Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
CURRENT KANSAS FACTS.
BRIEF MENTION OF INTEREST.
ING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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in Cherryvale three times in one day.
VIM. Holman's threshing machine
was burned near Lincoln Center. Loss
$4,000.
Many cattle are being shipped from
Solomon on account of the failure of
pastures.
A Ford county farmer reports yield
of 43 bushels to the acre of his field of
wheat.
| A Nebraska firm has agents canvas
sing Kansas selling diamonds to young
| farmers.
Stephen Booth, of Larned, uncle to
the late Henry Booth, was found dead
in his bed.
John Strum's s-year-old son fell from
windmill near Wellsville and was
fatally injured.
Winfield reports an attendance of
$4,000 people at the interstate jubilee
of the A. o. w.
Pottawatomie and Wabaunsee coun-
ties Woodmen will unite in log roll
ling at Alma August 80.
The 10th annual reunion of the Sixth
Kansas cavalry association will be
held at Galena, August 1886.
A contractor at Lane has to furnish
the Missouri Pacific % loads of crushed
stone day. He has 100 men.
A half section of land in Sedgwick
county has been purchased by farmer
of the neighborhood for $4,000.
The penitentiary Irvine plant makes
an output of 100000 pounds of Irvine
of which 900, 900 has been sold.
Two carloads of people leave Beloit
on August &c to attend the national G.
A. r. encampment in Chicago.
Henry Grother, near Paola, had a
sixteen acre piece of wheat which
threshed out 80 bushels to the acre.
Reno county Christian Endeavor as
ISOLATION will hold it's annual conven-
ton at Pretty Prairie on August 10.
A Richmond, Mo-, firm has removed
large general stock of merchandise
to Ottawa to get away from saloons.
Isaac G. Reed, the Wellington judge
who was pardoned out of the peniten-
tiary, died recently in Pennsylvania.
J. w. Parks and his son. ex-state
printer ]. S. Parks, have purchased a
$50 acre farm near Beloit, for $40, 700.
Atchison county has had one justice
on the supreme court bench during
nearly the entire history of the state.
A brother of Hill P. Wilson, assistant
secretary of state, was in the company
of marines who took John Brown at
Harper's Ferry.
While the farmers Of southern Shaw
nee county were at grange picnic a,
Overlook, there were many houses
entered and robbed
L. M. Beebe, of Norwich, clipped
1920 pounds of wool from his sheep
last week. At the present price the
wool is worth S2,117.eO.
Independence has negotiations pro-
crossing for the removal of glass
factory to that place from Marion, In
diana. The factory will employ 100
men.
A Pratt county jointkeeper was SEN
fenced to term in Jail; the sheriff
permitted him to stay with his family
most of the time; when the Jail term
expired the prisoners wife sued the
sheriff for the board of her husband
and got judgment II S21.6O.
Probate Judge Pulleine, of Marys-
vile. lost his 11-year-old daughter by
accidental death. She was killed by
the caving in of a sand bank.
The blackberry crop in Leavenworth
county was very fine this year. The
express companies handled the berries
in carload lots.
Bishop Fink, of the diocese of Leav-
enworth, has sent out to all the deans
of the diocese letter enclosing his re-
cent order relative to members of the
Catholic church joining the Modern
Woodmen and Maccabee secret orders,
Jack Sanders killed Charles PAYNE
in joint near the Frisco depot in
Galena. 1t is said the trouble was
over girl.
General ]. K. Hudson has organized
a mining company with $500, 200 CAPT.
tai, to operate on his purchase of min
| ing lands in Missouri.
The regents and the president of the
Kansas agricultural college have ex-
amined the buildings, ETC., of the Fort
Hays reservation preparatory to taking
charge of it as soon as the legislature
accepts the gift made by congress.
"A waterspout flooded Solomon July
"a. Over six inches of water fell flood
ing cellars and lower floors and wash
ing out railroad culverts.
the building erected for cob pipe
factory in Ottawa and now used for
storage and a cider plant, is burned.
1t cost $1,000.
The Captain Frank Whitman who
was discharged from the army is. not
Major Frank N. Whitman, of the
Twentieth Kansas, as was first report
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