Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-11-01
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forty-Seven bushels to the acre. That
is the banner yield of the county.
Wife Fell Dead Husking Corn. =
Mrs. Anna Reeher. aged 81 years, fell
dead in a field near Ottawa while
helping her husband husk corn Heart
failure caused her demise. Mrs.
Reeher had no children.
Soldier Killed by Street Car. -
Private Nicholas of Company K,
Eighteenth United States infantry.
was fatally injured by being struck
by street car near Fort Leaven-
worth. He died in the operating
room at the post hospital a little lat
er.
Kansas Land All Right Yet.-Kan-
sas land is all right for a while Ion
ger. anyway. In Brown county
farmer has raised corn on one strip
of land for forty-seven years. and this
year the same land yielded fifty bush
els to the acre.
Switchmen May Walk Out. - The
Santa Fe switchmen in Emporia are
becoming restless and it Is predicted
that they will go out on strike No
vembe l. They claim they are not
paid enough for their work. For the
two weeks past the road has been
having trouble to get enough men to
do the work there.
Looks Good to Father" The
Kansas agricultural department re-
ports the states yield of winter
wheat TO be more than 90.000.000
bushels. With the spring wheat tn,
total will exceed 100000 900 bushels,
or the greatest crop in the history Ct
the state. The corn crop will he
100000 bushels !
Body Reco~nized by Relative. -
The DO ly of tho man found in a pond
northwest of Hutchinson has ben
recognized as being that of James
Eagan. formerly of Kansas City. A
brother-in- law of the deceased recng-
nized Eagan as being his wife's
brother The body was taken to Kan
sas City for burial.
QUILTING Bee Thing of Past The
quilting factory at Mcpherson has
been started in oneration and is at
tracing considerable attention. The
two large Singer sewing machines
with quilting attachments are run by
gasoline engine. while all the oDer-
ator has to do is TO guide the light
frame on which is stretched the quilt
or comforter.
Hughes Finally Ready. - djutant
General J. W. F. Hughes has an
nounced that the work of paying out
the $4,000 government money to
$500 Kansas veterans of the Spanish
war will begin November 1. The
money was received by Governor
Hoch last winter under special act of
congress providing double pay from
date of enrolment until date of mus
ter in. Vouchers for the amount due
each soldier have been sent out
Every soldier and officer gets from
one to twelve days extra pay.
In National Cemetery. - The re-
mains of General w. H. Bell. United
States army. retired, who died re-
Gently near Denver, were buried in
the National cemetery at Fort Leav-
enworth. The body was escorted by
the entire regiment of the Eighteenth
infantry. platoon of artillery. troop of
cavalry. AS the remains were car
ried from the post chapel the band
of the Eighteenth played a dirge and
the minute guns. eleven in number
were fired by the Twenty-ninth bat
terry. Six of the higher officers of the
post acted as pallbearers, while the
body was carried by six of the old
sergeants of the Eighteenth infan-
try.
Carnegie FIT Reaso nably Sure. -
Friends University of Wichita seems
reasonably certain to get the con-
ditional gift promised by Andrew
Carnegie for its library. The greater
part of the sum necessary to be rails
ed is now assured and those who
have been at work on the matter are
feeling greatly encouraged over the
outlook.
$4,000 in One Day. - According to
Supt Morrison of the Wichita Street
Railway the total number of persons
who boarded all cars on all lines on
Friday during the fair was just $4,000
while the number of those who rode
to the fair grounds and back was
10000. This is an excellent record
and one of which Wichita may feel
justly proud.
Cases were of Mild Type. - The
public schools of Kingman have been
opened after having been closed sew
en- days on account of a diphtheria
scare. Not a single case of the dis
ease remains in the city and there
have been but two deaths. All other
cases were of mild form and yield
ed readily to treatment.
Cattle Killed in Wreck. - Twelve
cars, including five loaded with stock,
were piled up near Monrovia, on the
Missouri Pacific, and thirty head of
cattle and hogs were either killed or
injured, so that they had to be kill
ed.
Kansas Woman a Suicide. - At
Hiawatha Mrs. Agnes Berkeley, So
years old, wife of Grant Berkley, a
merchant of Hamlin, was found dead
with a bullet wound il her head. Mrs.
Berkeley had been i'll for some time
and recently returned from a Kansas
City sanitarium.
Reservoir Will Cost 8 Millions. =
Work has commenced on the large
storage reservoir at Lakin which is
being constructed by the United
States Sugar and Land Company at
cost of over 100000. The contract
was let some weeks ago to the firm
of Egelston G Mathews. In the past
week they have been unloading car