Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-06-20

and is quite fatal among children.
w. P. Tomlinson, veteran Kansas
editor, died in Topeka, June 13, aged
65.
The Salina creamery made 1928
pounds of butter in the first week in
! June
a new SO, 900 Methodist church has
just been dedicated at Chelsea, Butler
county.
Sixteen farmers about Woodbine
have planted a $4,000 bank in Wood
bine.
The laws of Kansas prohibit the
sending of the wife or children of
soldier to the poor house.
Walter Post, aged Is years, was
drowned in the mill race in Burling-
ton, while SWIMMING He was seized
with cramps.
The amount of interest due the state
on daily balances in the National City
bank of New York City, for April
amounted TO SCOTT.
| ]. A. futile. travelling freight agent
for the Rock Island, killed himself in
Hutchinson because he believed that
he was to become blind.
Charles Stark, a Franklin county
| farmer, a white man with fair skin,
is turning black. The doctors call it
case of Addison's disease.
Water came up with a rush to with
in ~ feet of the top of well being
bored in Mcpherson. The well had
reached the depth OF 1875 feet.
There is new Australian law in
Kansas which requires study. B. H.
| Tracy, assistant attorney general, is
! preparing instructions for voters.
| The Santa Fe is to extend its present
! freight depot in Wichita. making it 1s5
feet leuger. Its outside platform ca
| pacity will be about 5000 square feet.
r. NJ. Wright, state superintendent
| of forestry has distributed 1,5OO, 900
trees in Western Kansas this season
| They were black and honey locust,
Prof. James H. Garfield. once chan
cellor OF Kansas university, now Ii
brarian of Columbia university. Ohio,
is proposed as national president of
the Young Mems Christian Association.
A Wichita man has just invested
$500, 900 in Oklahoma mortgages. which
were in the hands of the receiver of
defunct Eastern trust company. Every
dollar of the money was Kansas
money.
They tell a story about Jim Steele
who was the first justice of the peace
in Wichita, appointed by the governor
before Sedgwick county was organized
He had endorsed note; the amount of
| the note was sued for in Steele scourt:
the court gave Judgment for the holder
and then paid the note himself.
Campers cut the wire fence of
wheat field a mile north of the packing
houses in Wichita and turned in their
horses. Old Man Mostellar, the owner,
went to them and ordered them out OF
the field. This was in the morning.
| The campers beat Mostellar nearly to
death and left. He laid in the sun
until noon, and can hardly recover.
Hugh A. Cook is dead at Ottawa.
| He came to Lawrence in the SOS and
his store was burned there in the Guam
trell raid. Later he was associated
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work. He was twice sergeant-at-arms
and once member of the legislature.
and was the second sheriff of Franklin
county. His children numbered IA.
The Bank of Hays City has made a
final closing, the remaining assets be-
ing sold at auction. Depositors were
paid 81 per cent. At the time of the
failure 40 per cent compromise was
offered and rejected.
J. H. Watkins, cashier of the Dexter,
Sumner county bank, killed himself
A bank examiner had been at work
over the banks accounts and found
discrepancies. Watkins left letter
| giving business instructions and stating
that he had never taken one dollar of
the banks money.
There were only about twenty dele
gates of Sons of Veterans at the juno
ton City encampment. The member
ship in Kansas is now only about 400.
Twin Grove township OF Greenwood
county has sold its SIS 900 bonds of
the Wichita and Western railroad, now
owned by the Frisco line, which COM
pany bought the bonds to get out from
under the conditions which were made
at the time of their issue, and not be-
cause the road was obliged to ever pay
them. The township got s., 500 for the
bonds.
Calvin Pearl Titus, the Wichita SOL
der who scaled the wall of Pekin,
came home for few days before enter
ing preparatory school in New York
He has West Point in view
Mrs. Clara Davis, a bride of a year.
and late of lola, was. with her husband
travelling in wagon in Oregon. When
three days from habitation, and in
the mountains. Mr.. Davis was accident
ally shot and killed. His wife placed
the body in the wagon and drove over
that lonely distance with it. She is
now returning to Kansos
DIR. Daniel McGee, of Topeka. bought
an automobile in Chicago and rode
home in it. making 100 miles a day.
Governor Stanley has appointed as
delegates to the Trans-Mississippi con-
gress at Cripple Creek in July, J. w.
Thrall, Wellington; Mrs. Augusta Will
son, Wilsonton; ]. Fl. Churchill, Dodge
City: George Leis Lawrence: IL T