Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-09-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Falls and Strong City over the route of
the Orient road have been adjusted.
Mrs. Morton Albaugh was injured in
a runaway in Kingman. Mr.. Albaugh
had left after the cattlemen's picnic.
Pittsburg claims to have had 10000
working men there on Labor Gay.
There were 5000 miners in the parade.
The missionaries under the American
Sunday School association in the GEN.
trail west spend week in conference at
Topeka.
Mrs. Sherman McKinnis, of Republic
county, has four pairs of twins, all
living, the eldest pair not yet eight
years old.
An excursion from Emporia to Fort
Riley took $500 people. There were
four sections of six cars each. No stops
were made.
The Katy officials have notified Par
sons that they will establish big car
shops there at once, with $50 men to
start with.
A party of so Nebraska farmers came
to hook over Sumner county and attend
the wheat carnival, and with view of
buying farms.
Lee Patrick, aged 90, was killed by a
fly wheel in an elevator at Frankfort
on his first day of working on con-
tract for year.
There is over 81, 900, 900 invested in
the milling industry in Kansas, with
total output of ss,OoO,OOO and a total
expenditure of $40, 100000.
Difficulty is experienced at Baxter
Springs in the selection of location
for the postoffice to take the place of
the building recently burned.
A. NJ. Sugar, aged % years, whose
home is in Cherryvale, was stabbed
and killed by Riley Smallwood in
saloon in Tacoma, Washington.
Henry F. Aultman, of Parsons is said
to have registed twice at Ell Reno and
and drew claim. His filing will be
cancelled and he will be arrested.
The Saline county commissioners
have accepted plans for new $4,000
county Jail and expect to let contracts
and begin work by September Is.
Nearly forty kinds of birds are
known to nest every year in Riverside
park, Wichita, and there are probably
$50 varieties seen there every summer
Joseph T. Herbert, while blowing
near Homestead, Marion county, turned
up Spanish blade SO inches long,
which bore the date of 1864. 1t was in
fairly good condition.
Isaac Sharp, lawyer, who lived at
Council Grove dozen years or more.
served in the legislature in 1868 and
was democratic candidate for governor
in 1870. died in Washington recently.
The Santa Fe gave Sam1 Proctor and
his wife each 81 900. 1t will be remem-
bered that Mr.. Proctor lost an arm
while on a train from Edwards county
to attend the state reunion at Hutchin-
son.
At Council Grove there were de
stroyed by fire 500 tons of coal in the
chutes, five coal cars, two cabooses, one
car of wheat and two cars of rails. The
chutes were outside of the fire depart
ment limits and no water was avail
able. The fire started in the coal.
Another large number of non-unioI
miners arrived at Pittsburg on Labor
day to work in the Big Four mines
The companies posted notices offering
their old employees the same wages anC
the same conditions which have beer
in force heretofore.
Labor day, September 2, was mad
vertently set for the award of contract
for work on the state house, but Gov
ernor Stanley decided to observe hi
own proclamation asking everybody t.
rest on that day and the opening o
bids was deferred.
At Peabody on recent Sunday,
collection was taken in the Methods
church for missionary purposes ant
s240 was raised in thirty minutes.
The recruiting station at Salina
since it was established on May Is, ha
examined 1877 applicants and enliste'
72 of them; 25 of these were enliste,
during August.
Pastures of Reno and Kingman coun
ties recovered after the dry weathe
but stock water is scarce and in som
places not to be had. This causes re
moval of herds.
A lot of people of Parsons got scare
and put in their winter hay at $40 an
and S13 ton. Soon after loose ha
was worth 81 and baled hay So there.
P. B. Kanaga, one of the first to SET
tie at Hutchinson, died at Los Angelo
recently. He went there a short tim
ago in the hope of benefit to hi
health.
U. S. District Attorney I. E. Lam
bert had to fix up the docket for tn
session of court at Wichita. He e1
pected that B. H. Tracy would be az
pointed in time to do this job.
Topeka home defenders explode
dynamite in the yard of road hous
and the inmates fired several shots bu
hit no one.
j. K. Bartoo, one of the founders c
Larned, is dead. He was a Mason an
a knight Templar and was blried wit
Masonic honors.
< DIR. S. w. Williston, of Kansas un
versity, has been elected national pres
dent of the Sigma XII society, the hor
orary college scientific society. This
considered great honor in scientif
circles.