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of the relief fund. These seeds will he used to supply destitute farmers and gardeners of Shawnee county.A Thousand Texts.—They hare been sent from For- Itiley to Topeka to shelter the homeless. A guard was sent with the tents to take care of them.Oxb of thk Foux deb*. —Harvey D. Rice one of the founders of Washburn college, is dead. He Irnd been sick for three months with kidney trouble. lie died on his farm east of Topeka. Tlic flood and the death of President Me-Vicar of the college is thought to lmve been the Immediate cause of hUdeath.Ix Neosho Vallst.—'The crop* there have been completely washed out and it will be impossible to replant this year. The loss to the farmers waa Immense- Many of them also lost their barns and other improvements.Fifteen of these trains passed through Wichita last week. Each car carries 100.000 pounds of tjie ore.Wit'll it a Growing.—The work of tiie cil3* -iv*cs*j*or shows that the city haa 31.549 people, an increase of 7.707 since 19«I. and an increase of 3,380 in I lie post year.AnvisoiiY Boa ii«»- — Mover nor Bailey hus appointed Mayor T. B. Gilbert of. Kansas City, K:ta. T. D. Fitzpatrick, of Salina, and G. S. Murphy, of Manhattan, as an advisory* board to assist him in the distribution of the fund which Is being raised for the relief of the flood sufferers in Kansas.Tohoxto Want, a Eich Oxe.—It was brought in at a deih of lea*» than 1.200 feet, through 95 feet of oil sand. Citizen* are excited and new contract* hnv« been made to put down several more wells.
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Meade County News
Meade, Kansas, US
Thu, Jun 25, 1903
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