Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-06-13

Sixty-eight carloads of salt were
shipped from Lyons in three days last
week.
The seven departments of Kansas
university graduated 1872 students this
time.
A Wabaunsee county farmer has just
marketed so hogs, the proceeds being
81, o2o. go.
A gas and coal company has been
chartered to operate at Caney. Its cap
ital is $4,000.
Large buildings are being construct
ed in Wichita, from artificial stone or
cement blocks.
w. D. Rippey and his wife. Mrs. A.
D. Rippey, of Severance have given
Baker university $4,000.
There are so soldiers of the Spanish
American war now inmates of the
Leavenworth Soldiers home.
Thomas Wilson, of Ell Dorado, las
watch that has been running ITO years
and is pretty good timepiece yet.
Kingman is designated as the head
quarters of the Salvation army for
Kansas, the two territorities and Tex
as.
The mortuary record of Wichita
shows the death rate for the year end
ing with May to be Is to the 1000 of
population.
Scrap metal is shipped to foundries
Topeka. to the amount of nearly so car
loads month.
DIR. Knudson, of Baker university,
has been offered the chair of English
Bible in Boston university and will
probably accept.
Seventeen men of Arkansas City have
subscribed $3.50 each 10 fund and pro-
pose to see what is under them, at
least to the depth of 5000 feet.
The Rock Island is building new
freight house in Topeka. to be of brick
and 30 by 100 feet. portion of the
building is to be two stories, 30 by 81
feet, for freight offices.
The ballots of the Topeka city cleo
ton are being counted by commission
ers appointed by the supreme court.
They are instructed to finish the count
by June 20. They draw $40 day
each.
Miss Barbara Spindler was kindling
| fire at her mothers home in Yelling
ton, using either kerosene or gasoline,
and was burned up with the house.
Her mother was badly burned in an
attempt to rescue the victim.
Fl. T. Randle. of Pratt county, pre-
pared his wheat land by listing deep
ly, then cultivated down. narrowed
| thoroughly and put in the wheat with
drill. His wheat stands waist high
while in fields all about it the wheat
is knee high.
The Sedgwick Paragraph tells about
farmer near there who was offered
his price on his 400 acre farm but re-
fused to take it because the purchaser
insisted upon paying it all in cash.
The farmer wanted only small pay
ment and the rest left drawing inter-
| est.
Kew. J. D. Ritchey, of Wichita, de-
livered the class address to the young
lady graduates of the college of the
Sisters of Bethany at Topeka. AT the
Junior day exercises the Sunshine
prize offered each year for the girl
having the sunniest disposition, was
given to Miss Zerelda Barringer, of
Omaha. All the students were Judges
in this contest.
Mrs Dominic, of Blue Rapids, makes
So day as a paper hanger. She can
hang IL double rolls with border, a
day.
Graham county has good demand for
farm and grazing lands. Actual set
tiers have purchased more land during
the past IS months than during the
ten preceding years.
Sheriff Kif, of Atchison says that
Mrs. Wells, wife of the manager of a
private insane asylum in that town
can manage an insane person better
than any man about the place.
Fl. A. Lovett. of Greenwood county,
was moving alfalfa and his little boy
was playing about the machine and had
a leg cut off.
An all nights rain all through the
Central Kansas wheat belt fell June
"a. There were narrow hail storms.
but the value of the rain, so widespread,
makes the hail damage look small.
The executive committee of the G. A.
R. complain that their quarters in the
state house are not sufficient for their
convenience and that they are not pro-
vided with satisfactory furnishings
The short grass country is being oc
cupied by farmers in different parts
thereof. They are building houses
and fences and are doing well.
Miss Alta Guthrie. of Lawrence, who
has always been a cripple, was given
the prize offered to the most popular
young woman of the city, which was g
$3.50 piano.
Mrs. R. A. Baker, of Concordia, haG
two husbands and three sons in the
civil war. The first husband was killed
early in the wer and the second served
during its closing period.
The farmers of Mcpherson county
have over 1000, 900 bushels of ole
wheat on hand, held for better prices
John FL. Klusmire, jackson county
farmer, is under arrest for butcherinl
his wife. He is also supposed to hav,
murdered his brother-in-law, Swetlicl1
several wears 400 Swetlick b d hear,