perfect School Record.-Frank Mel
son made the commencement address
and presented diplomas to a class of
seven pupils, graduates of the Water
vile High School. One of the gradu-
ates, Miss Olive Wilson, has the re-
markable record of being neither alb
sent nor tardy for twelve years. John
Wheeler, another graduate, has a per-
feet record for eleven years. All
their school life has been spent in the
school mentioned. M. Delaney, direc-
tor of the district board, awarded Miss
Wilson handsome gold medal as a
mark of approval and testimony of
her perfect record
Monopoly at Geuda Springs.-Resi-
dents of Geuda Springs, the health re-
sort, are agitated over the course ia
ken by the owner of the medicinal
springs. In the past the waters have
been free. Jas. futile bought the
land upon which the springs are To-
Gated recently and is operating a hotel
and bath-house. He proposed to col
1ect $50 month from the owners of
other hotels, but they refused to pay.
futile owns the bottling works and
persons other than guests can not
buy any of the water
An Old Pioneer.-Richard Hare of
Highland is seventy years old and has
lived in Kansas since he was eleven
years of age. He stood three drafts
for service during the Civil war with
out being called into service, voted
for Fremont for president, and has
voted at every election since. Re-
Gently he attempted to file on some
land in Arizona and discovered that
he lacked some of being full-fedged
citizen of the United States. His
father had died before completing his
citizenship. Hare has lived at High
land since 1864.
New Lodge Room. The Hutchin-
son Lumber and Planning Mill Com
pany broke ground for a new modern
lodge room for the Modern Woodmen
of America. The building will be on
the north side of Sherman street west,
two stories. The lodge room, it is
claimed. will be the finest in Kan
sas.
School Principal for Winfield. -
Robert H. Rhodes of Wellington a