Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-12-06
KAasAs ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Cofeyville has discarded natural gas
street lights and is putting in electric
lights.
Coal became so scarce at Kinsley
that services in a church had TO be
omitted.
The school children of Fort Scott
have sent $40 for the public schools in
Galveston.
The Rock Island will employ force
OF 80 men near Wellington in burning
gumbo ballast.
At a special election Cawker City
voted against buying the opera house
for city hall
Asbury Thorp, of Winfield, pulled a
gun out of buggy. He leaves a wife
and three children.
The government mineralogists are
looking for zinc as far west in Kansas
as Greenwood county.
The ladies of Meade have made
successful fight against the illegal sale
of liquor in their town.
The Santa Fe is expanding over 81
900 in fitting up reading rooms for it's
employees at Dodge City.
Judge Skidmore fined five Coffeyville
lawyers S. each for not being in court
when their cases were called.
Some Edwards county farmers put in
their wheat with twenty disc drill
drawn by threshing engine.
JOS. Condell, breeder of thorough
bred Herefords, has purchased Butler
county farm for fancy stock ranch.
]. NJ. McClain, of Syracuse, delivered
to Coulter &c Hatcher, of Finney county,
80 mules, to be placed on their ranch.
Mrs. Isaac P. Gardner, of Wetmore,
now has thirteen children, the eldest
being "a years old, and the last ten are
all girls
Thos. Shaw, Wichita merchant,
gave a Thanksgiving dinner to 200
newsboys and bootblacks. 1t is his
annual custom.
Mrs. Mcclellan, a daughter of an
Abilene banker, has been for a year
the teacher of English in the native
schools of Honolulu.
The Thanksgiving dinner at the To-
peka insane asylum included 200 pounds
of turkey, so mince pies, cranberry
sauce, cake, fruits, etc.
A well drilled by the city of lola is
spouting gas enough to run the electric
light plant and the waterworks plant
both OF which are city property.
A minor married in Usage county
and while still under 81 years of age
was sued for divorce. Then came in
the statute declaring that minor can
not be sued in a court of law.
Kansas has 342 state banks and SO
private banks, besides numerous ma
tional banks. Bank Commissioner
Breidenthal says there are none too
many for the business of the state.
Superintendent Nelson reports that
receipts for common school purposes
for the year were SIS, 277, 7O2.11. The
amount expended was 81, 622, 1863. 76.
leaving balance on hand of $685.
1885.
Superintendent Nelson has sent out
blanks to the different county superin-
tendents asking the following infor-
nation: School populations; assessed
valuation of county by districts; num-
Der of mills levied for school purposes;
number of weeks of school maintained.
A. L. Sutor, of Turon, has the largest
apple orchard in the Seventh congress
sional district; next in the state to the
great Wellhouse orchard
Ex-Congressmen Jerry Simpson and
Mason Peters are now partners in the
Union Livestock Commission company
doing business at the Kansas CITY
stock yards.
An eastern man recently wrote to
Topeka asking that a claim of 100 acres
be set aside in Topeka township for
him to preempt He will know more
than he does now, sometime.
The county clerks of Stanton and
Morton counties have examined records
of the U. S. land Office at Dodge City
and found considerable decided land
that was not on their tax rolls, and
some government land that had been
listed for taxes.
Despite the facts that 125, 900 people
left Kansas for Oklahoma, since the
census of 1890, and that $4,000 left the
western counties because of adverse
weather conditions, from 1892 to 1896,
the present census shows gain in the
ten years of about per cent.
A meeting is called at Wichita on
December 10, of the implement and
hardware dealers of Kansas and Okla
homa, to form an association.
A new state bank was opened at
Burns the other day and there was
over 5000 received on deposit within
the first two hours. The capital of the
bank is $4,000.
The Santa Fe ran seven extra cattle
trains out of the territory in one DAY
and several double-header trains CT