Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-26

klnSley is TO have new elevator
with capacity of 10, 600 bushels.
The Halstead Touring mill made
year.
Rock Island surveyors are at work
on a line from Liberal to Clayton, New
Mexico.
Another large gas well near lola is
expected to run ten million cubic feet
day.
Charles Sullivan, of Meade county,
gets three months in Jail for tampering
with jurors.
Galena has lost two large frame
stores by fire; loss more than covered
by insurance.
English army officers are inspecting
horses at the horse yards, in Bismark
Grove, Lawrence.
3Miss Lillian E. Hall has been APP
pointed by the governor, coroner of
Cowley county.
Fifty-fve tourists tickets to Colorado
were sold at the Wichita ticket offices
in one day last week.
An lola baker and confectioner is in
Jail for selling liquor and his creditors
have closed in on him.
1t develops that there was another
man of the same name as Rev. James,
who will get the millions.
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John P. st. John, it is said, has pur-
chased home in Independence, Mo-,
and will move his family to it.
Postoffices in eastern Kansas cashed
many money orders sent to families by
men who were working in harvest
| fields further west.
Rudolph Hatfield and Colonel Hois-
| ington were the speakers at the laying
of the corner stone of the s25, 900 high
school at FL Dorado.
A train stopped between Kinsley
and Offerle and the train crew and
passengers fought fire in a field of
shocked wheat, saving it.
Miss Morrison, of Ell Dorado, is held
for murder in the first degree, without
bail, for the killing of Mrs. Olin Castle.
She was taken to the Wichita Jail.
The public generally, at Ell Dorado,
holds the opinion that the motif of the
murder of Mrs. DIN Castle by Miss
Jessie Morrison, was infatuated ieal-
ousy.
DIR. Thomas Cooper, of Kansas City,
travelling salesman for a publishing
house, was found dead in his bed in
Wellington hotel. Death was caused
by morphine.
Vol Weber, of Clay county had
wheat which tested "a pounds. He
had hauled and sold $500 bushels of
old wheat just before commencing to
haul his new crop.
Wheat is pressing hard on the power
of the railroads to move it. Indica-
lions are that the high prices being
paid for wheat will cause earlier sale
of large part of the crop than usual.
All Hallows academy in Wichita, in
charge of Catholic sisters, has become
SO crowded with young lady pupils
that those interested have decided to
build an addition to cost at least S15,-
900.
carload of cantaloupes, the first of
the season, has been shipped from
Moorehead, Labette county, to Boston
by express, at charges of $500. 1t is
expected that the load will sell there
for So, 400.
M. F. Angel came from Chicago to
Wichita. where he lived 43 years ago,
for the sole purpose of paying debt
to dentist which he contracted when
he lived there. Ten dollars settled the
debt and Angels railroad fare was
S2O.6
During thunder storm Mrs. Herschel
Carr, of Montgomery county, was
thrown from horse and run over by a
harvester and seriously injured.
C. V. Eskridge's life insurance
amounted to about S35, 200. A sale of
WIG A%hiPOAAb ANCpuO1lCdAs 0ONcTuOI
Eskridge's paper, is desired by his
children.
Montgomery county levied two
mills tax for the support of the county
high school. An appropriation of 5000
was made for the library and $500 for
the laboratory of the school.
The old settlers of Reno county will
hold a reunion on August 2.
The total assessed value of taxable
property together with the amount of
state taxes to come from each county
is published. Shawnee leads with
$14, 1885, s4 in valuation and S79, gal in
taxes; Wyandotte stands $14,51O, Alb
valuation and $40, so6 taxes Leaven-
worth and Sedgwick each have over
100000 taxable property, the first
slightly in excess of the latter; Cowley,
Sumner and Reno next with over So
O0O, 900 each.
E. L. Shaffer, steward of the Topeka
insane asylum, had his leg broken in
two places while making slide in