Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-05-02
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Arrangements are being made to
manufacture soda ash at Hutchinson.
Baker University is not only out of
debt but has $4,000 for added equip
ments and new buildings.
The athletic field at Paramount col
lege is $50 by 375 feet and is enclosed
by tight fence eight feet high.
Secretary Coburn is the author of
book on alfalfa which is being pub
lished by the Orange Judd company.
Topeka has had PA fires in the past
cording TO the opinion of the fire chief.
Judge Hazen has hard knot to I'M
ravel and has taken time to make up
his decision on the mayoralty contest
in Topeka.
Agents for the purchase of cavalry
horses for the British army visited
Wichita making selections. They want
200 of them
Senator Burton will not interfere
in the appointment of postmasters in
Kansas except in the Third congress
sional district.
The general store at Ransomville,
Franklin county, was looted of much
goods. The robbery was done in the
night. No clue.
Mrs. Wiley Trother. aged 90, of
Hutchinson, made attempts to take
ner own life: first with aconitc and
second with a razor
Prof. Chrisman, of the Emporia Nor
NAL failed in reelection to his position
for the reason that in his lectures he
argues that man never loves.
i. NJ. Whitaker, the Labette county
cattleman came back from Mexico to
attend his daughters wedding and will
remain at his home at Montana.
That big well made at Greensburg in
boom days still stands although closed
up. 1t is more than one hundred feet
deep and and twenty-eight feet in dia-
meter and will stand while time lasts;
barring earthquakes.
The Union Pacific railroad company
has filed an application to increase it's
capital stock from Sl96, 900, 900 one mil
lion dollars more. The filing fee is the
largest ever received by the state of
Kansas, being $40, 200.
The board of railroad commissioners
propose to personally investigate every
complaint of any Importance. They
will go to the town where the COM
plant is made to save the expense of
bringing witnesses to Topeka.
Samuel Stout, of Severance has added
to his farm tract adjoining which he
has bought of Samuel Ryan. He now
owns sixteen quarter sections in one
body. John Ripley, living in the same
vicinity, has still larger farm
III. A. Parker, first vice president
and general manager, and w. f. Dau-
chy, general engineer of the Rock ISL
and, are on trip of inspection be-
tween Chicago and Fort Worth. They
worked through Kansas, entering the
state on the 22nd of April.
VIM. Edwards, of Jewell county,
started for Hot Springs to recruit his
health. On his way he switched into
the Kansas City stochyards and stumb-
led on to good bargains, as he believed.
At any rate he bought fine jack; also
a carload of horses which caught his
attention. While the horses were be-
ing loaded he saw thirteen Belgian
hares and took the lot. BY the time
he reached home he was as we'll as he
we'll as he ever was in his life.
The women members of the churches
of Topeka for colored people are start
ing a movement for colored orphans
home.
Joseph Clancy, near Burns, Marion
county, was run over and killed while
attempting to stop a runaway team
with two women in the buggy. His
back was broken.
The State Sunday School association
is to meet in Topeka on May 14-16.
The program for the meeting will be
printed by the commercial club. The
associat ton includes all denominations
The tax commissioner of the Frisco
line starts on Sunday after church
with all the state officers, taking them
to Arkansas on fishing excursion
The agatite works near Mulvane
have suspended operations because the
raw material near the surface is ex-
hausted, that is near enough to be
worked pro6tably.
Waverley suffered from fire on
April 90, which destroyed a millinery
store, two restaurants, a feed store and
the Office of the Waverley Gazette. Loss
mostly covered by insurance.
Salaries of certain of the city officers
in Wichita have been fixed as follows:
Mayor, $1,000; city attorney, 81 200;
chief of police, $1,000: fire marshal,
81. 200; police judge, S72O; special de-
tectives, $40: patrolmen, S72O.
Mrs, Carrie Nation had leased her
furnished house in Medicine Lodge to
the pastor of the Baptist church.
While at home on her late visit she
turned the minister out of doors and
forcibly removed the furniture, bias
phemously declaring that God had told
her to do it.
The Missouri river at st. Joseph is
cutting away land from the Kansas side
half mile of farms have washed away
during the present high water, bring
ing the river bank close to Wathena.
Last year Ellis county produced &c.
5s5 bushels of potatoes. Six counties,