Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-01-16

several 1drtnS near NneUS nave
changed hands lately at $40 an acre.
Work has commenced with some en-
ergy on the coal hole at Atchison.
The president has nominated Adna
Clarke, of Kansas, for lieutenancy.
The Frisco line is to have heavier
steel between Wichita and Carthage.
There is an epidemic of smallpox
among a German colony near Stafford.
The ladies of Lebanon, Smith coun-
ty, have their new public library start
ed.
A Saline county farmer sold eleven
turkeys of the Mammoth Bronze variety
for $50.
Kansas Turkey wheat sells 2 or 8
cents better than the Nebraska Turkey
| wheat
The Pottawatomie Indians in Kan
sas have brass band. Agent Honnell
is the leader.
Anthony people raised S43, 900 in two
days for the purpose of securing the
! Choctaw road.
]. c. Beatty, of Ottawa, has bought
| 800 acres of farm land near Solomon
for SIT, 500 cash.
Dickinson county farmers are al
ready worrying about where their seed
corn will come from.
Out of $50 so-called cases of smallpox
reported in Kansas in December there
was but one fatal case.
Peach growers of Douglas county say
that the peach crop never was more
promising than just now.
The school children of district As, in
Barber county, numbering A pupils,
sent in s7.25 to the Mckinley memorial
fund.
| The executive council has contracted
for the removal of the horrid ''decora-
tons of the rotunda of the state house
and for re-frescoing it.
Judge Smart, of the district court at
Ottawa, fined the police judge of OF
tawa for not appearing in court when
summoned as witness.
Wichita wholesalers have been fig
uring together and they declare that
their gross business in 1901 reached ten
and three-fourths million dollars.
Many Kansas towns are forming COM
mercial clubs just in time to have a
representation at the Reciprocal con-
vention at Topeka on January % and
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A Leavenworth furniture company
has contracted for convict labor in the
Kansas penitentiary at Sc cents a day
of ten hours, with power, heat, shop
and storage room included.
! Secretary Coburn estimates the value
of livestock in Kansas at S153, OOO, 900
which is an increase of $40, 900, 600 since
| 1890. There are million more cattle
and half a million more swine in Kan
sas than in 1890.
A Union Pacific brakeman was hurt
out near Wamego and the local doctor
said he must be taken to a hospital as
quickly as possible. The conductor
wired the particulars and was ordered
to pull for Armourdale with only his
engine and caboose. He made the 81
miles in 65 minutes.
Reuben Weeks, Pottawatomie
county farmer, kept cattle in corral
without water, his windmill having
failed. The cattle broke out and rushed
toward the Kansas river half mile
away. There were 60 of them and they
went in body over;a high bank and
at least 40 of them were drowned
The supreme court will appoint a
state librarian to succeed Mrs. Diggs
whose term expires soon. Mrs. Nelly
Armentrout, of Kansas City, and the
former librarian, James L. King, are
mentioned as candidates.
Sumner county is to have what the
postoffice department calls the county
system of free rural delivery. By this
system petitions are ignored and the
department arranges the routes in such
shape that no home in the county is
missed. There are but few such cases
in the country.
The value of Touring and grist mill
products of Topeka in 1900, according
to the United States census, was So
$4,000. The same census gave the
figures for the same products in Kansas
City, NO., as s525, 496.
Leopold Hay, Wichita wholesaler,
sold his 800 acre farm, six miles from
town, to Frank means for $4,000. Mr.
Means began farming in Sedgwick
county with one farm and he now has
16 or II farms. He estimates that the
profits realized from his farming has
paid for them all.
q. C. Malvin, of Jennings, Ks, is ar
rested on the charge of opening mail
sack and stealing registered letter
containing s1s6.
Seventy-ive sugar beet raisers in
Western Kansas have drawn from the
state treasury s1,71s.O2 bounty money
at the rate of 81 a ton. There is S., 900
appropriated for that purpose.
Burton E. Landon, one of the most
prominent of the Masons of Kansas,
died at Fort Scott on January 4. He
has been Mason for nearly 40 years,
and had reached the 33rd degree.
Colonel Metcalf will not take charge
of the Topeka pension agency until the
February pensions payment is over. 1t
requires thirty days to sign the checks
and they have been signed by the pres