Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-09
CURRENT KANSAS FACTS.
BRIEF MENTION OF INTEREST.
ING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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missing since June 20.
The Rock Island is making extensive
improvements at Smith Center.
The Emporia Avenue NJ. E. church
in Wichita is to have $4,000 addition.
State Librarian Anna Diggs says she
will not take another appointment to
that position.
The annual picnic of the johnson
county Cooperative Association was
held at Olathe July %.
w. C. Fair, of Caldwell, was over
come by damps in well and died be-
fore help could reach him.
Samuel Hazlett, a Scotchman, aged
IA, dropped dead while working over
his wife's grave at Hartford, Lyon
county.
The Missouri Pacific train dispatch
er's office at Conway Springs has been
abolished and the men transferred to
Wichita
The postoffice department has au-
thorized the appointment of fifteen
more mail clerks To work on Kansas
trains
Harvey, Mcpherson, Stafford, Rice,
Barton, Pawnee and Edwards counties
will hold their fourth annual logroll-
ing at Halstead, September IL.
Circleville held an old settlers meet
ing, a Woodmen logrolling and a
barbecue, all on the same day. 1t is
said that 5000 people attended.
81. J. Parker, who swore warrants
against eight Emporia druggists, charg-
ing them with unlawfully selling
liquor, has been arrested on a charge
of perjury.
Chancellor Shows report says that
July was cooler than usual and that
there was one inch and seven-tenths
more rainfall during the month than
the July average.
Eight threshing machines were run
ming within sight of Cicero, Sumner
county, at the same time. One man
estimates that there are $50 machines
at work in that county.
Joseph Lewis, who served in the
Black Hawk, Mexican and Civil wars,
has been mustered into Lincoln Post,
in Topeka. Abraham Lincoln was his
captain in the Black Hawk war.
During the recent big fire at Phillips
burg, resident of the town managed
TO get away with II pairs of pants and
10 pairs of shoes. The goods were
found in his possession the day follow
ing.
Agnes Thomas, aged 10, daughter of
Butler county farmer, was riding a
horse when she was thrown over the
horses head and trampled to death.
The horses hoof went clear through
her abdomen.
w. w. Addington's daughter was
visiting at her uncle's farm in Mont
gomery county, and her cousin placed
his knee against her back and pulled
her shoulders back. She died from the
effects of the act.
Fraucis McNeely sold 200 acre farm
near Lindsborg for $4,000 When he
took the claim in 1864 the buffalo COW
cred that part of Kansas and every
thing west to the Rocky Mountains
was in Piketon county
On July Is there was paid for freight
on wheat shipped over the Missouri
Pacific from Lindsborg, $3.50. Sc, and
the 10th 1854. 1t is estimated that il
will average during the shipping sea.
son between $500 and 5000 day.
This beats them all. DR.. Milton, Oh
Ford county has threshed ten acres OF
wheat which averaged so bushels to
the acre and tested GA pounds.
The reason that circuses are scarce
in Kansas this year, railroad managers
say, is because engines are all better
employed than in hauling circuses from
town to town.
Mr.. Young, of Perry, Kas., started
to throw blazing gasoline stove out
of the house, when some of the gaso
line spilled on his 1-year-old child, who
was burned to death.
August 20 is appointed by Governor
Stanley to hear applications for par
don. There are 125 cases on the dock
ct.
Cary Aikens, a cattleman at Hoyt
Kas., was thrown from a horse and hi
skull fractured. Physicians say tina
he cannot recover. Later: he died.
Since the shipment of Kansas corr
to India $500 has been received by Sec
rotary Anderson for the relief fund
This money will be forwarded to tn
Christian Herald Relief association il
New York.
A Twentieth Kansas soldier, Will
in camp at San Francisco, hirted witt
a girl and correspondent with her Will
in the Philippines. By mistake he sen
his wife in Topeka a letter written TO
the Frisco girl. His wife prompt,
got divorce.
Mr.. and Mrs. Button, two recent
married jackson county teachers, wer
driving to the Wathena Chautauqu
when % passenger train struck them a