Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-17

restaurant Ola Hopkins millinery
store and the Cassidy barber shop
Move All to Iola.-The Lanyon Zinc
Company is moving it's sales office
from st. Louis to lola. Heretofore a
sales Office has been maintained in St
Louis, but it has been decided that
the entire business of the company
can be better conducted in lola. This
means that in the future the entire
business of the Lanyon Zinc Company
will be transacted in lola.
Fire at Edgerton.-Fire which start
ed in vacant building on the north
side of Main street destroyed almost
the entire business portion of Edger-
ton, small town in Johnson county.
Whitlaw & Co.. are probably the lar
store, restaurant, barber shop and
general store was also burned. The
loss is partly covered by insurance
Harper's New Light Plant. - The
new city electric light plant began
operations on May Sth, the current
then being turned on the wires for the
first time. while the plant is not yet
completed it is sufficiently so to be
started permanently The remainder
of the work will be pushed to compile
ton as soon as possible. The plant
will cost about $4,000 when complet-
ed.
No Sugar Beets for Lyon.-Eli Fow-
Ter. who made experiments for three
years with sugar beets, says that they
cannot be raised successfully in Lyon
county, as the soil is not sandy
enough, and lacks the quality that the
soil in the western part of this state
here grow large, but do not contain
the per cent of sugar they should and
cannot compete with those raised fur
ther west.
Death of Judge Peach.-Judge John
B. Peach, one of the best known citi-
zens of Republic county, is dead at
his home in Belleville. He has been
city clerk under four administrations
and in three weeks would have re-
ceived the unanimous Endorsement of
the republican county convention for
the Office of probate judge, he being
the only candidate for that Office.
Judge Peach was in his sixty-second
year.
Rebuilding Harvey House.-The Ar
cade hotel. the best Harvey house on
the Santa Fe system and the pride of
Newton, is being increased in its ca
pacity Men from the bridge and
building department of the Santa Fe
are fixing up the rooms in the east
wing of the building. and as soon as
they have finished their work, the
rooms will be furnished with the hand
some and comfortable furnishings the
Harvey people always put in their
hotels and twenty-three rooms will
have been added to the house.
Big Mortgage Filed. - One of the
largest mortgages ever recorded in
Neosho county is now in the hands of
the register of deeds, l.. R. Stanley.
The property upon which the mort
gage is given is owned by the Kansas
Natural Gas Company and the instru-
ment is drawn for the round sum of
100000. The matter is all printed
and bound and covers 29S printed
pages seven inches by ten inches in
size. This mortgage was filed with
Deputy Register of Deeds, Mrs. L. R.
by ]. w. Finley, attorney for
the Kansas Natural Gas Company, and
is the fourth document of its kind
that has been issued over the. sig
natures of the officers of the Kansas
Natural The first mortgage was made
in 1904 for 100000 This was fol-
lowed later by two supplemental
the first for s2,656, 900 and
the second for 100000. The one
filed this week brings the total
amount of the incumbrance up to
about $4,000, 900, which is bearing 6
per cent interest All of the loans were
secured from the Fidelity Trust Com
pany, of Pittsburg, Pa.
La Harpe Strikes Coal. - The drill
ers who were working for Readicker
& Pruitt ON the well which is being
drilled for the W. C. Gum Gas Com
pany on the Donan farm south of La
Harpe, made a discovery which may
mean much to Allen county. A vein
of coal something over Is inches thick
only 20 feet down was passed through
in drilling the well. The coal was
ground up so that it was a difficult
matter to tell the quality of it, but it
is bought that it would be good.
Good Crop Prospects.-There were
never before better prospects for
bountiful crop than at the present in
southwest Kansas. The season was
backward and spring work
was delayed, making corn planting
at least three weeks late in starting
But when the weather finally warmed
up work went along with a rush.
There has been ample moisture in
this section and the ground was in
excellent condition for oats and corn.
Oats are coming up and are looking
fine. The acreage is not as large as
compared with other years. The
wheat acreage is large and corn is
above the average.
Lightning Fires Big Barn. - During
a severe electrical and thunder storm
lightning struck a large horse barn
on the farm of M. H. Radell, a dairy
man residing 2 IL miles northeast of
Pittsburg, causing a fire which de-
stroyed several large barns and en-
tailed loss of s1,4O0, fully covered
by insurance.
Great Crop county.-Jewell county,
famous for the immensely of her corn
crops, has a larger area of alfalfa
than any other county in Kansas
nearly 10000 acres. Jewell is well
certainly is a jewel.
Even Docket Is Loaded.-The effect
IF the annOintment Of assistant attOrS