Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-06-14
CURRENT KANSAS FACTS.
BRIEF MENTION OF INTEREST.
ING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

franchise at the Paris exposition.
The First Baptist church of yelling.
ton has called Rev. C. Il. Stull, of E.
Dorado, and he has accepted.
F. T. Dentists child, 219 years old,
was killed while asleep on the railroad
track, at Idenbro, Labette county.
Three fourths of the 1000 corpora.
tons in Kansas ignore the law requir.
ing reports to the secretary of state.
The Kansas Academy of Science has
received gift, of shells, probably the
finest in the country, valued at 81 500.
The state general revenue fund has
S172, 604; enough to prevent stamping
warrants mot paid for want of funds.
The railroads give free Transports
ton for the additional 35 cars of Kan.
sas corn for India from Topeka to New
| York.
The Santa Fe has appropriated $780,
| 900 for the improvement of it's tele-
graph system, to be expended this sea-
| son.
David Wear, section boss at Abilene.
| was the first reported victim of the
season; the first to be overcome with
heat.
Kansas led and now several western
| and southern states are encouraging
the Beers to come among them and
settle.
Superintendent Nelson has found
$50 schools with less than ten pupils
and he advocates consolidation of such
schools.
At the sale of the Mcpherson water
plant the mayor served notice that the
franchise was null and void, being il
legal.
J. NJ. Nation had served in the post
Office at Geneva for almost 40 years. up
to the time he resigned at the age of
So
G. R. LADDERS, the Harper county
cattle man who has been in trouble
over bankruptcy proceedings, is miss
ing.
A preacher at Peabody has given up
his pastorate to give all his time to his
other professions, veterinary and auc-
tioneer
The state euctioneers' association
met in Wichita and held a two days
session. There were fifty of them
present.
Aurthur j. Bunce, one of the victims
of the st. Louis strike, was a young
Topekan. His remains were brought
there for burial.
Goebel, the murdered Kentuckian,
left good deal of property in and
about Wichita, and his administrator
is now selling it.
Two years ago Kingman county
marketed 81, o1s worth of horticultural
products. Last years crop was sold to
the extent of $3.50
There was an increase of 43 in the
number of farms in Kingman county
last year, and the acreage cultivated
was increased s4,517.
The stone cutters at work on the
federal building in Topeka, asked for
and received an advance in pay from
40 to As cents an hour.
Judge Nelson Case, president of the
board of directors of Baker University,
and Miss Georgiana Reed, for some
years teacher there, are married.
The national council of the Knights
and Ladies of Security meets in Topeka
June 10.
Soon, very soon, the old cry of car
famine will be heard echoing over
Kansas stubblefelds.
DIR. William Bishop, one of the first,
If not the first, Presbyterian ministers
to come to Kansas in the SOS, died at
Salina June 4th, aged 81.
Two hundred graduates of Kansas
University received diplomas and thir-
ty-six who took the pedagogic course
received state certificates.
Two men were killed who were of a
party who had a keg of beer at Atchi-
son, quarrel resulting.
Boring for gas is to be done at Eu-
reka. A sufficient fund has been gath
cred.
woman is travelling over Kansas
and other states collecting money fo1
the deaconess home in Wichita with
out authority, and is pocketing the
proceeds. Trace has been discovered
of her at several points and the author
tiles of the home are preparing to take
steps for her apprehension.
The Irvine trust seems to be flooding
Kansas with ''trade journals" which
aim to stop the demand for peniten-
tiary Irvine.
In number of counties Kansas
farmers are arranging to run two sets
of men through harvest and keep the
the machines going day and night il
they can get the men.
Judge Isaac Reed, who was pardoned
out of the penitentiary, where he was
serving a sentence for killing man at
Wellington some years ago, is said to
be dying from cancer in Boston.
Captain Boltwood observed the Gull
ture of tobacco in the Philippines and
has now, in Franklin county, fine
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