Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-08-15
KANSAS.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Harrington people have decided to
hold a carnival September and 6.
Randall Bundy, 1s years old, was
oiling windmill at Ellsworth and fell
rs feet. He died.
The ringleaders of the threshing
gang which raised trouble at Colwich
have been arrested.
Sweet corn, cane, kafir corn and soy
beans are being planted to large ex-
tent in Linn county.
Fredonia and Beloit have each seven
rural delivery routes. No other Kan
sas town has so many. Topeka has six.
w. H. Barnes state secretary of hor-
ticulture, is to speak on ''Orcharding in
Kansas" before the National Apple
Shippers convention at Toronto, Can
ada.
Miss Julia R. Pearce, Kansas wo-
man, has been appointed an analysist
of soil in the department of agriculture,
Washington. She got the position be-
cause of her experience.
There is plenty of stock feed in Atchi-
son county. Many corn fields will
turn out 30 to 40 bushels to the acre,
and the crop of the county will average
10 bushels. Pastures are renewed
Jackson county farmers are encour-
aged as their corn will make more gr-in
than v'as expected and an abundance
of fodder. Many of them are planting
beans, kafir corn and cow peas.
Corn in Allen county is expected to
tnrn out fran one-third to one-fourth
a crop. The wheat crop is the best the
county ever had. The rains have re-
vived the grass and there will be
enough of forage.
A mass meeting at Fort Scott of $500
people adopted resolutions demanding
that Rev. Frazer and others who are in
sisting upon the enforcement of the
prohibitory law leave the city. Ar
rangements were made for a committee
of so to see to the execution of the res
olution.
Both Calvin Titus and Albert Sonich-
son are orphans under the guardian
ship of the probate judge of SedgwicL
county. Titus scaled the wall of Pel,in
and Sonichson was with Lieutenant
Gilmore prisoners of Filipinos. He es-
capped and was the main feature in the
final rescue of the Gilmore party.
Three girls of Wellington; Terra Cor
der, Lillian and Clara French, were in
a buggy which was run into by huclk-
ster wagon. The runaway resulted in
very dangerously injuring Miss Corder,
and severely injuring Clara French.
Lillian French was thrown into the
air eight feet but was not injured.
Harper county is expected to have
this year 5000 to 1000 bushels of corn.
1t had bumper wheat crop. Kafr
corn and cane are largely planted. The
general practice of grazing winter
wheat makes the demand for other
feed small. This is the most profitable
year for the farmers of Harper county
of the % years of it's history since set
Element.
There are quite number of citizens
of Kansas who hold some office, who
have drawn claims in Oklahoma. There
are others who took notaries' commits
sions while there and in applying for
them declared themselves citizens of
Oklahoma. They now have to meet
the legal opinion, which seems to be
undisputed, that, taking such commits
sions and maintaining the required res
idence on claims, in either case ends
their citizenship in Kansas, and also
vacates their official positions,
The Wichita packing house is work
ing on extra time to supply the new
towns in Oklahoma with sausage and
boiled ham.
The regular annual wheat jubilee at
Wellington will occur September "a to
%. Sumner county produced from
1889 to 1900, 3s, 1884, 51s bushels of wheat.
For several years Sumner county pro-
duced one per cent of the crop of Amer
lea, and for the past ten years has pro-
duced more wheat than any other coun-
ty in the United States, and holds that
record for 1901.
The Culver Touring mill at Salina
burned while it was closed for repairs.
The loss is about Sc, 900.
Butler county had only 10000 acres
of wheat 1t does not claim to rank as
a wheat county. The county has II, 200
acres of alfalfa. The corn acreage this
season was 1856, 900 acres, some of which
will make from Is to Il a crop Then
there is 20, 900 acres of kafir corn and
10000 acres of sorghum which have all
held up well and will make good crops.
Thousands of acres of wheat and rye
will be sown for pasturage.
There is plenty of forage in Wabaun-
see county. Farmers planted forage
crops in the dryest time which is now
coming on.
Vice President Roosevelt partially
promised to stop over at Hutchinson on
his return trip from Colorado and adj
dress the veterans at the state G. A. R.
reunion.
Selling of stock is stopped in Douglas
county and even buying commenced
Corn varies from a fair yield to only
good fodder. Forage crops are being
generally planted.
A wealthy woman named Brunswick
in Chicago has left fortune to girl
named Grace Brennan who worked in a
Topeka Laundry about two years ago,
but whose present location is now un-
known.
There are many fields of corn in
Morris county that look as well as in