Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-07-26

of wheat and so badly injured that
he died. The chest was crushed in
frightful manner.
Shipping Fruit In Car Lots. = The
fruit growers of Jackson county are
making arrangements to ship their
surplus apples and peaches In car
load lots, that they may realize fair
price for them. The yield will be
larger this year than ever before in
the county's history, and the prices
locally will be low. By organizing
for car load shipments the farmers
will be able to put their fruit on the
markets of the big cities at profit.
Jurisdiction to be Tested. - The
board of railroad commissioners will
have an opportunity to test the pro-
vision of the railroad law giving the
board supervision over irrigation
bitches. U. T. Tapscott, of Syracuse.
has complained of the damage done
by an irrigation ditch which has been
affected by a new culvert constructed
by the Santa Fe. The ditch is said
to be flooding farms every time there
is a rain in that part of the state.
Crack Shoot at lola in October. -
The Kansas and Missouri Association
Gun clubs will probably hold their
shoot In lola some time during the
month of October 1t is estimated
that about 100 crack shots from all
parts of the United States will be
there and take part in the contest.
Mr.. Hilles, the president of the club,
says that an effort will be made to
have R. C. Elliott, who is known to
be the crack shot of the world, pres
ent on this occasion.
Would Tax Franchises.-J. R. Bur
row, secretary of state, has an
nounced that he will ask the legisla-
ture which will meet next winter, to
provide tax for franchises. He will
begin a campaign for this law at
partment soon to be issued. will con-
tain a recommendation to Gov. Hoch
that such a law be enacted. 81 be-
lieve Kansas" said Mr.. Burrows,
fought to tax the franchises of the
public service corporations. I do not
believe in providing blanket tax for
all such corporations but in taxing
them according to their earnings"
Beginning of the End.-The board
of county commissioners will at its
next meeting at Holton consider pc
tition to make a townsite out of the
Pottawatomie reservation. All the
Indian lands have been allotted, and
under the law the heirs of dead In
dams may sell the allotments. About
500 white families have bought homes
on the reserve, and are living there.
Many Indians have adopted the ways
of the whites, and gone to farming
for living, and there have been sew
eral marriages of late. Full blooded
Pottawatomies are rare. The crea-
ton of the new township will mark
the beginning of the end of the Potta-
watomie tribe and the elimination of
its reservation.
VIII Exhibit Wheat Train. - Syl
Dixon, of corn train" fame, was in
Topeka to make contracts with the
railroads to haul a wheat train from
the Southwestern Kansas counties to
Chicago and Eastern cities. Mr.. Dix
on expects to have his train ready
to leave Dodge City early in Septem-
Der. He has already arranged with
F. D. Coburn to have the latter go
to Dodge City and start the train with
appropriate ceremonies. The train
will run to Hutchinson, where it will
be exhibited for four days at the fair,
and from there 1t will go to Chicago,
running only during the daylight
hours and stopping at every station
on the road The train will contain
besides wheat from the southwestern
counties, samples of the other pro-
ducts of that part of the state. There
will be three exhibition cars and Mr.
Dixon will also take along a band.
There will be samples of the sugar
beets and corn of the Arkansas river
valley and a number of samples of
fruit.
Government Depository. - Wichita
will soon have another government
depository. The fortunate institution
is the National Bank of Wichita.
Big Mortgage Filed. - A mortgape
for $1,250,000 was filed in the regis
ter of deeds office at Wichita by the
Wichita Natural Gas Company, in ia
.vor of the Colonial Trust Company of
Pittsburg, Pa. The deed will be filed
in several counties, it being neces-
sary to record it in every county
where the company has property. The
company will have branch lines rum
ming out of Montgomery county into
Belle PLANE, Newton. Sedgwick, We'll
lington, Halstead, Burton and Hutch
inson Besides these branch lines the
mortgage includes the main pipe line,
which is to run to Wichita. The coun-
| ties in which the mortgage must be
filed include Sedgwick, Chautauqua,
Elk, Cowley, Harvey Butler and Reno.
1t will cost the company about $50 to
| file the MORTGAGE in each county. The
| instrument is an immense affair and
covers 20 printed pages. 1t will be
copied by the clerks in the regitser of
it will probably require several days
to complete the job.
Cole Younger Buys Theater-Cole
Younger, the bandit. who served so
long in the penitentiary in Minnesota,
has purchased half interest in the
Olympic theater at Kansas City.
| Boats in a Collision. - Wichita's
steamboat run down row-boat on
the Little river near Central avenue,
and precipitated the four occupants
into the cool waters of the river. The
boat turned turtle and the occupants
stood a good chance of being drown
ed had it not been for the prompt as
sistance of the passengers in the
steamboat.
After the Joints - The costly bar