Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-09-04
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gle library in Salina.
The Arkansas City Traveller has COM
pleted it's Send year.
Potatoes are rotting in the Kaw val
ley where the acreage is the largest in
Kansas.
David Buck, formerly of Junction
City, died on August "a of cholera, at
Manila.
half million dollars in gold has
been shipped from New York to Buenos
Ayres.
Wichita has Confederate Veterans
post; the only organization of the kind
in Kansas.
A sub-station of the Wichita post
Office is to be established near the
packing houses.
w. Fl. Smith, secretary to the state
railroad commission, is sick, and in a
serious condition.
Three children in Piainville family
have died with diphtheria, and others
are dangerously i'll.
NJ. J. Riddell, of Window, uses
twenty horsepower traction engine to
pull four double gang plows.
Coleman Grady, of Arkansas City,
has been ordered to return to the peni-
Tertiary for violating his parole.
1t is said that it cost Governor Nor
rill SO, 900 while he held that Office to
meet the demands of begging solicitors
The five leading alfalfa counties, in
the order of their rank are: Jewell,
Norton, Republic, Smith and Phillips
A stranger was killed near Cimarron
suppoted to bear the name of Thomas
Hearnes. He was run over by train.
The 18th annual convention of the
Seventh district Christian Endeavor
society met at Burlington on August
20.
Five years ago the treasurer of a
Montgomery county township default
ed and escaped. He is now under ar
rest.
James Purcell Worrell, of Post No.
8, Larned, is appointed aid by Com
mander-in-Chief Torrance, of the G.
A. r.
Motorman Mace Miller, of Junction
city, was drowned in the Republican
river. He fell from the platform of
hisca
The county commissioners of Chase
county have called a special election
for October IA to vote S55, 900 bonds for
the Orient railroad.
Three boys in a buggy plunged over
a thirty-foot embanlzment into the
river at Topeka. The horses were
killed; the boys unhurt.
Norman McClain of Sedan was given
a poisonous drink by young man who
is his rival in 4 love affair. McClain
was thought likely to recover.
Missouri" Reed, farmer near
Wellsville, Kansas, received propo-
sition recently. A neighbor offered to
cut, husl1 and crib Reeds corn crop
and to take as his pay all the corn over
100 bushels to the acre. The offer
was rejected.
Mrs. Manda Clark, an aged colored
woman of Salina, received a pension
of SIS month with back pay amount
ing to $500. Some one asked her if
she would get married now. Law,
no, honey" she replied; ''Uncle Sam is
the bestest husban' 1 want"
The following twenty cities of Kan
sas head the state list in populations:
Kansas City, 53,625; Topeka, 3s,
Wichita, IS, 1853; Leavenworth, 22,441;
Atchison, 1851; Pittsburg, 1874;
Fort Scott, 1889; Lawrence, 1o,77O;
Hutchinson, 1926; Emporia, 9,619;
Parsons, 9,365; lola, s,2s2; Ottawa,
1917; Salina, 1885; Arkansas City,
1858; Newton, 6,727; Winfield, c,69o;
Galena, 6,6s4; Coffeyville, 6,673; Argen.
tine, 6,5l5.
Governor Stanley has refused to
honor requisition from Gov. Savage,
of Nebraska, for L. C. Fitch, a Jewell
county farmer, who, it is charged,
stole herd of cattle in Nebraska and
drove them over the line
Fakirs are selling farmers 'cream-
cry refrigerator" and taking notes
from them at big price and promising
to call every week and pay % cents
pound for their butter. They never
come but notices come from banks that
their notes will come due at certain
dates.
Chanute still accumulates gushers;
six of them were brought in last week.
The are now 152 producers in the Chan
ute oil field.
Marion Coyle, aged &c, member of
the Frisco bridge gang, was killed near
Fontana by being crushed by timber
falling upon him. His neck was bro
ken.
The Neosho river flood of last week
was about as bad at Burlington as the
June flood. A number of houses were
struck by lightning, also half dozen
barns. Some stock was killed.
A ruling has been made by the state
superintendent that the exchange
clause in the school book law does not
compel contractors who will supply
books to exchange for old booolls ex-
cept of like kind and grade; for in
stance, first reader must be exchanged
for first reader and SO on.
Tom McNeal is to speak at the Ohio