Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-09-28

Where 1t Comes From. = Kansas
supplies the east with good horses,
then ships on the corn to feed them.
Still people wonder why Kansas is so
prosperous
Got the Wrong Wallet. pick
pocket at Hiawatha rified the pockets
of A. W. Moore, a farmer, at the show
grounds the other day and got large
leather wallet containing a chunk of
! Battle Axe
Frats Drop Behind.-An investiga-
ton of school records at Lawrence
shows that members of the high
school fraternities are inferior in
scholarship to those who are not
members. This is the basis for the
| fight the teachers are making to
/ abolish high school frats.
Objection to Oiled Roads.-The ex-
pertinent of an oil road through the
sand hills of Finney county has not
proved a complete success. Wagon
| wheels cut through. A wide tire law
J might solve the trouble, but it would
cost more TO convert Western wagons
! into wide tires than to macGdamize
| the sand hill roads.
Buffalo Jones" Resigns. = C. ].
Jones. better known as Buffalo
| Jones'" for a number of years a resi-
dent of Wichita during the early days.
and well known by the early settlers
of southern Kansas, has resigned as
| game warden of the Yellowstone park.
and VII move to Arizona and devote
his attention to raising buffalo on his
ranch in the Grand Canon timber re-
serve
Baker University Opening. = Baker
university opened for the fall term
with an enrolment to date of $50 and
large number yet to enroll The
! opening address was delivered by
Rev. VIM A. Brown of Kansas City
! A new library building nearing COM
! pletion, two literary societies for men
and several additions to the faculty
are features of interest for this year
! To Start New Town. - Railroad
| Commissioner A. D. Walker and AL
bert Sarbach have purchased the
townsite of Della, Jackson county, on
the line of the new Topeka and North
western railroad. The townsite is in
cornfield, twenty miles southwest
/ of Holton. Walker and Sarbach eX-
pect to make a town of 1000 in
year. They are arranging for several
business enterprises for Della, in
| Guiding a newspaper
Farmers Are Cautious.-Lieutenant
/ A. J. Davis. who is making a survey
of the hills and dales of Eastern Kan
sas for the war department, is having
trouble making farmers take his
money for meals. When he pays for
a meal he must have a written re-
! ceipt to file with the department.
! When he asks for it the farmers hand
him back the money. They are afraid
| to sign their names to anything for
| : stranger any more.
Asks for Reorganization. = State la
Dor Commissioner Johnson will urge
the next legislature to reorganiZe his
department into four bureaus. One
bureau will be for the collection of
statistics about labor and factory con-
ditions in the state; another will be
| in charge of factory inspection, and
the enforcement of factory laws: the
| third will be the free employment
| bureau, now conducted as a separate
| department; and the fourth is a
bureau for the arbitration of labor
difficulties
Bond Compromise. - Assistant At
torney General Dawson has returned
from Stanton county, where he went
to straighten up some delinquent
school bonds held by the state school
fund. The defaulting bonds amount
ed to SS,92S. He succeeded in get
ting S1.903 in cash and STOPS in new
bonds bearing low rate of interest.
| He RENTED S1,242 in bank interest,
and got 1854 cash in delinquent in
| terest This now winds up the COM
promises on defaulted bonds in merg-
| ed districts.
| Keeping Out of Range.-Since the
first provisional regiment of field ar
tillery has commenced its target prac-
| tice with its new rapid fire guns on
the Fort Riley reservation, guards
under the command of commission
ed officers patrol that part of the re-
servation where the six batteries are
at work, that no one may get with
| in of hA oh Do
sides this, no one not United States
officer or soldier is permitted to wit
ness the firing.
X. U. Gymnasium Located. - The
board of regents of the University of
Kansas finished a brief session at
Lawrence. The new gymnasium
building was located to the north and
west of the present Fowler shop
building The plans for the interior
were agreed upon, but the exterior has
not yet been designed to the satisfac-
ton of the board. When the plans
are finally accepted. which it is be-
lieved will be during the fall, bids will
be called for, and the contract let so
that the foundation may possibly be
built this winter, or if not the work
will be ready for the opening of
spring.
Wichita's Big Rain.-A rain started
in Wichita at 9 o'clock and rained
without ceasing all night long. Not
little drops but great streams of wa
ter fell. The streets were small tor
rents.
Have a New Way. - Oskaloosa
Methodists have new way of getting
their names written there. The
church is building granitoid walk
and each member who will put up the