Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-04-26

Topeka Eu<s Give $1,000. = The
order of the Elks of Topeka wired the
exalted ruler of San Francisco Elks
to draw at once on the Topeka Elks
lodge for $1,000.
coburn Report Due.-F. d. Coburn,
secretary of the state board of agri-
culture, is gathering information for
the first crop report of the year. The
report will be issued some time this
week.
Shotgun Caused Bad Fire.-A two
story frame dwelling. belonging to S.
A. Sherman, a farmer who lives ten
miles north of Eureka, was destroyed
by fire. The fire was started by the
accidental discharge of a shotgun.
$4,000 Fire at Hewins.-The main
business block here burned. TIE
principal losers are e. c. Pyatt, drugs;
G. H. Mills, hardware and un4erts1s.
! ing, and the Odd Fellows hail. The
loss will reach $4,000, postly cover
ed by insurance. Tha origin of the
| fire is unknown.
Trust Hammering Zinc ore.-In the
Missouri-Kansas zinc ore market the
smelter representatives succeeded in
forcing another reduction in prices.
The basis price of 60 per cent ore
varies from $42 to S45 per to-, max
ing the highest grade ores worTE s45.
A reduction of about 81 is represent
ed.
concordia Elevator Changes. =. The
large, new elevator and mill recently
erected here by the Cloud County
Grain Company in place of that de-
stroyed by fire last fall, has been sold
| to Bossmeyer Bros, who own and
| operate line of elevators along the
Santa Fe railway, including one in
| this city.
No Shortages at Winfield. - j. C.
Gafford, state accountant, has return
ed from Winfield, where he has been
investigating the condition of the
! Winfield state hospital for the feeble
minded. Mr.. Gafford says the finan-
cial condition of the institution is
good, and there are no shortages in
any of the funds.
Prohibition Convention Called. A
call has been issued by Earle r. De-
Lay, chairman of the prohibition state
central committee, for a prohibition
state convention at Sterling. May 16.
Several national workers of reputa-
ton and ability will be present. be-
sides all the state workers of prom
inence. A full state and congression-
al ticket will be placed in the field.
To Build New Line.-Plans for the
construction of branch line of the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe out of
Canyon City, in Randall county, Tex.
south to Plainville, Tex, has been con-
firmed by the company and work on
the grading of the line has been start
ed. In fact, several miles of grading
has already been done. This line is
a branch line feeding the Panhandle
line that passes through Wichita 1t
is in the vicinity of Amarillo, Texas,
First Court House Since '55-The
exercises at the laying of the corner
stone of the new court house at Man
haitian were conducted by the Mason
ic grand lodge of Kansas. Masonic
lodges of Riley county assisted. Judge
Henry Mason, of the Kansas supreme
court, delivered the principal address.
Five thousand people witnessed the
ceremonies. Business was suspended
for two hours. The building is to cost
$4,000. Manhattan has been without
a court house since 1855.
Wiped of the Map.-Gov. Hoch re-
ceived another message from Gov.
Pardee, of California. 1t reads: 81
thank you for sympathy and offer of
help. Conditions in San Francisco
beggar description. City practically
wiped off the map. People are home
less and their industries destroyed.
Temporary food famine is threatened.
Would be well if trainload of pro-
visions could be started Immediately
from nearest cities in Mississippi Val
ley.
GEORGE C. PARDEE, Governor"
Raising Dogs for Bounty.-There is
a dog scandal on at Ottawa The city
gives a bounty for dead dogs and the
ours ears must be produced in the
clerks Office as evidence that the dog
has been killed. The charge is made
that an enterprising citizen has start
ed a doggery out in the country and
Is supplying the ears to the city by
wholesale. Raising common cur dogs
at 1 per dead is said to be profitable
business.
School Building for Alma. = The
people of Alma decided by an almost
unanimous vote to build a new S11 900
high school building. Only two votes
were cast against the proposition out
of several hundred votes cast.
Kansas Irvine for Oklahoma.-Ok.
lahoma will be supplied with Irvine
from the Kansas binding plant at the
penitentiary during the coming sum-
mer. w. H. Haskell, warden, of the
penitentiary, and the members of the
board of directors of the institution
have decided that Oklahoma should
have the benefit of the labor of some
of the convicts confined in the Kan
sas penitentiary, and that the sale of
prison Irvine to the Oklahoma farm.
ers will tend to balance the account.
Whipped Cause She Prayed. - Car
RE Brooks, negress living in Mound
City, has JUS celebrated her 11Sth
birthday. She Is in fairly good health,
though she says she is expecting to
die almost any day. She was born
in Oldham county, KY. and during
her slave days she was a servant in
some of the best known families of
the south. She says sic got religion"
when a chill and that always since
that time she has chung to her re-