Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-06-13
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS

A jewelry store in Nickerson has
been robbed of s7o0 worth of its stock.
A letter from Wellington puts the
wheat prospect of Sumner county at
from IL to Is bushels per acre.
Elk City is the first town to act under
the new law which authorizes cities to
issue bonds to prospect for coal
John Collins, having learned the
printers trade in the penitentiary, has
been given a subordinate clerkship.
There are spots-in a few wheat fields
In Rice and Mcpherson counties which
have been visited by the Hessian fly.
The Arkansas river is having it's
June rise early. 1t was out of its
bank at Lalsin on the first day of the
month.
There are jobs and jobs and Kansas
has taste of them all. There is now
an expert cleaner of safe locks working
in Kansas.
The Missouri Pacific has purchased
switches, storage tracks, shops and a
600, 900 bushel elevator.
Judge Hazen of the Shawnee county
district court has refused to grant Mrs.
Nation new trial and an appeal will
be taken to the supreme court
During May the creamery company
operating in Dickinson county paid
s42, 900 to farmers for milk. 1t was
the product of about $4,000 cows.
Jasper n. Wilkinson, who has been
with the Kansas State Normal school
since 1884, has been elected president
to succeed A. R. Taylor, resigned.
Judge A. J. Myatt, of Wichita, re-
ceived serious injuries in runaway in
Colorado. Judge Wyatt was solicitor
of the short-lived court of visitation.
Guess the Topeka Capital hit it off
right when it said that the Emporia
normal school was "the greatest train
ing school for teachers in the world. "
Mrs Adelaide O'Brien, of Wichita
took poison because she was jealous Of
her husband. Will she feel better
about it lover there" where she has
gone.
Frank Terrill, of Salem, Sedgwiclx
county, was the first to commence the
wheat harvest. His crop is early May
wheat, is very fine and will make a
good yield.
Bishop Warren laid the corner stone
for $50, 900 NJ. E. church at Baldwin
A message of regret was sent to Presi-
dent Mckinley who had that event on
the itinerary of his tour.
Kansas corporations are up against
il periodically. The time has come
around for another report to the secre-
tary of state, with heavy penalties if
the reports are not made.
Chancellor Frank II. Snow, of Kan
sas university, has resigned. He has
never been in good health since his
son, San Francisco newspaper re-
porter, was drowned in the harbor
there.
The accumulation of six months OF
liquors in the Topeka city Jail was de.
stroyed by the chief of police. 1t con.
sisted of "a kegs of beer and several
cases of liquors. Several old topers
shed tears.
The outstanding bonded indebted
ness of the entire state of Kansas
amounts to 1913, 632, 3s4; while the bank
deposits reach 500, ZOO, 900. Kansas
could pay every bond and then have
more in its banks than it had five year:
ago.
A soup bone cost lola s12; so the
Register complains. A woman left il
to boil and went down town. The fire
under the kettle lasted longer thar
the water in it and a dense smoke re
suited which brought out the fine de
partment
Charles Holmes, young man of IS
son of Thomas Holmes, a job printer
of Wichita, was with a private picnic
party near the Little Arkansas river
in which they also bathed. Holme:
was taken with cramp and was
drowned.
R. E. TorriDgton, a railroad mar
who worked in Wichita for years, ant
was later connected with the Rocl
Island passenger department at Kan
sas City, has been appointed city pas
senger ticket agent in st. Louis.
The Kansas penitentiary shipped il
one day on orders from farmers anC
dealers over 400 tons of binding Irvine
The Irvine plant is turning out 1900
pounds a day, selling at IA cents
pound. This price clears enough
profit to pay interest on the money thu
state has invested in the plant.
The expenses of the burial of Mrs
Sells of Topeka, and for which claim
have been made against her estate
amount to Ss2475, which amount onl,
covers two bills,
train of 16 cars has reached Nc
Pherson, loaded as heavily as the,
would stand with threshing machine
and engines, over the Santa Fe from
Minneapolis, MINI. Each car wa
decorated with bunting which had OIL
them greetings to Kansas like these
Nothing too good for Kansas,
whats the matter with Kansas"
Kansas railroads have quite general
~ arranged to open books to keel
track of orders for cars and the date o
filling the orders This is done to shov
compliments that they do get thei
cars in turn.
Experts estimate that under the nev
law giving cities, townships and schoo