Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-11-07

Topeka now has 12s miles of paved
streets and Ga miles of paved alleys
c. F. Weber, who owns many eleva-
tor, has purchased home for himself
in Wichita.
The Moherman Angora got ranch at
Wellsville has sold five hundred goats
this season.
Kansas officials defy the law which
prohibits outsiders from hunting in In
dian Territory.
A grading gang commenced work at
Westville on the line of the Ozark &
Cherokee railway.
A Second wooden mill at Topeka is
completed and starts to work this week
with 125 operatives
DIR. J. d. Drake, of Tennessee, has
been elected president of the Lane uni
versity at Lecompton.
An eight-year old apple tree in Wood
son county yielded thirteen bushels of
apples to the pickers.
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college at Lindsborg will celebrate its
twentieth anniversary.
A large stand pipe is to be erected at
the insane asylum, at Topeka, as a
protection against fire.
Andrew Linn, of Osborne county, says
he raised AZ tons of beets on 111S
square rods of land this year
Last year the money collected from
fire insurance companies for the fire
mans relief fund amounted to SIS, 900.
The Santa Fe dispatchers and the
trainmaster, now at Newton, are ex-
pecting to be moved to Dodge City very
soon.
The Rev. H. E. Mills. Congregation
alist pastor at Fort Scott. and his wife,
have volunteered as missionaries in
India
Congressman Charles Curtis grand
mother is "a years old. She lived where
Topeka now is generation before To-
pelxa was.
/ IL ~ OAAhA1- w lCobho Olu- WIZ has
| lived on the same farm near Huron for
35 years, committed suicide on account
failing health.
Leavenworth's new library building
is to be dedicated about the first of the
year. New books to the value of s., 500
will be ready at that time.
1t was announced that Senator Bur
ton was to have the naming of Baptist
chaplain in the army and applications
| and endorsements weighted the mails
received by him.
There is trouble in the Kansas de-
partment of the &. A. R. between Com
mander Norton and his two subordi-
mates, the Adjutant General and the
Quartermaster General.
An Iowa man has bought eleven acres
of land on Elm Creek, south of lola,
for S25, 200, upon which he intends to
construct brick plant. There is an
abundant supply of shale under the
land
Miss Coles, stenographer of Topeka,
was attacked by a negro while going
home. Her screams attracted neighbors
and the negro fed. A black fiend has
been arrested and is held to await Miss
Coles recovery from the nervous shock
so as to be able to identify him.
Frank Decker, Brown county farm
err, has four acres in alfalfa, some of it
sowed two years ago and some of it last
year. He has cut II tons of hay worth
S. ton, in three cuttings. He threshed
one cutting and got 43 bushels of seed
worth Sc a bushel, making, with the
hay, an income of S343 off four acres of
land. He expects to cut fourth crop
of hay from which he expects two or
three tons.
st. Paul, Neosho county, now has a
strong flow of gas and preparations are
being made to supply the city with
gas.
A fire at Burlington destroyed doc
tors Office, grocery store and the
Courier printing office. A jewelry store
and a millinery establishment were in
jured by water.
A Topeka township justice of the
peace has been arrested in a poker
game in the city. 1t was Disney who
has been putting heavy penalties on
convicted jointists.
Benjamin Curtis, after farming the
same land near Doniphan since 1854 has
sold his farm and moved to Atchison.
Ex-Mayor S. C. King, of Atchison. is
having built a machine that can be
used for blowing, or for hauling freight
wagons. 1t is on a new principle dis
covered by him, and which he has to
hide because of its simplicity. 1t is
walking machine with legs, acted upon
by gasoline engine. The machine
being built is of Is horsepower and
will be able to draw plows and turn
over 40 acres of soil in ten hours.
William A. Limbocker, an old resi-
dent of Manhattan, now police judge
is under arrest on the charge of having
altered a pension affidavit.
In Barton county the local assessors
found only 500, 1865 in each. The state
ments of the banks show that there is
81, 323, 317.7l in cash on deposit in the
county.
John Hess, of Hutchinson, owns a
pair of twin steers, Galloways, which
are years old, measure six feet inches
in height and together tip the beam at
5000 pounds.
Shawnee county had 80 scholars in
district schools in 1861; in 1901 the en-
rollment is 12,O73, in 126 buildings, &C.
cupying and using school propertv of