Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-09

to contract for hay.
The cement works at Burns is being
doubled in capacity.
w. L. Yaggy has 5OO-acre Catalps
plantation in Reno county.
Government agents have been stock
ing the Smoky Hill river with black
bass.
Henry Brit, of Mitchell county, re-
ceived over $1,000 for wheat from 81
acres.
Wichita bicycle riders held a meeting
to devise a plan to catch bicycle
thieves.
Dan1. Stiger, farmer near Hume
well, was killed at railway crossing
July 81.
Joseph Brown, of Rock Creek. had
an arm torn off in a threshing machine
and died.
Arthur c. Smith was killed near
Oberlin while lifting gun off from a
cultivator.
Two carloads of wild horses were
sold in Chanute a short time since.
They came from Idaho and Montana.
The Rock Islands southwestern ex-
tension from Liberal means cheaper
coal for the southwestern counties of
Kansas.
A Rocks county man ships st. Ber-
nard pups all over the country and re-
Gently received good offer for an
entire litter from Mexico.
During July the sale of stamps and
postal supplies at the Topeka postoffice
amounted to $40, 6425 an increase
over July, 1899 of 81, 5oOs9
C. G. Toland, of Wellsville, was
found by trainmen near Red Rock sta
ton and taken to Perry, o. T. He
was bruised in many places.
Farmers in the vicinity of Russell
are talking of putting up an elevator
with capacity of from one-half to a
million bushels in which to store their
grain.
Five of the new chair cars which are
being built in the Topeka shops by the
Santa Fe have already been turned
out. There is nothing that is desirable
to have which these cars lack.
Superintendent Nelson of the Wichi-
ia street car line gave trolley excur-
sion in honor of his daughters eighth
birthday. Her little friends made up
a handsome crowd and enjoyed the
occasion.
DR.. and Mrs. W. L. Challiss, who
came to Atchison in 1856, recently
celebrated their golden wedding. Mrs.
Challiss was attended by one of the
three bridesmaids who ''stood up with
her fifty years ago.
At recent country funeral in Mar
ion county there was a long line of
dozens of vehicles, and not a wagon
amongst them; they were all buggies
and surveys. Not many years ago
such an event would have shown only
wagons.
Corn in Marshall county that was
thought to be burned up three weeks
ago is now coming out in surprisingly
good shape since the rains. Of course
| the crop will not be full one, but it
will be long way ahead of what was
expected.
| Most of the state boards are made
up of state officers. 1t transpires that
| should the fusion state ticket be elect
| ed the executive council would be tied
with the governor as chairman and all
the boards would be controlled by
Democratic state officers as follows:
railroad assessors, 3 to .; equalization
board, 2 to l; charter board . to l and
the printing board by its whole mem
bership.
Three miles from Seneca is $50, 900
Catholic church, and six miles from
Westmoreland a still finer one is being
built.
| County Clerk B. l.. Barton, of Bour-
bon county, died of hemorrahge,
while sitting on HE porch reading the
| e'eHlAS paper
Brakeman Cornell, of the Missouri
Pacific was killed at Conway Springs
by being caught between the bumpers
of two freight cars. The cars had
automatic couplers but he was between
| them.
A Union Pacific freight train ran
into Rock Island engine at Perry,
Kas., and Engineers Anderson and Nc
Kittrick were injured.
Gas wells are rapidly increasing in
Southern Montgomery county and
many acres have been leased. 1t is ex-
pected that Indiana factories will re-
move there.
A coal salesman from Kansas City
made insulting remarks at Abilene
about Kansas soldiers. A dozen Twen.
tieth Kansas boys made him stand on
plow and apologize to a large crowd.
Ben Kerfoot, private secretary tc
Webster Davis, was a soldier in the
Twentieth Kansas. He was made q
lieutenant while in the Philippines
Kerfoot is graduate of the Wichita
high school and of Kansas university
Joseph Lewis. of Topeka, is 90 years