Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-03-20
Hay is selling in wichita at $40 a

have cut out foot ball this year.
There is case of small pox at the
Kansas penitentiary. A guard has it.
Alexander Mcmillan, Cloud county
farmer, has lost 100 hogs from cholera.
Kansas university has received ma
chinery with which to produce liquid
air.
Wichita has decided to hold another
industrial exposition and fall festival
this year.
Glasco, a Cloud county town with
population of 500, has a city park five
acres in extent.
Wholesalers say that more snuff is
sold in Lindsborg than in any other
town in the state.
The shortage of water at Olathe is at
an end and the deaf and dumb school
is fully supplied.
The Wyandotte Coal company while
drilling for coal in Kansas City, Kas.,
struck strong flow of gas.
Charles Aziere, wealthy farmer, of
Nemaha county, was thrown from his
vehicle and died from injuries received.
President Baker, of the Topeka street
railway announces that two miles more
of track and seven new cars will be
added this summer.
The State Agricultural college is to
holds school for judging horses March
10 to %. Owners of good horses are
invited to bring them.
The negroes of Miami county are to
hold mass meeting at Paola on March
%, to discuss the industrial, moral and
political conditions of their race.
NJ L. Riddle, of Chetopa, Kansas,
whose three children were killed in a
railroad wreck in Texas, has settled
with the railroad company for S1O,-
600.
The late John P. Altgeld, of Illinois,
once worked as railroad section hand
in Kansas. He then went to Andrew
county, Mo-, taught school, read law,
and was elected county attorney.
Phillips county assessors report the
acreage of wheat larger than ever be-
fore and that all of it is in fine shape
except the volunteer wheat They say
the prospects for a large yield were
never better in March.
Vim. Trembly and Ed. White, of
Kansas City, Kas., have been awarded
medals of honor, given them for their
conspicuous gallantry in swimming
the Bag-Bag river. They were mem
bers of the Twentieth Kansas.
II. Brothers, of Milford, Geary coun-
ty, is dead, aged 70 years. Mr.. Bro
theirs was veteran of the Texas rev.
olution, Mexican war, the Seminole
was Texas ranger for ten years. He
was one of the oldest settlers of this
county, coming here in 1856.
Western Kansas is handicapped in
the production of sugar beets by the
lack of labor. 1t keeps a man on his
knees practically all summer for each
| five acres and men cannot stand it.
Over the line in Colorado the work is
done by Germans and Russians and
the children work long hours.
Prof Bartz, of Kansas University,
has analysed water taken from well
at Abilene at depth of 300 feet. II
contains IL 900 grains of mineral mat
ter in comparison to $4,000 grains in
the Dead Sea water, while ocean water
carries only about 1000 grains. 1t is
the only strong muriatic acid water in
the state, and also contains one and
one fourth pounds of salt per gallon.
In Stevens county where there are
large pastures fenced with wire, the
| mile
Captain 5. A. Harvey, of the 23rC
Kansas, a negro, has been admitted t.
practice in the supreme court. He il
preparing to go to the Philippines t.
practice law there.
Edwin Dangerfeld, who was drowned
at the sinking of British steamer in
collision on the English coast, was
citizen of Scranton, Kansas, where HI
had lived more than 20 years.
Although Kansas has 16, 219, 400 acre
of land under cultivation, it still ha
millions of acres, just as good, as ye
untouched by the pillow.
Gypsum City has had $4,000 fir
which burned seven business houses in
Guiding livery barn. People livinI
over the stores saved only their nigh
clothes.
The Mankato Monitor says that NOR
alfalfa will be sown in Jewell count
than ever before and that it will not b
long before every farmer will have
hay meadow of from 40 to 300 acres.
L. S. Able, of Holton, bought so
steers of Benton & Hopkins, of Oberlir
at $50 head. They will be fed a
Holton and placed on the June market
DIR. Wilson, who was brought bac
from Wakita, o. T., and tried on tn
the charge of practicing illegally i
Ellis county, Kansas, was acquitted
The case is said to have cost Ellis cour
ty $500.
The supreme court decides that fol-
eign liquor houses cannot be prosecute
, as violators of the prohibitory law fo
soliciting orders in Kansas
State Superintendent Frank Nelso
has several requests from county s,
perintendents and school district off
GERS to visit them and assist in tn
work of school consolidation. TIL