Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-04-05
KANSAS NOTES.

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The new Jail at Wellington is to be
dedicated by woman's fair.
lola is about to indulge in the luxury
OF $500 worth of municipal bonds.
Kansas has fifty-one daily papers, or
more than Austria, Germany and Italy.
The Kansas university has ordered
$1,000 worth of chemicals from Ger
many.
Ford county claims to have attracted
100 families from other sections of
Kansas.
Public ownership of brick plant
for paving purposes is being agitated
in Hiawatha.
Fort Scott has collected the full sum
necessary and will build a convention
hall at once
The appearance of the implement
drummer in Kansas heralds the APP
proach of spring.
The parents of Herington girl, who
was married last week, gave her a we'd
ng present of 500 in gold.
The thi ee banks at Atchison have
S1,670,O0O on deposit. This is nearly
seven times their combined capital.
Kansas orators of the first class are
now receiving requests from towns
that wish their services for Decoration
day.
In leaving his paper for a week with
his wife. the editor of the Clearwater
Jayhawker says he wants to see how
an angel would run it.
The widow of Major Armstrong,
who lost his life in the Philippines, has
been granted pension OF SIS a month.
She lives at Eldorado.
Hutchinson is making great prepare
ton to care for the state convention of
the Christian Endeavorers, which will
convene on the 5th of June.
Of the 200 applicants for the pulpit
of the Presbyterian church at Atchison
the Rev. F. B. Boyle, of Salem, Ohio,
was the successful candidate.
When a Kansas delegate to a con-
vention cannot attend and issues
proxy under the law he must stamp
his proxy with 25-cent revenue stamp
Topeka is trying to raise $4,000 to
keep the Santa Fe shops from being
moved to Newton; 50 600 of the amount,
or one-twentieth, has already been
promised.
Dan Campbell, aged 10, ran away
from his home in Kirwin several years
ago, Nothing was heard from him I'M
til last week, when his father received
a letter from him dated at Paris
new kind of map has been issued
by the Rock Island which by the shad-
ing of the line which indicates the road
shows the country passed by day time
and that at night. The idea netted
the inventor ST 900.
Shortly after his second marriage,
which occurred on last Thanksgiving
day, William Tracy of Doniphan county
purchased coffin and burying outfit
complete. His warning or premonition
was not amiss, for last week he died.
Two girls will be graduated from
Kansas high schools this year for every
boy. Returns received from the high
schools in forty-eight of the principal
cities and towns in the state, show more
young men and women will be sent to
colleges and seminaries next year than
for any other year in the history of the
state.
An Anti-J oint league has been formed
at Holton and earnest effort will be
devoted to breaking up the liquor
traffic which has been fiourishing there.
A reward of $50 is up for evidence that
will lead to the arrest and conviction
of any person violating the prohibitory
law; the best of legal talent will back
up the league, and as it will not lack
for cash, 81, 200 being subscribed at
the first call, the jointists there will
probably find themselves in deep
lot of trouble before long.
Within the last few weeks the labor
commissioner and his assistants have
been gathering up information in re-
gard to the chattel mortgages that are
given in various parts of the sta e. Out
of the fourteen cases specifically
reported the lowest rates charged
by the chattel mortgage sharks was
nine and five-tenths per cent per
month, or at the rate of enc
hundred and fourteen per cent Fer
annum. Another money lcaner charges
his customers at the rate of 1915 per
month, or at the rate Of 233 Fer cent
per annum. None of the other cases
REP orted show rate of,intere>t charge
of less than ten per cent per month, or
12O ger cent per year. The people who
have to pay these rates are laboring
men, hucksters, transfers, widows and
the like. Some Of the unfortunates are
struggl ng along paying at the rate of
So 80 per month for the use of $50.
The mechanical department of
the agricultural college is prepar-
ing to make analysis to de-
termine the nitrogen in about 1000
samples of corn These will give data
for the selection of the best varieties,
of the best ear from the same variety,
of the best parts of the same ear, and
in some instances of the best kernals
from the same ear.
The Fort Hays reservation, which
the government has donated to Kansas,
consists of 1900 acres of splendid land,
with many buildings thereon. The
buildings consist of ten large two-story
cottages, three large barracks. a large
residence, store, an adjacent Office,
| storerooms, barns. etc. A condition of
! the donation is that the state of Kan
sas shall locate and maintain on the
| reservation branch of the State Nor
| NAL school at Emporia, and western
! branch of the State Agricultural col
lepe at Manhattan