Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-17


There are 1000 wires in ten cables
I crossing Wichita street at the same
point.
The deposits in the Fourth National
bank of Wichita reached 81, 10, 900 one
day last week.
I There were 3O3 carloads of salt
shipped from Kingman in two success
sive days recently.
Representative u. L. Wise, of Reno
county, died in Topeka. He had not
been present in the house.
The Quindaro university. (colored)
asks the Legislature for $4,000 for
maintenance and improvements
The legislature escorted the remains
of Representative Wise to the train, en-
route for Columbus, Ohio, for burial
Senator Tapp, of Sedgwicl county,
took high place in the Kansas Gro
GERS association, at their annual meet
ing in Topeka.
| The Acme creamery in Dickinson
county is destroyed by fire. Loss,
SO, 500; insurance 81, 800. 1t was a CO.
operative creamery.
The Kansas Improved Stock Breeders
Association adopted resolutions urging
the legislature to appropriate $500, 900
| for the 1901 exposition.
Joseph Norman, farmer and stock
dealer of Dickinson county, sold mort
gagged cattle and ran away. His cred
itors are out about 81, 900.
c. T. Allen Memphis conductor at
Fort Scott, has been law student
during his railway service and will
soon be admitted to the bar.
1t is figured out that the city of We'll
ington is s2,O75 to the right side of the
ledger from its own waterworks during
the first six months of its use.
The former wife of w. H. Catch, of
Woodbine, has received from Mr.
Gatch's will $4,000 in cash and a house
and lot from her divorced husband.
Jssse George, formerly Leaven-
worth lawyer, who was sent as a mis-
sionary to the Philippines, is now SUI
perintendent of the Manila schools.
Thomas Hindman, formerly lawyer
of Pittsburg, Pa, and a soldier in the
125th Pennsylvania volunteers, came to
Reno county 1oyears ago for his health.
He diad on Taprarr1O
December &c was the heaviest in Wich-
tia in point of receipts of hogs at the
stockyards this season. About thirty
carloads, or in the neighborhood of
5000 hogs were unloaded and sold.
The double header matter will be
tackeled in the legislature. Represen-
tative Nelson, of Neosho county, has a
bill to prevent any railroad from haul
ing more than 20 freight cars in one
train.
1t is estimated that the seven Judges
| of the supreme court can dispose of
over 600 cases year. 1t is said that
there are that number of cases to come
up from the defunct appellate court,
which will start the enlarged supreme
court 600 cases behind.
Ed. Metz, under sheriff of Reno coun-
ty, was run over by train at Hutch
inson. When pulled off the track he
asked if both his legs were cut off.
saying that if they were he did not
want to live. Both legs were cut off
and he died in about an hour.
The farmers of Pratt county, it is
said, have made enough off their wheat
pasturage rentals to pay Tor all expense
of putting in their wheat crop, includ-
| ing blowing. seed and seeding. Their
cattle, on account of the wheat pas
turage, are in better condition than at
the opening of winter.
The mining products of Kansao in
1900 are estimated by Professor Ha-
worth at SIS, aa2, o2s.
Grandmother King, of Minneapolis.
now 104 years old, lives with her son.
Rev. J. L. King, who is a grandfath-
| er.
When Jay Gould was a lad James
Oliver, of Burlingame, was his school
teacher and every Christmas Miss Helen
Gould sends the old gentleman re-
membrane token. This year he re-
ceived check for 500 from Miss
| Gould.
Miss Jessie Morrison, of Ell Dorado.
is visiting her sister, who lives on a
farm in Butler county.
The first settler of Lincoln township.
Dickinson county, located his claim
in 1859. During his journey in a wagon
| to the claim, with his wife and baby.
the wagon upset and his baby was
killed. His nearest grist mill was at
Council Grove, and he only got at that
mill $50 pounds of flour for his load of
| Is bushels of wheat. His name is
Henry Whitley. now prominent citi-
zen of Solomon city
Major VIM. Bishop, formerly of the
Goth Kansas, now major of the seth
infantry, writes to his brother in Sail
ma, that after he is mustered out he
will remain in Manila and practice
| law.
Fort Scott and Bourbon county Off
Gals divide the revenues from LIQUOR
sellers between the city and the coun-
ty treasures.
Two farmers took loads of wheat to
market in Wilson, one of which weighed
119 bushels and so pounds and the
other 12s bushels and 40 pounds.
Topeka is to have plant for the
manufacture of portable x-rav ma
| chimes. static machines and linhtninnr