Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-25
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Browns general store at Allen, both
building and stock, is total loss from
fire.
The broom corn crop is short in Il
inois and also in Kansas, where a great
quantity is usually produced.
A ball game at Fort Scott between a
local team and team from Nevada,
Mo-, ended with general fight.
VIM. Archer, of Ellinwood, was one
of the many losers by fire in the wheat
fields. He lost a threshing outfit.
One recent mail brought to the col
lector of internal revenue at Leaven-
worth POS applications for liquor deal
ers' stamps.
Kansas City Grain merchants agree
in the statement that the Kansas
wheat crop never was so large nor the
grain SO good.
The Chautauqua assemblies in Kan
sas have not been SO successful as
usual this summer; probably on &C
count of the heat.
Tho returns of county clerks show
that the personal property assessment
Of the state is 500, $50, 1856, as against
$50, 62s, 24O, in 1900.
The district court of Lyon county
has a suit brought by the Santa Fe TO
restrain the Orient road from crossing
its tracks in its yards
Misses Blanche Casey and Mary Bel
lew, of Wichita, left home in the morn
ing, registered at Ell Reno and reached
home the same night.
The Cudahy packing house employed
large number of men of the burned
Dold plant at Wichita, including sew
eral of their travelling men.
A second edition of Secretary CO.
burns biennial report is ready for dis
tribution. This edition is of Z, 800 vol
rxnes; the first edition was of $1,000,
and it was exhausted within 80 days
Copies of the new state school laws
have been sent from the Office of the
state superintendent to each of the
80, 900 school officers in the state. There
was about nine tons of these books
sent out.
prairie fire north of Larned de-
stroyed 40, 900 bushels of wheat in the
stack. Frank Junod, while fighting
fire, inhaled flames and was reported
dying. Several buildings were burned
and many tons of prairie hay.
Captain Hawkins served in Cuba
with the 23rd Kansas colored regiment
and then went to the Philippines. He
remains there and has bought two
farms and stocked them with 1000
sheep. He also has a tobacco planta-
ton.
The State Board of Charities and
Corrections will go to Parsons next
week to make arrangements for secur-
ing site for the new insane asylum
which will be built at that place. The
site selected by the people at Parsons
is held at s2s, 900, but if this is taken
by the board the price will have to be
considerably reduced The last legis-
lature appropriated 500, 900 to pay for
the purchase of a site and the con-
struction of necessary buildings. The
board will probably expend the full
amount on buildings and ask the next
legislature to make further appropria-
ton to provide for the furnishings.
The asylum will be on the cottage plan.
No large buildings will be erected but
the different wards will be housed in
separate buildings of comparatively
small size.
The interior department nas ordered
the boarding school at Great Nemaha
reservation in Kansas to be abandoned
as the Indians have outgrown the con-
ditions under which the school was
necessary.
Henry Hardin, Bell telephone line
man, was climbing a pole at Colony
carrying wires when lightning struck
and he was instantly killed.
The rain at Winfield was a deluge
At 10 p. m, the telephone exchange
could not send out a messenger as it
would be dangerous for him to go out.
Claude Hamilton, of Topeka, sue
ceeds Mr., Tracey in Attorney General
Godard's Office when Tracey takes his
place as U. S. district attorney.
A hundred acre wheat field in Riley
county was destroyed by spontaneous
combustion. The crop was valued at
$1,000.
DIR. Barth, of Wichita, has been made
the head of the meat inspection at
Topeka with six people in his force.
The government has also made him
chief of the quarantine division, with
headquarters at Topeka.
The Missouri Pacific depot at Hois-
ington is burned, the fire starting from
sparks from an engine. Everything
in the depot was saved.
Doves and plover can be hunted
between July Is and September Is,
but they may not be sold or shipped.
Prairie chickens may be killed after
August Is.
The Wichita commercial club, by
adopting resolutions, pledged the
Dolds such aid in rebuilding their
burned packing plant as their means
would reach.
State auditor Cole has refused to
register refunding bonds of Kearney
county The bonds were issued to re-
fund bonds, which, it is claimed, were
issued contrary to law.
Coffeyville, Ell Dorado, Independence,
Valley Falls, Wellington, Wichita,
Wamego, Oskaloosa, Manhattan and
Abilene all reported good showers on