Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-11-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

olackleg in the southern parts of Cow
ley and Sumner counties.
w. II. Haskell, of Smith county, is
appointed to succeed Elmer E. Ames,
OF Norton, as director of the peniten-
tiary, Ames having resigned when APP
pointed U. S. bank examiner.
The Fort Scott & Western railway is
to be extended from Gas City, in Allen
county, through Humboldt to Chanute;
the new gushers being the loadstone
thst draws the railroad there.
B. G. Giger, of Independence, is
working on an organization of farmers
who shall agree, generally over Kan
sas, not to plant wheat in 1902; this to
diminish the supply and raise the price.
Wild Tom, 81 ,592, the famous Sunny
Slope farm bull, has been prize win
ner at The Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota,
Indiana and Wisconsin state fairs. He
weighed, when four years old, 1850
pounds.
Russians of Ellis county are rich from
their wheat crops. One of them has,
in the past three years, marketed rs, 900
bushels. None of them make deposits
in banks but they bury their money in
the ground.
The Haskell Indian school at Law
renee has the largest attendance of any
Indian school in the country, now hav-
ing 700 while the building and main
tenance fund are really only large
enough for 600.
According to the statements of the
national, state and private banks of
Kansas there is $50, 900, 900 on deposit
yet all the local assessors of the state
combined could find for taxation pur-
poses was So, O53, 424.
H. r. Brown, of Parsons, is dead at
the age of "a years. He is the oldest of
the Elks, having joined the Elks year
ago. Until about a week before his
death he was going about everywhere
attending to his business.
The Postal Telegraph company will
build a line along the Katy from Dali
las to Kansas City, with another line
from Parsons to st. Louis, and still
another will run over from Parsons to
Pittsburg, Columbus and Joplin.
Miss Martin, farmers daughter of
Sedgwick county, has plowed, narrowed
and drilled Is acres of wheat, which is
now in fine condition. She did all the
work herself, during the mornings and
evenings, getting up before the sun.
Winfield doctor was called to Ar
kansas City the other night to save the
life of one of its citizens. The Arl1an-
sas City officials arrested the doctor for
practicing within the city limits with
out taking out an occupation license.
That estate inspector of sewing ma
chimes" who commenced his graft in
Leavenworth, has been swindling
women in northwestern Kansas. He
pretends to be an official whose duty it
is to inspect all sewing machines for
so cent fee.
Miss Effie Kuns, Mcpherson county
teacher, has been appointed as special
teacher in the schools of Porto Rico and
has started to go there. She is grad
uate of Mcpherson college, holds the
degree of A. b. from Kansas university;
is graduate in the full course of ex-
preston and elocution, of the Columbia
school of Oratory of Chicago; has at
tended the Northwestern university of
Evanston, Illinois, and the Leland
Stanford university, and has taught in
the University of the Pacific.
A colored school of Fort Scott has
been closed because of about twenty
cases of smallpox among the negroes of
the city.
Rev. L. P. Broad has resigned as
secretary of the Kansas Congregational
home missionary board. He expects to
enter missionary work in the field.
John Herricls, Troy jointist, was
sentenced to pay fine and serve a Jail
sentence. After paying the fine he was
allowed to go to Oklahoma. He went
but returned and applied for admission
to the Jail.
SaIina is to have an ice and cold
storage plant with a capacity of 400
carloads of produce. The building will
be $50 by ESQ feet, four stories high.
Anderson Gray, of Sumner county,
kansas, who was in 1892 given a life
sentence for compelling another man
to commit murder through hypnotic in
fiuence, has just won suit involving
the title to 96O acres of land which he
alleges was taken from him by fraud
while he was in the penitentiary. The
jury awarded him in addition to the
land 81 $50 as damages.
John Yates, a Cowley county stock
man of wealth, was found dead near
Warrensburg, Mo. Deeds, money and
deposit check for $4,000 were found
in his pockets.
Two Harper county men have brought
suits for damages. A. E. Patterson, of
Attica was ridden on a rail for speak
ing unexpectedly of President McKin-
ley when the news of his being shot
came, and he wants $1,000. William
Grubbs, of Freeport, was warned to
leave for a like offense and wants s1o.-
600.
The Masons of Topeka own four val
liable lots which cost $4,000 in 1883.
There is now movement to build
SIS, 900 Masonic temple on these lots.
Andrew Green, merchant and min
lister of Jewell county, aged 60 years,
has been arrested, charged with incest.
He had scruples against selling tobac-