Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-03-29

railroads have made rate of one
fare plus so cents to delegates who
attend the Democratic state conven-
/ ton on April 81 and the Republican
state convention on May 2.
Fruit Is Damaged. = Fruit growers
at Wichita estimate that so per cent
of the peach buds in this part of the
state are dead and 95 per cent of the
apricot buds were killed by the re-
cent cold weather. Apples are still
unhurt
Trying the Caldwell Case. = The
testimony in the Caldwell murder
case at Salina is being taken more
rapidly than at the last trial. The
state has examined most of its inn
portant witnesses, and there have
been no further developments.
In the Olympic Games.-Fay Moul-
ton, the Kansas university sprinter of
some years ago, has been selected as
one of the team to represent America
in the Olympic games which will take
place in Athens, Greece. this spring.
MOulIOH Will run III the fUU-meteT
race.
Hit With Hitch Weight. - In a
drunken brawl at a roadhouse near
Topeka Shorty Place, a hack driver,
struck Bert Sutherland, young man
with a police record, over the head
with a hitch weight, fracturing his
skull. Sutherland is now in a hos
pital. He may not recover. Place is
still at large.
Kansas Boys Advancement Bion
Bierer, few years ago a Hiawatha
boy, worked his way to the Annap-
oils naval academy and has advanced
rapidly since graduating from there.
Although only in mis- sos, he has just
been appointed a lieutenant command
err in the navy, and will have a vessel
of his own.
Smallpox in Wichita. - Over forty
cases of smallpox had been reported
to the board of health. The small
pox scourge started here about five
weeks ago, but has only become ser
lOuo III lilC past MGSh- NO uSdluS
from the disease have been reported
so far and the most stringent quaran-
tine regulations are being enforced to
prevent its further spread
Vital Statistics Compulsory. - DIR.
S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the state
board of health, is sending out notices
to the county commissioners in each
county of the state calling their at
tention to the law which forbids them
from paying the salaries of assessors
until the assessors furnish vital
statistics of their districts. This
means the record of birth, marriages,
deaths and so on. +
Cherokee County Convention.-The
Republican county central committee
met at Columbus and fixed April 25
as the date for the Cherokee conven-
ton to select delegates to the state
convention. The committee adopted
resolutions indorsing the candidacy
of Hon. G. w. Wheatly for renomina-
ton for railroad commissioner. The
twenty-nine delegates to the congress
sional convention to be held at Sedan
April 3, are unanimous for Hon. P. P.
Campbell TO succeed himself in con
gress.
Will be Bamper Crop. - "Kansas
millers are preparing to take care of
the largest wheat crop the state has
ever produced" said F. D. Stevens,
secretary of the Southwestern Kansas
Millers' Association. "a stock conn
pany i'll Wichita has started the cree
ton of 1000, 0O0-bushel elevator and
others are now building a 200-barrel
mill and a 500,000-bushel elevator.
The outlook is great, and the last
snow has added a few finishing
touches. The grainmen of Wichita
have organized a board of trade, with
a membership limited to fifty, and
costing $3.50. each. Forty-three of the
fifty memberships have been sold.
The Kansas millers and grain deal
ers will hold joint meeting in Wich-
tia on May s.
Lansing Quarantine Off. The
smallpox quarantine at the state
penitentiary has been lifted and the
warden is ready to receive any ap-
plicants who may apply for quarters.
He is also in shape to release con-
victs whose terms have expired. There
we're -four cases of smallpox within
the Prison walls and most rigid
quarantine was applied in order to
prevent a spread of the disease. The
surgeon has been able to stamp it out
in short order.
Church at Auction.-The Congrega
tional church at Wellsville was sold
at auction the other day and will be
converted into a boarding house. 1t
is hoped that the boarders will get
more to eat there than did the pas
tor who served the church last. He
was starved out. so it is said.
Contracts Were Let. = Contracts
were let to a Milwaukee electrical
machinery company by the Hutchin-
son Interurban Railway Company for
the machinery to be used for the new
electric street railway and light plant.
The machinery is to be ready in 80
days, and the car line will be in
operation before August 1.
Boy Shot While Hunting. - When
John, the 16-year-old son of John
Borst. a farmer living near Burning
ton, did not return from a hum on
which he had started search was in
stituted, and his body found about 10
O'Clock, shot through the heart by the
accidental discharge of his gun. His
clothing caught fire and was almost
burned from his body.
Red Mems Hall at cherryvaIe.-The
Red Mems hall is now ready for crit.
cal inspection. All the art work on
the walls is finished. Western Indian
life iS wildly nortraved nm tho walls