Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Kansas now has 500 creameries skim
ming stations and cheese factories.
There are now twenty houses under
construction or contracted for at Her.
ington.
One firm at FL Dorado paid out 81 900
to farmers for poultry the two weeks
before Christmas.
Frank A. Root and w. E. Connolly.
Of Topeka, are writing history of the
overland stage line.
There are now los travelling libraries
from the Kansas state library, in actual
use out over the state.
Judge A. W. Denuison, of Butler
county. has just marketed 221 full fed
3-year-olds for 50, 764.17,
James P. Webster, the Mitchell
county farmer who recently died: was
= nephew of Daniel Webster.
VIM. Bauer has sold his farm Of 175
acres in Shiloh township, Neosho coun-
ty, to Iowa parties for 81, 200.
Twenty-six Chanute boys and girls
were home during holidays from vari-
GUS colleges which they attended.
w. G. Barnett, formerly chief opera
tor in the Wichita Santa Fe freight
Office, is going into the grocery trade.
Otis L. Benton shipped from his
Sheridan county ranch 5000 cattle to
Central Iowa, where he is feeding
them.
j. L. Taylor, late of Decatur, Illinois,
is q new resident of FL Dorado. He
owns . Butler county ranch of 1,42O
acres
A $50 bill issued by the First Nation
81 bank of Hawaii, at Honolulu, showed
up III the counting of cash in Wichita
bank.
Jos. Mailer has sold his Kay county,
o. T, farm and will locate in Cowley
county. He sold the farm of 100 acres
for 90, $50.
Tho johnson county teachers asso-
citation presented Miss Edith Barnett,
the county superintendent, a handsome
silver tea set.
Miss Lillian Forsee, who is now So
prano soloist at Oakland Methodist
Episcopal church, in Chicago, was born
in Salina in 1873.
A girl only eleven years old, of Has
ken county, caught large coyote in a
trap, killed and skinned it herself, and
received the bounty.
The Kansas State Teachers associa-
ton elected w. NJ. Sinclair, Ell Dorado,
president; Miss NJ. E. Dolphin, Leaven-
worth, vice president
December &c was the heaviest in Wich-
ita in point of receipts of hogs at the
stockyards this season. About thirty
carloads, or in the neighborhood of
1000 hogs were unloaded and sold.
Ernest L. Huffman, formerly of COM
pany D, Twentieth Kansas, later of
troop F, Eleventh cavalry, has returned
10 Girard from Manila. He numbers
among his battles the engagement
where General Lawton was killed.
Almeda is a small station on the
Missouri Pacific in Kingman county at
which one man serves as postmaster
railroad agent and merchant There
has been shipped during the season of
1900 60 carloads of hogs from Almeda.
D. Tennyson, a farmer of Marshall
county, put twenty tons of clover hay
in his barn loft 20 years ago. This
winter he is feeding that hay. 1t is
bright, but has settled down to q COM
pact mass and requires cutting to
handle it.
Wichita teachers won the special
prize at the state teachers association
for the largest attendance from a city
in proportion to number employed in a
city. Tho prize was S32. 25 worth of
books.
Or. A. h. Hull, father of Congress-
man Hull, of Iowa and Milton Hull,
editor Of the Kiowa, Ks, Review, died
at Kiowa on December 90.
4nc OuslucSS Iucu VI rlOrcuce pre-
sented the night marshal of that place,
A. B. Baker, as Christmas present, a
complete policeman's outfit.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Fl. Beck are in the
Neosho county Jail on a thirty days
sentence for marrying. as they are first
cousins. They are well to do people,
and they say that when they get out
Of Jail they will go where they can be
legally married.
Wash Pearson and his bride, who
live near Edna, went to the barn hand
in hand, where he reached to take
down his shotgun, when a young boy
tossed monkey wrench so that it fell
on the hammer Of the gun and Mr..
Pearson was killed.
Mrs. Daniel Bunnel's large residence
in Arkansas City was burned down
December %. 1t was beyond the water
limits. The loss is about 81, 900.
Four hundred cattle were stampeded
in the streets of Armourdale. Their
roar gave sufficient warning for the
people to get out of the way. One
steer entered a grocery store, over
turned counters, smashed show cases,
tore down shelving and made general
havoc. When he went out he took the
doors off their hinges. It took four
hours to corral the herd.
The Kansas Oil and Gas company
propose to increase the plant at Neo-
deshs and will open up new gas fields
over that part of the state.
Not many years since j. P. Pomeroy
was counted the richest man in Kan
sss, but he is now living in Colorado.