Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-08-08
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Shawnee county returned to the as
SCISSORS the most money on hand, with
Crawford county second.
The buffalo grass ranges in Scott
county are reported to be in fine con-
dition, with plenty of feed for stock.
Boys made small fortunes in Wichita
selling sandwiches to boomers. One
little fellow cleared s12 in three days.
One hundred and twenty-three peo-
pie took examinations at the close of
the Sedgwick county teachers insti-
tute
1t is decided that the Central Kansas
fair at Hutchinson will come off on
schedule time the first week in Septem-
Der.
E. Kirby, who has been running the
Park hotel at Dodge City, shot and
killed his wife, during a dispute about
property.
Chas Holwick, of Sedgwicl county,
was one of the last to register at Ell
Reno and his name came out among
the first.
Farmers are planting forage crops
extensively; SO much so that they call
upon the state employment agency to
send them men.
Mrs. Elizabeth Burrowes, of Garnett,
has son visiting her after a separa-
tion of 25 years. The son is a Presby-
terrain minister.
Thad Payne, formerly with the Santa
Fe at Topeka, is now private secretary
to Russell Harding, general manager
of the Missouri Pacific.
Orders which the stoclxmen had made
been quite generally countermanded
since the heavy rains
Scio, Graham county, reports IA
inches of rain since harvest up to July
25. Crops there are reported all right
and everybody happy.
Santa Fe detective found several
stolen lanterns at Hutchinson and Sc
cured evidence which may land thieves
Wnere Jney CANNOT STEAL
Eleven years before Joe Bristow be-
came assistant postmaster general he
was a candidate for clerk of the dis
trict court of Douglas county.
The head of the ice trust in Topeka
has been arrested under a city ordin-
ance which is based on the new law of
Miss Beals, the winner of second
prize in the Lawton district, denies the
story started by the Kansas City Jour
nal that she is engaged to a Kansas
City man.
Three men were injured by the Civ
ing way of a scaffold at the Ingalls,
school building in Wichita. They
were: Julius Walters, contractor; Mr..
Shottle, bricklayer, and Cairo Owens,
a negro.
A threshing crew spent Sunday at
Colwich and kept the place in an up
roar, during the 80 or 40 hours they
were there. They insulted ladies,
fought among themselves and with the
men of Colwich.
The Rock Island purchased 500 acres
at Mcfarland and is building hay
barns, sheds and corrals, also a water
tank 20 feet wide and 60 feet tall; all
for place to give sheep rest an their
journey to market.
Evening dress suits fooled both Gov
ernor Stanley and Lieutenant Governor
Richter. They attended a wedding
and when they were on the trolley car
going home they both found that their
pockets wouldn't give down nickle.
NJ A. Low, of the Rock Island, says:
"There is no foundation in fact for the
report that we are going to build a
track from Kansas City to Topeka.
Our present arrangement is satisfac-
tory, and there is no necessity for a
new track. The local business does
not justify it."
Grant Sidwell, former resident of
Wilson, served out his enlistment in
the Philippines and then married a
900. Tee girl has fair complexion.
Kansans who were injured on the
wrecked Rock Island train in Okla
homa are: K. Raub, North Topeka;
E. L. and w. Fl. and J. T. Kelsey,
Jewell; C. w. Kimmell, Morrill,; Chas.
Schmidt, Topeka; w. F. Copeland, S.
w. George and Link Mills, Wichita;
]. E. Tagg, Clearwater, and E. J. Han
EFT, Caldwell.
Norman F. Ramsey, of Topeka, and
Calvin Titus, of Wichita, have passed
examination and have been appointed
cadets and admitted to the military
academy.
The contractors who have been max
ing gumbo ballast for the Union Pa
citic having finished their undertaking
under their first contract, have entered
into another which will require two
years more to complete. There is still
plenty of gumbo on the land west of
Solomon which the contracting COM
pany owns.
Henry and Eliza Foreman, of Mont
gomery county, have been man and
wife for 81 years. They were born in
the same county, attended the same
school and were members of the same
church. They are the parents of 10
children.
A man calling himself S. L. Duff,
telling that he represented St. Louis
millinery firm, proposed to install a
department of millinery in a Quenemo
store, collecting an advance of SGT.
He nor the goods have never been
heard from.