Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-06-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A new Catholic cathedral is to be
erected in Salina this season.
New stucco beds have been found in
the east part of Dickinson county.
A mutual fire insurance company
has commenced business at Dodge City.
Three young men of Chanute have
gone to the Transvaal to make some
money.
The Kaw valley is Dragging over its
prcapect for record beating potato
crNp.
John @. Boyce of Kansas is one of
She secretaries of the Philadelphia con-
vention.
A fire at Leroy destroyed all of the
city records except some of the treas
urers books.
The Kansas Spertsmans' association
will hold their next meet in Wichita,
September 4-6.
The Woman's relief corps at Peabody
is arranging for monument to veter-
ans buried there.
@. M. Scott, an early newspaper man,
has donated twenty lots to Arkansas
City for park purposes.
The deposits of the bank at Randall,
Jewell county, are four times larger
than the capital stock.
Barton county has 10, 900 inhabitants
and not one pauper. It is among the
big four wheat counties.
Ex-Congressman Otis has quit Kan
sas and will join cooperative colony
in Equality, Washington.
William Gorham, near Russell, has
1000 acres of wheat, from which he ex.
poets to harvest 120, 900 bushels.
Half an hour before $4,000 fire
occurred at Thayer the city council
had voted to purchase FIRE engine.
A Pawnee county man who has three
thousand acres of wheat has recently
bought suburban residence in Chi
cago.
The average salaries paid to teachers
in Kansas is; for males $44.63; for fe,
males 1895. Wyandot4e county pays
the highest wages.
A man was shot dead in saloon in
Usage City kept by three Twentieth
Kansas soldiers. The dead man was
not identified.
The farmers of Ness county have
dubbed together and bought large
quantity of bisulphide of carbon to BID
used against prairie dogs.
Grant Belts, of Jewell county, fed q
100 pound shoat with soaked corn and
buttermilk thirty days, during which
time he gained five pounds per day.
T. W. Jacobs, Seneca lawyer, has
brought suit for $4,000 against several
citizens of Sabetha for damages by
mob violence during whisky trial in
that town.
Kansas sent for relief of India
through its general committee 10000
bushels of corn and $4,000 in cash.
How much has been sent by churches,
etc, cannot be known.
President Shive Of Burton state
bank lives on his farm and personally
conducts his farming and stock raising.
He has private telephone connection
with his bank, which is five miles from
his farm, and is consulted about the
most important business of the bank.
He came to Harvey county in the early
'70s and took claim, with not much
but his hands to use in making home
of it, and that claim has made his
wealth.
A son of VIM. Palmer, near Cheney
was bitten by rattlesnake. After q
week or more, he was taken to Wich
ita hospital and his leg was amputated
There are many farmers in Kansa:
whose wheat crop at go cents bushe
will bring them more money than thsil
farms are worth at current prices fol
land.
= 6. W. Smith, of Anderson county
has marketed thirteen shoats thai
showed an average growth of thre,
pounds day from the time they were
narrowed.
The original manuscript of the speech
made by William H. Seward in favol
of the admission of Kansas into tn,
union has been presented to the Kan
sas State Historical society.
Attorney General Goddard says tina
all stock in bnilding and loan associa
tions should be listed for taxation a
assets of the company. Stock in thes'
companies is not subject to assessment
when in the hands of individual stock
holders.
Leavenworth census takers hav
found a negro woman ia years old
Cattle dipping has become the reg
ular thing in Western Kansas. Tn
latest plant for the purpose is bein,
constructed at Grainfield.
Lindsborg citizens at mass meet
ing urged DIR. Carl Swenson not to &C
cept the proffered presidency of tn
Swedish college at Rock Island, Hi
nois.