Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-02-27
1000 flour mill is to be built in

$40 acres, is sold TO ,. l.. CONNIE for
S14,5OO
A sash and door company at Wichita,
with capital of 500, 900, has taken a
charter.
Winfield has been offered $40, 900 for
a public library, on his usual terms, by
Mr.. Carnegie.
One firm at the Wichita stock yards
bought in one week of February $780,
600 worth of cattle
E. T. Guyman, who has large inter-
ests at Liberal, has bought one of the
finest homes in Hutchinson.
Three Wichita men have purchased
AZ, 900 acres of land in Kearney county.
The land is covered with buffalo grass.
The postotfice appropriation bill pro-
vides for the continuance of the fast
mail service from Kansas City to New
ton.
The city of Topeka has confessed
Judgment for 5000 for damage done to
joint during the first raid by Mrs
Nation.
The Rock Island is to increase its
yard tracks in Wichita considerably
and will put in a new steel turn table
SO feet long.
The Kansas Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution holds ban
quets in Topeka annually on Washing
tons birthday.
Contract has been awarded for the
new building by the regents of the
Emporia normal school to the lowest
bidder at s47,27
The Santa Fe has contracted for a
complete new electric light and power
plant for its new shops in Topeka, to
cost SIS, 900 to $50, 900.
The validity of the law requiring
doctors to secure state licenses before
practicing, is to go before the supreme
court in a case from Barton county.
Trains were blocladed by snow in
the Flint hills of Butler county on
Feb 20. Passenger trains were held
at stations until the track was cleared.
The mayor of Patterson, n. J., has
returned the money sent there from
the Kansas relief fund. He says that
his city can get along without any out
side help.
E. E. Shepard, Chanute bachelor
80 years old, killed himself. He was
worth at least $4,000. He wrote for
his sister to come from Indiana and
timed his fatal act to occur just before
she could arrive in Chanute
Mrs. Lucinda Travers, of Wichita,
has gone to France to get her share of
an estate there which she is informed
will amount to SlOO,O 900. 1t comes from
the estate of Sanford Burdette, her
grandfather. She says that when her
business is completed she will return
to Wichita.
Two New Workers. have bought
1890 acres of Meade county land for
$50, 900. This land was considered al
most worthless few years ago. One
| of the two men, Mr.. Wilson, owns
5000 acres near Anness, Kas, and a
large amount of land in Butler and
Sumner counties.
Mrs. Emma Gilbert, of Wichita, by
will gave to the Woman's Missionary
societies of local NJ. E. church, all
her property except enough to bury
her, and 500 for a tomb stone, and $50
to a woman neighbor. The property
left is valued at So, Mrs. Gilbert
was 20 years old.
The Union Pacific Land company
has sold to certain Iowa. capitalists
$1,000 acres of land in Thomas and
Logan counties. The purchasers have
colonization agents at work to get
occupants for their purchase.
A. L. Seockwell, near Downs, bought
232 hogs from his neighbor who sold
them because of their lack of corn. He
| fed the hogs on wheat and alfalfa.
When he marketed the hogs he COM
puted the worth of the feed he had
used and says that the hogs Melted
him 81, 300. He fed them four months
DIR. W. H. Richards, of Emporia, has
purchased nine Percherons, Belgians
and big French draft horses, paying
S22, 900 for the nine.
Kansas, with the single exception o.
Texas, has the largest permanent
school reserve fund in the Union. This
fund is now more than 81, 900, 900. This
money is never spent, but is invested
and re-invested in bonds of schoo'
districts, townships, cities and counties
of Kansas. The Kansas school funG
also holds the entire bonded indebted
ness of the state.
w. E. Wilson, of Smith county, i:
feeding rs cattle, taking care of II
young calves and doing all his worl
alone.
A new fast mail train is proposed t.
be put on the Union Pacific, through
Kansas, from Kansas City to Denver
The train is scheduled to make the
trip in 10 hours and 20 minutes.
A Wisconsin paper, in Dragging OF
the per capita wealth of a county VI
there says mot even in Kansas il
there a county that can show sucl
wealth.
A brick addition is contracted for
for Wellington mill, A by 90 feet il
size, three stories high and a basement