Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-06
* From I'LL Over Kansas X
Short Carefully
- = Of The Sunflower State

Clyde Jointists EnJoined. - Judge
Dillon of Concordia has granted tenn
porary injunctions against four Clyde
| jointists. The sheriff has served the
| papers.
Big Car Of Flour. Probably the
biggest car of flour ever shipped in
the state was sent out by the West
ern Star Mill at Salina direct to Bel
fast, Ireland. The car was filed with
300 sacks of flour. each sack weighing
ESQ pounds.
| Expects Big Apple Crop. = W. H.
Barnes. secretary of the state board
of horticulture, expects Kansas to
raise the largest apple crop in her his
tory this year. "One of the largest
crops the state ever raised" he said
was that in 1904. The crop that
year was 100000 bushels. 1 expect
the state this year to produce about
| 100000 bushels"
Land Agents Must Pay-More than
1000 real estate agents along the
lines of the Kansas railroads will have
to pay railroad fare next year under
the terms of the recent ruling Of rail-
road attorneys. The attorneys for the
companies have decided that the real
estate and land agents who are not
regularly employed by the railroad
companies cannot be given passes.
| lad aE
The dedication of the new chapel of
tie Kansas Masonic Association is to
be held September IA at Wichita
| This chapel was built by the Order
of the Eastern Star of this state, the
corner stone having been laid in Janu-
airy. 1t cost $4,000 and though by no
means the most expensive it is the
most attractive building of the kind
in Wichita.
Negroes Urged to Acquire Land
Rev. ]. R. Ransom of Topeka, presid-
| ing elder of the Fort Scott district of
the A. M. E. church. says there is a
strong movement among the negroes
of the state to go to the farms and to
secure property for themselves. Rev.
Mr.. Ransom says he has instructed
the ministers of his district to urge
this upon the negroes from the pulpit
and in the homes.
| Shoots Wife, Then Himself.-Char-
les Martin, a night Waterman en-
ployed by the Nevling Elevator Com
pany at Wichita, murdered his wife
and killed himself. Family quarrels
are said to have been the cause. Mar
tin shot his wife three times. He
walked a distance of three blocks to
his mothers house and turned the re-
volver to his own temple. Six child
rem from 1 to 16 years old survive.
Preferred Death to Asylum. -Alva
c. Beaver, aged 60 years, threw him
self in front of Rock Island passen-
ger train at Troy and was instantly
killed. Mr.. Deaver had recently been
adjudged insane and was being taken
to the state asylum for treatment AS
the train approached he and his
friends stood on the depot platform
conversing when he suddenly leaped
in front of the moving train.
Kansas Legislator Insane.-Applica-
ton has been made to the State Board
of Control for the admission of John
Hargrave, a. former member of the
Kansas Legislature, to the State hos
pital. Hargrave was a member of the
legislature for eight years and at that
time lived at Lacrosse, in Rush coun-
and the papers state that he is a
miner and is in poor financial circum-
stances. Hargrave is fifty-nine years
of age.
Prairie Chickens Scarce in Coffey
There is again some complaint that
the young prairie chickens are being
killed off before the season opens. A
few convictions for violating the game
law ought to prevent its fragrant VIC
lation and it would be nice If, some of
that $500 collected in Coffey county
for hunters licenses could be used
law. There used to be plenty of
chickens in Coffey county, but they
are scarce now.
Kansas Flag Day. - During half
hour on the afternoon of September
%, appropriate exercises will be held
in each of the public schools of the
state in commemoration of the Tooth
anniversary of the first unfurling of
the flag of the United States in the
state of Kansas. The anniversary of
this occasion falls on September 90,
but as that is Saturday, the celebra-
ton of the event will be held in the
schools throughout the state on Sep
TENDER %. The flag was first un-
furled in Kansas at Pawnee, Republic
county, by Zebulon Montgomery Pike,
while making his explorations which
resulted in finding Pixies peak.
Must Pay in cash.-Attorney Gen
eral Coleman has declared in an
opinion on the subject written for the
superintendent of insurance that
burial associations must pay claims
in cash and that the heirs of the in
sured may spend the money with any
undertaken they choose.
Will Be Presented in Mareh.-The
silver service to be presented by Kan
sas to the battleship of that name will
be ready for delivery to the state No
vember 1 and probably will not be
presented to the ship until the follow
ing March.
| Husband Was a Joker. Because
her husband, Andrew Fisher, at lola,
jokingly told her when he babe her
goodbye before going to work, that he
would never return. Mrs. Andrew
Fisher attempted suicide by taking
chloroform.
New Riding Hall for Fort Riley. =
Orders were received at Fort Riley
| for. rifc, 70 hr rnloctod for. q nam rid