Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-19
CURRENT KANSAS FACTS.
BRIEF MENTION OF INTEREST
ING EVENTS OF THE WEEK..
KASsAs ITEMS OF INTEREST.


nucleus of a library commencing with
500 volumes.
The convention hall fund that the
ladies of Parsons started has reached
5000 already.
A. o. Nelson, Lincoln county farm
er, fell from the tower of his windmill
and was killed.
H. M. Wise, of Topeka, has been
sentenced to two years in prison for
taking $500 from a drunken man.
A man has offered Salina $500 for
the privilege of running a merry-go-
round during the street fair there.
The Ottawa creamery, with its
Wellsville auxiliary, received $4,000
pounds of milk in one day recently.
John Critics, of Jewell county,
brought to town sheaf of oats five
feet tall with heads fourteen inches
long.
The long distance telephone lines
now open in every direction from
Wichita, prove CT value to trade in
terests.
| Douglas Walker was shot and killed
Kingman, as the result of a family
quarrel.
1t is said that Governor Leedy lost
a years time and what capital he put
into zinc speculations in the Galena
district.
Hon. E. G. Dewey's mother was
shopping in Moline one day last week.
Mother Dewey is quite active for one
90 years old.
State Superintendent Frank Nelson
during June, travelled 5000 miles and
addressed 43 audiences on educational
subjects.
An electric storm, accompanied by
wind, rain and hail, did 81, 900 worth
of damage to Clay Center windows.
Fruit and shade trees were left bare.
There is 6O-acre field of wheat on
the federal prison farm at Leaven-
worth which is turning out 25 bushels
to the acre. The oat crop will run just
about double the wheat yield.
Governor Stanley has granted par
don to Fl. E. Mason, of Marion, the
banker who is IN prison charged with
wrecking his bank This was done
upon the unanimous request of the peo-
pie of Marion.
| A prominent miller was asked: "Why
will the Kansas farmer get a good
price for his wheat this year?" BE
cause the Kansas farmer has the wheat
and the other fellows haven't" was
the prompt reply.
| One hundred Firms, the advance
guard of an immigration which will be
immense, are headed for Sedgwick
county, where it is proposed by New
York gentlemen, who have them in
charge, to locate each of them.
At the Armour packing plant in Kan
sas City, Kan, 1880 pounds of ammo
mia escaped from bursted pipes. Many
women were at work in the building
all of whom were affected; some of
them SO badly as to make it necessary
to send them home in carriages.
The county superintendent of Nor
ton county has sent out a circular let
ter offering $50 a month for thirty
teachers for six months term. It
appears that young people can do
better than that in other occupations.
The state labor commissioner re-
ports that the strikes in Kansas during
1899 deprived the workmen of A, 1863
days work.
j. l.. Gilbert, who says his home is in
Topeka, and that he belonged to the
Third Missouri volunteers, is arrested
for dozen burglaries in Salina, all
done in one night.
Mrs. Fred Leseberg, of Marshall
county, arose in the night and laid her
neck across a railroad rail and her
head was cut off. When found the old
family dog was guarding the head.
The deed to the farm which was re-
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S37 in revenue stamps.
At the long distance telephone recep-
ton given by the Missouri and Kansas
Telephone company in the Carey hotel,
Wichita, people were called and con-
versed with in st. Louis, Mo-, Joplin,
Mo-, Kansas City, Mo-, lola, Kan,
Omaha, Lawrence; st. Joseph, Chicago,
Lincoln, Neb., Springfield, Topeka,
Milwaukee, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland,
Davenport and many other places dur
ing the afternoon and evening.
A Seneca man whipped his wife and
was set to work on the rock pile His
wife held an umbrella over him to keep
the sun off him while breaking rock.
While threshing on the farm of VIM.
Tweed, in. Mitchell county, stack
caught fire, destroying 500 bushels of
wheat. Stacks and uncut wheat on
three adjoining farms were fred by
sparks from cigarettes which boys
were smoking as they passed, and
1,500 bushels Of wheat was DESTROYED
together with three wagons and two
header boxes.
| 1t is not known everywhere that the
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