Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-05-30


between Arkansas City and Geuda
Springs.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Druggists in Topeka was attended by
about 300 druggists.
Captain D. S. Whirtenhall, of Severy,
believes that he was the first soldier to
enlist in the civil war.
Fred Weigand, a Burlington boy,
died of lockjaw caused by running a
rusty nail into his foot.
Atchison is said to have a man who
never laughed aloud. There is another
one runninga bank at Cheney.
VIM. Sharon. Barber county farm
addition of IS registered cattle to his
herd.
At the debate in Emporia between
the normal schools of Kansas and Ne
braska, the debaters from Nebraska
won.
Gas has been struck near Sedan at a
depth of $50 feet which is 300 feet less
than former gas finds in paying guam
Titles.
An old farmer of Kiowa county, has
Just purchased 1000 acres of land to
round ont his little farm. making &c.
600 acres now.
Orval Lane, young farmer, was
drowned in the Neosho river in Lyon
county while attempting to rescue his
brother from drowning.
The annual grand lodge of the
Knights of Pythias in session in Kan
sas City, Kansas, appointed their next
annual meeting to be held in Wichita.
The Dodge Avenue Methodist church
of Wichita has been struck by light
ming which tore off shingles from the
tower and also some siding from one
side of the building.
The health officers of Dickinson
county made an order that there should
be no public gatherings in the county
for 30 days on account of smallpox,
which put stop to all school COM
mencements.
State Superintendent Frank Nelson
has received invitations to address
more than 300 school commandments
all occurring within very short peri
cd. Of course he had to stop accepting
when the time limit was filled.
Judge Arson R. Clark. in test case
at Sterling, decides that the law com
polling the appointment of old soldiers
to official positions is not valid. He
says the legislature would have equal
power to compel voters to vote for old
soldiers as to force their appointment.
Bank Commissioner Albaugh believes
that there is 500 in cash per capita
now in Kansas. The banks in the
state. by their last report, hold SO, OOO,-
900 of deposits and Mr.. Albaugh thinks
it certain that there is as much more
in the cash drawers, in the pockets
and stockings of individuals and hid
den in secret places.
Two nuggets were pumped out of
old miners declared were genuine gold
and they were sent away for assay.
This resulted in report that the assay
showed that the nuggets were almost
pure gold. The came up from well
so feet deep in reddish gray sand. The
community went wild.
The women of Eureka have organ
lied a town improvement society. The
ladies of the city club recently raised
money for public library and have
turned it over to the city. Eureka has
a woman doctor and two women pho
tographers.
Farm lands in Labette county have
advanced in price from Is to IS per
cent and the demand for them has
raised from so to IS per cent. hun
dred residences, mostly of the better
class, have been erected in Parsons
during the past year.
The Arkansas City council has re-
duced the salary of the mayor to 81 90
a year and that of councilmen to IS
cents a year.
Smith county wheat looks fine. corn
little slow. Considerable land is sell
ing, mostly to home people. Deposits
in banks of the county are a million
and half dollars.
Real value in Ottawa county farms
has advanced 10 to % per cent within
IL months: valley land selling from SIS
to $40 an acre; same land year ago
held at $50 to $50.
There seems to be authority for the
statement that the Choctaw railroad
system will build line through Au-
gusta. Okla. to Alva, and from there
parallel the Orient through Anthony
to Wichita.
The state prison binding Irvine plant
sends out two or three carloads of
Irvine every day. Farmers are giving
this brand the preference.
Farming and grazing lands in os-
borne county are changing hands, al
ways at an advance ranging from Is to
to - per cent over "a few years ago.
Mcpherson county land has advanced
$1,000 on the quarter section, and new
men are investing. Banks are unable
to find borrowers.
There was an unusually large sale
of farm lands in Nemaha county this
spring, but the population is not ma
terially increased. Interest rates on
real estate are lower than in New
England.
Mrs. Eliza L. Grismore of Lawrence,
took part in a drill at Tonganoxie by
the Lawrence Rebekah lodge and died
of apoplexy at that palce.