Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-10
KANSAS
KANSAS COMMENT

Washed Gloves in Gasoline. = Mrs
Frank Peek was painfully burned at
Arkansas City by the explosion OF
izgasoline with which she, was clean
ing pair of gloves. She had the
gloves on. her hands andsswas wash
ing them in the gasoline. She hap
pened to get too close to lighted
stove and the gasoline exploded.
Great Bends City HaII.-Work on
the new city hall is practically be-
gun. 1t will be 62x45, two stories and
will contain all city offices and the
fire department. 1t is to be of red
brick with white stone trimmings and
tin roof, all to be of the very best ma
terial and put up in first-class man
ner. The contract price is to be
s9,75O.
Carnegie Gives $4,000. = Andrew
Carnegie has agreed to give $25,OOO
to the permanent endowment fund OF
Southwest Kansas Conference Col
Iege, Methodist, of Winfield, on con-
dition that the friends of the college
raise 9tOyUVO. INCdliy OIL VI SANN
amount has been already been pledg-
ed by the conference. and all of the
endowment will be up before this
years commencement.
Capture Horse Thieves. After a
chase lasting for ten days over
course covering the entire northwest
ern portion of the state and section
of Nebraska, Sheriff Bogart has ar
rested w. B. Stevens, Cleveland Stew
ems, H. G. Mckinney, A. ]. Watson
and the notorious John Doe. The par
ty are accused of having stolen six
teen head of yearling mules from
James Williams of Finney county.
Col. Taylor Ordered West.-Colonel
Sidney w. Taylor, commanding the
artillery subpost at Fort Riley for the
past two years, has been ordered to
Fort Worden, Wash, to take COM
mand of the artillery district of Puget
Sound. He will move from here to
his new station at once. The district
Of which he will take command COM
prises Forts Worden, Flagler, Ward
and Casey, garrisoned by twelve COM
panies of coast artillery, about 1,4OO
men.
Will Extend Rifle Range.-The ma
tional rife range which the govern
ment established on the Fort Riley
reservation two miles north of juno
ton City in 1904 at cost of about
$4,000, is to be extended and improv-
ed this spring. The work is to be
commenced soon and the war depart
ment will spend $4,000 in making
the improvements on the range, which
is to be annually the scene of the ma
tional rifle matches. Most of this
big appropriation is to be spent in Ia
Dor.
Western Kansas Land Values.-The
price of western Kansas land is said
to be on a gradual upward incline.
Local agents for land in the western
part of the state claim that land that
ago for $3.50 an acre is now COM
handing price close to $50 an acre.
Excursions to western Kansas are
run every Tuesday over the Union
Pacific and there is seldom an excur-
sion that does not take at least a
dozen prospective buyers from Mar
shall county. Many of them buy land
for the purpose OF locating in the
West and considerable prairie land
has been broken up in the past few
years and planted to wheat. This has
a tendency to improve the land adj
joining and it is said much land in
this section that was few years ago
considered useless except for pasture
is now raising abundant crops of
wheat.
Teachers Meet in Emporia. Dur
ing the high school convention the
superintendent of the schools of
cities of the first and second classes
of which c. s. Whiteman, of Topeka
president, and l.. A. Lowther of EN-
poria, secretary and treasurer. A
committee was appointed to arrange
course of study for the grade
schools of the state which will be sub
mitted to the association next Oc-
tober. The object of this is TO try
and make uniform course of studies
of the grade schools throughout the
state. The association will meet in
Emporia next October.
browns Under Water Tank-"Rug
Yocum, a brakeman on the Missouri
Pacific railway, was killed at Greeley
in freight wreck, in which eleven
cars and the engine were overturned
Yocum lived at Osawatomie, Kan.
and is survived by widow. The
train ran into a defective switch and
all the cars left the track Yocum
was found under the water tank and
he is supposed to have been drowned
as he seemed to have been uninjur.
ed The body lay in depression and
the water covered the face. The 9th.
er trainmen escaped injury.
New Depot at Garden City. = The
Santa Fe has asked Mayor Miller ii
the crossing at the foot of Union ave
nue. can be closed in the event that
a new depot is built there. The road
says that owing to the congested con
dition of affairs in this city it is i'm
possible to get the necessary, build
ings on the ground that the road is
now using.
Fort Scott Field Meet.-Some of the
old-time athletic customs will be re
newed in Fort Scott this spring. A
field day meet will be given at the
Athletic park May g..
WaverIy Out of coaI.-On account
of the coal strike and scarcity of coal
it has been deemed .expedient by the
city to close down the light plant al
1890 O'Clock until new supply can
be secured or until oil burners can
be put in the furnaces.