Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-11-21


The hole bored for gas at Abilene at
the depth of l, 260 feet, now overfiows
salt water 20 per cent strong.
1t would seem that some of the farm
ers of the southern counties are pastur-
ing their wheat too heavily.
Contracts for supplies for the state
charitable institutions will be let. at
Topeka. on December and TO-
A well at Chanute is said to be giving
from the bowels of the earth 1900, oOO
cubic feet of gas every "a hours.
The Southern Kansas and Oklahoma
Implement Dealers association is to
meet at Wichita on December and ).
Three privates of-the Fort Riley gar
rison went to Jail at Junction City.
charged with stealing S32 from farm
err.
Dispatches from Anthony get pub
| lished which indicate that the Orient. is
rather slow in its operations in that
vicinity.
The city marshal of Havensville has
been arrested for striking boys who re-
fused to obey his order to go home on
| Halloween.
a. c. Emmons, mineralogy expert,
has been detailed by the interior de-
partment to inspect the Trego-E Ellis
gold fields.
1t is believed in official circles that
fully Is per cent of the ballots cast at
the late election were rejected on ac-
count of errors.
Coffeyville has a fire alarm which is
piece of pipe with a whistle at the
| top, while the other end is connected
with a gas well.
Contract has been let to rebuild the
burned NJ. E. church at Emporia. The
contractor gets SIG, 900 and the salvage
of material in the burned building.
1t was Twentieth Kansas man who
captured Thompson, the half-breed
/ leader of the escaped convicts. Dudley
Keefer, of Council Grove, was the man.
Colonel T. w. Harrison is to be given
big reception at Topeka on November
%. He is the highest Mason in Kan
sas. Invitations are sent out to Scot
fish Rite Masons all over the state
E. r. Nichols and j. Z. Willard, of
Manhattan, Kas.. are in Washington
to attend the annual meeting of the
| Association of American Agricultural
College and Experiment Station.
Luther Dickerson preempted naked
prairie land in Atchison county in 1854.
He lately cut $50 cords of wood off three
acres of it He now has ZOO cords of
wood on 100 acres which was formerly
prairie.
Dr. w. II. Hudson, of Atchison. has
given good start to free school for
| negro men and women. The school
already has 25 pupils, but it is such a
success that 4 permanent institution
will be established.
The executive committee of the Y. NJ.
| c. A. of Kansas elected as officers for
the year, President. j. E. Nissley; vice
president, Sumner Whitson; treasurer,
| Thomas Page; secretary, G. H. Ander-
son; state secretary, Andrew Baird, re-
| elected.
Prof. Lentz, of Kansas Agricultural
college, finds that there are IS counties
of Kansas which have prairie dog
towns, ranging in acreage from half an
acre each in Cowley and Douglas to 6s,-
| 500 acres in Wallace. The number of
acres in all these 6S counties is estimat-
ed at !, 124, s54% which are given up to
| the dogs.
j. W. Weatherford. the Eureka tele-
graph operator. has been sentenced to
one year and four months imprison-
ment for robbing mail sacks. Denning,
who was charged jointly, was acquitted
Thos. Denning was found guilty but
will appeal
! Members of the G.. A. r. are asked to
give 10 cents each for a monument to
be placed at the Bicl1erdyke home at
Ellsworth. The department command
er and committee of the G. A. L. and
w. R. C. escorted the body of Mother
Bickerdyke to Illinois for burial.
An aged negress of Coffeyville has
paid SIPS for city lot making her pay
ment all in half dollars; each of them
representing a days washing, and to-
gether were the boarding of years.
James L. King. of the Kansas state
library, is writing a book descriptive os
| oil IN.. |, ~,
Rock Island passenger department
Mr.. King has spent time in Mexico IN
gathering material for his work, and
most everybody knows that his selec-
ton for the writing of this book is the
best that could have been made.
The Southwestern Kansas Teachers
association will meet at Arkansas City
on November 1890. Between 400 and
500 teachers are expected. The district
comprises the counties of Butler. Chau-
tauqua, Elk. Cowley, Sedgwicl, Sum-
ner, Harper and Barber.
Two men of Marysville, with eastern
capital to back them, propose to have
by May next, the largest plaster plant
in the United States They have taken
a 30 year lease on a quarter section in
Marshall county which is rich in gyp-
sum.
Prof. Dickens, of Kansas agricul-
tural college, advises the planting of
larger acreage of peanuts wherever
the soil is of a sandy loan. He says
that 100 bushels an acre is not consid-
cred an unusual crop.
Reuben McClelland, an aged negro
veteran, was buried at Emporia with