Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-18


of $50 month.
The Dold packing plant at Wichita
has been Incorporated with million
dollar capital
The wagon trade for truck market
ing at Atchison is suspended for lack
of local supply.
A good rain covered several counties
in the corn belt in the northern part
of the state on July :.
A pearl declared to be worth $500 or
$500 has been found in the Marmaton
river near Fort Scott.
The commissioners of Atchison coun-
ty want a tax ferret" and are asking
for bids from experts.
In case from Russell county the
supreme court decides that a barber is
professional man.
The state forestry farm at Ogallah
has been run over by a fire which
nearly wiped it all up.
One squadron of the 18th cavalry is
! to leave Fort Leavenworth to go to the
department of Colorado.
A drug store, barber shop and a har-
ness shop at Richmond burned, with a
total Ices of about $4,000.
The water pressure failed to supply
water to the top story of the Santa Fe
general offices in Topeka.
A 13-year-old boy of Fort Scott died
of lockjaw produced by wound on
his hand while firing toy pistol.
A Touring mill and an ice house at
Blue Mond left terra frma for the
clouds in the same column of smoke
Samuel A. Deel, of Baldwin, has
been appointed a magnetic observer in
the coast survey office in Washington.
A tourist sleeper filed with Epworth
Leaguers left Ottawa to attend the
national convention at San Francisco.
The acreage of alfalfa in Kansas is
greater than that of any tame grass,
and this crop never fails from drouth.
OF the first 900 bushels of wheat
bought by the Enterprise mills there
was none that tested less than go
pounds.
Sheffield ingalls,, the youngest son
of ]. ]. Ingalls,, is candidate for
mc.nber of the next legislature from
the country district of Atchison coun-
ty.
A gasoline tank used to initiate q
balloon in Forest Park, at Atchison,
caused 20 acres of the park to burned
over, together with ffty-acre wheat
field
Miss Rosa Preston, of Fort Scott,
has been awarded years scholarship
in the Chicago university valued at
S12O. There were about 900 contest
ants.
Mrs Ida S. Martin, widow of Editor
Governor John A. Martin, is matron of
Chaleton cottage at Ottawa university.
The cottage is occupied by girl stu
dents.
An Atchison county farmer was
offered 81, 100 for SIS head of heifers and
calves, and, four weeks later, tried to
get half that amount for them and
could not Hot weather.
Wyatt Stanley last spring bought
the Treadwell ranch in Kingman coun-
ty for 100000, the 1900 acres of grow
ing wheat on it being thrown in. He
harvested the grain to the value $685.
900.
The walls of the state library and
of the Office of State Superintendent
Nelson, were damaged $1,000 by the
carelessness of some one in leaving a
water faucet running all night in a
room on the floor above.
The state school fund has $500, 900 to
invest and the board finds difficulty
to secure desirable bonds as private
investors offer premiums.
The old court house at Cimarron is
pulled down and while razing it a
bushel of cartridges were found in a
hiding place.
Work on a new mill in Wichita is
stopped at the point where a carload
of maple flooring was to be used. The
car was to have started from Chicago
on June 10 but the railroad company
cannot find it.
In sixteen years nearly all the off,
Gals at the Leavenworth Soldiers
home have come from Fort Scott.
The state board of charities, since
the supreme court decision, finds no
further hindrance to the locating of
the site of the new insane asylum at
Parsons and will commence building
operations.
L. S. Crum is to be United States
marshal to succeed W. E. Sterne,
whose term will expire next January.
1t is not yet settled whether Sterne
will be asked to vacate before January.
The Kansas supreme court sustains
Parsons in a final decision upon the
location of the new insane asylum.
Reno county has become a hummer.
1t estimates its farmed land and pas
lures worth 81, 900, 900; its entire tax
able property at $4,000, 900. The
bank deposits in the county are over
$50 for every specimen of the genus
homo residing in the county. Asses
sors' returns show 20, 900 horses, 60, 900
cattle, 10000 hogs and between Is and
IA thousand sheep. The horses are
figured at round 81 200, 600.
The Missouri Pacific depot at Wet
more was burned by a fire which was
started on the roof from celebration
fireworks.
E. D. McKeever, of Topeka, is slated
for assistant U. s. district attorney,