Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-30

Iowa.
Comforting of Degrees, Chancellor
Strong.
Music by University Orchestra.
University Dinner. Robinson Gym
nasium, p. m. admission by
ticket)
Santa Fe Depot Burns.-The Santa
Fe depot at Cottonwood Falls burn
ed to the ground. The tickets, ex-
press and most of the fixtures were
gotten out.
County Seat Troubles End. - The
county seat troubles of Harper ccur-
ty that have been famous In the his
tory of Kansas and have existed for
nearly thirty years, were definitely
ended by a vote to erect 100000
court house at Anthony, the PROPOSE
ton carrying by about $50 majority,
the vote being divided almost entire
ly along the old lines of the conten-
ton. This, with the $4,000 Jail and
sheriff's residence, recently compiet-
ed, will give Harper county thorough
ly modern buildings.
The Crop kiIler-Softly caressing
his dubious abdomen, lined with fat
capon and irrigated with Mumm's
extra wet, he fareth forth to Kansas
on his trusty Pullman. and at even
tide desolation and threatened fam
inc stalk where morning saw the
smiling plain baskins all unsus
picious in the sunshine of prosper
ity, promise and peace; the country
side from Alma to Wamego has been
laid waste by such bug or bosom as
the killer deemed most suitable to
his season; and the morning and the
evening papers tell of the wrack it
hath wrought. On the morning Of
the second day his pals, disguised as
bulls with fierce horns, rush into the
pits where are bears, and by loud
bellowings and fierce demeanor be-
come possessed of the large portions
of juicy meat upon which the bears
fain would feed, even to fairness, the
winter through. In good time the
killer putteth out to sea; not in
cattle steamer, but in a sumptuous
yacht, whereon he continuously max
eth merry, with music and maidens,
and chortles at the newspaper
chumps who wasted their substance
in spreading his poison exactly as he
would have it spread-at their own
expense, in turgid type, on the front
page, top of column. About the self
same day the farmer, knowing the
heat and burden of the season so
near at hand, calleth about him his
men servants and his maid servants
and telleth them to prepare for a
! bigger job of harvesting than they
have ever tackled before, while he
goeth in his automobile at dawn
seeking to lease the highway for a
stock yard and the court house as
an additional granary. And his lat
ter end shall be worse than the first,
when he gnasheth at the railroads
that their sidings are too short for
the cars he needs, and the worlds
grain prices get baggy at the knees
because Kansas has again, as is her
habit. raised the biggest crop ever.
And it was ever thus.-F. D. Coburn.
Many Horses Perish.-The Moore
Livery Barn. the largest in Independ-
ence, was completely Quilted by fire
and 81 head of horses persisted.
Topeka Has 1872 People. - Az
cording to the returns of the city as
SCISSOR the city of Topeka has a
population of 1912, a slight increase
over last year. 2
Viii Ask Rehearing. - Just as
quickly as copy of the opinion of
the Kansas Colorado water suit hand
ed down by the United States SUI
preme court is received, the attorney
general will meet with n. H. Loomis,
S. S. Ashbaugh and F. D. Smith, at
torneys in the case, and grounds will
be made upon which to ask the Uni
ted States supreme court for re-
hearing of the matter The court ad-
mitted in its opinion that damage
had been done in Kansas. The
opinion limited at the demonstrations
atty of the reclamation act. If the
latter fact is probable. why it means
that the department of the interior
will have to abandon millions of dol
lars worth of work in the arid re-
gions of the west.
Little Girl Burned to Death.-Lena
Ginder, a little nine-year-old girl,
died at her home in } Canton
from burns received twenty-four
hours before. She was at one of the
| neighbours playing, when her clothes
accidentally caught fire and burned
her so badly that she could not re-
cover. This is the second accidental
death there with children within
month.
Hutchinson Is Grow ing. - Yutchin-
sons population is 1896 people, ac-
| cording to the assessor, gain of
1,0G4 during the past year.
A CattIeman Killed. - z. L. Club
inc, prominent stockman and cat
| tie feeder. living seven miles north
from Marion. was instantly lilled by
being thrown from his wagon.
Big Reservoir Is Ready.-The new
! reservoir near Garden City, owned
| by the United States Irrigation Com
| pany, and the only large irrigation
reservoir in Kansas. is completed and
ready for filling. 1t is i've and one
half miles long by mile and one
half wide and will hold enough water
to irrigate $4,000 acres.