Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-11-08

Thirteen insurance companies have
state agents in Topeka
The union stock yards at Wichita
are to be paved with brick.
One man at McCune has 200 bush
els of apples for sale at his orchard.
Work has begun on a SAG, 900 addi-
ton to Dold's packing house in Wichita.
Oil and gas have been struck at Peru.
The flow of oil is about 80 barrels
day.
It is reported that many wheat fields
will have to be pasturcd to prevent
jointing.
W. a.. Sears, formerly private secre-
Cross work at Galveston.
Miss Lofty Garrison, of Fort Scott,
has been offered $500 week as leading
soprano in the Bostonians-
Through the parole system 80 boys
from the reform school were placed in
good homes in the last year.
Salaries and running expenses paid
out at the Hutchinson reformatory for
| the month of October, amounted to
$7,5s5.15.
There were five thousand disappoint-
ed people who had gathered in Ottawa
to hear speakers that had been an
nounced but who did not come.
The two turtles from Logan county
which have reached Kansas University
were taken from a formation which
biologists estimate as 10000, 900, years
old.
Superintendent Stillwell of the Rock
Island tells Wichita people that his
road needs and will build a new freight
depot and extend its yards in that
city.
There had been shipped from Wame-
go at last report % carloads of sweet
potatoes. 1t is predicted that there
viii be as many more shipped before
the season closes.
It would be very strange if the con-
stitutional amendment did not carry
at the election, as it was in both of the
party platforms and urged by both
candidates for governor.
W. A. Van Voris of the State normal
has demonstrated that oxygen can be
supplied by the use of oxydized sodium
sufficient to sustain healthy life to
mouse sealed in a small Jar
The Topeka Y. w. C. A. is the only
city organization of the kind in the
state, all others being college organiza-
tions. The recent Y. w. c. A. conven-
ton made some plans for state work.
It is said that there are 500 Mont
gomery county farmers who will re-
ceive free natural gas for heating and
lighting their homes, or its equivalent
as the gas is to be furnished to them
in exchange for leases to the gas COM
pany.
The county treasurers propose to
formulate a statute which will cause
all property to be assessed at its actual
value This is a job chat has been tried
by somebody or other at every session
of the legislature for the past 20 years
and more.
The Farm department of Kansas
Agricultural college has finished up its
work in summer institutes, having con-
Quoted 121 with total attendance of
SO, 900 people which is fully four times
as many people as has ever been
reached before in an entire year.
A farmer near Topeka who ordered
of two boys was shot by one of the
boys, receiving a serious wound. The
boys are unknown.
Kansas has at least co., veterans,
of whom about 40, 900 receive pensions,
while the Grand Army of the Republic
has less than 14,00O members in the
state.
A horse and buggy was found floating
in the Neosho river in Coffey county
but there was no trace found of any
driver and no one has claimed the
rig.
Entomologist F. o. Popenoe, of Kan
sas Agricultural college, is in charge
of the inspection of Kansas nurseries
which is made necessary by laws of
other states which prevent shipment
of nursery stock without inspection.
Mcpherson county Mennonites pro-
pose to go into the banking business.
Their bank is to have $4,000 capital
the earnings of which are to be a very
small percentage of the profits of the
bank, the greater part to be appropria-
ted to the missionary association of
their church in America.
The Waverly mill at Waverly was
burned on the morning of October %.
Nothing was saved. The loss above
insurance is about 81, 500.
A party of Missourians passed
through Kansas in wagons bound for
Oklahoma In one wagon there were
six collins containing the exhumed
bodies of six of their relatives.
Ex- Secretary of state William Hig-
gins, recently the publisher of a daily