Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-05-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

From Ness county comes the story of
bunch of rye SO inches high with five
inch heads.
John Gray, a farmer near Andover,
is going to Ireland for his first visit.
He is 63 years old.
Kansas farmers are now carrying
banners and chanting Condition of
wheat los per cent"
The graduating class at the Chapman
high school was made up of twelve
boys and three girls.
The Farmers National bank of Os-
borne is not incorrectly named. Farm
ers put up for its stock.
A. L. Evans. who killed man in
Tennessee, in self defense as he claims,
was arrested at Fort Scott.
A stranger is negotiating with Au-
gusta to plant there lead pencil fac
tory with capacity of 5000 day.
A Burr Oak man advertises Belgian
hares at IS cents each. 1t was bound
to come to this but it has come early.
There is great demand for the ses-
sion laws, but up to date the printer
has been able to supply only the state
officers.
Nearly $1,000 has been expended
within the last year on fruit trees for
the different charitable institutions of
the state.
Items appear in all parts of Kansas
about the large number of buggies and
carriages that are being sold for cash
to farmers.
The New York dailies are airing n
list of Kansas millionaires when it is
probably true that Kansas hasn't one
of them.
DIR. Boyakin is coroner of Marshall
county at the age of 90. He claims to
be the oldest veteran of the civil war
in Kansas.
The rain on the night of the 18th was
general in Southern Kansas and ex-
tended west as far as Dodge City and
north TO SAUNA.
Colonel A. A. Harris. once a promi-
nent lawyer at Fort Scott, died at Du-
luth, Mimi, May IS. He had lived
there since 1898.
The body of an old man, supposed to
be that of Fred Myers, of Osborne, was
found near Concordia- His pockets
were turned inside out.
Glass color troubles continue in the
colleges. The latest reported, from
Winfield. resulted in five double black
eyes and two cases in the police court.
The district court in session at Fort
Scott decides that there is no law in
Kansas to punish tine offense of assist
ing prisoners to escape from county
or city Jail unless they are convicted
felons.
Officers of the Kansas United Com
mercial Travellers elected at Hutchin-
son are: Senior councillor. l.. Z. Rees,
of Leavenworth: junior councillor, Geo.
G. Hamilton, Pittsburg: past chancel-
lor, c. f. c. Kayser. Fort Scott; secre-
tary, c. C. Daniels, Concordia: treasur-
err, L. c. Noise, Emporia; conductor
w. L. Stations, Atchison; page, w. D.
Mowry, of Independence; sentinel, F.
b. Gatchell, of Topeka; members of
executive committee, E. w. Poindex-
ter, of Topeka: H. P. Campbell, of
Clay Center; r. ]. Haus. of Hutchinson
andC. NJ. Mitchell of Leavenworth.
One Oswego man had shipped 5000
worth of pie plant while May was still
young.
Isaac Dear has purchased the Hamil-
ton ranch in Kingman county. Besides
the 1000 acres of land the bargain in
cludes 400 cattle. Mr.. Dean has a
ranch of 5000 acres to which this pur-
chase adds 1000 acres. Mr.. Dean has
made all he has out of Kansas soil.
Ellis county proposes to build two
bridges across the Smoky so that the
wheat in the northern part of Rush
county may come to her markets.
There is not place in Jewell
county WncTc IlIuOI Sdb NC AOSoAAg
sold: not single druggists permit.
John Mckinley. cousin of the pres
ident, who is 90 years old, totally deaf
and almost blind, has been taken to
the Marshall county poor farm. He
had been living with a daughter at
Blue Rapids who recently died leaving
five children.
Dr. Herman. colored, was fatally
shot in his own house while defending
himself against mob. 1t was the
outgrowth of scandal.
T. C. Wilson, a student of Friends
university at Wichita. was to marry at
Springfield, ILL.,, but is restrained from
going there by quarantine of the
the dormitory in which he rooms.
There are IS students held there on ac-
count of case of smallpox.
Seventeen councils in Kansas were
represented at the annual grand coun-
ell of the Travelling Mems association
which met at Hutchinson on May IL.
A special train brought $50 travelling
men and their wives from Salina, with
band of 81 pieces.
An official bank statement issued
last week states that eight banks in
Topeka have deposits amounting to
S45OO.O 900. One bank has 81, $50, 900.
four years ago at this date these eight
banks had 2,s31 900 on deposit.
At Abilene recently boy was arrest
ed for stealing a team The boys
father, banker in Oklahoma, wrote
to the district judge before whom the
boy was tried an affecting letter. but
he said sternly in it: IF l had a mil
lion dollars 1 would not give cent to
defraud justice.