Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-06-21
CURRENT KANSAS FACTS.
BRIEF MENTION OF INTEREST.
ING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

oSOU oanO stand for their band, OF
whom they are proud
Captain Adna G. Clark, of the Twen-
tieth Kansas, is seeking an appoint
ment in the regular army.
A cooperative creamery company,
with capital of SIS. 900. has been char
tered to do business at Oswego.
One of the three prohibition parties
of Kansas is to hold state nominating
convention in Topeka June 20.
Thomas Roney, Boston man who
came to work in Kansas harvest fields,
was killed by train at Abilene.
The new Catholic church at Parsons
when finished, will be almost 200 feet
from foundatian to top of spire.
The governor has added the name of
W. Fl. Barnes of Topeka to the list of
Kansas commissioners to Buffalo
T. N. Hancock, of Olathe, has been
re-appointed as member of the board
of managers of the Dodge City Soldiers
home.
1t is said that Mulvane dressmaker
was building at one time, quite recent
ly, three silk dresses and one satin
Dress
Miss Anna Murphy, school teacher
of Topeka, goes to Sault Ste Marie,
Mich, as pastor of Congregational
church.
The officials of the state reform
school have created a great interest
among the boys in the study of the
birds of Kansas.
During the storm on June 10 much
damage resulted from lightning which
entered the Sterling telephone ex-
change and caused fire.
Harper county proposed to give the
Orient railroad S45, 900 in bonds as soon
as the road is completed to the Texas
line, and also pay the expenses of the
election.
A Rock Island freight train ran into
an open switch at Mayetta, demolishing
three car loads of threshing machines
and engines. OH yes, all receipts of
the railroads are profit. Nit.
Mrs. Nation went to all the saloons
in Kiowa early one morning and broke
everything breakable in them, first the
windows and with stones what was in
side, plate glass mirrors, bottles, etc.
The damage done amounted to $500.
Experiments made in different Sec
lions of the state go to show that salt
sown with wheat, at about 200 pounds
to the acre, brings better crops, in
quality and quantity. on poor soils,
than the best bottom lands produce
without it.
The Smith Center ladies had read
ing club and wanted a library and
went after it. After three years they
now own two story brick building
on the main street of the town, of
which the lower story is fitted up for
the library and reading room and the
second story is rented. They have
large library. One side of the room
has cases filed with minerals, shells,
relics and curiosities. The association
is out of debt and has funds on
hand.
]. NJ. Anthony, a brother of Susan
B. and Daniel R., dropped dead in Fort
Scott He had lived in Fort Scott
thirty years.
The Peavy elevator company has
captured control of the grain trade
along the Union Pacific in Kansas
under the name of the Midland Eleva-
tor company.
Fifty Kansas counties must pay the
state about 500. 900, as a result of the
decision of the supreme court in the
Harper county case which makes coun-
ties liable for uncollected state taxes.
The enumeration of Wilson comfy
gives the population at 1885. In the
towns Fredonia leads with 1,719 and
Neodesha follows with 1850.
Sedgwick county has a bonded in
debtedness of only 10000; remark
ably small sum for so large county,
with its public improvements close up
to any demand.
The receipts of the Kansas insurance
department for the year were $780,
721.O5; the expenses amol nted to &c.
592. 30, leaving a nice balance which
went into the state treasury.
Had fire insurance rates remained
the same in 1899 as they were in 1898
the insurance written would have cost
the Kansas policy holders nearly
quarter of a million dollars more than
it did cost.
Attorney General Goddard announ-
ces that he will appeal from the de-
cision of Federal Judge Hook in which
the latter held that the section of the
Kansas prohibitory law which pro-
hibits a drummer from soliciting and
fling orders for Intoxicating liquors is
unconstitutional
A program has been sent out of the
22nd Ottawa assembly, to be held July
$50.
A fire at Leroy destroyed all of the
city records except some of the treas
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