Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-08-29

E g Frame, of Usage county, sold
$3.50 worth of bluegrass seed from Pa
acres.
L. NJ. Radley, deputy sheriff of Cher
okee county, has been missing for
weeks.
Two negroes held up two harvesters
at Salina, robbed them and bruised
them up badly.
A $4,000 loss by fire occurred at Nc
Pherson. A lamp exploded in the hay
in livery barn.
The Lawrence canning factory is the
only one noticed in Kansas which eX-
poets to can corn.
The Santa Fe has made reduction
of one third in rates on corn for feeding
purposes in Kansas.
Rev. Irving Baxter, rector at Salina,
has accepted a call from the Episcopal
church at Lawrence.
Burlington made extensive prepare
| lions for the dedication of the new
court honse on September ,.
Leavenworth, with its big revenue
from saloons, etc, has not enough funds
for full time public schools.
Scottsville is town of 200 people. A
bank recently opened there received
81, 900 in deposits the first half day.
Topeka authorizes must have the
f0i, re ~,
are remodeled to ice boxes for bottled
beer.
Albert P. Jump, foreman of the first
section on the Alma branch, is seven
feet five inches high and weighs 1875
pounds.
Labor Commissioner Johnson effected
a compromise at Coffeyville which put
an end to the strike of the Touring mill
employees there.
Henry D. Boutwell,, mourned as dead,
for 20 years, has returned to his family
at Peabody. He left, or disappeared
in April 1881, with considerable money.
Wichita is to hold a special election
on September II to vote upon issuing
$50, 900 in bonds to assist in the rebuild
ing of the burned Dold packing plant.
In Ellis county, VIM. Bemis' three
story barn was struck by lightning and
burned, together with his farm ma
chinery, 1000 bushels of wheat and 20
tons of hay.
John B. Payne, formerly an Office boy
in the Santa Fe shops at Topeka, is now
commercial agent for the Texas e Pa
cific railroad with headquarters at
Louisville, Ky.
The city attorney of Topeka has dis
missed 81 cases pending in the district
court against joint keepers because
Judge Hazen has formerly ruled against
''spotter" evidence
In the semi-annual distribution of
school fund interest Wyandotte county
secured the highest amount, with
50, 139 60; Shawnee county gets the
second highest sum, 81, O49 20; Sedgwick
county is third and Cherokee county is
fourth.
Under the Bush law of 1898 all cor
porations in Kansas must make yearly
reports to the secretary of state. The
last legislature added penalty to the
law. Not half the corporations of the
state have complied with the require
ment and they have been warned
that their charters may be taken away
and receivers appointed.
Ellsworth Kelley, of Yates Center,
superintendent of Woodson county
schools, is making valuable reputa-
ton as a story writer, having one, at
least, accepted by McClure's magazine;
1.-TWO of Kind, in the July number.
The people about Centerville, Bour-
bon county, meet every season at the
cemetery in body and spend a day in
identifying the place. A former citizen
a Mr.. Hudson, endowed the cemetery
in his will, with fund of $500, the in
terest of which to go each year to keep
ing the cemetery in good order.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Wilder brought
an exquisite statue from Rome and
have installed it, as a present from
them, in the Topeka free public library.
They have also donated a splendid col
lection of china secured during their
trip abroad.
Samuel Proctor, of Kinsley, lost an
arm while going to the Hutchinson re-
union. He had his arm resting on the
window sill when a car door flew off
stock car ahead and skinned all the
| flesh off his arm from the elbow down.
His arm was amputated.
Everest, Brown county, suffered an
$4,000 fire which destroyed the K. of P.
hall and other buildings. The fire
started in blacksmith shop.
The justices of the supreme court are
scattered. They are taking their va
cations. Chief Justice Frank Doster is
in Chattanooga, Tenn, Justice w. r.
Smith is in San Francisco; J. C. Pol
lock, San Souci, Ontario; A. H. Ellis,
Portland, Ore, E. w. Cunningham,
Madison, Wis; A. L. Green, Buffalo,
and w. A. johnson, oxford Mills, On
| tario.
A mortgage given by the Frisco com
pany for SIS, 900, 900, due in 1851, is be-
ing recorded in counties through which
the road passes. The original mort
gage has on it $40, 500 in revenue stamps.
Clarence Rose is in Jail at Cottonwood
Falls, charged with an attempt to black
mail the postmistress at Elmdale. She
place $3.50 in gold in a certain place or
her house would be blown up and her
child kidnapped. She went to the place