Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-10
Work is to be resumed at the packing

There are "a public school janitors in
| Topeka who have been made special
policemen.
The grape crop in some places in
Kansas is reported to be 10000 pounds
to the acre.
Students other than Swedes are en-
rolled this year in Bethany college,
at Lindsborg.
About so families from Missouri are
expected to settle in Ford county be-
fore next spring.
Corn in Nemaha county is yielding
40 to As bushels to the acre. It's selling
at 40 cents bushel.
Haskell county has cancelled So, 200
of judgments and warrants by issuing
S26, 900 of bonds.
Del Valentine has been reelected
clerk of the supreme court, his second
term commencing October 70.
The Pike monument just unveiled in
Republic county, has been paid for out
of the state treasury. Its cost is
s1,75O.
Farmers who sowed cow peas are
telling about the wonderful amount of
the best of feed they are getting from
that crop.
The Rock Island will build a new
freight depot at Philllpsburg. The
Annr- Of 1.a % Ia&
will also be paved with brick.
The Kansas agricultural college has
just received four fullblood Ayrshire
cattle, bull and three heifers. This
breed is famous for milk and butter
production.
Charles w. Stout, II years old, was
driving a hay rake near Edna and was
dragged to death by runaway team.
He was thrown from his seat in front
of the rake.
The Kansas State board of charities
has let the contract, at $40, 5s5, for
building new school building at the
Kansas institution for the blind at
Kansas City.
Rutfianism in Kansas colleges is to
be shut off at Kansas University if the
authorities there can successfully carry
out their plans. Ruffianism in colleges
has become stencil everywhere.
The ''True Eleven" new order orig
mated by colored people at Atchison,
owns its own lodge room. Eight of its
members are to open a night school to
teach old colored people how to read
and write.
In 1890 F. A. Hough, of Hiawatha,
Kansas, gave as a gift note to the
University of Highland, Kansas, for
s465. He paid $50 interest and now the
principal and interest amount to 500
for which he has been sued by the uni
versity. He has made no signs of pay
ing and the case is set for the Novem-
Der term of court.
The state universities of Wisconsin,
Ohio and Minnesota, Cornell university
of New York and the agricultural col
leges of Michigan, Massachusetts, Ne
braska, Colorado, Iowa, Texas, Oregon,
Kansas, North Dakota, and South Da-
kota are using the reports of the Kan
sas state board of agriculture in their
classes in agriculture, dairying and an
imal husbandry. A writer in the
Twentieth Century Farmer says that
when requests are made for them it is
generally explained that these works
are the best obtainable upon the sub
jects treated. And all on account of
the careful and efficient work done by
Secretary Coburn.
The Missouri Pacific is going to build
a freight depot in Wichita to cost $780,
900. 1t is to be 400 feet long and 35
feet wide, and is to be completed by
February l, 1902. This new building
is to cover the entire block on the east
side of Wichita street between First
and Second, the block just north of the
new passenger depot.
Charles Meredith, a cattIeman who
came from Clayton, n. NJ, and bought
property in Wellington, committed sui
eide with a pistol. Financial troubles
are supposed to be the cause.
c. Q. Chandler has organized his
twelfth bank. 1t is at Hunnewell.
Fred Laird, the Topeka cocaine fiend
who, it is said, attempted to blacl1maif
Charles Wolff, the local packer, out of
$1,000 by threatening to kill him, was
adjudged insane and ordered sent to
the asylum.
Several of the state officers went to
the ZebuIon Pike monument dedication
in Republic county. Governor Stanley
insisted that all of them should go with
him to Wichita, his home town, to at
tend the carnival.
Miss Abby Huntington Ware, of To-
peka, daughter of Eugene Ware, is to
teach English and history in the Fort
Scott high school this year.
The Cudahy Packing company, of
Wichita last Saturday prepared three
carloads of pork for foreign countries
and also shipped two carloads of spare
ribs to Boston.
Farmers of Bourbon county report
their cattle suffering from ''blaclx
tongue" The cattle's tongues swell,
become black, and hang out of the
mouth.
A Parsons bank offers to cash war
rants at par, drawn on the general
fund for the amount needed to purchase
the site for the new asylum.
Pittsburg is soon to become a divisio
point on the Frisco line, which means
more shops more men, and the concen