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

Chanute is to vote upon the erection
of another school building.
The state reunion of the &. A r. at
Hutchinson will be held August 1917.
Electric lights have been turned on
in Cherokee, the plant being completed.
Rudolph Speeleier was killed by a
passenger train, close to his home west
of Marysville.
The corrected returns of the asses
sors for the city of Topeka show pop
ulation of 3s,O67.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, Division 179, held their annual
picnic at Humboldt. Over 1000 people
attended.
J. ]. Houston, formerly register of
deeds of Anderson county, has been
appointed commissioner of public lands
of oklahoma.
The Topeka druggist who was re-
fused supplies from wholesalers will
prosecute the wholesalers under the
Kansas antitrust law.
Topeka jointists, having lost the
backing of Kansas City men who sup
ply them and generally own their out
fits, have quit business.
Sedgwiclk county farmers will get
about $50 an acre for their alfalfa crop
The second crop is mostly cut and
there will be two more to cut.
G. W. Brown, the Augusta banker,
is the first capitalist of Kansas to go
to the Philippines to invest in lands.
He will be gone about six months
Governor Stanley has plainly init
mated that Mrs. Nation need not apply
for a pardon, but that other women
who acted with her will be considered
as scparare class.
Robert Maxwell, press room fore
man of the Topeka Capital office, has
taken out another patent on his auto
matte mailing machine, which is at
tached to a cylinder press.
Prof. W. R. Carter, of the colored in
dustrial institute of Topeka, has been
rendered the cipalship of the Flor
ida normal and industrial college, a
state institution for negroes.
went to the home of his son-in-law in
the night in an intoxicated condition.
Being mistaken for chicken thief he
was shot and badly wounded.
Samuel Shoup, of Coffey county, was
surprised by a hundred neighbors on
his Goth birthday. He has lived in
that county 40 years, is in good health
and is as active as many men of 60.
Rabbits along the highways and
hedges of Sumner county are not safe
when Miss Myrtle johnson is taking a
buggy ride with her rifle. Three rab-
bits to one drive is about her average
Miss Louise Vandivert, daughter of
Ex-Judge Vandivert of the Larned dis
trict court, carried off the honors of
her class at Rutgers college, Bruins
wick n. j. There were 20 in the class
j. A. Parks, of Caldwell, reports that
over 200 wagons left there for the new
country and that the immigrants de-
clare they will settle in the new coun-
try whether the government likes it or
not.
The weavers in the Topeka wooden
mill struck for more pay. An offer
was made to them but it did not salts
fly them. The manager then put few
men from other departments at the
looms, as they knew something about
the work. New men will probably
take the looms.
Young Belts, the 13-year-old boy
who was tried for murder at Winfield,
was acquitted by the jury. Belts and
Clyde Moore, who had run away from
home, were accused of killing farmer
for his money. Moore's trial will come
later.
There were not enough harvesters
In the wheat belt of Kansas despite
the state and railroad labor bureaus.
Town people, clerks and mechanics
and railroad section hands all dropped
their employment to work in the har.
vest.
The expenses of the dog catchers in
Topeka amounted to S1s7.5O for three
weeks; their collections were $751;, Civ
ing the city profit of 1868. so
Fl. Mortimer, who marketed the first
wheat at Winfield had an average yield
of 40 bushels to the acre of his 1OC
acres of wheat, which tested "a pounds
TO the bushel.
Eureka is going to try again. Its
first prospect boring was lost by the
breaking Gifts casing. There is plenty
of faith there on the subject of Ill
innate success.
An attempt was made to blow uI
the First NJ. f. church in Manhattan
The pastor, Rev. J. NJ. Miller, is lead
or in the crusade against the saloons
Engines on branch lines are distin
guished from those doing heavy ser
vice on the main line by the placing Of
CIPHER before the number on each
one.
Clara E. Howe, wife of E w. Howe
of Atchison, has secured a divorce or
the ground o: desertion, receiving ali.
mony of 500 a month until S15,O 900 has
been paid.
The Fl. G. Lee farm north of Wichita
has a ten acre field of alfalfa which
was sown ten years ago. The first
cutting this season produced IS tons
with two more cuttings to follow.
About 5000 Santa Fe shopmen ant
members of their families enjoyed {
picnic exclusion to Kansas City. Thi.
was less number than was expected
and nrnvided for hv the railroad com