Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-23
Current KANSAS FACTS.
BRIEF MENTION OF INTEREST.
ING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

st. Francis hospital, Wichita, is to
have $50, 200 addition. 1t is already
very large building.
Eight hundred Saline and McPher-
son county people, by special train, pic
nicked at Fort Riley last week.
The Rev. DIR. Floren, of the Swedish
Lutheran church of Salina, accepts a
chair at Bethany college, Lindsborg.
Forty-three trains, with a total of
about 1000 cal 8, went through the
Memphis roads yards at Fort Scott,
in one day recently.
The 12-year-old daughter of o. e.
Carlson, of Assaria, Saline county, lost
her life by starting fire in the kitchen
stove with gasoline.
Barton county farmers celebrated
the clos of their wheat harvest by at
tending a circus. Everybody was
there. Special trains came in from
neighboring towns.
A young lady of Council Grove has
painted the house in which she and
her mother lives and has done as good
job as could have been done by any
painter in the town.
A contract is closed for the erection
of a new court house at Clay Center. at
cost of S33, ZOO. No bonds. A 3 mill
levy raises $4,000 a year until the
court house is paid for.
Joshua Keene, of Montgomery coun-
ty, this year with the assistance of two
men raised and harvested 3 1900 bushels
of wheat, $500 of oats and expects to
have 5000 bushels of corn.
L. D. Thompson of Johnson county,
marketed his crop of fax seed from 35
acres and received $912. so cents for it.
He does not claim to have had the best
crop in his neighborhood.
The war department has decided to
send another equipment for the Kan
sas National Guard to replace the $780,
900 worth carried from the state by re-
cruits for the Spanish war
Up to about '73 quarter of fresh
buffalo hung up anywhere on the
prairies of Western Kansas would not
faint but dry out. 1t is not so now,
which shows how the climate has
changed.
A neighborhood herb doctor at Gree
ley concocted some medicine by boiling
some jimpson weeds in kettle which
she afterwards cooked roasting ears in
for supper. The combination caused a
very sick family.
Miss Grace Gilbert and Mrs. Blanche
Miller, who were so dangerously in
jured in a runaway some days since in
in Riverside park, Wichita, have so far
recovered that they are able to move
about in their rooms.
Florence has six regular passenger
trains daily each way on the main line
of the Santa Fe; four trains daily leav-
ing there on the Mcpherson and FL
Dorado branches, and several freight
and Accommodation trains.
While w. K. Maxwell, general bag
gage agent of the M. K. & T., stationed
at Parsons, was in Boston to attend
the convention of general baggage
agents, he was taken i'll and was op
Grated upon for appendicitis.
About 300 people, who had gathered
in Wichita from over the Seventh dis
trict, took train there for the editorial
excursion at Eureka Springs, Arkan-
sas At Beaumont the Oklahoma
special was put into the same train.
The new Missouri Pacific depot at
Wichita is to be completed November
in spite of strikes by stone masons.
The brick work is begun.
A crowd of &C, 900 people is predicted
for August %, at the meeting in To
peka for notifying Mr.. Bryan of his
nomination at the Sioux Falls conven-
ton.
A citizen of Rosalia township, Butler
county, says he has resided there 81
years and that there has not been q
fist fight or lawsuit in the township
in all that time.
1t is said that the wheat raised il
Ellis county, Kansas, this year viii
amount to enough to give every votel
in the county 81, 800 in cash.
Union Pacific railroad land limit.
reach north rom Wallace county int
Sherman comfy with 63,52O acres
south from Wallace county into Greeley
courty with $1,000 acres; north from
Logan county into Thomas county
with III, 200 acres; and south from Lo
gan county into Wichita county will
12,4SO acres. All of this region ha
Denver for market.
Many students who desire advanced
standing, as they come from other col
leges and universities, are correspond
ing with Kansas university. There i
every prospect for the largest enroll
ment ever made, for the coming year
During picnic at a public meeting
in Emporia two young men grabbed
baby carriage and held it over thei
heads until the crowd was quoted
When they let it down it was found t.
be empty, but that does not lessen tn
nobleness of the deed, as they though