Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-03-15

Wellington and the Midland.-The
surveying corps of the proposed ex-
tension of the Midland Valley road
from Arkansas City northwest has
been busy for several days in Wei
lington, running surveys to connect
the line with both the Santa Fe and
Rock Island tracks.
New Electric Railway. - o. R.
WEIGH and a force of seven or eight
men began March 2 to make the pre-
liminary survey for an electric rail-
road which will run from Chanute to
independence, by way of Lltoona AMI
Neodesha. Active work is to be COM
menced at once, and the company will
endeavor to have the railroad COM
pleted and in operation by September
l of this year.
lola to Have SearchIight.-Mr. Mes
sengale has completed the plans for
an observation tower. which will be
GO feet high. On top of the tower he
proposes to place powerful light
that will reach fo- miles, making it
possible to see the outer edges of the
county in the dead of night. Work
will be started on the tower within
the next ten days. 1t is to be placed
| in Ioia's electric park.
Fear Creamery Trust.-The five To-
cal agents for creamery companies
| have posted notices that in future but
| ter fat will be tested a. the home
offices, instead of by the Holton
! agents. AS all notices were effective
March 1, the farmers are guessing
| that there is a trust. The old sys-
| tenn of having butter fat tested in
their presence was satisfactory, and
| they don't like the change.
It's Up to Topeka.-The promoters
| of the Kansas 1911 exposition are
! somewhat exercised over the attitude
| assumed by some of the outside pa
pers. Several influential papers over
the state have served notice that To-
| peka needn't expect any outside as
sistance in getting up the big show
until it shows disposition to throw
off the yoke of the beer trust and run
itself as a good, moral town should.
OF course, with outside assistance the
exposition will fail.
Steam Pillow in Beet Culture.-The
old method of blowing is too slow for
Kearny county, on the sugar beet lands
of the United States Sugar and Land
company, and A. H. Vogle is at Lakin
with steam pillow to commence oper-
ations on the company's land south of
this city Five hundred acres will be
plowed and replowed at once and put
in condition for growing beets. The
acreage to beets In the county the
coming season will more than double
any previous year.
Flood Damage Suit Ended. - The
| jury in the $4,000 damage suit of
the Broadway Manufacturing Com
pany against the City of Leavenworth,
the Terminal Railway and Bridge
Company and the Leavenworth and
Topeka Railway, returned a verdict
| in favor of the defendants the plain
| tiff failing to get a cent damages. The
suit grew out of the disastrous flood
| of July 5, 1904. The trial started on
February IA and was one of the long
est and most stubbornly fought in II ,
! history of the district court of Leav-
enworth county.
Republic county's surplus.-There
are probably a million and a half dol
lars of idle money in Republic coun-
ty today. The financial statements of
the banks of the county at the last
report shows about a million dollars
on deposit. Many border towns like
Concordia, Clyde, jamestown and
Chester draw heavily on the Republic
county deposits. besides the money
hid away in old stockings and carried
personally for the purpose. of floating
deals, would probably run the idle
money in the county up to million
and half dollars. This is nearly 500
for every man. woman and child in
the county, This does not represent
the wealth of Republic county-it
only shows the amount of surplus
money that people do not know what
to do with.
The Long Term Record.-Dr. Dins-
more, of Troy, probably holds the
record as a county officer in Kansas
in point of continuous service. He
has been coroner of Doniphan eoun-
ty for the past twenty-seven years.
Dan Sinclair has been treasurer of
Center township, that county, for
twenty-seven years also. These arc
records unequaled in the state.
Work of RebaIastine. = Work has
commenced on reballasting of the
Neosho division of the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas railroad between here
and lola. This is the worst piece of
track on that system and after the
roadbed is placed in good condition
new rails will be laid and the time
shortened up between Parsons and
Junction City
State Sunday School Meetin-. - A
committee meeting was held in the
Y. M. c. A. building for the purpose
of arranging for the State Sunday
School convention, which is to be
held at Lawrence May 1-3. The COM
mittee was composed of the pastors
of the various local churches and the
superintendent of the city and cout1-
| ty Sunday schools.
6urrow Goes to Florida.-Secretary
of State j. r. Burrow and his wife
left for Florida to spend three weeks.
Mr.. Burrow will be back in time to
take hand in Sixth district affairs
before the congressional and state
conventions.
Asks Divorce After IS Years. AT
Emporia w. T. Hobbs, a retired rail-
way engineer, has filed suit for d.
vorce from his wife to whom he has
been married forty-five years, charg-