Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-07-19

Ihere IS new trouble brewing in
the National Soldiers home at Leaven-
worth.
Two sections of Saline county land
was sold by the sheriff for $4,000 last
week.
The expenditure by the state for the
Dodge City Soldiers home for June.
was 81, AGO.
Patchen and Gentry, the two Kan
sas horses, have been on Canadian race
courses lately.
Mrs. Margaret Kincaid. of Topeka,
took concentrated I've, installing it for
soda She died.
Three gangs of men are at work on
the new long distance telephone line
from Wichita to Oklahoma City.
Pratt county claims its wheat crop
to be from % to IS bushels per acre
and that it is testing sixty pounds.
Jasper Williams, of Sumner county,
had a dangerous encounter with mad
bull in pasture. He was seriously
hurt.
c. NJ. Cunning ham, of Osborne coun-
ty, has just sold his crop of wheat
raised three years ago for 81 cents
bushel.
A smallpox patient was put off
train at Hope and was promptly quar-
antined. He had been in Salina and
Gypsum.
The harvest brought more than the
usual number of tramps into Kansas
and now trouble with them is reported
in many places.
Nineteen cattle broke out of a pas
ture in Jewell county and fed in a field
of Kafir corn. Within an hour Is of
them were dead.
A Sedan dispatch says that so cattle
have died in the southern part of Chau-
tauqua county. A rigid quarantine
has been established.
Fred Stone, of Cedar Valley, Neosho
county, was found dead, lying on his
face in small stream where he had
taken his horses to drink.
high wind in Dickinson county
scattered wheat and oat stacks in all
directions and damage was done to
windows, trees and chimneys
State auditor Cole has counted up on
the assessors reports and finds that
Kansas has SIS, Ill wagons and 1868
buggies which have been listed.
J. c. Banta, of Douglas comfy, has
a crop of fine peaches from his As acre
orchard with 100 trees to the acre.. He
says the yield will be five bushels to
the tree.
Drouth in Cloud county continued
for more than a month and corn is
practically destroyed in many fields.
Farmers are hurrying their cattle and
hogs to market.
Seven children of the Steiner family
in Burlington, were laid out by pto-
maine poisoning in buttermilk. Three
of them were given up at first, but all
will probably recover.
Senator Harris is bargaining the
sale of his estate at Linwood and the
purchase of ranch land in Ellis county.
He wants more room for his business
of breeding blooded cattle.
Andy Wilburn, of Ford county re-
ports that it required 80 pounds of
Irvine to the acre in his wheat harvest,
while pa pounds is usually sufficient.
He claims 35 to 40 bushels to the acre.
A man at Corbin, Sumner county,
writes that fully one-fourth of the
wheat in shocks, in that section was
threshed out by hail Threshing will
be delayed probably ten days by the
rain.
The supreme court takes a vacation
until sometime in September.
The Kansas Agricultural college has
made dates for series of agricultural
picnic Institutes, at each of which at
least two representatives of the state
experiment farm will deliver address
eS.
A Sedgwick county farmer has for
years estimated his wheat yield by
counting the kernels in average heads
over the field. He says this average
will be about the same as the acreage
yield of the field in bushels.
The Atchison bridge is to be rebuilt
at a cost of $4,000 The iron in the
present bridge will go to the scrap pile
and the new bridge will be of steel.
Sixty men will be employed from Octo-
Der 1 to March l.
Geuda Springs and all property per-
tanning thereto has been sold to F. D.
Taylor, Wichita capitalist, who pro-
poses to make changes and improve
ments ON scale commensurate with
the Importance of the springs. An
electric railway from Wichita is spoken
Of
Many of the present farmers of Dick
inson county got title to their 100 acre
farms on contracts with I. c. Henry,
who gave them deeds for a quarter
section each for the wheat in sacks off
40 acres, for which he had furnished
the seed.