Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-06-14

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Michigan State Normal.
Sale of Mill at concordia.-The sale
of the Concordia roller mills was made
by ]. H. Cline, of the Concordia Mill
The new company's officers are:
President, G. w. Huscher; vice-presi.
dent and general manager, Wilmer
| Bennett; secretary-treasurer, Claude
E. Curran.
| Tornado Hits Town. A tornado
struck Goessar. Is miles southwest
of Hillsboro. The main store and sew
eral dwellings were totally destroyed
and several persons were injured.
Few details are obtainable as all the
wires are down. The doctors from
Hillsboro drove out to render as
sistance. Six and one-half inches rain
| here.
Kansas as it is Today.-The Kansas
| of today is not the Kansas of say
ten, fifteen or twenty years ago. 1t
has turned out to be the best place
for some people to succeed that can
state years ago are now returning
and the western part of the state is
prospecting along with other portions.
There is only one reason-prosperity.
Good Crops in Lyon county-Crop
conditions, according to stories from
farmers all over Lyon county, never
were better than at the present time.
Many light rains have fallen during
the past week. Corn and wheat have
fully recovered from the effects of the
dry weather last month The wheat
acreage is the largest ever sown in
this county, and the crop will be a big
one.
Lyon County Crow Bounties. =
The county paid s3O95 in bounties
for crows At five cents each this
means GIG crows killed during the
month. At this rate the county will
soon be rid of crows. Most of the
crows are killed on Sunday. Nearly
every Monday morning ten or fifteen
small, medium and large sized boys,
each with from one to a dozen crows
come to the county clerks office and
ask for bounty.
Labette County Gaining. - Returns
from the various township and city as
SCISSORS for Labette county show a
healthy increase in the county, not
only in point of property valuation,
but in population. 1t now has a popu-
lation of 33,623, gain of 10 per cent
over last year. The largest gain was
made in Parsons, which now has a
population of 15,400, as against 1900
last year. A gain of nearly $500 900
is shown in the total taxable prop
erty.
To Deport Insane Boy.-The state
board of control ordered the deporta-
ton to Germany of John Nekuda, a
17-year-old boy who is now confined
in the Crawford county Jail, having
been declared insane. Nekuda has
been in America less than two years,
and has not taken out his naturaliza-
ton papers. The law requires the
deportation of such persons when
they become insane, and W. R. Mans
field, immigration agent at Omaha,
has ordered the government officials
to take charge of the young man.
To Make Wellington Dry. - The
city council continuing its crusade
against liquor selling passed an ordi-
nance prohibiting the selling of malt
or beer or any substitute or imitation
of these beverages in less quantities
than one gallon and forbidding it's be-
ing drank on the premises under
| heavy penalties. The ordinance is
an exact copy of a similar enactment
whose validity has been upheld by
the supreme court. A general ordi-
nance against liquor selling largely
copying the provisions of the Hurrel
act will be passed at the next meet
ing.
Reports have reached Waverly from
all over the county that potato bugs
are injuring the potato crop. The
bugs are worse here than for many
years and their ravages are doing
much damage Many are spraying
their potato vines, but the crop in this
county will be short Notwithstanding.
The late frost. dry weather and the
bugs combined have given the potato
crop a severe setback.
Women Cleaning up Kinsley. - On
the main streets a number of promin-
ent Kinsley women accompanied by
number of children marched out
with flags and teams and went to
sweeping sidewalks, cleaning up rub
bish and old papers off the streets and
alleys. This new organization is the
"Clean Up Town Club"
Pittsburg Mines to Reopen. = It is
reported that many of the mines in
the three districts Nos. IA, 81 and 25
are being got in readiness to begin
work. This work has been going on
quietly and without ostentation, pre-
paratory to beginning work as soon
as the word was given which is ex-
pected in a very short time now.
Boy Hangs HimseIf-Paul Lillivre.
IL years old, was found dead in his
fathers woodshed near Westmoreland
the other day. Evidently he met his
death by accident while playing. as
the binding Irvine by which he was
hung was not around his neck. but
merely passed under his chin, cutting
into the flesh and making it impossi-
BILE for him to breathe. The Irvine had
been tied to a rafter in the shed for
some purpose, and the theory is that
the boy had climbed upon nearby
barrel and fallen into the moose at the
end of the Irvine.
Stanley at Usage city.-This city is
planning a Fourth o; July celebration
of extended nronOrtiOns EY-GOvern-