Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-31
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

of Oregon.
Apples are being fed to hogs to a
large extent in portions of Kansas.
A company has been formed to pros
pect for coal, gas and oil at Jewell City.
The largest COW in Kansas is owned
by Dick Clark, of Gaylord. She weighs
1000 pounds and is six feet high.
E. Fl. Locl1ridge, of Oak Hall, has
killed the old eagle who has made its
home in that section for % years.
Congressman W. A. Reeder, of the
Sixth district, asks the people to select
their postmasters by local elections.
The finest livery barn in Emporia,
with Is horses and IL carriages, is
burned at a loss of towards $4,000.
The city marshal of Wellington takes
boys to school; those who do not at
tend, and the school board furnishes
them with books.
DR.. Louis Schleisinger, of st. Louis,
who holds spirit seances at Arkansas
City, has been arrested for refusing to
pay his license fee.
While the state meeting of the Anti
Horse thief association was in session
at Independence seven horses were
stolen from close by the town.
Mrs. Lewis HornbeclS, late of the
Beloit industrial school for girls, is an
applicant for the position of matron of
a North Dakota Indian school.
The last list of Kansas towns with
500 or more population which are free
from joints includes Burr Oak, Delphos,
Robinson, Effingham, McLouth and
Nortonville. There surely must be
more.
Case BrodericL, of Holton, has been
made special master to take testimony
in the case involving title to several
thousand acres of land in Western
Kansas held by the Santa Fe rail
road.
C. A. Keller, the Cowley county apple
king, is harvesting and storing in
buildings erected for that purpose TO-,
600 bushels of apples. He has twenty
varieties. They are now nearly all
picked.
n. B. Brown, of Cloud county, bought
40 acres two years ago at $40 an acre
and put it in alfalfa. His two years
income from the two years crops paid
interest, taxes, seeding and repaid the
$40 an acre too.
1t is proposed that the state buy
Stiger's island, adjacent to the peniten-
tiary at Lansing, for the purpose of
extending the state coal mines under it.
The mines now being worked will not
East much longer.
DIR. G. A. Gates, of Cheyenne, Wyo..
has accepted the presidency of Wash
burn college after declining the presi-
dency of the Illinois university, the
Ohio university, Lake Forest college
and Dartmouth college.
Probate Judge B. B. Garrett, of Ness
county, died in a barber shop at Ness
City while waiting to be shaved. He
had resided there 81 years and was the
first county treasurer. He was serving
his fourth term as probate judge.
A troublesome citizen of Ottawa got
to that point in his career requiring a
lesson. The court, in one breath, fined
him S25 for being drunk; 500 for dis
turbing the peace; S1OO for resisting an
officer; 500 for destruction of Jail prop
erty; costs, S7.15.. The court put a
limit on the number of cubic feet of
stone day he must break until the
$780, Is was wiped out.
A Rock Island freight piled up Is
cars in a cut south of Peck, the second
station south of Wichita. There was
some livestock on the train. The en-
CINE escaped and no one was hurt. A
train was sent from Wichita with 40
men to clear the track.
County Superintendent Smith, of
Franklin county, found that when the
monthly meeting of teachers was held
at Ottawa much time was spent at the
milliners, shopping and making calls.
He then appointed the meetings at the
small lows and secured better results.
DIR. Farig, of Philadelphia, govern
nent expert, has visited the Trego gold
fields and sent a wagon load of the
shale to an eastern station for analysis.
During the late drouth deposits in
Kansas banks have increased to $40,
900, 900; about equally divided between
the national banks and the state and
private banks.
By report of Statistical Secretary
Dixon, the Friends society in Kansas
has gained 1873 members during the
past year, making a total membership
1,O02 at the present time.
Law Notes, the leading law journal
of the country, says that the Kansas
supreme court reports are the best that
are issued. T. E. Dewey is the author.
John Wilburn, one of the mob at a
country saloon in Leavenworth county
last February, is being tried for the
murder of Rose Hudson, who was killed
by gun shot at that time.
The warehouse of the Fort Scott
Pottery company is totally destroyed
by fire with loss of $1,000. There
was strong evidence that gasoline had
been used, says the telegraph report.
The entire crop of sugar beets gath
cred about Garden City has been sold
to the Rocky Ford sugar factory. The
beets tested better than the limit of l.
per cent sugar, fixed by the legislature
allowing a bounty of 81 ton for sugar
beets grown in Kansas.
Kensington is without a mayor and