Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-08-15

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Valley Falls on August 4.
Labette county man has been fined
S35 for taking fish with net.
The old soldiers reunions at both Ell
Dorado and lola have been abandoned.
The last 10 acres of government land
in Jewell county was taken last week
An Arkansas City carpenter claims to
have been offered $40 day to work at
Lawton.
Miss Helen Riley, of Empire City,
aged Is years, was drowned while
bathing.
G. n. Tucker raised 1 PA bushels of
wheat on 81 acres of his Dickinson
county farm.
An elevator at Smolan, Saline county,
bursted splitting 5000 bushels of wheat
on the ground.
A general conference of insurance
agents of Kansas held two days ses-
sion at Mcpherson.
Thieves in the southern part of Sa-
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haul them away in wagons.
It is said that lightning started ten
prairie fires in Gray county, three of
which did considerable damage
The Katy ticket sales at Parsons in
July amounted to ST, 499. IL; more than
double the sales in July last year
John w. Corey, of Montgomery coun-
ty, has 40 acres of corn which he ex-
poets to yield so bushels to the acre.
The Kansas & Texas Coal Company,
a Topeka concern, has placed an order
for ten inch drills for prospecting for
oil in the shale district of Western Kan
sas.
! Frank Milliken, of Santa Fe is to be
appointed register of the Dodge City
land Office, says the Topeka Capital,
and L. j. Pettijohn, of Garden City, re-
ceiver.
! The new Santa Fe machine shop at
Topeka which is being staked out, is to
be $50 feet long and 154 feet wide.
Preparations are being made to lay the
| foundations.
Labor day, September 2, will be eb-
served in Pittsburg with jubilee in
celebrating industrial peace. Thirty
| thousand miners and laborers of evexy
| craft will assemble
The farmers of Dickinson county are
| cleaning off their corn land with bind
ers preparatory to putting in wheat
with cultivators. Those who are
through threshing are blowing their
wheat ground for the next crop.
One jointist in Topeka had separate
trials in one day and the sentences he
received were 5000 and 27O days in Jail.
| AS fast as a sentence was pronounced
he produced an appeal bond and the
court called the next case against him.
When the picnic dinner of the old
settlers reunion at HalStead was over
| and E. w. Hoch was introduced as the
principal speaker, there were 5000 peo-
pie in the park. Mr.. Hoch's address
was noted by his cheerful turning of
the bright side of everything to the
| front.
In the southeastern counties the most
of the wheat will be sown this year in
August and will begin to provide pas
turage in September and keep doing
the same until January. Nearly every
| farm has field of kafir corn, of sor-
| ghum and of millet; all of them good
crops.
| In 1881 there was practically no rain
from June 10 until September 10.
Wheat and apple crops failed. Corn
was worth S1.OO bushel and no one
bought Gny because they could not.
Yet Kansas had ten years of good crops
following that year and got rich by
reason of them.
Secretary F. D. Coburn tells the Min
neapolis millers that Kansas produced
last year 80 per cent more wheat than
Minnesota, while this year it is tout of
sight,
Coffey county farmers are keeping
their stock. Hog buyers can find none
offered for sale. Besides getting the
best wheat crop ever raised there was a
large crop of flax. Several carloads Of
bluegrass seed have been shipped out
at from 81 to SO a bushel. The apple
crop is good. Much ground is being
planted in forage crops.
Governor Stanley has announced that
he would appoint the ten district judges
under the biennial election law shortly
so that they will have time to wind up
their cases in court before assuming
their places on the bench.
Fort Scott dealers say they are selling
more seed than they did in the spring
onsisting of millet, turnips and Yankee
corn which natures in 90 days. 1t
makes better fodder than western corn.
Many cattle have been shipped and
there will be feed to spare in Bourbon
county.
Thaddeus Hyatt, an early friend of
Kansas, died last week at Sandown,
Isle of Wight, at the age of Sc years.
The city of Parsons owns in common
stock in the NJ. X. & T. road $40, 900
A proposition last spring to give this
TO the railroad because of the many i'm
provements it had made in the town
carried by large majority. Now the
mayor refuses to transfer the stock I'M
less he is Unidentified against legal
consequences. The city council has in
Identified him, but he still refuses tc
make the deed.
Kansas Agricultural college is inau-
gurating experiments in poultry feeding
to produce eggs: also a judging school