Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-12
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Alton votes on bond proposition for
waterworks on December T.
Mayor Cation, of Winfield has vetoed
fifty-year franchise for piping natural
gas.
There are five stockmen of Butler
county who pay over $1,000 a year in
taxes.
The discharge of guns at artillery
practice at Fort Riley is heard at Alma,
IS miles away.
The gross receipts of Kansas post
offices for the year was 81, 756, 4Oo.o9, or
S1.20 per capita.
ed in building on the Wyandotte fats,
since washed away.
There is nothing in the way now of
preparing to build the new asylum for
epileptics at Parsons.
Two carloads of turkeys were shipped
from Stockton in two successive days.
There were 1000 of them.
The Logan Republican denies the
story that there are 20 widows in Logan.
1t says there are only ten.
Money received at the Shawnee coun-
ty treasurer's Office, during this tax
paying season, is fumigated.
Osborne county is likely to take the
eve from its next neighbor, Mitchell
county, and build court house.
The Kansas wheat crop of 1901 is
94.6 per cent greater than the average
annual crop for the past ten years.
Miss Julia McInerney, of Abilene, re-
Gently sold to Chicago publishers two
musical compositions for 500 each.
Judge Glass, of Marysville decides
that the search and seizure clause of
the Hurrell law is unconstitutional.
Geo. Hendrick, the Smith Center band
leader, has gone to Carson City, Nevada,
to lead the Nevada state band, of so
men.
The hod carriers at work on the Lyon
county court house struck for more pay
and the work is now done by horse
power.
Stockton shipped carload of pota-
toes to San Francisco, and on the same
day the Alton mill shipped 1000 bags
of flour to Liverpool.
Superintendent Nelson reports that
the consolidation of schools is especially
strong in Jewell, Dickinson, Cherokee,
Rice and Shawnee counties.
w. II. Lewis, for twenty years ticket
agent for the NJ. K. & 7. at Parsons,
died suddenly at his home. He was
prominent in Masonic circles.
The opera house at Cottonwood Falls
is used for the revival meetings there,
which are being conducted by the Chi
cago Oliver brothers, revivalists.
Jacob Andrews died in Wichita the
other day at the age of "a years. He
had presumption claim on the present
site of Chicago in the early days.
Professor Lucien Blake, of Kansas
University, is said to have sold to New
Workers. for S25, 900 a process for sep
arating gold without the use of water.
Atchison capitalists are cautious.
They have taken an Arizona charter
for the company which proposes to open
a coal mine there, so as to avoid the
double liability law of Kansas.
The warden of the federal prison at
Leavenworth does not approve of the
mooted plan to confine Aguinaldo
there, because visitors would constantly
annoy everybody connected with the
prison by wanting to see Aggie. They
have much bother from people who
want to see Oberlin Carter.
Nemaha is the banner corn county
this year, the product being 3,1O7, 1854
bushels, as shown by Secretary Coburn' s
report.
A farmer near Argentine has been
awarded damages against chemical
company for the destruction of crops
by fumes from the company's works.
R. w. Wells, the youngest member of
the Maryland legislature, lived several
years at Coffeyville, Kansas. He was
admitted to practice in the Kansas SUI
preme court in 1896. He is now &c
years old.
C. G. Hill, mayor and postmaster at
Burr Oak, quarreled with j. M. Hotch-
kiss, farmer. Hill locked the door
and the two men fought. Hill was ar
rested, but Hotchlziss went to Kansas
City for medical treatment.
Less than a month ago one state
house stenographer was married. The
announcement of the engagement OF
two others-to each other-was an
nounced last week and four others have
given their employers quiet tips that
they will soon give up their jobs to
to reign over households.
Apple orchards about Barnes are be-
ing destroyed by canker worms. Dam
age by these worms is reported in
Northern Kansas
Kansas had 90 acres of cotton this
year which produced 81, $50 pounds OF
cotton, valued at s1,312. One half OF
this was raised in Montgomery coun.
ty.
Frank Linn, an Osborne merchant
bought 967 turkeys in one week. They
weighed 10000 pounds and cost him
from 5 to cents pound, there being
over 81 300 in the venture.
Fourteen years ago this month A. w
Rice mailed a postal card in Salina ad.
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