Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-05-11


versary. This lodge is one CT the
largest and best in the state. the
membership numbering about 300.
The lodge owns its own hall and is
out of debt.
Caught in shaft.-At Sterling ]. N.
dentally killed. No one was near
when the accident occurred. but as he
was an old man and had frequent
| spells of dizziness, it is supposed in
one of these spells he fell over rail-
| ing and into line shaft. Every bit
of his clothing, excepting his hose,
was torn from him and round about
| the shaft
Vote Railroad Bonds. Lacrosse
and Big Timber townships, Rush
county, voted aid in bonds yesterday
at the rate of $4,000 a mile, to build
ern railroad. This is the first aid
voted. Three townships in Reno
county may have an election in about
months time. 1t is the intention
to start work on the road at Lacrosse
in few weeks.
Is Taxable Valuation. - The board
OF railway assessors gave out the tax
able valuation of the telephone and
telegraph property in Kansas for
1905, the total being $1,700,0S7.
Among the most extensive were the
Western Union telegraph property.
assessed at $S39,24S. and the Postal
Telegraph at 100000. Bell phone
property valuation is sSS9,O3 and the
Independent phone lines SIG, $50.
Escape Army Service. = The pas
senger department of the Rock Island
announces that it has succeeded in
locating a colony of Russian menon-
ties in Seward county, Kansas. The
colony has purchased eight quarter
sections of land and will raise Dur
ham wheat. The land a few years
ago was regarded as worthless. The
menonites came to this county to
escape service in the Russian army
Complaint Of Lumber Rate.-Carr
Taylor, attorney for the railroad
board, is getting ready to bring a
complaint before the interstate COM
merce commission against the lum-
Der rates charged in Kansas. He
claims they are excessive. He has
been making some figures recently,
and says he finds that the railroads
get about s95,0O0,00O a year out of
Kansas in freight charges of all
kinds.
Has Been Accepted. Chancellor
Frank SStrong, of the University of
Kansas, who is chairman of the Kan
sas committee for the election of can
didates for the Rhodes scholarship,
received telegram from the Rhodes
trustees in London, accepting Frank
NJ. Mohler as the Kansas scholar for
1905. Mr.. Mohler had been elected
by the committee. but it was after
wards discovered that he would be
just day too old at the entrance
time. This matter was taken up with
the trustees, with the result that the
age limit was waived in his case. be-
cause of the closeness of the time.
Mr.. Mohler is a student of Washburn
college at Topeka.
Telephone Rate War.-A telephone
rate war, in which the Lyon county
farmers are interested, is on. All the
rural phone lines into Emporia are
connected with the Independent COM
pany, and the farmers pay 81 month
for their phones, the same as the
town people pay, while the farmers
build and maintain their own lines
For some time they have objected
to the high price. A bill was passed
by the late legislature making the
maximum price for rural phones in
Lyon county so cents. However, the
Independent company reserves the
right to refuse service for less than
81 a month. The Bell Telephone COM
pany recently announced a 25 cent
month rate, and several of the farm
lines have signed contracts to con-
meet with the Bell.
Like the Boil WeeviI. - Trustee
Stratton, of Elemdaro township was
in Emporia and reports that a white
louise which much resembles the boil
weevil which works in the southern
cotton fields, is doing much damage
to the corn in his vicinity. The insect
works on or near the root of the corn
and being white in color. is hard to
distinguish from the stalk This is
the third year that it has worked in
| the corn fields in Lyon county, and it
seems to be doing more damage this
year than at any previous time. The
only remedy seems to be a heavy
| rain, which washes off the insect and
shake off the effect.
| Fire Was Destructive. fire
whiSh started in William Cranes liv-
cry barn at Home City destroyed fif-
teen business buildings, leaving only
| the depot and two elevators standing.
The loss is 100000. Home City is
| on the st. Joseph & Grand Island
railroad. six miles east of Marysvville
| and is a good country trading point
of 600 inhabitants. Several families
| living over the burned buildings lost
all of their possessions.
Bonds in School Fund. - The state
! treasurer's books show that the four
school funds combined have bonds
aggregatng sS.S67,97O.33 OF this
amount 1881, 724.66 is in the per-
manent school fund; $146,SO9.17 is
in the University fund; S212,365 is in
| the normal fund and S477.071.50 is in
the agricultural fund. The perman-
ent fund contains $29O.996.36 in de-
linquent bonds and $1S9,S54.51 in de-
linquent coupons and interest. The at
torney general has put his chief clerk.
| John Dawson, to work trying to col
| lect or compromise the delinquent
| bonds and coupons.