Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-06-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Santa Fe has four telegraph
operators at Wellington now.
The old soldiers of Bourbon county
will give picnic at Redfeld, June Z.
Sedgwick county has just contracted
for four new steel bridges, costing
$500.
A Muscotah man got drunk and paid
all his debts. He then sobered up and
was sorry.
Rev. j. P. Fulton and wife, of Har-
per, recently celebrated their golden
wedding.
Concordia's high school graduating
class has % young women and five
young men.
Hunnewel1 is to have patent wash
ing machine factory, with capital
stock of $4,000.
There is living in Eureka brother
of M. Demange who was Captain
Dreyfus' attorney.
II which, real eSIdI0 QcdlcT SAGCI-
tanned Is excursionists from Illinois,
paying all their bills.
Mrs. Ella Armstrong of FL Dorado
has clerkship in the surgeon generals
Office in Washington.
The prairie band of Pottawatomies
in Kansas are likely to buy land in
Wisconsin and go to it.
The new Street Railway in Wichita
paid during May, about $1,000 for con-
struction work alone.
A subscription paper realized $40 at
Summerfeld, to replace a team which
had been killed by lightning.
The sisters of st. Joseph in Wichita
will formally open normal school, no
vitiate and orphanage on June 81.
Christian Klumppf, aged 70, and Mrs.
Minerva Brown, aged 6s years, were
married the other day at Garden City.
Assessors returns in Sedgwick coun-
ty show that during the year there had
been sold poultry and eggs for sos, AT.
Wyandotte has passed Crawford
county in having the largest assess
ment of railroad property among
Kansas counties.
John Kitten, deaf old man, was
crossing the Rock Island tracks at
Turon, and he and his horse were
killed by train.
A boy in Chanute died from rupture
caused from boyish scuffie and two
boys have had charge of murder
made against them.
Dickinson, Salina and Mcpherson
counties had heavy rains accompanied
with local hail storms, last week,
which did some damage.
Kansas now has ninety-two rural
delivery routes for the accommodation of
farmers with the promise of a large
increase to the number.
Wind damaged farmers fences and
buildings in Lincoln county and 100
neighbors gathered and repaired them.
They called it holiday.
The city assessors returns show the
population of Salina to be 6,5O1. Sa-
inc county has a population of 1851,
gain of s31 over last year.
The passenger department of the
Santa Fe has issued circular in colors
telling about the Chautauqua assembly
at Winfield June 21-July 2.
A farmer near Inman sold his farm
and went to Barber county and bought
$40 acres for So, 400. He also bought a
large Hereford herd, hogs and imple-
ments. The ranch has fine buildings
A writ of mandamus was served on
the commissioners of Sumner county,
ordering them to canvass the vote on
the county high school June Is.
Decoration day was observed at more
places in Kansas and by more people
than ever before. At least the multi
tude of reports that appear would
show this as true.
Surveyors for the "Orient" railway
have reached Wichita, having finished
work on almost an air line from Bur
lington o. T., coming through Harper
county, Kansas.
The thirteenth annual picnic of the
Santa Fe shopmen of Topeka will be
held on Saturday, June 16, 1900
The Scottish Rite Masons of Fort
scott have purchased the Huntington
hotel and will convert it into Mason
ic temple.
A son of A. Scott, near Healy, wa:
thrown from horse and the halter
caught around his neck and he wa.
dragged to death.
Thirty descendants of Robert New
ton Allen, of Indiana, assembled a
Chanute, the guests of R. N. Allen.
The railroads running into WIGHT;
report greatly increased business a
that point. The wholesale houses ar,
sending out unusually large shipments
and the retail merchants are putting
in heavy stocks.
w. Q. Church, late superintendent o
the Wichita street railway, has takel
place in the freight department o
the Pittsburg and Gulf road.
Kansas has 5000 miles of railroad
q A. H. IL