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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-09-16
Methodist Notes

On account of the storm last
Sunday night the service for
the young men was not carried
out, but was postponed till next
Sunday night There will be
special music that will be an at
tractiye feature. Young men
are especially invited.
The carpenters are putting in
the new windows. this week, and
it is expected they will be in
place for next Sunday. The
church will now be completed as
rapidly as the workmen can do it..
Rev. Chaplin, who is visiting in
town, very kindly gave a short
address on Sunday evening. He
is a pleasing speaker and his re-
marks were pointed and p; acti-
cal.
T h attendance at Sunday
school is holding up nicely and
with little extra effort it ought
soon to reach 125. There ought
to be at least two Organized
Classes. This will increase in
terest and attendance.
We expect to have a dedication
service when the church is com
pleted and will endeavor to have
some of the former pastors with
us and perhaps hold a ten days
or two weeks meeting in con-
nection.
Each man is tempted when
hels drawn away by his own
lust, and enriced. Then the lust,
when it hath conceived, beareth
sin; and sin when it is full grown
bringeth forth death. Jas. IA, 5
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-09-16
The Salt Well.

Sdlts wei. some OF THIS mas
! been guess work, some has been
tradition passing through many
hands, and some stated only the
facts briefly. So far as we have
been able to learn the first re-
corded mention of the phenome-
ma IN question, was news item
published in the Pearlette Call
in the issue of May Is, 1879,
which we print word for word
as it appears in the files of that,
the first newspaper published
in the county:
considerable excitement has
been created in this section of
late over the discovery of a salt
we'll, about II miles southwest
of Pearlette. Since the 3rd of
March piece of ground some
115 feet in diameter has sunk,
and the hole is now filled with
salt water to a point IA feet
! below the surface. SOundingS
Rave shown the water to be from
80 to IS feet in depth. On the
5rd of March a wagon passed
over the spot where the we'll now
is, and the ground, which is high,
was then hard and firm. The
track made by the wagon at that
time is plainly visible on each
side Of the well. On the 10Th of
! March it was found in its pres
ent shape. The water is very
salt-in fact a gallon of it boiled
down produced two quarts of
salt.
The next mention of the we'll
is by the same paper in its issue
of June IS, 1879, and refers to-
the Bindings of PRO- f. H. q.
Nudge, State Geologist, which
here follows:
''Professor Nudge, the State
Geologist, has examined the salt
well. of which we recently made
mention, and has tested the
quality and strength of the brine.
! He pronounces it almost free
from all impurities, and finds
that 43 gallons of the native
brine will produce one bushel of
pure salt.
| Salt being worth about $500
per barrelin Dodge City, a fortune
is certainly awaiting the man
, who has the nerve 10 go into the
manufacture of that article in
Meade county
Again in the same paper of
July l, 1879, which appears be-
low as it appeared in that issue;
"The salt we'll still continues
! to attract large number of
visitors, all of whom pronounce
it one of natures great wonders.
| All sorts of stories and rumOrS
are current about its depth (some
saying it is 900 feet deep and
also about its caving in, or en-
Elarging, at the rate of several
acres per day, The fact of the
matter is that its depth does not
vary much from 70 feet; and it
is not caving in to an alar ming
extent-at least it will not likely
absorb more than three or four
more counties
By this we learn that the word
lof mouth transmission of news
seldom allows an item to grow
less or lack for wonderful detail
! This account of depth had so
far Increased by January 1886,
when we first saw the we'll that
the bottom had entirely disap-
peared. and the hole was bottom
less. In connection with w. II.
Darrough and some other resi-
dents of Meade, all of whom ex
cept our self have long1since left
the county the well was sounded.
Our method was crude. but we
probably got very nearly the
exact depth of the sink The
exact figures | do not now recall
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-09-16
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ers we will credit with one years
subscription. The re ductions
made are to pay our subscriber
who spends the time and trouble
to get new subscribers.
Cliff Wood, son of ]. NJ. Wood,
has located at Dalhart, Texas.
and set up in the grocery busi-
ness. We learn that he has done
well, and his trade now keeps
two delivery wagons on the street
all the time. Cliff grew up, and
won a farm and d wife here in
Meade. He is another of the
Meade boys who has gone out
from us and made good.
]. H. Miller, who came here
from Missouri, with pulmonary
complaint and began working
for Bob Byrns, became worse
last week and S. H. Morrow, and
Chit. Hu1burt collected from the
business houses and Offices d
fund to carry him on to Arizona,
where he hopes to recover his
! health.
The Misses Laura and Lula
Stalder accompanied by their
/ DI OIuS1S, Il L GU dIlo SSS, I'LL
Thursday for Hutchinson to at
tend the fair there. Fess goes
on to Manhattan where he will
continue his college course at <.
I A. C.
Charles Harvey, of Maysville.
Mo-, son of an old school mate
of ours passed through Meade
on his way to visit his brother,
John Harvey, on the Missouri
flats on Beaver county, Oklaho-
ma.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Will Grimes
4 came over from Ashland this
4 week for visit with Ben Cook
and family.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-09-16

ranch up the creek at the time
told us soon after we measured
the depth, that the first which
he heard of the sink was, by a
freighter on his way to Dodge
City When he arrived at the
ranch he told Brown that there
had been an earthquake, or some
thing of that sort as he had
camped on the creek after cross
ing Spring Greek some two miles.
or more that in the night there
came terrible shaking of the
ground with a great rum bling,
which seemed so near that he
hitched up his mules and pulled
several miles up the creek.
Brown said that he did not think
much about it, considered that
the freighter had drank too
much snake medicine, and had
bad dreams. That later when
riding down the creek he came
on to the sink.
When we first saw the we'll in
January of 1886 it appeared so
far as size and general looks are
concerned as it did the last time
we saw 1t which was some three
or four years ago. However,
there had been some S Ii o
change, to be noted later herein.
At that first view we saw on
slight raise of ground on the
east side of the creek first large
bare spot of earth strongly i'm
pregnated with salt. This was
where the the vats had set in
which salt had been made from
the brine Of the well. Next we
approached a long crack in the
earth running east and west and
deepening and widening as it
went east, and this we jumped
where it was some three feet
wide and 6 or s feet deep. Fol-
lowing it east we came to the
brink of a sink appearing 10 be
200 feet or more across and some
"a down to pool of green water
We entered the before mentioned
crack, and so down to the water
which we found to be very salt.
On the east the surface of the
ground had settled in terraces
for several square rods as though
it had been bent till it broke at
the surface. On the south side
was a plainly marked trail, aud
corresponding to the genaral di-
rectlOn of same on the north side,
was its continuation. Presuma-
bIy this is the trail followed bv
the feighter. sequently he
crossed directly over the place
only few hours before it
dropped in. On the south side
and near the trail was the re-
maius of a small steam engine.
and on the west anchor posts
such as are used in the planting
of d. windmill. We were told
that in 1879 party had brought
the engine on to the ground, with
which he pumped the brine up
! into the lum ber vats In which it
was left only few inches in
depth and evaporated in the sun
and air, after which the salt was
scooped out and sold to the few
scattered settlers, and ranch
men. There being no fresh
water he used the brine in his
engine with the result that it
was soon out of commission.
/ He then brought the wind dmill
out from Dodge. and erected it
on the posts we had seen to
operate his pump with. When
we last sawit the surface of the
ground to the east had settled
considerably more than when
we first saw it and the cracks
had extended farther up the hill
I to the east. But the settling and
extension of the cracked surface
was not to any alarming extent
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-09-16
Married.

Mr. Clarence r. Elliott and
Miss Ida Love were married on
Septem Der II, at Eldorado, Kan
sas. ( 1arence is brother of
Mrs. S. p. Bunch and Clerk of the
court John Elliott. Miss Love.
now Mrs. Elliott, spent last sum
mer here in Meade. Both the
bride and groom have many
friends here who wish them long
life and all the enjoyment posi-
bic for mortals. Clarence has
accepted position in flour mill
at Newton, Kansas, and they
will make that city their future
home.
Henry Burford met with a
painful accident while threshing
at M. R. Taylors, up the valley,
this week. He went into the
separator to tighten some nuts,
and while backing out he struck
a splinter in his thigh some three
inches, it taking an upward
course from the pointof entrance.
It broke off in the flesh, and
what is called d threshing crew
surgical operation was deemed
necessary. That is, Henry lay
down and two men sat on him
while the third did the carving
act. Then for while, as a rest,
Henry used the knife himself.
1t was what the surgeons call a
successful operation. That is
they got the splinter out before
the patient died. Henry walked
some stiff yet Saturday.
T. r. Easton, living on the
flats between Crooked Creek and
the Cimarron, brought up some
fine samples of growing grain
Monday. He had large we'll
filled heads of kaffir corn, milo
maize, and cane seed of two diff
ferent sorts. He has thirty
acres of these sorghum crops.
He also had with him several
ears of corn which were large
and well filled. Of this he had
from II to Is acres.
The county commissioners
were in session Saturday ad just
ing school levies. Some of the
(, districts, having failed to make
/ 1evies under the new law suf-
ficient to cover the years ex-
penses, held special meetings
and voted additional levies. This
delayed work was the matter
under consideration.
! H. +. Danks and wife left
tuesday for honeymoon drive
to Spearmore, Oklahoma. They
are fixed to enjoy the trip, hav-
ing a good light wagon with a
canvas cover we'll painted, with
a window and d door to close in
bad weather.
Married on September 10, in
the probate Judges Office by the
Judge, Walter c. White and Miss
Della Lackey, both of Fowler,
Kansas. These young people
are well known and their friends
wish them long life and much Joy.
Frank Wood left Wednesday
| for Lawrence, were he will take
up his studies again. Frank will
Join the ranks of the druggists
after his course at K. U. is
| finished.
A. NJ. Love. of Crawford coun.
ty, Kansas, has located on the
old Otto Grief farm, northeast OF
Meade, and will farm it the com.
ing year.
/ Tom Gray, register of deeds
says that the movement in rea
estate for the past few days has
not increased work in his Office
as yet.
1 Gene McMeel left this weel
for Chicago, where enters the
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-09-16

Section B of the ladies' aid So
ciety will serte a chicken pie
dinner in the Cones room on
north side. Every oneis invited.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-09-16
The Southwest Long Distance
Telephone and Telegraph
Company.


Some weeks ago we noted in
these columns the temporary
formation of a telephone and te1e-
graph companyfor the southwest
part of Kansas. The intention
being to Civ this part of the
state a first class long distance
service.
The plans then announced have
been carried out fully and the
company permanently organized,
with the principal Office at
Hutchinson. Our own home
Company had a main hand in this
enterprise, and will have full
showing in the future manage
ment of the new Company. The
officers are: F. l. Bennett, Of
Meade, president; r. l.. Burns
of the B. B. Tel.-Co., Hutchinson,
Secretary and treasurer; {. A
Sloan, of the Pratt Telephone
Exchange, superintendent. The
directors are the three above
named with c. c. Raymond, of
the Greensburg Tel. Co.; F. a.
Gresham, of the Home Tel. Co.,
Bucklin; ]. L. Riley, of the Min
neola Telephone Co.; and r. A.
Brannan, of the Southwest Tel.
Co., of Meade. The company is
in corporat ed for S30,0o0.00.
They have considerable material
on hand, and expect to have the
poles ready for the wire by De-
Cember l, and exchange boards
in place with operators to dc
business by January /. The
equipment is to be first class in
every respect, poles heavy and
strung WITH copper wire. L MS
gives Meade first class telephone
communication with all points in
the country as the connection al
Hutchinson is with lines reach
ing allimportant points. Alarge
share of the credit of the busi-
ness is rightly credited to our
telephone Co, which has given
us first class service here in the
county, and as good long distance
as was possible when the con
Meeting lines are taken into CON
sideration-
Section B of the ladies aid So
ciety will serte a chicken pie
dinner in the Cones. room on
north side Every oneis invited
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-14

! Tae fire at the hotel last Satur-
 @as was extinguished simply be-
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-14

cause there was a small stream of running water that could be thrown on the burning woodwork. Just one little stream. properly directed at just the proper moment, prob ably saved thousands of dollars in property. It is a fact that the salt water dipped out of the bay was greatly effective, but the stream from the hose could be played in places which it was impossible to reach with buckets. This demon strates the superiority of a good system of water works over any other means for fighting fire, and should be an incentive to greater activity in the establishment of such system at Wrangell.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-14
PARCEL ONE

The sawinill property, containing the land and premises, particularly described in said order of sale, upon which the Wrangell mill and box factory is situated, together with the store, office building, blacksmith shop, boarding house, residence, barn, outhouses, buildings and structures, dry kiln, and other appurtenances used in the conduct of said business, said saw mill and factory be- ing equipped with saws and machinery used for the conduct of said business; boilers, en- zines and appliances used therein; the wha-yes, lumber sheds. platforms and other appurtenauces connected herewith: and also the Wrangeli mill log boom lying ia- cent and contiguous to the above mentioned premises, and being particularly bounded and described in said order of sale; and also that certain water right. easements and seTvitudes, together with the dam. damsite. the land used and occupied therefor, pipes, pipe lines and appliances, and the water right for the supply of water and power to said WTangell mill, which water right is located on Mill Greek.
 Bids will be received for the property er- braced within said parcel one at twenty thousand dollars or upwards.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-14

Sixteen deer killed by two men in two days is the reported record of two Wrangell natives last week. Whether the hunters be white men or native, this is too great num- Der of deer to be caught, suffering g on the beach and killed, simply be- cause they were there and, to satis- fy the desire to kill. Such killings will surely result in more stringent game laws, and the federal govern msnt is already considering the appointment of game wardens to enforce the game laws in Alaska Ii hunters will remain within req sonable bounds there will be greater freedom from stringent laws, but such slaughter as thi. of last week make. them necessary.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-14
ADMINISTRATORS SALE
OF SAW MILL AND BOX FACTORY PRIVATE
 SALE AND PUBLIC AUCTION.

SALE AND PUBLIC AUCTION.
 I INDER and in pursuance to a certain or V der of sale made and entered in the matter of the copartnership Estate of Will son & Sylvester, a copartnership dated November 18th, lo05, and which is now on file in the Probate Court of the Precinct of Wrangell, in the District of Alaska, Division No. l. in the office of the Commissioner of said precinct, 4, Y. R. Snyder, Esq, the undersigned representatives of said copart- nership estate will sell and finally dispose of all of the property belonging to said partnership estate, and constituting the as sets of the late firm of Willson < Sylvester Said property is fully and particularly des- ignated and described in said order of sale of November 18th, 1908 to which reference is hereby made, and is situated at the Town of Wrangell, Alaska, subject to inspection by all purchasers or other parties interested, and consists of saw mill and box factory, known as the Wrangell mill, and other as sets of said copaTtnership estate. Said property will be offered in parcels, as here matter designated, at certain upset prices the representatives receiving bids or offers for said property in such offered parcels, up to the day when the same will be sold at public auction, to wit
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-14
PARCEL TWO

One million five hundred thousand feet more or less, of lumber rough and dressed of marketable dimensions, now stored a, said W-angell mil, and on the wharyes docks, yards, sheds and premises
 Bids will be received for the property de. scTibed in parcel two at sixteen thousand dollars or upwards.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-14
PARCEL THREE

Seven hundred thousand feet. more ot less, of saw logs, situated in the boom auc on the premises of said WrargeIl mill
 Bids will be received for parcel three 1T the sum of forty-fve hundred and ffty dollars or upwards,
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-14

PuBLIPHED EVERY rHURsDAY BY GEORGE c, L. SNYDER
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-14
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Ir the United States Commissioner Court,
 WTangell Precinct. FiTzt Divison, Dis
 trict of Alaska. in Probate. h the matter of the estate of Eric Peterson
 deceased
 NOTICE is hereby given hai ', John Thornodsater of the town of Petersburg District Of Alaska. ave been duly appointed Adninistrator Of the above named estate that letters oi administrator were granted to Ele on the i4th day of December, 4. D. iq13
 All persons having claims against said es- tate are required to present the same 10 said administrator al Petersburg, Alaska, or 10 The United States Comuissione- al Wrar. gel, F:Ts- Division. District of Alaska, with proper vouchers herewith within six months from the date Of this notice.
 Dated al Wrangeu, Alaska this 18th day ci December, 4 D. i9[s
 JOHN THORMODSATER, Di7Ji4 Administrator aforesaid.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-14
PARCEL FOUR

That certain steamer called and known a! the Alaska of forty-three gross tors bur den, the official number of which is iQ6533 with her life boat, apparel and furniture and also that certain lumber barge or scow known as the Garnet with the capacity Of one hundred twenty thousand feet oI lumber, together with her anchors, los chain, chains and equipments.
 Bids will be received for parcel four 1T the sum of four thousand dollars or up wards.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-14

The Juneau Record says that the report that sixty deer had been killed by two Juneau sportsmen, recently, was a canard, and that this paper was taken in" by the report. We are pleased to learn that the story wes untrue, as it enables ss to form q better opinion of the two men who were reported to have done the killing.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-14

What is proving one of the great drawbacks ih Alaska at the present time is the relocation sys- tenn which is being worked year in and year out by companies who stake claims and never do any work on them. Tom, Dick and Harry form a company, locating their claims in the name of one member of the company. At the expiration of Toms time to do assessment work, Dick is on hand to locate-one year gone by. At the expiration of Dicks time, along comes Harry, and so on for years the property is held and not a shovelful of dirt or a pound of rock has been taken out. Thus the pos abilities of the country remain hidden and an honest man depriy ed of 8 chance to go ahead and de- velop a mine. Such business should be stopped and we believe will be, when the people have stood it long enough, which should have been long ago.a-Ketch. Miner.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-14

Wonder why the Record failed to publish the report of the recent disturbance created at Douglas funeral by .trike-breakers? The paper has never emitted to mention any unpleasantness arising out of any doings of the union miners, and in all fairnegs; it should also have given the details of the late disturbance.
Alaska sentinel., 1909-01-14
fHE GAME LAW

The press of Southeastern Alas ka is almost unanimous in favor of 3 law providing a bounty on wolf scalps. Every reader of this paper has seen frequent reference in it's columns to this very important subject. Comes now the ketchi kan Miner and expresses our sen- .iments in the following language:
 Being mewhat unfamiliar with the game laws of Alaska, we mav not be able to discuss the law as laid down by the lawmakers in ! wholly intelligent manner, but fl the lava as they now stand are Tor the protection of game in Alas Sa, we had just about as we'll have no law at all If We have g law For the protection of game, why not have g good one while we are at ii, and one that will protect the game when it needs protection. Every true sportsman in the district knows the need of such law and would no doubt not miss an oppor- tunity to agi.ate the repeal of the law which any sportsman would take an interest in enforcing.
 IT the frat place the game, es- pecially the deer. does not need protection from the hunter alone; they need protection from the wolves which roam the country in great bands a. this time of the year and kill many more deer than sll the hunters combined. We should have g bounty on wolf scalps, of sufficient size to insure their extermination. This will cost money to be sure, but Uncle Sam is reaping @ rich revenue from the Alaska products, and why bot spend a little of it in Alaska for the extermination of her great est peat, the wolf?
 "On the other hand the hunter mu.t be dealt with, and in dealing with him we are not dealing with men who do not know the necessity of good game law. He knows that from logical standpoint, un- less the game of Alaska gets pro- lection, and that very soon, he will be compelled to ttanp many miles with but poor prospect in the end of finding anything to shoot. He wants game law; you want l.; 50 why not at every opportun- tty request the men who represent -s te use their influence in protect ing the game7
 "In our opinion there should be three month5 open season Tor the Buck oily, this season being from Sept. 15 10 Dec. 15, and the sea son's kill limited to six bucks. Surely this is enough and affords the hunter plenty of sport as well z5 meat. Then let us have bounty of about ten dollars for each wolf scalp or skin and we would soon realize the benefit done in protecting the deer. With such 2 bounty on the wolf, every Indian as well as the white man could find profitable employment during portion of the year hunting out that sneaking pest"
 SENTINEL would suggest that the lwoli bounty be paid at the rate of B for the male and s15 for the fe- male. Each female wolf will throw two litters of pups eye.y year, and the larger bounty on the female Eoald not be out Of proportion.