Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-09-26

tendance.
their corn will turn out so bushels to
the acre.
The surplus funds of the oil inspec-
ton department amount to about S2O,-
900 a year.
Miss Matte Beal heads the list of
those voted for to be queen of the
Wichita carnival.
A. D. Arbegast, formerly an official
of the NJ. K. & I. railroad, fell from
his back porch in Parsons and was
killed.
The farmers about Culver, Ottawa
county, have organized cooperative
grain company to fight the wheat COM
bine.
| Private Robt Taska Salina boy was
one of the guards at the Milburn house
in Buffalo prior to the death of the
president.
The first days enrolment of the pub
lie schools of Topeka was $685., being
113 over last year. There were 7l6 in
the high school.
The Dodge City Presbyterian church
burned the mortgage on the church
with great ceremony and saved the
ashes as memento.
improvements have been made on
the Masonic temple in Salina which
cost s11 900. The sets of scenery for
the stage cost $4,000.
| VIM. Hobson, Fort Scott boy, has
| sold his interest in a silver mine at
Cripple Creek for Sos, 900. He has been
mining for eleven years.
Captain Herbert L. Draper, U. S.
Marine Corps, who died at Hong Kong,
was appointed from Kansas and entered
the marine corps in July 1889.
]. w. HATS son Bert, of Grand Sum-
nit, is in the Winfield hospital in a
precarious condition as a result of
fall of his horse upon him. He was
driving cattle.
F. o. Popenoe, the Topeka man who
is mining in the mountains of Costa
Rica, has been appointed by the presi-
dent of that country to go to Paris to
negotiate loan.
A negro killed the sheriff of Crawford
county and people along the route he
took, in wagon with a woman, laid
for chance to shoot him. This was
true as far away as Parsons.
The state board of education is out
on an inspection tour of Kansas colleges
to learn if they are meeting the require
ments of law in the matter of preparing
students to take state teachers certifi-
Gates.
On Chicago and Alton train between
Kansas City and Chicago, the other day,
a young travelling man from st. Louis
said that all the citizens of Kansas were
cut-throats, thieves and liars. A bank
er from Larned, name not given,
knocked the young man down twice.
The Frisco, the Santa Fe and the
Rock Island trains stood still for five
minutes. from , o'clock until 2:05 p. m,
wherever they were. AL Glazier who
was conductor of a passenger train,
having ministers as passengers, asked
them to conduct a five minute service.
A Meade county farmer who has
raised close to 10, 900 bushels of wheat
and barley in the past two seasons
drove into town the other day and
made arrangements to get a deed fo1
another tract of 16O acres. He says he
don't know of a place on earth where
he can get ahead at more rapid rate
than right where he is now.
Chas. Kerfus, who broke Jail at Hays
City, secretly came back and stole away
his sweetheart, domestic in private
family.
Judson McGrew. of Fort Scott, a sol.
der in the Philippines, died there from
the effects of a thrust from a Filipino
with poisoned spear.
Judge Henry c. Sluss. who has been
Judge of the United States court OF
private land claims, will have served in
that capacity for ten years next July.
He will probably resume the practice
of law in Wichita next summer.
Sumner county's register of deeds re-
ports that ten chattel mortgages are
now being released for every new one
filed.
The injunction suit of the Santa Fe
railroad against the Orient railroad,
lately decided in favor of the Orient,
has been appealed by the Santa Fe to
the supreme court.
Warden Jewett is trying to collect
damages from the Kansas City-Leaven-
worth Electric railway for laying tracks
on the penitentiary grounds. He says
the right of way is worth $500.
VIM. Bastain and Chas Roth, two
Santa Fe water service men, were over
come by gas while working in an oil
tank at the Topeka shops and death re-
suited before they could be helped, or
even before their predicament was
known.
Al Patterson, plasterer, was given
ride ON rail at Attica and ducked in
The city water tank. He was then
warned never to come back to Attica.
the city officers all hid away during
the proceedings. Patterson had been
defaming President Mckinley.
The farmers about Haven, Reno
county, are preparing legal fight
against the grain combine. They will
produce documentary evidence of the
instructions given by the combine to
boycott the Haven elevator company.
The Argentine smelter is closed ex-
AhnA L. LIZ