Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-30
CURRENT KANSAS FACTS.
BRIEF MENTION OF INTEREST
ING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The new city building in Topeka is
to be completed September Is.
The two water and light companies
of Parsons have consolidated.
The state bank of Belleville has
opened for business. 1t is a new bank.
Ralph Lgalls, the son who most re-
sembles his father, is with the army in
Manila.
Old settlers of Rocks, Norton, Ora
Lam and Phillips counties will hold
reunion at Logan, September to z.
Leavenworth coal miners threaten
strike on September 1 if their pay is
| not raised. About 900 men are affected
Lawrence Boyington, assistant coach
at Cornell university, is to coach the
Kansas University football team this
fall
The work being done by the Santa Fe
cling its grades is going on upon large
scale.
There is an increasing demand for
contracts for Kansas hay. The crop is
short from the Mississippi to the At
| lantie.
Judge Otis, Of Atchison, estimates
Senator Ingalls, wealth at $3.50, 900. 1t
| is said that he left his estate to Mrs.
| ingalls,.
| Automobile races will be a part of
ihe entertainment prepared for the
good roads congress in Topeka on Sep
tember %.
Governor Stanley has appointed ].
d. S. Riggs, president of Ottawa Uni
versity, as member of the state board
of education.
w. ]. Turner. one of the marines
killed in Pelin, was a Topeka boy.
During the Spanish war he served on
the Indiana.
Ray Simpson, 10-year-old boy, is
blowing the wheat stubble on the
home farm for another crop. He has
no assistance.
A Mulvane man who decided his
property to his children, is said to
have appealed to the courts for aid in
obtaining food.
The boring for gas at Burlington has
reached it's third effort. Two deep
holes were bored and one more at
tempt is to be made.
Dickinson county and vicinity has
experienced two weeks of 100 degree
weather with hot winds. Pastures
and corn are cooked.
Civil service examinations are ap-
pointed at Parsons October 10; Wichita
October 1 and %; Topeka September
2s; Salina October 10 and %.
A company of volunteers is being
raised in Leavenworth to go to the
Orient. They offer to go as United
States or Kansas volunteers.
William Jones, negro who con-
fessed stealing watch, was chased by
the city marshal of Newton, and, re-
fusing to stop on the marshars COM
mand, was shot in the leg.
A Hutchinson dispatch says that l.
P. Campbell and Claude Duval have
joined in asking that a new conven-
ton be held in the Seventh district to
name candidate for congress.
The First congressional district has
213, s39 population; a net gain of s, 14s
The Second 227, 292; net gain 2,3Os.
The Third 227, 5s2, gain 9,496; the
Fourth 1s3,6ss, gain 3,4O3; the Fifth
III, $50, gain 4,sO7; the Sixth 1913, 424,
gain II ,233; the Seventh $4,000, gain
1885.
Mrs. Helen Lampzin, of Chillicothe,
Mo-, and her husband, both under 20
years old, were travelling towards Ne
braska in a wagon, when she was at
tackled with typhoid fever and died at
; Abilene. They were very poor.
OF course it was a Kansas soldier
| who scaled the wall of Pekin, took up
the end of the rope and his comrades
climbed the rope. He enlisted in Wich.
tia April IS, 1899. He first enlisted in
Vermont in 1898. His name is Calvin
S. Titus, and while in Wichita be-
longed to the Salvation army.
w. E. Hart, president of the Nation
al Association of Accountants, is or
ganizing Kansas bookkeepers. The
object is technical education, the ex
change of ideas and the maintenance
of an employment bureau.
Congressman Bowersock, of Law
renee owned the mill at Galena which
was swallowed by the earth on the
South Side mining ground. A large
force was at work, but the men were
warned by the cracking noise in the
earth beneath them and escaped. The
mill alone cost $4,000.
Charles Plummer, aged IA, who hat
just finished a term at the reform school
was killed in Wichita while trying tc
jump on moving freight train
Thomas Banks, of Arkansas City
will contest the will of Moses NJ. Davi.
of Rome, n. Y, who gave in his will
$40, 900 to 81, 200 of his property to the
Christian Scientists.
The veterans of the First Kansa.
regiment, who took part in the battle