Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-08

cried the farmers, for we are power
less. Our wheat is destroyed; our
iabo- u months is wasted" And In
the grain marts of the world the
price of wheat jumped ten points :.
because the green bug had invaded
Kansas. Then the dry ground of the
wheat fields baked and cracked, for
there was dire need of rain. From
the western frontier of the wheat
belt arose prayers for rain; and the
banner county of the Arkansas
echoed back: "Give us rain!" To
the Chicago pit and the Paris bourse
the wires carried the message:
Wheat in Kansas ruined by drouth. :"
ana wheat went up to a dollar. The
spector of hard times stalked upon
the plains of Kansas. Then the
green bug vanished before the para
site. The suffering soil again soaked
itself with the drenching downpour.
vegetation revived in a day. With
rush, on came the harvest. AS from
nightmare the Kansas farmer
awoke- Great fields of golden wheat
lay before him ready for binder and
the header. Out from the plains of
Kansas went forth a cry for help
tnat almost caused the sheeted dead
to squeak and gibber and Father
Time to whet his scythe, to save the
Kansas wheat. Close the stores
send the clerks to the fields! Opon
the jails-put the penitents to work.
Ask the railroads to release their
hands! Fall I'M On to the harvest
helds-politicians and preachers; lit
tie children and blacksmiths; rich
men and beggarsi Rally around the
golden banner of harvest to the tune
OF the reaper and thresheri The
volunteer army marched and fought
and won. Kansas wheat is in Kan
sas bins, and it will require sixty
million dollars of somebody's money
to get it out. = Paul A. Lovewell in
Topeka Capital.
Convict Is kiIled.-Herbert Tuck
er, a convict from Edwards county,
was killed in the state penitentiary
by falling from a ladder. His wife
and mother live in Wichita.
Cavalry Starts on Long March. -
The first squadron, thirteenth cav
airy, which has been stationed at
Fort Riley for the past three years,
has left for its march to Fort Sheri-
dan, ILL.,, a distance of $50 miles
Major Thomas Lewis is in command
The troops are expected to make the
march in As days
To Commemorate Indian Treaty
Mcpherson county will hold appro-
pirate exercises over the erection of
a monument on the 10th of August,
in commemoration of the signing of
a treaty with the Kaw Indians on
August IS, 1925. The treaty was
made between the government Off
Gals and the Kansas Indians on Tur-
key creek about three miles south of
Mcpherson. and near the Santa Fe
trail.
80 Million Gasser Opened. = The
Kaw Gas Company has just COM
pleted one of the best gassers ever
drilled in Kansas. 1t is No. l, on
the John Johnson land, six miles
northwest of Chanute, in Wilson
county, and has a volume of 100000
900 feet. Part of Allen. Wilson and
Neosho counties form gas belt the
equal of anything west of Pennsyl-
vania, the Montgomery county belt
showing a few wells that are strong
er but probably no better as a
whole.
Every Little Bit Helps. - The de-
partment of agriculture has notified
Gov. Hoch that s119 is the share of
the national forest reserve fund due
Finney county for roads and schools.
A reserve is located at Garden
City.
Killed by Automobile. William
Henrik, of Award, Okla, was run
over by an automobile on Main street
in Wichita, and died as the result.
The driver of the machine, which
was large touring car, is not known.
He did not stop to ascertain the
amount of damage done, but rushed
away in the darkness. 1t is claimed
the car was going at about a 80 mile
clip.
Big Haskell Building Burns. =
The principal school building at Has
kell institute, the United States In
dian Industrial school located just
south of Lawrence, caught fire and
was entirely destroyed. only the
walls remaining. The fire is suppos-
ed to have been caused by spon-
taneous combustion in the printing
office located in this building, which
had been closed for a month.
Requisition on Folk. = Gov. Hoch
has issued a requisition on Governor
Folk, of Missouri, for G. A. Phillips,
who is at Kansas City. Phillips is
wanted in Barton county on the
charge of robbing a harvest hand.
Two Bridge Bids Opened.-Bids on
the new Douglas avenue bridge
across the Arkansas river at WITCH
tia were opened. There were only
two bids offered, one from the To
peka Bridge and Iron Company, of.
fering to do the work for $97 900, and
the other from the Canton Bridge
company. for $4,000.
The Burglars Were Thirsty. =
The court house in Hill City receiv-
ed a visit from some thirsty house
breaker, who demolished the locks
forced the doors and carried away
two barrels of bottled beer and one
jug containing more or less
whisky.
A Kansas Girl to Japan. = Miss
Lydia Lindsey, of Cherryvale, has
left for New York, where she secures
passage to sail on August % for
Japan, to take up her work as mis-
sionary.
Two Drowned in the KaW. = Por-
cua Santini, 80 years old, and Jo-
seph Franks, Is years old. were