Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-07-04

! county, mas Oeen Incorporated.
Much loss from fires in wheat fields
is reported from Central Kansas.
A new laundry building and outfit
at Eureka is burned at a loss of 5000.
Bank Commissioner Albaugh is of
the opinion that Kansas has too many
banks.
Two hundred Odd Fellows attended
the dedication of a new hall at Hum
boldt
| Northeastern Kansas complains Of
severe drouth during the last week
in June.
The cost to Butler county in the Sec
ond trial of Miss Morrison will be
about So, 900.
A ton Of Trego county shale has
yielded Sis worth of silver and SO
worth of gold
State Labor Commissioner Johnson
is harvesting his 2iO acres of wheat in
Sumner county.
Pittsburg has Il 676 people and with
the mining camps surrounding the city
the number is 10, 562.
Elmer Mott, Topeka mail driver, is
in jail charged with robbing mail
packages of jewelry.
S P. Calm, one of the jurors in the
Jessie Morrison case, lost his big hay
| barn on his farm by fire.
A Winfield beer seller was convicted
of dispensing II glasses of beer among
II men and was fined 81 ZOO.
More taxes were paid before the
time limit this year than ever before.
This is true all over the state.
A Wichita truck raiser has eight
acres in string beans and expects to
| get 500 an acre for the crop.
In 1873 Labette coanty offered a re-
ward for the Renders and has just
withdrawn that offer after % years.
The contract for the new infirmary
at the Osawatomie insane asylum is let
to o. G. Petty, of Olathe, for $50, 500.
]. w. Gill, who was secretary of the
treasury in John Browns provisional
government, now does business in
| Milan, Sumner county.
Thugs continue to round up harvest
ers in Wellington, pretending to be
policemen. They lock up their victims
| in cars after robbing them.
Kansas pays out about 5000, 900 a
year for imported labor during the
harvest and threshing. Many men so
employed, from abroad, remain and
become Kansas farmers.
W. C. Carson, of Cowley county, re
ceived a notice to place S., 900 in a GER
tain place or his house would be
burned. His house has been burned
and his wife was terribly burned while
he had gone after his mail.
John T. Stewart, of Sumner county,
has about AS quarter sections of land
which he rents. His grain rentals in
Sumner county where are ll5 quarter
| sections of his land, will amount this
year to nearly 100, 900 bushels of wheat
Mr.. Stewart bagan his business life as
500 clerk in n Wichita abstract Office.
A New York alderman has a scheme
to send 5000 unemployed men and
women to Kansas and Kansas will not
stand it and has told the New Yorker
so. Governor Stanley sent this mes
sage: kansas always welcomes
thrifty, helpful people, but doesn't in
tend to become the poor house of the
nation"
Items like this are a common thing
just now: a farmer near Belle PLANE
threshed his wheat and it turned out
IS bushels to the acre and tested So
pounds to the bushcl. He was more
surprised than he could express.
President and Mrs. Taylor of the
State normal closed their 10 years SER
vice in the school buried in flowers
After the regular chapel assembly the
students, dressed in their best, filed
past the stage, each throwing a bou,
|
knee deep in June"
The quality of Sumner county wheat
is reported as OF a higher grade than
that of last years crop.
The Topeka Capital has an extended
article, illustrated with lil1enesses OF
women of Kansas who have been sue
cessful in business enterprises, from
insurance agencies, bakery and con-
fectionery shops, millinery and fur
niture to general merchandising.
Nearly 20 lines of business are repre-
sented, yet the article does not men,
ton women lawyers and physicians OF
whom there are many in the state.
c NJ. Johnson, the Sumner county
farmer who lost all his horses by light
ming, was the beneficiary of a big
hearted act of his neigh Dor, S. W.
Walker, who hitched up a big team
and took it to Mr. johnson and told
him to use them until he was able to
get team.
Henry Page, farmer near Olivet,
and his wife were at the spring getting
water when his two little girls, aged
and years, were burned in their
beds. Mr.. Page rescued them with a
ladder but they died of their burns.
Bluff City, Harper county, has zoe
people, all progressive. 1t has street
lights, parks and band and the town
has no debts.
The potato growers of the Kaw val
ley are expecting no more than third
of full crop on account of dry weather
at the wrong time.
Topeka druggists have combined
| AGAINST one lone druppist there IN in.