Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-11-01


Reports indicate an increase of the
wheat acreage in Western Kansas this
fall.
Peabody has its electric lines again
running, all differences having been
settled.
Judge Randolph, of Emporia found
little live turtle in bass he was
cleaning.
A 5000, 900 foot gas well has been
struck in new field, seven miles from
Coffeyville.
Fifty grain elevators have been built
along the Kansas railroads during the
past six months.
| There are no houses to rent in Bur-
]ingame and there is work there for
so more miners.
The Marion Record has in its Office
lxafir corn ten feet high; the product of
Marion county.
The French-Bennett Grain company
proposes to build 100000 elevator
in Topeka at once.
Bob Torrington, of Wichita, has been
advanced to the position of tourist
agent of the Rock Island.
The asylum contest between Parsons
and Clay Center comes before the su-
preme court on November z.
That seven pound sweet potato in
Ed Greer's Office may as well wilt as
Wichita has one weighing II pounds.
One Wabaunsee county firm shipped
from Alta Vista within three days
thirty-two cars of cattle, billed to Chi
cago.
I. P. Griswold, a ranchman of West
ern Kansas, reports a net profit of SCI
an acre on his alfalfa crops of hay and
seed, this season.
Mrs. Margaret Brown, aged 9S, died
| on October "a, at the home of her
| daughter, who is the wife of Justice
w. A. Johnston, of the supreme court
of Kansas
Rev. Don S. Colt, former pastor OF
| the first NJ. E. church of Wichita, is
now in charge of Grace church, Balti-
more, one of the finest and largest in
| the land.
Tow freight trains on the Missouri
| Pacific collided near Horace, Greeley
county, and one engine and five cars
were demolished. Engineer Thompson
was slightly hurt.
The Kansas court of appeals for the
northern department has decided in a
case from Topeka that no city had a
legal right to pass search and seizure
| liquor ordinance.
Mary Voelher, an employe of the
Manhattan hotel in Wichita, is going
to Germany, having been notified that
she has fallen heir to one-fourth of an
| estate there, valued at $500, 900.
At the Kansas City horse show Silk
wood, owned by Jacob Willetts, for
merly of Topeka, but now of Santa Ana,
California, was sold to L. B. Willetts,
of Newman, Kansas, for So, 100. Silk
wood is 14-year-old stallion.
| The general conference of the Men.
monte church will be held in the large
| Ebenezer church at Butler. Dele
gates will be present from Sas-
| katchewan and Manitoba and from the
states from North Dakota to Texas.
Five prisoners broke out of the Co
lumbus Jail. They We're pursued and
when overtaken one of them shot at
the sheriff. He was instantly killed
by shot from that officer, when the
other four surrendered The dead man
is a negro.
A county reunion of the Twentieth
Kansas and members of the Eighth
army corps was held at Girard On Oc-
tober OF.
The Rev. DIR. John w. Roberts died
at his home in Oskaloosa, October %,
thirteen days after the celebration OF
his golden wedding. He came to Kan.
sas in 1860 and founded the Oskaloosa
Independent the same year.
| MTS. w. d. 1TWlu, VI npOTld, ndk
five banana trees which have borne
fruit. They are taken inside in the
fall and the fruit ripens in February
Fred Wellhouse says the apple yielc
in Kansas this year will be about one
fourth of a crop. He says that the
orchards in the western part of the
state bear much better than those in
the eastern part.
The Pacific Express company held it.
annual sale of unclaimed packages a
Salina. Over 500 packages, gathered
from many places were sold at auction
There was large number of woodeI
boxes. The first box sold was found
to contain gallon of whisky; of cours,
the rest of them went off fast
It is a race between the Rock Island'
/ shops at Horton and the Santa F.
, shops at Topeka which can build tn
most new box cars. They have eacl
, built about 1000 cars during the pas
, six months and each have large order
) | ahead.
5 Two children, girl and boy, wer
playing in an attic in Reno count
, when the girl was killed There wa
n pun mn there with most of its stOc