Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-01-18
Boom western Kansas. =

Boom Western Kansas. - Dresden
business zlen. fifty strong, organized
a commercial club to advance the in
terests of town and county.
Every One a Classic. = Secretary
! Coburn says that every one of the
! papers read so far at the annual
! meeting of the Kansas board of agri-
culture is classic.
For Illegal Fishing. = Two men,
! Huffman and Rumford, have been ar
+ rested in Strong City for illegal fish
| ing on information given by Deputy
I Fish Warden McGown.
/ All Pay up But one.-The German
Life Insurance Company paid in
! $4,000 Deylin insurance money to
! the receiver of the failed First Ma
/ tional Bank The Mutual Life. of
New York is the only company that
has not paid up
Gasser at EImdale.-The strongest
| gas well yet discovered was brought
| in by L. B. Breese, on his lot in Elm
dale, six miles west of Cottonwood
| Falls. This is the third well for Elm
dale and is strong enough to supply
| that town with light and fuel.
Killed $50 Jack Rabbits.-The resi-
| dents of the German settlement just
north of Grinnel held another rabbit
! hunt at which $50 jack rabbits were
killed. Twelve men on q side. took
! part. A wire drag was used to raise
the rabbits, extending from two teams
driven at parallel.
Rush for Government Land The
| rush for government lands has been
! increasing at an amazing rate. The
/ homestead filings at the Dodge City
land Office for the quarter just COM
! pleted numbered 7SS. During the
same quarter for the year preceding
there were 1898 entries and that seem
! ed like quite a rush at the time. Yes
! terday SIS claims were filed upon at
| the Office here
/ Atchison Man Rewarded. - Franz
| Floyd, a carpenter at Atchison, re-
| Gently shared his work and took into
his home supposedly poor stranger
| giving him what little he could spare,
and otherwise befriending him. The
man has since fallen heir to a for
tune of $4,000, consisting of farms
and other property. The stranger
has employed Floyd to manage one
of his farms near Horton for him.
Connect Kansas Towns. - The
Hutchinson Interurban Railway Com
| pany, just organized by home people,
| has applied for a charter, the capt.
! tai stock being 100000, half of which
has already been subscribed by
Hutchinson people. The company
will ask for city aid to the amount of
$4,000 and build seven miles of line
within the city, extending other lines
in the country to Haven, Brady Lake,
Nickerson, Huntsville and Sterling.
/ PIainviIle's New church.-The new
| Christian church was dedicated at
Plainville under the most suspicious
| circumstances. Elder L. L. Carpent-
| er of Wabash, Ind, conducted the
dedicatory services. A good program
interspersed with special music had
! been prepared and was. carried out
in full. Although the day was not
very bright one the building, whose
! seating capacity is about $50. was
tested to its utmost at each service.
| The new church is a beautiful edi-
flee and the people of Plainville are
proud of their new house of worship
| Raw Land $21 Per Acre.-Peter De-
! Boer, a well-to-do farmer living two
and one-half miles southwest of Grin
mel, purchased a raw, unbroken quar-
ter section of school land for 1880,
an average of s21 per acre, and in so
doing paid what is probably the high
est price ever paid for a quarter sec
ton of unimproved Cove county land.
Good land here sells readily at SIS
per acre but never has land been so
high here and in such great demand
as at present. The present outlook
for bumper wheat crop the coming
season is creating the high price and
the demand
Not Ready for EIectricity.-Gener-
al Manager Hurley. of the Santa Fe.
said in reply to a query that his COM
pany is not yet satisfied with the prac-
teal character of the electric motors
that they want something that will
carry two cars all right, and that they
will wait awhile before putting on
motors =
Will Call on Treasurers.-Seth G..
Wells, auditor of state, and T. T..
! Kelly, state treasurer decided to call
on the county treasurers for a por-
state. Owing to the fact that the
county treasurers have not yet made
their reports to the auditor regard
ing the amount of money they have
on hands belonging to the state it
was impossible to exactly follow the
provisions of the new depository law,
because the auditor has no basis on
which to apportion the draft among
the various counties. 1t was there
fore decided to call for % per cent
| of the state tax in the hands of the
treasurers. 1t will amount to about
/ 100000, and will furnish sufficient
money TO run the state until the
! treasurers prepare their reports.
Two Boys Were Shot.-Fred Tip
ton and Harry Hollingshead were
shot by the accidental discharge of a
gun loaded with buckshot during a
wolf hunt near Garnett. Most of the
load took effect in Tipton's back and
several of the shot struck Holdings
head in the forearm, infiicting a Sc
| we're wound. Upton may die.
Tax Ferret. Tom Wiseman, the
I tax ferret caught the tax dodperS of