Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-10-25
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Gas is piped out of Independence to
supply neighboring farms.
The first day of the Mankato cours-
ing meet drew together 9, 1000 people.
Duck hunting in the Cheyenne bot
toms is said to be the best in Kansas
this year.
Everett E. Salser, professor of book
keeping and penmanship at the State
Normal, is dead.
Adjutant Fox's report shows that
there are now 1895 Kansas soldiers in
the Philippines.
Mrs. Ellis, of Quenemo, climbed
down a well and rescued the child of
another woman.
The coiored Masons of Topeka have
asked for the use of the auditorium on
Thanksgiving day.
Davenport, st. Louis and Fort Scott
men propose to rehabilitate the Fort
Scott street car service.
The Rock Island has asked for bids
on twenty new compound locomotives
for the freight service.
The colored people of Leavenworth
are making an effort to build a hos
pital for patients of their race.
While Councilman Stevenson, of Sa-
lima, was sitting near a horse the ami
NAL bit off a portion of his ear.
The imbecile asylum at Winfield has
costly heating plant that is worthless
and a new plant is to be put in.
r. T Oliverson, of Abbeyville, Reno
county, tried to jump on q moving
train and was killed instantly.
The five barrels of apples sent by the
Kansas horticultural society to Paris,
was awarded the first premium.
Building and repairing in Florence
has been SO brisk that carpenters have
been secured from other towns.
Marion county's poor farm consider
ably more than pays its own expenses,
including the support of inmates.
The burned buildings at Douglas are
to be replaced with handsome brick
block containing an opera house.
o. E. Parker, of Coffeyville, of Com
pany G, Twentieth Kansas, has been
granted pension of $50 month.
Mexican money increases in circula-
ton in Fort Scott, despite the efforts
of the police to catch the swindlers.
There was very large attendance
upon the Eighth District Sunday school
associations annual meeting in Hutch
inson.
Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg, of Leland
Stanford university whose work on
Animal Life and First Book in 10
ology,' is being adopted by high
schools, is a Kansas boy; the son of
Ex- Attorney General Kellogg.
The meeting of Kansas millers in To.
peka, was composed of the best of
Kansas business men and their action
regarding the defense of Kansas wheat
from Minnesota millers' statements
will have weight everywhere.
Mr.. Vaughan, of Jewell county,
cleared about 81, 1000 from his alfalfa
crop this year. He had 100 acres of it.
Jewell county has about $4,000 acres of
alfalfa Mr.. Vaughan says the crop
pays 10 per cent on 800 an acre land.
There seems to be something unex-
plainable in the fact that in the third
city in size in Kansas arrests for
drunkenness are few and far between,
while in the city ranking as second in
population reports of such arrests are
every day occurrences.
November 20 is fixed upon as the
date for the special election in Sedg-
wick county on granting bonds to the
Orient railroad.
The register Of deeds of Russell coun-
ty received 125 chattel mortgages in
one day, to be released. Their amounts
ranged from SLOTS to SIS, 900; total $780,
are.
VIM. Thomas, boy who lives on the
Pawnee, has received $50 for three
domesticated antelope which were
shipped to the Smithsonian institute at
Washington.
A Chinaman who has lived at Hia-
watha for number of years, always
puts up literally when contributions
are called for anything the town is
pushing.
w. W. B. Darnell, a Topeka teacher
who went to Galveston six years age
to become principal in the schools
there, was victim of the storm. He
left some property and his l4-year-old
son is his heir. Darnell's friends in
Kansas have sent DIR. W. H. Hudson to
Galveston to look after the boys in
terests.
Captain Win Watson, of Pittsburg
has received a new leg from Washing.
ton to replace the one he left in the
Philippines.
State Labor Commissioner johnson
has been instrumental in settling the
miners strike in Leavenworth. The