Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-06-06

The observance of Memorial day i"
Kansas is more general than usual
There is a ranch in Chase county that
has also acres of alfalfa. 1t is being
| cut.
Nine-tenths of the applications for
| Illinois
! The state printer makes and supplies
all of the blanks used by county super
intendents
About $50, 900 is paid yearly in Wich-
tia to people in the postoffice and to
| postal clerks.
The railroad board has contracted
for $40, 600 new railroad maps of Kan
sas to cost 1925.
c. T. K. Prentice has commenced
upon his 3sth years service as city mar.
shall of Lawrence.
George Milligan, of Liberal has
started back to the Klondike, with &c
young men with him
Two men from Belgium visited the
zinc smelters at lola. Belgium manu-
| facturers use much zinc
New people are coming into Cowley
county all the time and lands sell read
lily at an advance of 10 to so per cent.
Colonel George W. Veale, of Topeka,
is to be made superintendent of the
state house grounds on and after July /.
Finney county people have a large
reserve of cash. Grazing lands have
advanced 81 per acre and farming lands
S. an acre.
Graham county has good demand for
farm and grazing lands. Actual set
the past IS months than during the
ten preceding years.
A sorry report about the wheat crop
| comes from Ellis county. Someone
writes from there that wheat on plowed
land may make Il bushels to the acre,
while that put in on stubble will not
pay to cut.
Brothers named Hossfelds have been
operating trunk factories, one of then.
| for 81 years in Topeka and the othei
for 13 years in Wichita. They now
propose to consolidate and remove to
Kansas City.
The Rock Islands extension from
Liberal, Kansas, is completed to Del
hart, Texas, making so miles in Texas,
and 5O NOVA rrin hr;rrr No,r
Mexican line. Grading is done 25 miles
beyond Delhart.
Banks of Franklin county have a
million and half dollars on deposit,
very largely farmers money. The adj
vance in the value of farm lands has
been from S. to $50 in six months.
Iowa buyers get the highest priced
lands.
A Wichita business man who has
much use for the A. D. 7. boys who
work from and for the the Western
Union Telegraph office, gave the mes
sengers a banquet at the SWEETEST hotel
in the city. in recognition of their
prompt, polite and gentlemanly quail
tiles.
The banks of Chautauqua county
have on deposit $50 per capita of popu-
lation. Any desirable piece of land
sells readily at an advance of % to so
per cent over five years ago. Many
purchases are made by tenants who
usually pay one-fourth cash. Crops
are good, fruit promises an abundant
crop.
The Union hotel in the packing house
district in Wichita, with II boarders
has been placed in quarantine. Every
male occupant was taken to the pest
house. There were three cases
of smallpox in the hotel which had not
been reported.
VIM Barricklou, pioneer, died at
Coffeyville on May 20. He settled in
Douglas county in 1855 and went to
Coffeyvillein 1870, where he had since
lived. He was connected with the Her
aid of Freedom that was thrown into
the Kansas river by Quantrelrs men.
Farmers of Phillips county are buy
ing spectators lands quite freely and
there are some newcomers also buying
lands. The county raises all kinds of
grain. corn, millet, alfalfa, etc.
Harry Hubbard, of Rlue Rapids, was
placed at FL Dorado four months since,
and was transferred to Independence.
His adaptability to the business and
his industry have now secured to him
transfer to San Francisco. where he
has charge of the Armour's egg and
poultry department of the entire Pa
cific coast.
Business conditions are good in Nor
ton county and the people have ad
yanced to financial independence.
There is good demand for farm lands
at improved prices, the purchasers be-
ing mostly home people.
The law giving inmates of the Leav-
enworth, Soldiers home the right to
vote there at the state election, is like
ly to change the political standing of
Leavenworth county. The trustees of
the township in which is the home re-
port the number of the inmates at
3.543
The postoffice at Americas was en-
tered by burglars who commenced
work on the safe doors, but were
frightened away, getting only SIS
which was not in the safe
Bottom lands in Clay county are sell
ing for $40 an acre; uplands sell from
$4,000 to $4,000 a quarter section &C
cording to quality and improvements.
Rough pasture lands bring from SO to
Sl2 which would scarcely sell at S.