Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-10-18

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vator, and wants another lumber yard
too.
Sheep feeding is becoming one of the
leading farm industries of Atchison
county.
The Wichita Carnival association re-
ceived 81, 491. Go from its midway booth
leases.
A while ago eight cattle were killed
by lightning in Pottawatomie county
pasture.
Feeders are being placed among
Kansas farmers, a carload or two to
each buyer.
The next meeting of the Commercial
clubs Of Kansas will be held in Topeka
in January.
Everett E. Salser, professor of book
keeping and penmanship at the State
Normal, is dead.
DR.. Alexander Lewis, aged CT, who
was a brevet brigadier general in the
civil war, is dead.
A permanent recruiting station for
the United States army is now estab-
lished in Wichita.
Frank Gilstrap. of Linn county, was
killed by Memphis passenger train.
He was very deaf.
The Kansas penitentiary, for the
month of September, had a balance
over cypanSeS of 81 do1
Clay Center has not quit; another in
junction is asked for to operate against
Parsons in the asylum matter.
Warranty deeds have averaged %
daily, coming to the Office of the regis
ter of deeds of Sedgwick county.
The state has just received S2,s5s.63
from the federal government for the
maintenance of the State Soldiers
home at Dodge City.
A national bank in Wichita recently
shipped 5000 silver dollars to the sub
treasury in st. Louis, leaving $4,000
silver dollars in it's vaults.
Robert Higginbotham, of Montgom-
cry county, died leaving no heirs. He
left $500 more than enough to balance
expenses and liabilities and that is now
in the state treasury according to law.
J. n. Frantz, merchant of Canton,
was arrested on suspicion of completely
in a counterfeiting scheme. He was
taken to Wichita and readily proved
his innocence before a United States
commissioner.
The Anti-Horse Thief association
at their meeting in Wichita elected
the following named officers: Presi-
dent, G. D. Horn, WEIGH, I. T., vice
president, D. McCully, Miami county,
Kansas; treasurer, John Wall, Parsons.
On September 1 the deposits in the
state and private banks of Kansas
were S31 ,645, $40; on September the
deposits in the national banks of the
state were $50, 1875. Os1; total, $50, $40, Isl;
an average of about $3.50 per capita
of the entire population of the state.
Evelyn B. Baldwin, who is to be in
charge of the Ziegler expedition to the
north pole, is a Kansas man. He
taught school at Oswego in the early
9O's, later went into the government
weather service, and then joined the
Peary relief expedition. He has writ
ten book on polar expeditions.
A party from Wichita attended the
funeral of Edward Goldberg at Seneca,
Mo. They died there from mushroom
poisoning. Mr.. and Mrs. Goldberg
were long time citizens of Wichita,
leaving there when he was made an
Indian agent. Their son, Ned Gold
berg, aged 16, was dangerously sick
from the same cause at the time of the
funeral.
Carl r. Gray, formerly of the Frisco
Office in Wichita, has been appointed
superintendent of transportation of
the Frisco system.
One of the oldest Odd Fellows who
attended the grand lodge in Topeka
was Capt. VIM. Mathewson, who came
to what is now Kansas in 1S49. He
had trading post at Great Bend for
25 years.
The Salina city council did not ac-
cept the offer of the Barnard Manu-
featuring company to remove there
from Enterprise.
A farmer in Logan county cut his
wheat early in July and volunteer
crop came up and it headed out; racing
with the frost season to produce an
other crop of about 10 bushels to the
acre.
A. T. Olson, of Marguerite, was to
have been married, but is in Jail ac-
cused of forging notes to raise money
for his honeymoon. ;
A letter has been received from DR..
Corbett, of Che Foo, China, at the
head of the mission supported by the
First Presbyterian church of Wichita.
c. 81. Sheffield, of the Santa Fe shops
of Topeka, has the pleasant habit of
sending large quantities of flowers to
the hospitals of that road. The last
gift was to the hospital at La Junta.
He cultivates the flowers himself.
Mrs. George T. Anthony has given
to the Ottawa City library the valuable