Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-12
Current KANSAS FACTS.
BRIEF MENTION OF INTEREST
ING EVENTS OF THE WEEK..
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
lyndon has had a 1880 fire.

| pointers on street fairs.
Scott Burns of Smith county sold
his cattle at $50 head, receiving
S12, 900 cash for the bunch.
In Sumner county an opossum was
caught up by the self binder and neat
ly bound in bundle of wheat.
Big eastern papers are doing Kansas
9ull justice in their editorial columns,
this year. 1t is something new.
The convention of Universalist
churches appropriated $500 to establish
q mission in Wichita. There is pros
pect of a church being erected.
The Union Pacific has been starting
shipments of men to Wyoming to work
on the road, but greater part of the
men have skipped off the trains into
wheat fields in Kansas.
It is said that the demand for seed
ling trees at the state forestry station
at Ogallah is twice as great of last
year. Hail has injured the young
trees at the station this year.
A little girl had a leg cut off by a
street car in Leavenworth. She was
following a long used path which
crossed the tracks. A suit for SIS, 900
damages has been commenced.
Two threshing outfits were received
at Wellington and the freight charges
were so large that an investigation
was made. The boilers were full of
water and it weighed $50 in freight.
George Childers stepped on the belt
of a .threshing machine near Kiowa
and fell. He was drawn into the
machine and mangled to death. He
came from Urbana, Ohio, to work in
the harvest.
A deputy sheriff, of Howard county,
While waiting for train the thief es-
capped and the sheriff broke his thigh
by falling on the railroad track, while
chasing the thief.
The bank block at Geneseo was I'M
rooted June 90 and much damage was
done to a department store and to
other buildings. Wheat was only one
third harvested and the storm and
heavy rain laid it fat.
On the big Gorton ranch in Lincoln
county three sets of men worked in
harvest, each working eight hours
with the same machines. Many other
farmers adopted this plan of working
the whole "a hours during harvest.
The Santa Fe management has de-
cided to establish freight division at
| Syracuse Kan, and Superintendent
Parker, of the western division is now
making arrangements for the immed-
late removal of the round house at
Coolidge to that point.
"a Rosedale family, mother and two
children, were on a train from Chicago
when they ate lunch which had been
pnt up for them by friends there, and
were poisoned by fish which the lunch
contained. They were cared for and
are believed to be out of danger.
Parties from Lima, Ohio, are pur-
chasing oil and gas leases in Mont
gomery county. The concern repre-
sented is said to have capital of
$50, 100000. They are figuring on
supplying the big manufacturers in
Ohio and Indiana where gas is ex-
hausted, and which will have to move
to new fields.
The 54th national encampment of
the G. A. R. in Chicago, August $3.50,
will attract many from Kansas Head
quarters for Kansas have been secured
at the Leland hotel. Free lodging is
provided for at the Second regiment
armory.
Governor Stanley has named as dele
gates to the National Prison congress
at Cleveland, Ohio, in September; John
ID. Milliken, Mcpherson; Harry Lands,
Galena; D. NJ. Fisk, Topeka; J. B.
Tomlinson, Lansing; Eva Harding,
Topeka; f. w. Blackmar, Lawrence.
There were 80 county institutes in
session last week, attended by 3,714
teachers.
Stafford county has organized fair
association and will hold fair August
1891.
Rev. R. w. Hurt, formerly of Wich-
tia, died at CARRIER, o. T., recently.
He represented Sedgwick county in
the legislature once.
Father Leary, Catholic priest at
Chapman, claims that his dog watches
the church and is church property and
is therefore exempt from taxation.
DR.. J. T. Crosby, of Arkansas City,
went to South Africa with cargo of
mules He got $500 for the trip.
Miss Edith Howell of Franklin coun-
ty, received check of $3.50 from the
New York Weekly for her last story,
"Aiken."
Congressman Champ Clark was one
of the busted by booms in Kansas. He
could not get away because he was
strapped" as he says. Just then a
student in Kentucky university sent
him S25 to pay him for writing a
/ speech. He left Wichita that night.
There are nine packing houses in
Kansas that report an aggregate in
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