Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-08-08

Jail.
The Kansas railroad commissioners
| have asked for lower rates on forage
and feed.
Farmers in Southern Kansas have
commenced blowing for wheat since
the rains.
Men of Parsons sent to Delaware to
get charter for an oil and mining
company.
Two MCPHERSON county girls shocked
their fathers wheat crop. Men could
| not be found to do it.
Wind and hail did damage in the
vicinity of Bavaria, Saline county, dam
aging some wheat stacks.
The Santa Fe's libraries for its en-
employees at numbers of division sta
tions, contain 1O, 900 books.
Atchison printers say that the tax
list they are setting now is the short
est Atchison county ever had.
The floods injured the foundation of
new building in Topeka, being erect
ed for wholesale grocery firm.
Emporia. cannot stand the odor and
has ordered the chicken killing estab
lishment outside the city limits.
An Emporia man has been arrested
for killing fish in the river with I'M
Stacked lime. He was selling the fish.
Secretary Geo w. Martin, of the his
| torical society. addressed the best old
settlers meeting Hutchinson ever held,
on August l.
Ex-Congressman John Davis died at
the home of his daughter at Topeka.
He was "A years old and had been blind
for several years.
Records kept at Kansas university
show that July, 1901, was the warmest
month during the, "a years in which
record has been made.
The pavement in front of the Com
mercial bank of independence, is
single block IL inches thick, % feet
long and 16 feet wide.
|
Cowley county, was destroyed by light
ming, with its whole contents, includ-
ing horse and a mule.
A Kingman county ranchman offers
to feed 500 steers until spring grass
comes at IS a head, or keep them until
next fall fall for $40 head.
The manager of the Harvey eating
house at Dodge City, has been arrested
charged with having prairie chickens
in his possession out of season.
| P. w. Zimmerman of the Santa Fe
claims attorneys office, has been ap-
pointed travelling claims adjuster with
headquarters at Albuquerque
The Woodman's picnic at Circleville
drew 5000 people. Governor Stanley
was there. There were two good bands;
the Onaga band and the Girl band of
| Wetmore.
The state board of medical registra-
ton has done something. 1t has turned
into the state treasury 81, rs of col
lected fees. What their own bills are
is not stated.
J. H. Dow, the Oldest citizen of Olathe,
and for years the owner of the largest
store there. was found drowned. 1t is
believed to be a case of suicide. Mr.
Dow was bachelor.
James R. Woods, the young man
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new country: the first was wife, and
the next was the first choice of 100 acres
in the Lswton land district.
The annual reunion of the 21st Kan
sas volunteers has been changed from
Great Bend to Hutchinson, where it
will occur on August 1917; dates fixed
for the state reunion of the G. A. R.
]. E. Fisher, of Edwards county, was
on the point, five years ago, of aban-
doning his farm because of dry climate.
He and his sons now hold clear title to
quarter sections, have 100 cattle, 20
horses and every kind of farm nipple
ments, besides 5000 bushels of wheat
in the bin. They have sufficient forage
to carry through the stock.
Governor Stanley has offered re-
ward of $500 for the arrest of the man
who assaulted a young woman at Col
by. The county commissioners have
offered $500. The wretch was trailed
by bloodhoauds toward Atwood where
all trace was lost.
Governor Stanley does not believe
that the Blenders were killed near
Cherryvale, and almost everybody else
believes that they were 1t is true,
however, that their disappearance was
not discovered until they had been
gone for three days.
The shale pit men at the Coffeyville
vitrified brick plant struck for raise
of % cents day. Labor Commissioner
johnson went there to smooth things.
The Missouri Pacific paid the state of
Kansas, the other day, a charter fee of
charter to increase its capital stock to
S45, 900, 900.
The Stops at the Osawatomie asylum
amount to about seven barrels a day.
There was spirited contest among
bidders to get it and it was sold for
four months ahead at $50 month.
Russell T. Congdon rode all the way
from Ripon, Wisconsin, to Wichita on
his wheel, and started again going to
Woodward, o. L.
1t is said that Miss Beals, who drew
second choice in the Lawton district, is
engaged to marry Charles V. Akerland,
head porter at the Savoy hotel in Kan
sas City.