Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-06-28
The Savoy hotel at Ga1ena is


force has been doubled.
Caney has had $4,000 fire. The
Caney Patriot was in it.
The city of Peabody pays one-fourth
of the cost of all sidewalks.
The M. Z. & T. took $50 cars Of cat
tie through Parsons in one night last
week.
Mcpherson county claims to have the
best school libraries in the Seventh
district.
j. D. Bowersock, of Lawrence is ne
gotiating for the planting of cotton
hosiery factory in that city.
Fort Scott's convention hall has its
roof on now. Between 1850 and 1000
people is its seating capacity.
Four hundred families of Russians,
northern part of Morris comfy.
A Winfield woman had a gasoline
fire to fight single handed. She threw
flour on 1t; the surest extinguisher.
Receipts at the Katy depot at Coun-
Gil Grove are much larger than last
year. In May they were 81, 900 larger.
Senator Edwin Taylor, the potato
king, says that the Kaw valley will
ship fully 1920 car loads of this crop.
The jury of the district court in
Miami county was discharged at the
opening of the session, there being no
jury cases.
The Frisco line is calling in all its
cars and working fast on repairing
cars. The road expects to handle an
immense amount Of grain.
A former Effingham, Kas., woman is
drawing $50 a week for keeping her
employer, society woman Of New
York, from drinking whisky.
The president of the W. G. T. q. of
Barber county charged the county at.
torney with receiving S. a month from
each of the joints, and he has sued her
for SANDER.
A sub insurance solicitor for hail in
surance who has been working in the
central part of the state, is wanted for
drawing money on forged checks. His
name is W. L. Newly.
VIM. Parker, city marshal of Galena,
was killed by a live wire. He had let
go of his little daughters hand an In
slant before receiving the shock. A
second or two saved her life.
VIM. Marshall, of Lawrence, is prob
ably the only man living in Kansas
who was a delegate to the Pittsburg
convention which nominated General
Fremont. He is so years old.
During the month of May the Belle
vile National bank cashed stock checks
to the amount of S37,5 500; paid out to
employees of the Rock Island SO, 600 and
cashed So, 600 worth of pension checks.
AS soon as the nomination of Roose-
welt became known one town claimed
to have secured promise from him to
make stop there. It was not ten
hours before fifty Kansas towns be-
seiged the nominee with invitations by
! wire.
VIM. Mayer came to Marshall county
eight years ago with small capital.
He now has fine farm with an elegant
residence, with orchards and vine
yard. Not long since he gave son a
well improved 100 acre farm and did
not miss its cost.
Swan Blex, Fawn Creek farmer,
Montgomery county, took claim in
1871 and sold half Of it for 5000 to be
able to get title to the other 80. he
now has a fine farm, with all kinds Of
fruit, has fine horses and cattle, and
owns two other good farms.
Sumner county, Kansas, will this
year produce more wheat than either
of the states of Ohio, Indiana or Ne.
braska. The wheat crop of five Kan.
sas counties will this year exceed in
value the total output of the Alaskan
mines in 1899.
The coroner's jury found that EN-
ployes of both the railroad and st.eei
cars are blameless concerning the LOST
of life of three women and the iniurie.
received by others, in the collision of {
freight train and crowded street cal
in Hutchinson.
Captain Stewart Of Allen county il
still living on land he first occupied il
1854, and E. c. Gilbert of that county
still owns the land he ''took" up in 1860
August Luck, of Solomon, was OF
top of thirty-foot windmill. Thu
fans hit him and knocked him off. Hi
clothes caught on a nail and saved hi
life.
It took four trains each way on (,
recent Sunday to carry the people who
wanted to go to Geuda Springs owe,
the Kansas Southwestern from Arkan
sas City. :
The railroads give free transporta
ton for the additional IS cars of Kan
sas corn for India from Topeka to New
York.
Transfer of real estate in Finne.
county is active but the records SHOW
a cessation of making chattel mort
cages.
Captain Ira ]. Lacock, of Hiawatha