Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-07-31
Harper is to have a second bank.

Kansas people last year spent 81, $685.
S97 for life insurance, and most of it
went out of the state.
State Superintendent Nelson is sick
at his home in Topeka. He has an at
tack of malarial fever.
Reports come from Dexter, on the
southern border of the state that Texas
fever is killing many cattle.
The Argentine smelter, which was
claimed to be the largest in the world
is now about all taken down.
The Catholic church at Hutchinson
is burned. The fire started from can
dies which are always kept on the
altar.
The fifth in the string of banks being
instituted by John w. Breidenthal is
located at Mapleton. The fourth is at
Edna.
James O'Brien, a deaf and dumb
man of st. Marys, was struck by a
passenger train and received fatal in
juries.
Farmers about Harper have organ
lied to build an elevator on the Orient
railway in that city and ship their own
grain.
The Wichita stock yards are to have
new barn to cost So, 900, for trading
and selling horses and mules and other
stock.
The twenty-second anniversary of
the Kansas State Grange was duly
celebrated at Olathe. A big crowd was
present.
R. Fl. Cunningham, pioneer resi-
dent of Kansas, and former member
of the Kansas legislature is dead at
Garnett of paralysis.
Senator VIM. A. Harris is to go to
Europe in the interest of the st. Louis
exposition, and will be away during
August and September.
Blackleg is prevalent among cattle
in the southern part of Ottawa county
and the northern part of Saline county.
Mr. Lesser, near Tescott, has Sc cattle
with the disease.
A Valley Center man has brought
suit for 81 ZOO damages against a dozen
or more young men who made up a
charivari party; doing damage and
causing a long sickness of his wife.
NJ. A. Low, general attorney for the
Rock Island Railway company, is elect
ed president of the Kansas State Ex-
position company. The company is or
ganized for the purpose of giving state
fairs in Topeka.
The Emporia Chautauqua had re-
ceipts of about S4, 500 and had balance
of 5000 in the treasury at the end.
This is said to be the first instance of
the kind in the history of Chautauqua
assem- blies at their first meetings.
F. Rockefeller, of Belvidere, has in
formed the secretary of the interior
| that he is the owner of three full
blooded and grown buffaloes and two
calves. The government is securing
now i'll existence in this country.
Nineteen young women, most OF
! them Kansas university students, and
| two of them visitors from Lawrence,
had picnic and wading party near
| Hiawatha. They took dozen ears of
corn from field to roast, as an ele-
ment in their lark, and the farmer
swore out warrants for the girls for
stealing corn. Did you ever?
A. S. McAllister, the Socialist candi-
date for governor, is an engineer on
the Rock Island between Harrington
and Salina.
The people living in the southwest
ern part of Shawnee county, held a
a meeting at Dover to discuss the ques-
ton of an electric line to connect them
with Topeka.
Charles Cox, sexton of the Grace
cathedral in Topeka and janitor of the
college of the Sisters of Bethany. is
dead. He had held his position for a
number of years.
Miss Jessie Lewellen, daughter Of
the late Governor Lewellen, has mar.
ried H. L. Call, of New York City, who
is writer of ability. Miss Jessie has
been doing work as special writer foi
Chicago publications and conducts a
column in the Chicago News called the
''The Girl Philosopher
1t is said that the Santa Fe system
has seventy-four branches, not count
ing any of its main lines. The system
has its greatest number of branches il
| Kansas, where it rar1ifies into practi
cally every part of the state.
The Topeka street railway company
LAS arranged to give passengers trans
fers on the cars instead of at central
station as now.
The hay crop in central Kansas i:
the best in years and stockmen are pre-
pairing to feed many cattle as rough
ness is plenty and the corn is coming
On wonderfully.
James f. Legate has suffered re
lapse and his physician said at one;
that he would probably die soon, being
liable to die at any time, probably be
fore this is read.
Twenty-six farmers about BLU
Rapids have organized a stock company
with 80 shares of 500 each and hav,
purchased Percheron stallion from
Columbus, Ohio, firm.
Mrs Mary Adelaide Walker, a grad
uate of Maryland college and who il
just completing post graduate cours'
in Columbia university in New Yorl