Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-11
CURRENT KANSAS FACTS. !
BRIEF MENTION OF INTEREST
ING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1oaos OF STOCK shipped out OF Onaga
every month of 1899.
Drs. j. Longbridge and R. F. Bry-
ant, OF Lincoln, have been appointed
pension examining surgeons.
Frank Mobiles, a farmer of johnson
county, died last week of hydrophobia.
He was bitten a month before he died.
The bill for lighting against Leaven-
worth for September, October and No
vember is 81, 49s.O3, and the city coun-
Gil refuses to pay it.
There has been but one death in
Smith Centre in the past seven months;
and that was the death of person who
went to the town sick.
Major ]. NJ. Harvey has been chosen
for Kansas as department commander
of the National association of Spanish
American War Veterans.
Representative Curtis has introduced
bill to appropriate 100000 for the
protection of the Kansas bank of the
Missouri river at Atchison.
Governor Stanley has issued par
don for Isaac G. Reed, who was a MUIR
der convict. Reed was taken to a hos
pital, but is hopelessly sick.
An Iowa man who went to Pratt
county for his health found it all right
enough, bought piece of land and
tells his neighbors that he has come to
stay.
John T. Prather, commission man at
the Union stockyards, Wichita, met
his death from an attempt to jump
from a moving Missouri Pacific passen-
ger train.
c. F. Ressegue, who has assumed
the general superintendency of the
Santa Fe, will move his family from
Galveston to Topeka as soon as he can
find suitable home.
Wellington has voted for municipal
ownership of waterworks and electric
lights. Fifty thousand dollars was
voted to purchase the waterworks and
s14, 900 to erect light plant.
Captain Coulter, head of the G. A. R.
In Kansas, says that the order will
take steps to prosecute by fine and i'm
prisonment, men in Kansas who are
wearing the G. A. R. button without
right.
Chaplain Schliemann, late of the
Twentieth Kansas, is at his home at
Phillipsburg after a lecture tour
and after a couple of weeks will start
out again.
George Theis, Jr., of Ashland, one OF
, the biggest cattle dealers in Kansas
is well pleased with the business out
look for the coming year, and is increas
ing his ranches as rapidly as possible
in western Kansas.
The sheep barn at the fairgrounds
in Topeka, used by D. w. Kent as a
training stable, was completely de.
stroyed by fire and ten horses and sew
eral buggies and sulkies were burned.
Kent's loss is large.
Governor Stanley has appointed Ed.
q. Madison. of Dodge City, judge OF
the Thirty-frst judicial district which
comprises the counties of Ford, Kiowa
Comanche and Clark, in place of Judge
F. c. Price, resigned.
w. w. Schwinn, Kansas lawyer
who left Wellington some time ago, il
search of location, landed first al
Salt Lake City, then at Kansas City
and is now going back to Wellington
He finally ''lit" just where he started.
Two years ago w. 81. Love, who fol
many years has manufactured broom'
on small scale in Fort Scott, bough
about so bales of broom corn for ST.
per bale and the other day he sold it il
st. Louis for $152 per bale.
William Wood, the millionaire luna
= tic who has been in the Topeka insane
asylum for twenty years, has beef
called upon, through his guardian, w
B. Throckmorton, of Wichita, to pa.
into the state treasury the sum of 81,
OILS. 40 for his board and clothes durin.
the period of his confinement.
Five hundred COWS are owned by tn
stockholders of the creamery now be
> ing built at Barnard; which ought t.
give it big push toward success.
The farmers of Rice, Mcpherson an
Reno counties produced half of tn
broom corn raised west of the Missouri
Their crop was sold this year for near
ly $500, 200.
= Henry Kimmel, of McLouth, shippe
: two loads of cattle at $500. He say
!. if he does as well on the balance h
= has on hand his corn will bring hir
so cents bushel.
And now the turkey-gold nugge
story comes from the Missouri Pacif
eating house at Gypsum. 1t is state
that the place where the turkey pickle
up the nugget has been located an
that company has been formed t
L develop the mine.
Thirteen months ago buffalo wa
. killed by the Dold Packing compan
= at Wichita, and the meat has been
: cold storage ever since. Some of it wa
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