Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-04-24
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANS.

There were six robberies at Airing
ton, Reno county, in one week.
Richard Hensley, negro of Salina,
is dead, leaving an estate of about s15,
OOO
The Santa Fe round house at Cool
idge is being torn down for removal to
Syracuse.
The canyons have their Neodesha
smelter about one-half up. 1t covers
six acres of ground.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has
consented to address the Beloit Chau-
tauqua society on July %.
A Kansas merry-go-round factory
shipped the other day car load of the
whirling machines to Virginia.
Stolen silk dress patterns were found
under the steps of Fort Scott church.
They came from Girard store.
John Chromster, who has resided on
his original claim in Dickinson county
for thirty-one years, died on April IA.
Salina junk dealer employs regu-
larly in his yards % men and four
teams and keeps several men on the
road buying junk.
R. N. Chilcott, editor of the Times at
Wamego, was assaulted on the street
by gang of saloon people for opposing
them at the city election.
Peter McKechnie has sold his inter-
est in the Osborne Farmer to Charles
Hillebrandt, who will continue the
publication. McKechnie returns to
Beloit.
Sherman Harvey, who was captain
in the 23rd Kansas, and Captain Haw-
kins, both lawyers, have started to go
TO Manila to practice law and go into
the tobacco business.
The Topeka colored men who started
TO organize cooperative company to
establish brick plant are now selling
stock to raise first payment for the
required machinery.
E. B. Burnett, who published the
Solomon Sentinel for so many years,
has planted new paper at Hoyt, Jack
son county, which he has also given
the name of Sentinel.
A. 7. Sharpe, the travelling salesman
who was stabbed and killed at Mem
phis, was the son of the late Amasa T.
Sharpe, for many years editor of the
Ottawa. Kansas, Daily Republican.
Mrs Isabel Worrell Ball, of Larned,
one of the best known newspaper wri-
tiers of Washington, has been called
home by the serious illness of her
mother, Mrs. James Purcell Worrell.
The Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas
City electric railway company has taken
an Oklahoma charter; capital stock
$4,000, 900. The incorporators are two
men of Independence, Kansas, and two
of Oklahoma City.
The Missouri Pacific has put on a
day train from the southwest to Kan.
sas City. 1t leaves Kiowa at a. IN.
reaches Wichita at $40 and arrives al
Kansas City at p. m. Returning, the
train reaches Wichita at p. m.
The head of the famous Sunny Slope
bull, "Wild Tom," is being mounted
by an Emporia taxidermist, and will
ornament the home of the present
owner of Sunny Slope, C. A. Stannard.
He had refused SIS, 900 for the bull.
The Katy has purchased the new line
from Moran to lola. The object Of
building the line was to tap the gas
belt around lola. Heretofore the Mis-
souri, Pacific has had no competition
and it got all the business. The Katy
connects with the new line at Moran
An automobile factory at Topeka ha.
of the travelling statesmen of a Topeka
wholesale grocery house.
The Cudahy Packing Company i.
paying in Wichita the same prices fol
cattle and sheep as is paid in Kansas
City with the exception of extra heavy
export steers.
The Continental Creamery Company
Kansas institution, has been awarded
the contract for furnishing 200, Oot
pounds of butter to the navy at q
cents a pound.
Four prisoners were pardoned out o
the penitentiary in the past year t,
die, and four others died in the prison
There is one prisoner at Lansing serv
ing his third term under assumed
names. His parents live not far ava,
from the prison and yet they do no
know that he ever was in prison.
Chas. Sewers, young resident o
Geary county, died from the explosion
of gasoline lamp. He was regulatin.
the air pressure and the explosion
threw gasoline all over him. He leave
young family.
Auditor Cole reports expenditure
for the month of March as follows
Boys Industrial school, So, 242; Topeka
asylum, S9,4s7; Osawatomie asylum
S13,11O Girls Industrial school, 81, Sis
Soldiers Orphans home, 81, 927; IDIOT
asylum, S-'Soo; bllno SCHOOL Si,ooo
Deaf and Dumb School, 4,eo1; Indus
trial reformatory, ss,2os: penitentiary
s0,513.
D. Ballard, of Washington county
has added another half section to hi
Meade county holdings. He recentl
bought 5000 acres in that county.
Wild Tom, the famous Sunny Stop
Hereford bull died recently at Sum
Slope farm near Emporia. The anima