Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-11
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Moines to make Fourth of July ora
ton.
Kansas wheat harvest covers 200, 900
more acres than all the state of Della
ware.
An empty elevator at Wichita is
burned. Several box cars were badly
scorched.
Elmer Mott, Topeka mail driver, is
In Jail charged with robbing mail
packages of jewelry.
Topeka is paving SO blocks this year.
Chanute is to vote upon the erection
of another school building.
The Parsons boys who were members
OF the Fortieth volunteer infantry
have returned from the Philippines.
Mrs. Sam Lewis has been arrested
on the charge of burning the Metho.
dist church at Chanute fomc years ago.
Mrs A. E Summers, of Dickinson
county, picked the straw berry crop
from one-sixth Of an acre and sold it
for S96,s7.
About 100 Kansas teachers with
superintendent Nelson at their head,
20 to the national teachers association
~ Detroit, Michigan.
A shameful case is reported from
Douglas county. The mother of two
wealthy citizens was taken to the poor
farm on her 95th birthday.
FL Dorado doctors have formed a
combine and will not bid for the treat
ment of sick paupers. and will charge
the county regular rates.
The cylinder few out of separator,
near Sedan, and the whole top of C. NJ.
Barrington's head was taken off Mr..
6hsrp's head and face were cut open.
A Rocks county correspondent fig-
ures that II all the harvesting ma
chimes in that comfy were strung In
limo they would make a procession six
miles long.
Twin boys, 1s months old, were play
ing on the railroad track near Wood
ston, Rocks county, and both were in
stantly killed by a train. They were
children of C. C. Cook, whose home is
near the track.
The gypsum plants at Blue Rapids
turn out an average of ten cars of
plaster per day. They pay more than
$500 weekly for labor. The three
plants are run night and day, making
full time for the past three months.
It is asserted that the board of COM
missioners OF Shawnee county has con-
tracted with lawyers to prosecute the
SO insurance companies doing business
"a the county, under the law which
puts q penalty upon the use of rate
books by their agents.
Chancellor Snow, in leaving the head
OF the faculty at Kansas university
does not leave that school. He retains
his professorship of natural history.
DIR. Snow has been working for and
building up this great institution for
IS years and has become so identified
with it as to be vital part of it.
The Topeka city council threatened
20 fix the price of ice by city ordin-
Ance. The ice trust came back by the
statement that there would be moro
profit in shipping their ice to other
towns than in hauling it about town.
The council then commenced to talk
about putting in a city ice plant in
connection with the city light plant,
which has enough power for both.
Highland lost by fire its Methodist
church, shoe shop, a BARRIERS shop
and one residence and a restaurant.
The Kansas Sunday School associa-
zion has opened a headquarters in Abb
leuc with F. A. Smith, formerly of
Clyde. in charge. The State Sunday
school paper will hereafter be pub
lished at Abilene.
Plans for the reception OF Jessie Nor
Tison at Lansing and to let her learn
the tsilor's trade may prove premature
rs they are made before it is settled
whether she will get another trial.
The long established program for
June weather in Kansas was cut and
pasted tother end up this year. East
ern Kansas was dry while the western
portion had corious rains.
A hobo entered the house OF Frank
Kestler in Barton comfy, while the
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He found 800 and left, but was follow
cd when he fred upon his pursuers
without effect, but received n shot from
them, which may be fatal. The money
was recovered.
Il Is said that Mrs. Jessie B. Perry,
Of Newton, will succeed Mrs. Lew
Hanback, in August, as superintendent
of the Beloit industrial school for girls.
Engines on branch lines are distin-
guished from those doing heavy SER
vice on the main line by the placing of
. CIPHER before the number ON each
one.
Wellington folks raised So 900 for
celebration of the biggest wheat crop
ever raised in Sumner county. 1t will
be something like street carnival.
Andrew Ingemanson, farmer near
Marquette, was killed by being
dragged by rope on horse. He
caught the horse in pasture and be-
came entangled in the rope.
The legislature provided for a parole
agent to keep track of the prisoners
paroled from the state reformatory, and
J. W. Leibengood, of Hiawatha, has
been appointed TO that Office. The