Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-14

Funston at PaoIa.-E. H. Funston,
of lola, has accepted the invitation of
the Law and Order League of Miami
county to speak at its rally in Paola
September 16.
Big Rain at McPherson.-The totai
amount of rain which fell amounted
to 3 $1,000 inches. The greater part
of the rain fell at night on Septem-
Der g.
jackson County Farmers. - The
Jackson County Farmers Institute
will have a meeting at Holton the first
week in October. A feature of the
meeting will be a parade in whici.
1000 farmers will participate.
Bars Pool Hall. - At Ottawa the
city council has decided that no mar
who holds federal liquor license car
have license to operate a pool OF
billiard hall. One license was turn
ed down and the applicant surrender
ed his government permit
Fire Destruction. = At Dexter
large storage barn belonging to ]. G.
Kan, was burned, together with the
contents, including 1000 tons of baled
hay. The fire is reported to be of in
cendiary origin. The loss is partially
covered by insurance.
Saw Fight and Died.-After watch
ing street fight at Norway George
Ireland, a farmer, suffered a collapse
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recovering from an attack of typhoid
fever, but was yet in a weakened con.
dition when he came into town. Ire
land left wife and a family.
To Have 25 Cent Gas.-SeveraI cars
of pipe for the natural gas line have
arrived in Topeka, and will be laid at
once. The Kansas Natural Gas Com
pany hopes to be able to hook on to
the city plant by November l. When
the connection is made Topeka will
get gas for 25 cents a thousand feet.
Frogs Eat Chickens. = B. A. De-
Weese, Kingman farmer, placed
seventy young chickens, just Matched,
near the bank of a pond, tying the old
hens with strings so that they could
get to the waters edge. In three
days his seventy chickens dwindled
to six. An investigation revealed the
fact that frogs had eaten the chick
ems.
5000 Barn Burns.-The big barn on
the farm belonging to Tom Farris, q
cattle feeder, living near Winchester,
Leavenworth county, has been totally
destroyed by fire. The fire is thought
bustfon, in a large quantity of hay
stored in the barn. The loss amounts
to $4,000, of which one-third is cover
ed by insurance.
Postoffice Boxes For Students. -
Six hundred keyholes automatic com.
bination postofflce boxes have been in.
stalled at the Agricultural college al
Manhattan. These will be rented tc
the students at a nominal sum- The
handling of the college mail has been
one of the big problems in the past
This innovation will greatly reduce
that work.
An Operating Syndicate.-The ex
pert accountants who are going over
all books and papers having bear
ing on the Devlin estate, with a view
of ascertaining the exact value of the
assets, have so far progressed with
the work that the parties interested
are able to announce the probability
of a syndicate to operate all proper
ties belonging to the estate. 1t is now
only question of time until the syndi-
cate is formed.
Death Before Ignorance. - Charles
Henry Gilman, son of wealthy
farmer residing five miles north of
Mulvane, committed suicide by plac-
ing the muzzle of a loaded shotgun
against his breast and touching off
the trigger with the ramrod. The
young man left note stating that his
reason for the act was that his par
ents had refused to allow him to at
tend college and secure an education;
that he had wanted to make some
thing out of himself and as he saw
no hope of carrying out his desires
he did not care to live longer.
HoIton's Fair Success. - Holton
closed a four-day street fair. A
flower parade was the feature, thirty
decorated floats and carriages being
in line.
Rebuilding Turon. = The little city
Of Turon, in southwest Reno, has the
l. per grit. Recently the town had a
$4,000 fire which swept one block
of business houses clean. Already
contracts have been let for building
two brick buildings on the ground
burned over and it is understood that
plans are on foot for building the en-
tire block solid with brick buildings,
one or two of them to be two stories
in height.
H. Kakison, Franklin county farmer,
has demonstrated that thorough cult
walton of corn pays. With view of
competing in the corn contest, he Sc
lected patch containing IA hills
one shock-and gave it careful atten-
ton. The patch has yielded twelve
bushels of fine corn. This is at the
rate of 300 bushels to the acre. Many
of the stalks bore three ears and sew
eral had as many as five.
Leavenworth County Apples. =
Leavenworth county has more large
orchards-more apple trees-than any
other county in Kansas. In this
county the king of apple growers be-
gan his reign with principality of
300 acres of apples thirty years ago.
Grain in Postal Receipts.-The re-
ceipts of the Kansas City, Kan, post
Office during August amounted to
| s15,6601S. In August, 1904, the re-