Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-31

Wellington is to have a new 5000
ice plant.
Wichita has granted franchise to a
second telephone company.
Brodie, the new governor of Arizona,
was once in the cattle business in Kan
sas.
The Portland cement company has
struck another big gusher oil well at
lola.
A Mcpherson county steer recently
slaughtered at Kansas City weighed
2,61O pounds.
The short corn crop has served to fill
up the schools. The boys are not need
ed to -husk corn.
Ed Riley, switchman at Frontenac,
was decapitated and mangled by the
switch engine.
Chancellor Snow is getting well of
his nervous disease and all Kansas is
rejoicing with him.
Mrs. George Hammer died suddenly
in spring wagon while enroute from
Leon to Ell Dorado.
Six real estate sales We're made at
| Sabetha in one week for combined
consideration of $40, 400
A gas company has been chartered to
bore for gas at Fredonia and to supply
the city with light and heat.
The heaviest hog ever received at the
| dc 1uaS
duct. 1t weighed $50 pounds.
Mrs. Allie Meyers, cashier of the
Katy eating station at Parsons. dropped
dead without moments warning.
The franchise of the Abilene water
works company has expired and the
city is proposing to buy the works.
The lola Cement Company shipped in
| one day about a week ago, 3G42 barrels
of cement; filling % cars of large ca
pacity.
E. Tyner, of Hiawatha owns a cow
feet II inches long, ; feet s inches
high, 9 feet in girth, and weighing over
ton.
The largest jack in Kansas is owned
by w. B. and NJ. Hawk, of Beattie.
1t is four years old and weighs 1910
| pounds.
j. n. Parish, prominent stockman
of Pawnee county, Kas., is sued by his
brothers widow for S., 900 in a breach
of promise case.
The state board of charities has con-
| tracted for 5000 bushels of Minnesota
potatoes with prices ranging from rs to
IS cents a bushel.
The Chanute Oil and Gas company
has struck gas flow of 5000, 600 feet a
day. This is the seventh successive
strike on Gas Ridge in 60 days
Rev. Daniel Frantz and wife, of Fair
view, Kansas, We're killed at Cedarville,
Illinois, by being crushed by falling
tree. Three others were injured.
Business men of Wellington decided
to build a frame tabernacle so by 100
feet for the revival meetings to be held
there. The meetings will begin No
vember 10.
More than twenty cattle have died at
Corning. Nemaha county, from black
! tongue within a week Corning is on
high prairie. The state sanitary
board is making Investigations.
Miss Matte Simpson, daughter of
Ben Simpson, of Paola, the old politi-
cal war horse, has been appointed to
position as stenographer in the su-
preme court cleIk's office at Topeka.
A Lawrence contractor, w. R. Stubs,
has contract for work on the Santa
Fe extension in Oklahoma which will
summer. The work will commence as
soon as possible.
The Dold packing house at Wichita
is to be run by electrical power. The
contract calls for Is electrical motors of
s to 35 horse power each, in the differ
ent departments. The electrical me-
chinery for the elevators is warranted
to give hosting capacity of three tons
16O feet per minute.
II. R. Brown, of Parsons, is dead at
the age of "a years. He is the oldest of
the Ell1s, having joined the Ell1s year
ago. Until about a week before his
death he was going about everywhere
attending to his business.
There is a rumOr in Rock Island
built from Belleville through .Salina to
| Mcpherson to make connections with
the new Rock Island extension to Lib
eral. This cut off would considerably
reduce the length of the through line
from Omaha to Ell Paso.
The elevator in the canning factory
of Lawrence got away from a number
of girls who were descending and Miss
Daisy johnson, Il years old, was killed.
The elevator weight fell.
Jack Downing, postmaster at Hays
City, and j. a. Patterson, postmaster
at Selden, are belligerent officials.
Downing threw man out who persist
ed in smoking in the postoffice; Patter-
son did the same to young man who
said he was glad the president was
shot. Patterson is 20 years old but he
bounced the fellow in good shape.
There were 30 damage suits in the
Atchison district court at its last term,
aggregating claims of about S3O1, 900.
The largest was Sl25, 900, the claim of a
grain company alleging discriminating
freights by the railroads.
Mrs. Lenhart, telegraph operator at