Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-07-24
Rocks county is short thirty teach.

Cygne has been destroyed by fire.
The Rev. John S. Brown, of Law
renee, died last week at the age of 90.
Grant Hornaday, of Fort Scott, has
been elected director of the Frisco
system.
In two years Wallace county has
paid for 1 1851 wolf scalps at dollar
each.
The business portion of Galesburg,
near Parsons, is destroyed by fire.
Loss. $4,000.
Fifteen girl operators have tied up
the Atchison telephone system by stri-
king. They want s. raise.
Probate Judge Dimm, of Jackson
county, in his three and one-half years
in Office, has married 176 couples.
Cheyenne county claims to have one
third of the acreage planted this year
in broom corn, in the entire state.
OF the 100 men paroled by Governor
Stanley only four have broken the
very strict conditions of the parole.
Pottawatomie county lost IA iron
bridges in the first flood in July. Re-
turns from the last flood are not in.
A movement is started to construct
trolley line from Beloit to Mankato via
the new coal shaft in Jewell county.
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and they propose TO work for several
weeks to secure converts to their faith.
The average number of appealed
cases in the Kansas supreme court
which are reversed is As per cent of all.
Reports came in from central Kansas
that early potatoes are rotting from
too much wet. The late potatoes are
promising to do we'll.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, and
Coburn, the Kansas secretary of agri-
culture, each delivered an address at
the Beloit Chautauqua on lly 16.
The Orient Townsite and Land COM
pany has 1000 acres in the vicinity of
the Orient shops site, and adjoining
Wichita, which will be plated into
town lots.
H. e. Adams, of Maple Hill, has con-
tracted for 1000 steers which are in
the Panhandle of Texas, and will full
feed" at Maple Hill. The steers are to
come north in the fall
George Burlington, who shot and
killed Ode Willard, near Langley, has
given himself up and is now in Jail at
Ellsworth. Burlington is quite wealthy
and controls ranch in Ellsworth
county.
The Kingman Leader-Courier tells of
"orient" Edwards visiting Kingman
and mapping out a new railroad, a
branch of the Orient from point near
Norwich, northwest through Kingman
toward Denver.
The trustees of Baker university
have elected Harmon j. Hoover, of the
class of 's7, to the chair of philosophy
and history. Mr.. Hoover graduated
from Boston university in 1891. Since
that time he has been preaching.
August Dietrich, of Dickinson county,
has wheat which turned out 361S bush
els an acre. 1t was late sowed; the
early sowed wheat will yield less He
also threshed a field of oats which
turned out s. bushels to the acre.
The postoffice at Holy Cross, Jackson
county, has been in a country store
for several years. The postmaster be-
gan to sell liquor and the Office has
been removed a half mile away and
Miss Kate O'Ferrell appointed to the
postmastership.
Two and one-half tons of silver in
gots lay on a truck on the Emporia
depot platform the other day. The
ingots were worth S29,761 and was a
shipment from smclter in Omaha to
the Hong Kong-Shanghai Banking Co.,
of Bombay India.
Bert Hastings, aged 20 years, while
working Oh a Sumner county wheat
stack, was overcome by heat and fell
to the ground, breaking his neck.
The Sunday school of the First Pres
byterian church of Topeka, managed an
excursion to Fort Riley which required
seventeen passenger coaches to convey
1t.
Oxford is to have telephone ex-
change. The first emigrants to the
west side of the Arkansas river entered
what is now Sumner county and settled
at Oxford
Sumner county has 60 rural mail car
riers, who supply every farm house.
A telephone company covering the
farming districts has been organized.
DIR. A. M'Calahan, a dentist, who
was veteran of the civil war and was
serving his second term as clerk of the
district court of Shawnee county, i.
dead after years of suffering from
asthma. He was a prominent Mason,
having been grand commander of the
Scottish Rite body, grand high priest
of the Royal Arch Masons and grand
commander of the Knights Templar.
w. C. Miller, representative from
Barber county in the Kansas legisla-
ture, has leased the old Burlington
ranch of IS, 900 acres in Kiowa comfy