Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-17

huoh COUNTY has nearly %,OuO acres VI
wheat this year.
Newton Knights of Pythias have
dedicated their new hall.
The Kansas wheat is receiving warm
rains in ample quantities.
Salina is talking about paving its
main streets with asphalt.
During carnival week not a single
house in Wichita was broken into
Newton has factory employing &c
young women in making ladies' belts.
Saline and Dickinson counties are
| much troubled with horse thieves of
late.
Fort Scott has voted to issue SO, 900
of bonds for the prospecting for gas
and oil.
The swapping ratio in Kansas is
two bushels of peaches for one bushel
of potatoes.
A commercial creamery is to be
started at Kansas agricultural college
on November l.
The registration at Kansas university
has reached 1,O61, which is 1O7 more
than last year.
1t is said that five per cent of the pop
ulation of Cottonwood Falls are MEM
be-s of whist clubs.
Jay Smith, son of A. w. Smith, of
Mcpherson, has gone to Europe to study
music for two years.
Contract has been let for building a
freight depot at Wichita, to cost SIG, 500,
by the Missouri Pacific.
A Salina firm has already shipped
six carloads of alfalfa seed this season,
each valued at about $4,000.
The Parsons asylum site has been ac-
cepted by the state board of charities
and preliminary work will commence
! at once.
w. G. Bigham, the Kansas man APP
pointed consul general to Cape Town,
has started for his post. 1t is an i'm
portant position with small pay.
La Crosse, the county seat of Rush
county, has a court house which cost
S23, 900; 81, 900 school building, and
SIS, 200 bank building, all of brick.
George Eddington is dead of disease
of the heart. He had been prominent
among the promoters of the interests
of the city of Chetopa for thirty
years.
An extra train was ditched near Ok
ford, caused by the washing of the road
bed by heavy rains. Trains from the
east, during the day, had to run around
by way of Mulvane.
E. C. Strickland has been appointed
as instructor in music at Haskell insti-
tute at Lawrence. He was a member
of the Twentieth Kansas band and was
later in the quartermaster's depart
ment at San Francisco.
The southwestern division of the
| Friends church met in annual conven-
ton at Friends university in Wichita
on the 10th with about 200 delegates
present. The jurisdiction includes
Kansas, Southern Missouri, Oklahoma,
Nebraska, Northern Texas and Eastern
| Colorado.
An iron bridge over Pawnee Creek in
Bourbon county went down while a
herd of cattle was crossing it, killing
and injuring many cattle. Mr.. Straitor
and his little girl were driving cattle
under the bridge at the time and the
girl was nearly killed.
that when railroad runs through a
farm the company must provide gates
for the convenience of the farmer but
the farmer must keep the gate shut
1t was in suit for damages for the
killing of horse which reached the
railroad track through an open gate.
Two detectives are trailing D. W.
Kent, the defaulting grand secretary
of the 1. o. o. F. grand lodge of Kan
] sas.
Steel is beiug laid on the Fort Scott,
lola & Western railroad and trains are
expected to be running over it as far as
lola by January l.
There are two telephone systems in
operation at Fort Scott. The franchise
of the elder system has expired, and
the town being tired of having two, is
about to refuse renewal of the old
franchise.
| r. II. Town, of Valencia, Shawnee
county, has secured four crops of alfalfa
hay aggregating ten tons per acre, on
land that is worth $50 an acre He is
offered $40 ton for his hay or twice
the value of the land.
Miss Fanny Dunkin, of Wichita, has
started for Calivo, Panay island, one Of
the Philippines, under a three years
contract to teach. Her salary of 5000 a
year and her expense account COM
menced when she left home. She sails
from San Francisco on the transport
Thomas.
]. F. Mallory fell from Union Pa
cific train in North Topeka and was
killed. He was a brakeman and his
home was in Rossville
A new large brick building is being
constructed at Salina to be used as a
distributing house for Central and
Northwestern Kansas for binders and
| mowers.
A. l.. Wilmoth, who has just been