Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24

i 1t is said that Doniphan county leads
= telephones.
The S. Barnum Dry Goods company
of Topeka, has done an unchanged bust
ness on the same lots for 80 years.
w. ]. Lucas, of Ottawa, Illinois, has
just bought the Tillinghast farm of s7e
acres near Clearwater for S2s, ZOO.
c. ]. Young, of Marquette, has sold
his last years crop and his crop of this
year of broom corn for s12O ton.
Congressman w. A. Reeder, of the
Sixth district, asks the people to Sc: t
their postmasters by local elections.
Ten of the twenty-five Episcopal
churches in Kansas have been built
under Bishop Millspaugh's jurisdiction.
E. S. Holiday, a new member of
congress from Indiana, served in the
civil war as member of Kansas reg
iment
Ewing Herbert's aged mother was
thrown from the carriage while riding
with her son in Hiawatha, and severely
injured.
D. c. Hall, an Atchison county farmer,
has $4,000 bushels of corn which has
been in his cribs two years. He is hold
it for Use bushel.
Somebody wonders whether the next
move of the doctors trust will not be
to make il crime for anybody to be
cured by an unregistered doctor.
Charles Gathers, a 13-year-old office
boy employed by the Charles Wolff
Packing Company, of Topeka, fell 80
feet through an elevator shaft and sus-
tanned fatal injuries.
Charles E. Elmore has been appointed
by the Santa Fe management foreman
of the bridge, building and water SER
vice of the middle division with head
quarters at Newton.
Reuben Hamlin was pulling a spike
at a siding, west of Hutchinson, while
standing with his back TO a coming
train. He evidently did not hear the
tain and was killed.
Tom Lloyd, an Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe fireman, who was injured at
| Thatcher, Colorado, in 1898, and who
sued the company for $50, 200 damages,
was given verdict for $1,000 in the
Atchison district court. 1t was the
first trial of the case.
/ Tho 90 e4o&
dent show that 80 per cent of the popu-
| lation of the state attend some kind of
schools; while the report of the nation
al commissioner of education shows
that only 90 per cent of the population
of the United States does so.
| 1t is told of a Rice county woman
who, after seeing her fool husband lose
SIS on a ''sure thing" game, walked up
to the takers table. and grabbing up
handful of his money, walked off with
it, telling him she needed it to live on.
AS the crowd was on the woman's side
the faker had to ''lool1 pleasant"
Kaw Valley potato growers made
good money from the high price re
ceived from the ne.third crop they
raised this year. 1t is estimated that
they have received $3.50, 900 for their po-
tatoes this year. One man planted
early in March and his crop reached
100 bushels to the acre. The late plant
ers missed the April rains and failed
to get a crop.
man calling himself Estate in
surance adjuster of sewing machines"
claims to be an employee of the govern
ment, and that it is his duty to inspect
sewing machines. He found victims in
Leavenworth at the rate of so cent
fee each. Is there really any use in a
man working for a living when the
world is so full of fools willing to con-
tribute to his support?
/ The bank of Narka has been robbed
of s., 900. The safe was blown open.
The state bank commissioner SAYS that
the loss is fully covered by insurance
The Kickapoo reservation is having a
seige of smallpox and the towns OF
Brown county have put out guards tc
prevent the Indians from coming to the
towns.
A house alongside a railroad track
near Atchison has a sign on it which has
been there for &c years. 1t reads:
''This family has been wronged by the
railroad company"
The state board of charities is ar
ranging to purchase winters supply
of potatoes for the various institutions
in their charge. Seven thousand five
hundred bushels are required.
Edward Wagner, foreman of the gov
eminent book bindery in Manila, was
born in Topeka in 1869 and learned his
his trade there. He has worked in
Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and in
Guatemala, Galveston and Denver, and
in the government printing office in
Washington, from which he was sent
sent to Manila.
Forty-one Italians employed on Mis-
souri, Pacific construction work at At
Gibson quit work because of a cold
night They went south.
One drug store stock of liquors seized
by the sheriff of Shawnee county in
voiced S1,726.25, or is stated to have
been of that value in replevin proceed
ings.
Experiments are being made at this
planting of drilling 100 to 1875 pounds
to the acre of fertilizer with seed
wheat. A special drill has been made
| for that purpose.
Leases have been taken of lands on
Spring Creek east of Jewell City. A
fourteen inch vein of coal has been