Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-10-04

cred an attendance of 5000.
A threshing engine exploded south
OF Sterling injuring two persons.
The appellate courts of Kansas all go
out cf business on January /, 1901.
The Coffey county fair was postponed
until this week on account of the rains.
Phillipsburg has struck a vein of
water which seems to be inexhaustible.
Ed O'Brien, of Florence, won the
medal at the Peabody gun club shoot
A Marshall county farmer has just
sold 200 bushels of old corn at 311l
cents.
The Photographers of Kansas met in
Representative hall in Topeka, Sep
TENDER &c.
Reno is credited with more bearing
plum trees than any other county in
the state
Counterfeit nickels are plentiful
in the towns along the southern bor-.
der of the state.
The ninth annual convention of col
ored Baptist churches was held in To-
pel1a last week.
Congressman c. l. Long was called
to Brownsville, Mo, to the funeral of
his oldest brother
6The Kansas Society of the Army of
the Philippines was organized at the
nj YaI1nion
Frank c. Goudy, nominee for COVER
nor of Colorado, formerly lived in JEFF
ferson county, Kansas.
The enrolment at Baker University
is nearly four hundred; nearly one
half are new students
The official count shows an attend
ance at Kansas Agricultural college of
$40. Last year it was 639.
Portions of Fort Scott were under
water on September % People in the
north part of the city We're compelled
to move.
The first prize at the Woodmen's
drill at Harper was taken by Yelling
ton, S65; the second by the Kingman
team, $50.
The Santa Fe announced in advance
that special trains would be run to the
Wichita street fair from Kiowa and
from Pratt.
Winfield received four inches of rain
in four days last week. Seeding is
not finished, but the wheat that is
planted is getting good start.
Orson Kent, of Burlington, has held
commissions as notary public in Kan
sas since 1859. the first bearing the sig
nature of Governor Medary, terri
torial governor.
j. R. Ralston. who formerly conduct
ed the Detroit. Dick inson county, Press,
was attacked by Eli Bushey and Sc
riously injured. Ralston's horse got
into Bushey's cornfield.
Political and campaign matter crowds
ordinary news and makes it scarce.
Kansas is now thinking and talking
bat little outside of politics, reunions,
street fairs and the like
Parsons was deluged last week The
dam of the waterworks company, on
Labette creek, broke and the lower
portion of the city was flooded. Houses
were emptied and there was damage
to property and live stock.
Near Tonganoxie a man prepared
four blasts in mineral prospect hole.
AS he was being hauled ont in a tub,
one of the blasts went off prematurely.
In spite of the danger the man at the
windlass hung on until he was at the
top and saved.
The Rock Island has put low rate
of fare from all points in Illinois to all
points in Kansas along the Rock Island
lines.
The Missouri Pacifics business at it's
station at Osborne was S1O,45O during
August: an increase of over 81, 600 over
last year.
Jacob Hoffman, of Wichita. a des-
cendant of William Penn, has come
into possession of an heirloom in the
family. 1t is an old secretary which
contains deeds which have been handed
down in the family for over 200 years.
The State Historical society will re-
ceive a large picture of Captain E. A.
Blakeley, who commanded company F,
First regiment, K. N. g., during the
great railroad strike in 1888. The COM
pany held mob of 5000 in check at
Parsons with empty guns.
Emancipation day, September 90,
was quite generally celebrated by the
colored people.
Elmer c. Million. a boy raised in
Burlingame, has been nominated as
candidate for judge of the Washington
supreme court.
The freshman class at Washburn
college is expanding 5000 to equip its
foot ball team.
]. r. Harrison, formerly postoffice
inspector in Kansas, is now acting as
postmaster of Havana, Cuba
Henry Klebe, of Woodbine, drove q
blind horse off bridge in the night,
and was killed by the fall upon the
rocks below.
A Russell county crew threshed from
Ea1dc of wheat in ono do1, 200 b,,eL