Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-13
xANsAs ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mormon elders working in Kansas
say they intend to establish church
in Lawrence.
The Rock Island hotel at Lexington
was burned September 3. The loss is
about $1,000.
A three-year-old boy of John McKaig,
of johnson county, had both feet cut
off by cane cutter.
The Epworth Leagne and Home Mis-
sionary societies are holding camp
meeting at Larned.
Kansas row has 497 state, private
and national banks: 336 state, 1O3 ma
tional and So private.
Coroner B. E. Wheeler. of Pawnee
county, died from an overdose of NOR
phine taken by mistake.
Colonel E. c. Little, Governor STAN
ley and the Rev. D. M. Fiske were the
Labor day orators at Topeka.
The farmers of Verdi, Ottawa coun-
ty, have taken charter for an eleva
tor company with a capital of $1,000.
The poultry storage and cleaning
house at Argonia, has been burned,
with loss of 81, 200; insurance $1,000.
A partition sale, near Sedgwick, on
petition of heirs, resulted in the sale of
a 24O-acre farm for 81, $50 cash in hand.
The state board of health reports Is
cases of smallpox in the state; eleven
of them among miners in the south
east.
The Rock Island depot at Alma is
burned, with loss of $4,000 or more.
A better building will take its place at
once.
Vineyards in Southern Central Kan
sas require to be constantly patroled
to keep the orioles away from the
grapes.
Hazeltine, the Cawker thresher man
has five machines at work this year
each of which keeps dozen men wait
ing on it.
Lightning struck John Strahm' S
barn near Sabetha and his son, aged
10, was killed. The barn and contents
were burned.
The railroads have granted one and
one-third fare to the annual meeting of
the anti-horse thief convention at Wich-
tia on October 10.
The Plaza mine, southeast of Galena,
was fired twice by incendiaries, and
the last time it burned. 1t was owned
by eastern people.
Senator Albert J. Beveridge, of In
diana, will speak in Topeka, October 0,
concerning his personal Investigations
in the Philippines.
B. P. Wagner gave a party to the
children of Atchison, paying car fare
and giving a band concert. About
$500 children attended.
z. d. Gorham, of Gorham, had $50
acres of wheat in one field which av-
eraged "a bushels to the acre, and
which tested 6411 pounds.
At target practice of company A,
of the Kansas n. c., the members of
the company who were Twentieth
Kansas boys made the best scores.
Six stone cutters working on the
Coffey county court house quit work
because they were refused As cents an
hour. They had been getting 40 cents.
The new cement plant at lola makes
terrible noise, but the pay checks
handed out by the company talk in
such loud tone of voice that no one
kicks on the racket of the machinery.
John w. Hussey, aged 80, farmer
near Madell, Kas, was walking on the
track of the Lincoln branch of the U.
P. at Shipton, and was killed.
A Sumner county man who went
through an old bridge with wagon
load of apples has filed a bill against
the county commissioners for $500 dam.
ages.
Kansas club women have Inaugural.
ted a scheme to raise $4,000 in the
western states which furnished troops
for the Philippines, to erect a soldiers
and sailors club house in Manila
Atcbison is to have new bridge
over the Missouri river and during its
construction wagon traffic will be
handled the old way, by ferry boat
Among big yields of wheat reported
in Rice county are the crops of VIM
Asher, 400 bushels off eight acres; ant
Thomas Saint, As bushels per acre of
forty acres.
Special trains commenced to arrive
in Wichita early in the day of Septem
Der 5, bringing crowds to attend the
Woodmen logrolling. Later the pa
rade was an event to be remembered
w. C. Williams Won the State chal
lenge cup at Wichita, in a match shoot
The match first resulted in tie, will
30 birds broken, between w. 81. Herr
of Concordia, w. C. Williams and Franz
Wernecle, of Wichita. In the shoot
off Williams won.
In Finney county at country party
violin music was feature. A young
man circulated the story that Their,
was dance at the house of church
DeOD1e The vOuuu men of the hons,