Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-08-29
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


decision in the Santa Fe injunction suit
in favor of the Orient railway.
Miss Mary Belts, of Ell Dorado, a
pioneer school teacher, has been made
matron of the Kansas penitentiary.
A. Robins and his sons, of Auburn,
Shawnee county, sold 2s2 bushels of
FAX seed, off of As acres, for s374.s5.
j. C. McColm, Union Pacific brake
man, who was sent back to flag train
went to sleep on the track and was
killed.
James F. Legate, who went to the
Soldiers home last May blind, has re-
covered his sight and has left the hos
pital.
Salina has damage suits against the
city amounting to over s25, 900 for in
juries received from defective side
walks.
w. R. Haslet, of Sumner county,
claims to have raised the best wheat in
the world. 1t tested 65 pounds to the
bushel.
1. B. Alter thinks his corn crop on
his Shawnee county farm will average
80 bushels to the acre. The ears are
foot long.
Miss Beal, of claim No. 2 at Lawton,
is back at work in the Wichita telephone
exchange, and will remain there until
about February 1.
Stafford county claims that it has
fewer people over ten years old who
cannot read and write than any other
county in the world.
DR.. Calling, the inventor of the Cat
ling gun and of the motor pillow, was
formerly Kansan," having his home
In Doniphan county.
A powder company has purchased
tract of land near Cherokee and it is
the intention to erect there one of the
largest of powder plants.
Mrs. Strothmeyer, of Cawker City,
was milking when a troop of colts came
up and rushed the cows so that they
trampled the woman to death.
A tramp robbed a caboose in Arkan-
sas City while the trainmen were taking
their dinner. He secured $40 which
belonged to the conductor and a brake
man.
A threshing machine and about 3 900
bushels of wheat burned on John eau
ver's farm in Barton county. Heroic
work saved the residence, barns and
granary.
Mrs. De Forrest is to have an So, O0O,-
900 estate which Henry Dolan, of New
York, has left, she being his neice and
only heir. She was employed as book
keeper for the Atchison Globe for long
time, but after her uncle gave her $50
month she removed to Irving, Kas.,
where she still lives. The fortune is in
New York property. Mrs. DeForrest is
incredulous concerning the report.
The semi annual interest of the state
school fund has been distributed to the
chool districts. This year the appor-
tionment is 40 cents for each person of
school age. The amount of the interest
was smaller this year because of the
difficulty in finding investments for
the funds. Eastern bond brokers offer
by law to be paid by the commissioners
of the school funds. Besides there has
been a marked increase in the school
population.
District Judge Madden, at Emporia,
denied permanent injunction against
the Orient road from crossing the Santa
Fe yards and the Santa Fe attorneys
are preparing to take the case to the
supreme court.
In Harper county, SO of the 90 teach
ers passed. There are 90 teachers
needed and where the lacking 81 are to
come from is the problem.
M. E. Phillips was reelected chan
cellor of the Kansas Wesleyan univer-
sity, he having declined the presidency
of the New Orleans university.
There are lots of divorced people in
Kansas, or people who believe they are
divorced, who are not because they
have not paid the costs in their divorce
cases. 1t is claimed that Kansas di-
vorce is not complete, under the law,
until all costs are paid.
Ed. NJ. Wheeler, of Montgomery
county, marketed from his farm this
season $4,000 quarts of Strawberries,
the receipts reaching s1,1OO. He esti-
mates his apple crop at 1000 bushels.
These are only side affairs of his farm
business.
So far this season there have been
o cars of bluegrass seed shipped from
Gardner, johnson county, which
brought the farmers over $500
During the fiscal year ending June
80, the earnings of the penitentiary
were $3.50, 534. SO and the total expenses
were s165, 477.63, leaving profit of
s41, o56.09
John w. Fox, of Woodbine, had ty-
phoid fever. He was to be married on
the day when he died. The bride to
be went for license in the morning
but before her return he had died.
s. E. G. Holt, pioneer of 1854 in
Lyon county, has reared thirteen or
phan children. One of them is now
chief surgeon of the Santa Fe west of
Albuquerque. Mr.. Holt expresses his
opinion that ''money spent in sending
missionaries to the heather should be
spent in rearing orphans here athome."
And now eight Cherokee Indians are
claiming eight sections of land in John
son county, Kansas, and propose to
bring suit for $50, 600 against the gov