Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-07-03
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Finney county is fixing things for
fair to be held August 21-23.
The Civic League of Fort Scott has
all the joints there corked up.
On August the old soldiers of Har-
vey county will picnic at Halstead.
Milkmen in Topeka have raised the
price of milk to seven cents quart.
:Colin 81. Ball, of Kansas, is made
second lieutenant in the regular army.
The Osborne Woodmen took an all
night sweat in initiating 81 candidates.
All the saloons in Fort Scott closed
pending the result of injunction pro-
ceedings.
The Farmers Grain and Livestock
association of Butler county has been
incorporated.
A Bourbon county man claims that
in three days he cut and marketed $500
worth of hay.
Texas fever is reported from Edna,
Labette county. Ben. Jarboe has lost
20 head of cattle.
There is complaint in Western Kan
sas that too many cattle are shipped
there for pasturing.
On July 90 there were four deaths
from heat in Kansas City, KS, and
two on the Missouri side.
S. n. Harper had Is acres of wheat
near Menoken, Shawnee county, which
threshed out 66s bushels.
VIM. Archer, of Ellinwood, was one
of the many losers by fire in the wheat
fields, He lost threshing outfit
Ed Heeny, of Doniphan county, is
dead at the age of over 1o3 years. He
had lived in the county since 1870.
The retail clerks of Horton struck
for early closing and the state labor
commissioner went there to fix things.
In Topeka the cracking of the earth
under brick sidewalks drains away the
sand the bricks are laid in and dam
ages the walks.
A well-fxed Douglas county farmer
took his first ride on a railroad train
along with bunch of cattle he was
taking to market.
The Santa Fe uses from 5000 to 1000
tons of coal month at Topeka. At
Argentine the consumption runs from
5000 to 5000 tons.
1t is &c miles between Hays City and
Russell and 27 separators were to be
seen from the Union Pacific trains be-
tween the two towns.
Will R. Spillman, of Manhattan, has
been appointed private secretary to
Joe L. Bristow. Spillman has been in
Washington since 1897.
IAN Independence woman has sued for
divorce, alleging that she cut wood
and hauled it to town all last winter
while her husband loafed.
The Moran Herald has discovered that
putting ice cream in a glass and pour
ing pop over it is right to the front to-
gether with ice cream soda.
The News says that the strongest
temperance lecture ever exhibited in
Hutchinson was the taking of drunk
en- woman from train to the Jail.
Threshing machines burned are re-
ported daily from some place in the
state. The latest was a new one which
burned near Cawker City, together
with $50 bushels of wheat.
Farmers of jackson county have Pc
titioned the railroads to fix low rates
for the bringing in of stock feed and
fix rates for the removal of stock from
one point to another in the state.
The Rock Islaed depot at Lebanon is
burned. Nothing was saved except
the freight bills and books. Consider
able freight was burned.
1t is said that one Caldwell man sold
daily carload of beer to the home
seekers The trains stopped there 20
minutes only. At Wichita the time
between most of the connecting trains
was about two hours and all that time
daily procession of people with bas-
kets of bottled beer was vending its
way direct from beer cars to the big
gest crowds.
]. G. Mohler has been appointed by
Secretary Coburn of the state board of
agriculture as assistant secretary at
1900 year. This Office was created
at the last session of the legislature
DIR. Eliphalet Patee, of Manhattan,
has deposited with the state historical
society powder horn carried by his
great-grandfather, Edmund Pattee,
and bearing his name and the date
1774. Edmund Patee, tradition says,
was the soldier who executed Major
Andre, the British spy who conspired
with Benedict Arnold.
Harriet G. Melvin died at Troy re-
Gently, aged 90 years. She was prob
ably the only real Daughter of the
American Revolution" in Kansas. Her
father fought with General Stark.
Leavenworth has many slot machines
that have been driven out of Missouri.
Mrs. Dickens, who has two boys who
have been induced to gamble in GER
tain place in Leavenworth, went to
the place and broke up the slot ma
chimes and all other gambling appur-
tenances in the place, doing it all with
Ratchet.
A drive of 60 miles over the western
part of Sedgwick county by James
Allison, of Wichita, showed evidence
that the condition of the country is
badly represented. The pastures are