Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-08-10

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Bought is sections.-J. L. Maurer,
an Iowa banker. has great faith in
/ Western Kansas. He has just pur-
chased fifteen sections of land in
Hamilton county
Commits Suicide.-Miss Travis Au-
brey, young woman from Cameron,
Tex, committed suicide at the Hutch
inson hotel. taking carbolic acid. No
cause is known.
Wreck on Missouri Pacific. - A
west-bound Missouri Pacific passeng-
er train was wrecked two miles west
Of Marvin. Phillips county, small
town six miles south of Phillipsburg.
| The wreck was caused by broken
rail. The entire train left track with
the exception of the engine. No one
was injured
Was From Kansas. Mrs. Eta
Cotch. daughter of Perry Hutchinson,
! for years a prominent figure in Kan
sas politics, and now a capitalist of
! MarYsville. Kan, has been relieved
of about $4,000 by her husband, who
has left for parts unknown. The
Cotch family lived at Ada, Okla
homa-
A Hotel Change. - Frank Sarver,
late manager of the Baltimore Hotel
of Wichita, traded his farm of forty
acres for the Pacific hotel, at Gypsum
City. and will take possession on
August 18th. Samuel Bishop was the
owner of the hotel The Pacific is
the only hotel in the town and con-
| tains about fifteen rooms.
Guessing contests.-The county at
| torney of Sumner county has ordered
two mercantile firms of Wellington
which are conducting guessing con-
tests in which money prizes were be-
ing given away every Saturday, to dis
continue them under penalty of prose
cution for violating the state anti
lottery law
A Phone War Ends. - The tele-
phone war at Emporia is ended, the
farmers having accepted a PROPOSE
ton made by the Independent Tele-
phone Company to make rate of so
| cents per month for subscribers who
own their own lines, but do not own
their own phones and 25 cents a
month for those who own both their
own lines and phones.
D. Web. Wilder is 73.-Daniel Web
ster Wilder, who was at one time one
of the best known men at the state
house and in the state, completed his
seventy-third year last Saturday He
is living at his home in Hiawatha. AS
the author of the Annals of Kansas
his name will be known long after
many politicians and others are for
gotten.
Ring Tailed Pheasants. - The fish
commissioner is preparing to estab-
lish Chinese and ring-tailed pleas
ant hatchery in southwestern Kansas.
The law provides that these birds
shall not be killed for three years, and
D. w. Travis. the state fish and game
warden, believes that he can have the
western counties filled with them by
the time the prohibition is taken of.
Counties With Orchards.-Twenty-
six counties in Kansas have more than
100000 bearing apple trees. This is
shown by the reports made to Secre
tary Barnes of the State Historical So
ciety. Leavenworth county leads the
list. Although there are many coun-
. ties having bearing trees Mr. Barnes
says that the crop this year will not
be as large as it was last except in
the case of early summer apples
Remodel Federal Building. - Be
cause of lack of room and proper
arrangement in which to carry on
the Office work of the railway mail
department the old court room on the
second floor of the federal building
in Wichita is to be remOdeled This
room is now being used by the chief
clerk of the railway mail service. 1t
will be, remodeled and cut up into five
Office rooms for the better handlinp
of his work.
Baldwin Students. : Mr.. Frank H.
Hankins, of the class of 1901 of Baker
university. has been awarded a fell
low ship in Columbia university. Mr..
Scott E. w. Bedford. of the class of
1902. has been given fellowship in
the University of Chicago. Mr.. Will
liam Ray Manning. of the class of
1899, has just closed his fellowship
studies in the University of Wisconsin
and has been awarded the Bartlett
prize of S1OO by the American His
torical Society for the best thesis on
a historical subject.
Young Girl Handles Pumps.-At the
NJ, X. & T. pumping station, north
/ east of Galena. Kan. Miss Vernia
Romans, a girl of 10, is doing the
work of strong man. Mrs. Romans
father. Robert Romans, was formerly
in charge of the pumping station He
died recently, leaving his daughter
alone in the world. Knowing a good
deal about the work, of which she had
had charge during her fathers last
illness. Miss Romans applied for the
job and it was given to her. The
Katy officials state that the young
! woman is one of the best hands at
T, the pumps along the entire system
Corn Filling Fast. The ears of
corn in Kansas are said to be filling
so fast since the rain that the husks
are being burst Off
To Enlarge Power House.-General
Manager Nelson of the Wichita Street
Railway and Light Company has an
nounced that an addition would be
Immediately built to the power house
to make room for additional boilers
to furnish power. The service is to
be increased on number of lines,
and the company is preparing to
build new lines