Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-12
Good stackers command 50 a day.

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Lexington will lay only brick side
walks in the future.
Topeka horses are suffering an cpl
demic of the pink-eye.
The Kaw valley potato crop west of
Topeka is said to be small.
Ex-Governor Leedy has been admit
ted to the bar at Lawrence.
Attempts to wreck Rock Island
trains have occurred in Clay county.
s. A. Fulgroat, Santa Fe brake
man, lost three fingers at Halstead by
a giant fire cracker.
The bargain is closed and the We'll
lington waterworl1s has gone into
the possession of the city.
The clerk of Usage county reports
an increase of taxable property of
500, 600 during the past year.
Ottawa had family consisting of
a widow and three widowed daughters
One of the four died last week.
A man has offered Salina $500 for
the privilege of running merry-go-
round during the street fair there.
Charles B. Hass, of Halstead, who
was sailor on the old Constitution,
has been granted a pension or $50
month.
A threshing machine at york in Har-
| per county blew up and killed Edward
Tally, the engineer, and injured four
others.
Ex-Governor Morrill's son, Frank,
took honors of his class in the Harvard
law school. He expects to locate in
| Boston.
A Wichita bank bought the $1,000
sewerage per cent bonds issued by
the city. They are payable on the in
stallment plan.
Miss Elizabeth Wooster, the Kansas
school book author, was invited to
Harvard to help drill the 1,4OO Cuban
school teachers.
A full antlered deer head fell from
the wall in an Office in Emporia and
ran one of the points of a horn in
Richard Cannon's face.
Governor Stanley has received the
formal thanks of the British govern
ment to the people of Kansas for it's
donation to sufferers in India.
Governor Stanley is said to favor the
plan of keeping a commissioner at
Washington to attend to pension
claims; thus relieving members of
Congress.
Someone in Valley Center caught
snap shot of the three governors on
the Roosevelt special train; Roosevelt
of New York, Barnes of Oklahoma and
Stanley of Kansas.
Sixteen years ago R. S. Parkhurst,
of Parsons, divided 1, 400 acres of Kan
sas land among his children. Last
week he divided HOO acres more in
the same way. He still has 700 acres
left.
A quarrel between an Ellsworth man
and a harvester resulted in the death
of the latter. The victim was struck
on the head and had his neck broken
by the blow, while his head was under
the other mans arm.
A young man has established rab-
bit scalp business. The scalps are
shipped to Kansas City and from there
forwarded to him at the several county
seats of Kansas which he visits where
he collects the bounty.
Captain Irwin, of Topeka, was a
lieutenant in the English army in 1888
and was present at the coronation of
Queen Victoria. Coming to the United
States he fought through our civil war,
and then became a Methodist preach
er.
Cyrus Dix, aged 65, an old citizen of
Sedgwick county, was thrown from a
wagon and had both legs broken. He
was otherwise painfully injured.
Danford, the Kansas bank wrecker
of the SOS, who skipped to Canada,
has been recognized in Wyoming, as
canvasser for Paris exposition pic
lures.
Cuba, Republic county, has 1000
barrel tank upon 5O-foot stone eleva-
ton, with four inch water main and
an organized volunteer fire depart
ment.
jackson county has a Jew, Catho-
lie and a Presbyterian contesting for
the republican nomination for repre-
| sentative.
Edward Collins, of Topeka, and his
cousin, Edward Fitzgerald, of New
York, who was visiting in Topeka,
both young men, were bathing in the
Kansas river and were drowned
Real estate sales are numerous, but
very little money is being borrowed
for the payments. Eastern people are
hungry to invest money in Kansas farm
loans, but cannot place them.
The Wichita free library now has
| $500 volumes and more are being add
ed. Miss Gross, the librarian is very
| popular in that position.