Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-10-26

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feet day. 1t is next to the largest in
the field. The largest in this field and
in the world is 81 million foot well
which belongs to the Kansas Natural
Gas company.
Arranged Exhibit Trains. : Presi-
State Agricultural College returned
from Chicago, where he arranged with
! Vice President w. B. Biddle and
Freight Traffic Manager ]. F. Holden
Of the Rock Island for a wheat and
corn train to be run over their lines
in Kansas.
Fruit Growers Meet. The State
| Horticultural society has announced
that its annual meeting will be held
! in Topeka on December &c, % and
%. The meeting on the 2Sth will ad-
| journ on time to enable those who
desire to go to Kansas City and at
tend the meeting of the Missouri
Horticultural Society on December
2S, 20 and 80.
Machinists Leave Ottawa. - Ru-
mors are going the rounds of railroad
circles that Ottawa will soon be with
out any machinists or machines in
the Santa Fe shops. There is only
| one engine in the shops now and the
report is that when the repairs to this
are completed the last of the machin-
lists with headquarters here will be
taken to Chanute.
After the Frats at Topeka.-Anoth-
er step was taken by the high school
officers of Topeka to wipe out high
school fraternities. Members of all
the frats and sororities were forbid
den to wear their club colors in
school. The pupils are up in arms
and have employed attorneys to test
the question. They claim they have
right to wear what they please.
Met Horrible Death. - At yelling
ton Mrs. Martha j. Gardner, aged so
years, wife of an old soldier. met with
horrible death through the gasoline
deavoring to light, catching fire, en-
veloping her in flames. She was
dragged by neighbors out of the blaz-
ing house, but was so terribly burn
ed that she died few hours later
Opera House Proposition. - A sec
ond opera house proposition was
launched when the Tackett Audi
forum Stock Company, a home con-
Germ. offered to build $4,000 opera
house for a bonus of $4,000 in tickets
at Coffeyyille, Kansas. Johnson, the
st. Louis opera house builder, had
month ago started out to build a
$4,000 house for q bonus of $4,000
in tickets
Killing Young Stock.-What is de-
scribed as really a mountain lion has
been seen on the Saline river bluffs
near Plainville several times in the
last two weeks. Calves from the
farmers herds have been killed and
the cattle are frightened and restless
at night. Fifty men and boys spent
Sunday on the bluffs searching for
the animal, but it was not found. 1t
is averred that its tracks were dis
covered several times, but dogs will
not follow the tracks through fear.
The neighborhood is excited and resi-
dents are afraid to venture out at
night.
Winfield in Darkness. - Douglas
Bourdette, owner of the we'll which
SIInn1inc fhfc nj ,r,;tE,
turned off the supply from the city
mains and the town Is in darkness.
He charges that the Winfield Gas Co.,
which operates the gas mains inside
the city limits, is indebted to him for
the use of natural gas since July and
that he has not been able to get any
settlement. The company is operat-
ed by local capitalists, who also own
a manufacturing plant to make artifi-
cial gas. The capitalists say they will
abandon natural gas and use the
manufactured article
Municipal Ownership at PaoIa. the
special municipal election held here to
vote on the. proposition to issue bonds
to buy the water plant at $50, 900, and
to build an electric light plant not to
exceed cost of S25, 900, both ques-
tons carried by good majorities, the
women not voting. Four per cent
bonds will be issued to buy the water
works and bonds not to exceed AZ per
cent per annum will be issued for the
electric light plant Each proposition
was separate. The water plant has
been in operation twenty years, and is
said to be badly out of repair. An ex-
pert engineer who was u short time
ago hired to come here to look it over
reported that it was not worth more
than $4,000.
Fire at Geuda Springs. - Nelson &
Tipler's grain elevator, containing
10000 bushels of wheat, was DESTROY
ed by fire. The fire also DESTROYED
three empty box cars belonging to
the Kansas Southwestern road. one
car loaded with wheat, the Kansas
Southwestern depot, elevator Office
and two cribs containing 5000 bushels
OF corn. The loss will be 5000,
partially covered by insurance.
KsDsas-ColoradoC ass-Attorney GEN
eral Coleman received message to the
effect that the United States supreme
court had set the Kansas. Colorado wa
ter suit for hearing October 2, 1906.
Coleman wanted it heard in April.
Colorado and the government wanted
the hearing delayed until October.
They won their point.
Dies Very Suddenly. Frank Car
roll, wife of the assistant cashier of
the Leavenworth National bank, died
very suddenly. She was down town
and on returning home was stricken
with hemorrhage of the lungs.
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