Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-05

Wilson County,. T. Cooper. secretary, FIRE.
donia; August 21-24.
Montgomery county's count shows
nearly 20, 600 people.
VIM. Follsche, of Doniphan county,
died in an so foot well.
Wichita firemen are practicing with
their new aerial ladder.
Otis Lilly, aged II, of Galena, was
drowned while bathing.
Sumner county's wheat crop is esti-
mated at 6,OoO,O 900 bushels.
Riceville, Cherokee county, mining
camp, is destroyed by fire.
Hutchinson charges distributing
depots for liquor 81, 200 year.
A bicycle thief who took one from
Abilene was caught at Wichita,
The populist headquarters at Kansas
City was early established at the Savoy
hotel.
Two men robbed the house of G. R.
Herr, near Navarro, while he was at
church.
President Wellhouse estimates this
years apple crop in Kansas at 4 100000
bushels.
Steamship agents are in Kansas and
Oklahoma engaging wheat shipments
by the gulf routes.
Belleville has voted S24, 900 for the
purchase of the water works plant
owned by company.
Bishop Warren, of Denver, presided
at the dedication of the new $4,000 M.
E. church at Fredonia
The 37th annual catalogue of Kan
sas Agricultural college is out and is
very interesting reading.
A hail storm destroyed the corn
crop in section covering the line be-
tween Douglas and Shawnee counties.
Four Parsons boys were killed in
the ambush of the Fortieth regiment
near Tagayan and three more from
Parsons were wounded.
The completion of the convent at
Concordia and improvements on the
Catholic church there, are to be done
this season, at a cost of about $4,000.
The state school fund interest for
the fiscal year ending June 80 amount
ed to 1851, 362.s9 The next apportion-
ment to the school districts occurs
August Is.
Chris Waters, an old Reno county
farmer, was running traction engine
hauling separator. While climbing
hill the engine stalled, ran back
wards and caught him between the
two machines. He lived until next
morning.
Edward Heeney, of Atchison county,
is 1O2 years old, he has good teeth,
plenty of hair and is not decrepit. He
has used liquor and tobacco all his life.
The Neosho County Fruit Growers
association has shipped from Chanute
81, 963 worth of strawberries without
loss of a crate or of payment for the
berries.
Three hundred Sunday school chill
| dren paraded the streets of Wichita in
long line of new farm wagons drawn
by a traction engine. They were go
ing to a picnic.
Harvey county's wheat crop is es-
timated at 1850, 600 bushels.
Milk used in Kansas creameries is
supplied by 1889 persons. The milk
comes from SO, 1872 COWS. The cream
cries belong to 1,49s firms who have
an average investment therein of
$5,932.44. The product of the industry
in 1899 was 81, O04, 49s. Their receipts
from sales were 81, 800, 5s3.43. They
paid 81, ,749 for milk. Thirty-four
per cent of the products were marketed
in the state. The average amount
paid for milk, for each COW was S24.
Kansas was the first state to COM
plete the decoration of the rooms of it's
delegation to the Kansas City conven-
ton. They are in the annex of the
Baltimore hotel
Mcpherson county owes nothing and
Is of it's townships have no bonds out.
The other 10 townships, with the cities
and school districts have a bonded debt
of about $3.50, 900.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Cludas, of Nc
Pherson, have been appointed Superin-
tendent and matron of the Bickerdyke
home and hospital at Ellsworth.
W. D. Farrar, of Usage county died
and his funeral was held in a grove on
the claim he took in 1857, and which
he planted.
Charles Ralston, of Miami county,
was drawing water for his team when
the well caved in and crushed him to
death.
The board of regents of the Western
University and State Industrial School
for Negroes at Quindaro has retained
Prof. W. T. Vernon as president He
is the most prominent negro educator
in the country.