Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-08-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST,".

There is exhibited at Salina blue
stem which measures IL feet.
Kingman county has had a two inch
rain and everybody is happy.
Grading has commenced on trolley
line from Olathe to Kansas City.
Congressman Calderhead has all his
life taken only five hours sleep out of
the "a.
John B. Richardson. of Kansas, has
been appointed consul at Utilla, Hon
duras
Travelling men have started a fund
to appeal the case of Jessie Morrison,
of Ell Dorado.
There has not been a case called in
the Concordia police court for more
than a month.
A shirt factory in Wichita has built
up a trade of between thirty and forty.
thousand dollars year.
And the Santa Fe has also done
away with class rates between Wichita
and the Mississippi river.
Kansas was well represented at Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa, at the reunion of the
army of the Philippines.
The Rock Island has followed the
Missouri Pacific in granting a reduc-
tion on packing house products.
Governor Stanley has issued the
usual formal proclamation for observ-
ance of Labor Day, September 1.
The eight acres of potatoes grown at
the industrial school for girls will turn
out about 300 bushels to the acre.
Several districts of Dickinson county
are arranging to unite under the town
ship school plan and have graded
schools.
Clay county schools will mostly have
longer terms next winter, and the
teachers are to have an increase in
their pay.
There are 4s farming implement
manufacturers which have representa-
tives in Wichita, who give employment
to 296 people.
The Kansas university has just re-
ceived one of the rarest swimming rep
tiles of the old cretaceous ocean. 1t is
ten feet long.
Within short time there have been
seven men arrested in Topeka by the
TT hal
liquor to Indians.
Mrs. Rebecca Buckley Burket, who
has Just died at Holton, was a grand
daughter of John Hart, one of the
siEners of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence. Mrs Burkett was 70 years old.
F. R. Zacharias, banker at Harper,
has resigned as member of the board
of managers of the Hutchinson reform,
atory. Governor Stanley appointed
Charles Hull, of Kirwin, to fill the va
cancy.
President Ernest R. Nichols, of the
Kansas State Agricultural college, has
been selected for the position of presi
dent of the Rhode Island. College Of
Agriculture and Mechanics Arts a,
Kingston.
Ralph Carter Harrison, of Colwich
one and a half years old, has to hi.
credit in bank 81, 900 and title to 81, 7OI
worth of land. The fortune was lief,
to him by his grandfather, Jane.
Greenfield, of Ohio.
Miss AIDA Billings and her sister
Pearl, were struck by lightning while
in bed at Cawller City. Pearl wa,
killed instantly and AIDA died within
o week. The rest of the family escaped
injury but the house and contents were
q total loss.
The Missouri Pacific depot at Clyde
was robbed by two men who held VI
the night operator and opened The
money drawer. They could not oper
the safe which contained So, 900. Sheriff
Moore arrested the burglars near Rice
:, ]. F. Minniclk threshed the crop O.
I wheat from SO acres at Hillsdale, will
{ a total yield of 1889 bushels and al
Sewerage yield of 3616 bushels to thu
acre. The wheat was standard weight
:. -Four acres ef-this+field made 17s bush
; els, or lax bushels to the acre, which
! Vested 81 pounds to the bushel.
e Engineer Charles Singleton, of tn,
Missouri Pacific, has disappeared. Il,
!. left the dinner table at his boarding
house and went out and has not beer
!. seen since. This occurred sometim
! since. He left all his personal effect
at the boarding house.
The Kings Daughters have fitted u
%a room in the city building in WIGHT;
|. for the fuse of the working youn,
!, women to spend their noon hour ant
. bring their lunches The rooms NIGEL,
Z furnished with every convenience ant
the latest magazines are provided.
E S. A Flenner, for many years a mil
Ter of Abilene, and who was just com
:, plotting a fine mill to succeed on
!? burned year ago, died last week afte
a short illness. He was a prominen
i. Knight of Pythias and highly re
Z spected-' 4 80
C. A. Rohrer, one of the instructors il
= the Dickinson county high school, ha
: been given the position of principal o
D the school for the blind at Kansas City
Kas., and takes charge at once. He
! state university graduate and wei
( qualified for the position.
A message from Wisconsin states tina
4 Judge A. H. Horton is somewhat i'm
nroved in condition and 1hat he is hi