Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-05
KANSAS lTEr1s OF INTEREST.

The Santa Fe gives all of its men not
in the operating department holiday
on Thanksgiving day
The city employment agency of To-
peka has secured work for more than
1,5oo people since it opened last May.
Oil has been struck at depth of $50
feet nine miles west of Kinsley. The
value of the find is as yet unknown.
Bishop Hennessy has decided to erect
new building at Notre Dame academy
at Fort Scott, and to use the present
building for high school and musical
conservatory.
A man with three acres near Wichita
raised three crops this year; the last
crop was Of turnips, of which he gath
cred !, 500 bushels and sold them at 25
cents a bushel.
The recruiting officer at Salina is try
ing to enlist a number of musicians for
the Fourth cavalry band, which served
three years in the Orient and is now at
Fort Riley.
The Wichita commercial club decides
that 1000 is about the proper figure to
expend in entertaining the 1000 cattle
men they expect to attend their meet
ing on February lib.
The unpublished opinions of the
court of appeals, together with digest
of the whole ten volumes of appeals re-
ports, both in one volume, will soon be
ready for distribution.
The United States still owes Kansas
s46s, 900 for money used to take up
Quantrell raid claims. An effort to Sc
cure an appropriation from congress
this winter will be made.
The red soil of Kingman county has
proven to be very productive in the
raising of alfalfa; and therefore among
the best cattle and hog producers.
Turkeys also thrive there.
Minneapolis has population of 1, 800
and its three banks carry s74O,O 900 of
deposits. The population of Ottawa
county is IL ,Oss and the six banks in
the county have deposits of 81 ,O36, 466.
According to custom the most of the
officials and employees at the Kansas
state house received their monthly pay
on the day before Thanksgiving. They
always get it the day before Christmas
also
There is a case from Franklin county
before the supreme court involving the
question whether contract to sell
land at a specified price necessarily
compels the land to be transferred by
deed.
Kearney county beets were marketed
at Rocky Ford. They tested 90 per cent
sugar. The crop was the best paying
ne of Kearney county, and more acres
will be planted to beets next season
than in the past.
Anderson Bros, breeders of thor
eushhred sheep have sold their fine
ranch of 4sO acres just north of Valley
Center, in Sedgwick county, to Frank
C. Cusick, of Cornell, Ill. The price
paid was $40, 400.
Governor Stanley has told the rail-
road commissioners that they need not
make report to him this year, but
wait until next year when the legisla-
ture will assemble. This saves S4 900
or SIS, 600 in printing.
Mrs Stranna uyidorv -
was bound and gagged in her own
house and the party who did this then
attempted to assault her 12-year-old
Newt Harbold was
arrested on suspicion and taken to jail
at Great Bend to avoid a lynching.
David Nation and his wife are d.
vorced by the court at Medicine Lodge;
their property being divided between
them by order of the court.
A. G. Drew, has been teaching coun-
try schools in Atchison county for
thirty years, and claims the record in
Kansas for length of service in one
county.
There is a new born oil craze at
Leases have been secured
on several thousand acres. Several
railroad men are said to be backing the
company.
James Wilmington, of Emporia, has
left his family because his wife would |
neither cook an opossum he brought |
home, nor would his wife and daughter
allow him cook the nasty thing" him |
self. He took train vowing that he |
would never come back.
The dedication of the NJ. E. church of |
it notable. The S14 900 edifice |
is paid for and a comfortable sum in |
hand is left over. The Indebtedness on
the morning of the dedication was
"a, 900. To cover this S4,1 25 was raised
and no one person gave over 500.
Superintendent Frank Nelson finds |
that 100, 900 of the 400, 900 children of |
school age do not attend schools. He |
also find that one-third of the students
who attend the grammar schools and
the high schools never graduate.
The Gaylord Herald, Lew Headley's
paper, has been sold to be consolidated
with ]. n. Nelson's Smith Center Her
AID. Headley has turned over the Gay
ord postoffice to George Parker, which
cuts all his Kansas connections. He
and his family are now at Ponca City,
Okla.
William Cary, citizen of jackson
county, received gold medal from
Queen Victoria nearly so years ago.
BE was member of the relief expedi-
ion sent to the rescue of DIR. Kane, the
Arctic explorer, in 1855.
Isaac Lane, a cousin of James H.