Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-12


cheap and satisfactory fuel and isn't
SO bulky to handle.
Good Outlook for Peaches.-Frank
Dixon estimates that there will be at
least 10000 bushels of peaches rails
ed in the neighborhood of Holton and
thinks that it would be good thing
for the raisers to organize and make
some arrangements about marketing
them.
Swedish Lutheran Society-The
annual convention of the Swedish
Lutheran Young Peoples Society is
in session at Ottawa. About 300 dele
gates are in attendance, as well as a
number of prominent churchmen.
The meetings are being held in st
Paul's Lutheran church.
Violating State Labor LAW. D.
Robinson, assistant superintendent of
the state bureau of labor, has gone
to Manhattan to investigate the re-
port that contractors employed on
state work are violating the eight hour
law. 1t is charged that contractors
who are doing work on the agricul-
tural college are working their men
more than eight hours.
Seed From Russia.-An enterpris-
ing farmer in Kingman county i'm
ported enough seed wheat from Rus
STA last year to seed 700 acres. While
the average yield for that section
will be between fifteen and twenty
bushels to the acre this farmers crop
will average about thirty-fve BUSH
as to the acre and he has already
sold it to his neighbors at $1.40 a
bushel
Lightning Kills Live Stock. - Fol-
lowing three days of intense heat
Concordia was visited with a terrific
electrical storm, accompanied by
copious rainfall. Lightning killed
stock in several parts of the county
and burned the large barn of Milton
Maddox, near this city. West of
here on the Central branch four
freight cars were blown on to the
main track and wrecked.
Will Issue Egg BuIetin.-An inter-
esting bulletin is being compiled at
the State Agricultural college by Pro-
fessor ]. T. Willard of the college at
Manhattan and Prof. R. H. Shaw of
the University of Nebraska, who is
now aiding in the work. The bulletin
will be of special interest to poultry
men as it will deal exclusively with
eggs. Over 500 eggs have been ana
lyzed and the issue will be on the
composition of eggs.
Would Enter InterpIea.-Attorney
for the Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany have asked permission of the
board of railroad commissioners to
be allowed to interplead in the job
bers' rate case, which has been filed
by the wholesalers of Clay Center.
The Missouri Pacific does not run to
Clay Center, but the Clay Center mer-
chants have asked that the surround
ing towns touched by the Missouri
Pacific be deprived of this rate if it
cannot be extended to them.
Is Selling Out in Kansas. -
L cll1 IIIOuSu Will w GSlGIn Il duSdS,
said Chauncey Dewey, the former
Kansas ranchman who achieved no.
toriety by taking part in a battle with
the Berry family in 1908, in which
three members of the family were
killed. 81 am living in Chicago and
am selling my Kansas property as
fast as 1 get prices for it. The
l. For
ranching purposes and so 1 am get
ting out of the business. 1 am not
going back out to Western Kansas
but l am not afraid of the settlers out
there. They are not looking for me
and let me alone when l am there
The supreme court recently refused
to dismiss the charge of murder pend
ing against Dewey for his part in the
cattle war and he has asked for a re-
hearing of the case. He says he
hopes to get the charge against him
wiped out and to live in peace in
places where there is less luminosity
toward him.
Big Time for Kingman.-The man
agement of the Eighth Annual Cat
tlemen's Picnic and Race meeting tC
be held at Kingman August IA, Is, II
and II, desire to thus briefly an
nounce in advance of the regular sci
program that more than $500 in
premiums have been arranged and
provided for in the various classes
To summarize: $500 is set apart
for purses and prizes in the speed
ring; $3.50 in the cattle ropiRg and
broncho riding contests; $1,000 in the
agricultural, horticultural and live
stock exhibits; $3.50 for fireworks
$500 for vaudeville attractions, and
$500 for base ball tournament. Ii
addition to this list of premiums the
business men of Kingman will pro
vide a lot of special purses ant
premiums.
browns Herself in cistern.-At hel
home two miles west of Aida, il
Dickinson county, Miss Mary Dun
can, daughter of Mrs. Annie Duncan
committed suicide by throwing her
self into a cistern and was drowned
For the past two months Miss Dun
can has been in poor health and al
times Respondent.
Cadetship for Hal Clark. - Hal
Clark, of Ottawa, has been notified
by Senator A. w. Benson of his ap
pointment to cadetship at Annap
oils. Clark is the son of E. o. Clark
a travelling man. Young Clark will
present himself for the examination
at once.
Reitz May be Pardoned.-Applica
ton has been made to Gov Hoch fol-
pardon for John Reitz who is serv
ing an indeterminate sentence in the
penitentiary for the crime of arson
Reitz was convicted and sentencsi
two years ago in Geary county.
Lightning Strikes School House.