Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-09-05

The Santa Fe pays Emporia about
$3.50 month for water.
One township of Sedgwick county has
pest consisting of millions of black
birds.
A 5000 telescope has been purchased
for the use of the Montgomery county
high school.
Ohio parties are figuring on building
an electric line between Atchison and
Leavenworth.
The first sowing of wheat reported is
in Thomas county, which commenced
about August 81.
Topeka has less than half mile of
wooden sidewalks left. Brick has SUI
perceded the boards.
Congressman Calderhead has bought
800 acre farm in the Blue Valley near
Blve Rapids, for $500.
Bishop Millspaugh and family spent
most of the summer in the Cumberland
mountains in Tennessee.
A national convention of the blind
assembled IN Kansas City, Kansas, to
see each other, you know.
Checopee, Cherokee county, has six
| joints and when the sheriff called on
them they put up s13s.s5 each.
VIM. A. Bingham, representative
from Morris county, has been appoint
ed consul general at Cape Town.
Each institution of learning in Kan
sas has baseball team stronger than
ever this year according to the local
papers.
1.-THE Union Pacific depot at Lindsborg
is in ruins from the blowing open of
the safe by burglars. The thieves got
but little.
| If there are any Kansans who feel
badly over having had dry spell they
ought to get pointers from Texas, and
| feel better contented.
The melon raisers of the sand hills in
Central Kansas have combined to pro-
tect their interests, and have agreed to
sell through one agent only.
Although Kansas has $1,000 more
men than women, three of that large
majority were cowhided within one
week by members of tbs minority.
| Miss Beatrice Baker a graduate Of
Paramount college, Wichita, this year,
has been elected to professorship In
Proctor academy, at Provo, City Utah.
Zinc ore has been found at Perry,
Kas., by VIM. Kerr, a farmer. He has
had an assay of the ore and it was pro-
nounced to be of excellent quality.
Fort Scott claims to have the largest
| cider mill in the state. 1t is worked by
steam and turns out 5000 gallons a
day. Bourbon county's apple crop is
| immense.
Instead of obeying the order to take
down fences which enclose government
land in Western Kansas, five ranchmen
are now building Sc miles of fence in
Geeeley county.
Here's record worth displaying to
the gaze of the world. Atchison coun-
ty, with large population and city
of Is, 900 people, has but one criminal
case for the September term of the dis
trict court.
A large party of picnickers in camp
near Wellington became sick. One
doctor thinks the sickness was caused
by tainted ice cream, while another
doctor thinks it might have been Paris
green which had been put on water
melon vines.
Fred Voiles, of Wellington has mar
ried an accomplished Usage maiden,
with one-sixteenth Indian blood, who
owns l 800 acres of land of which $50
acres is in cultivation, 900 acres in pas
ture and the rest surrounded with hog
fence. She received 900 acres more as
a wedding present. This is leased and
she gets it when the lease expires. It
is stated that Voiles did not know of
his brides wealth.
The treasurer of the Citizens Build
ing association of Leavenworth is sued
foa an alleged shortage of S21, 900.
Misses Clara and Chloe Risdon, of
Ottawa county, raised so acres of wheat
last season and are planting the same
acreage this year. They do all of the
farm work; blowing, narrowing, seed
ing, milk 6 cows and take the milk to
the creamery, take care of a fine lot of
hogs and several horses. There arc no
men on the farm. They have paid off a
mortgage and bought new buggy
and have money in the bank.
Mrs. Ida S. Martin, of Atchison,
widow of Ex-Governor John A. Martin,
has been appointed at the head of
Charlton Cottage, Ottawa university,
for the coming term. Charlton Cot
tage is the young lady students DOR
mitory and boarding hall.
The modern Woodmen of Doniphan
county held three days agricultural
exhibition and picnic at Highland Sta
ton. The sheriff gathered in five pris-
oners, two wagon loads of beer and a
wagon load of gambling outfits. Fiji
ted gamblers got away.
J. A. Mcclure died in Denver the
other day. He was an officer in the
18th Kansas in the civil war; lived in
Crawford county after the war, and
was several times a member of the Kan
sas legislature.
Many thousands of acres of Finney
county are covered with wonderful
crops, the result of irrigation. Garden
| Citv iS tho oaptar of tho alfalfa fa1de in
Western Kansas. Alfalfa seed sells at
Garden City at from Sc to 81 bushel.
There never has been SO large demand
for the seed.