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

Ned Larimer, of Wichita is appointed
ensign in the navy.
New hay is coming to Norton and
selling at 81. so to S. a ton.
War has been declared on the Rus
sian thistle in the northwestern coun-
ties.
Miss Lizzie Bushyager, of Salina, was
found in stairway unconscious from
heat.
A contract has been made at S. ton
tc put up hay on the Fort Riley reser-
walton.
Dora Hedger, of Haskell county, was
bitten by rattlesnake and died within
2l hours.
Ex-Speaker-ex-Judge Stephen o.
borne is out for good appointment in
Oklahoma.
Burlingame, a good town but with
out waterworks, recently INDUCED in
$1,000 fire.
Michael Weis, of Salina, ruptured
blood vessel while lifting and died from
the effects of it.
]. NJ. Brooks, an early settler, died
at Beattie, Marshall county, leaving a
fortune of $4,000.
Crib Johnson, of Mcpherson county,
was at work among high weeds and
died from the heat.
Humboldt people want the lola troll
ley system to be extended to their
town on the Neosho.
The controlling interest in the We'll
lington National bank has passed from
John T. Stewart by way of sale.
The commercial club of Anthony is
is wide awake in connection with the
northern extension of the Choctaw
railroad.
Some fellow figures that the crop
loss in Kansas this year will reach
$3.50, 600, 900, but Kansas is rich enough
to stand it.
The influx of slot machines from
Missouri, since they were prohibited
over there, is causing Kansas towns
much pilakea.
The Blue river is so low that the
Blue Rapids mills cannot be operated.
The plaster mills are much behind on
orders received.
Newton is proud of its water supply,
which is plentiful, while some other
towns cannot claim that they have
enough for all purposes.
An Ottawa man elaine to have a
snap shot showing local prohibition
list running from Guthrie saloon to a
train carrying bottles of beer
Topeka contractors say that there
has been more rock taken from the
quarries there this season than ever
before in the same length of time.
Of the 500, 100000 deposited in the
banks of Kansas the depositors could
only remember s3,o59, aga when they
made out their sworn statements for
the assessors.
A Kansas farmer read about New
York farmer whose wheat crop was
two bushels to the acre, and he at once
offered to start movement to help
the farmers back there.
Rev. Richard Cordley, of Lawrence,
married a couple by the name of Bacon
in 1859, in that city. Twelve years ago
Rev. Mr.. Cordley attended the funeral
of Mr.. Bacon and has now attended
that of Mrs. Bacon.
Charles Hoffman, of Lyon county, an
ex-Confederate soldier, had brother
in the Union army. He attempted to
personate his brother in an application
for pension and is now in Jail, with a
prospect of five years in the peniten-
tiary. Uncle Sam shows no leniency
to such frauds.
A tramp crawled into an engine
tank at Wichita and when the train
took water at Mu1vane he was almost
drowned when the tank was filed.
An Oakland, Shawnee county, nur-
seryman will use steam rotary pump
with his 5000 irrigation plant, for the
benefit of twenty acres of young nur-
sery stock.
The new law became effective this
month which increases the salaries of
| the insurance commissioner and the
secretary of agriculture from So, 900 to
$4,000 a year each.
Adjutant General Fox issued certifi-
Gates to all veterans of the Spanish
American war no desired them, to
use in registering for a homestead,
without making the journey to Ell
Reno.
A passenger on the belated train at
Marion, one of the $50 who were taken
in carriages to the park and served
with free ice cream and lemonade, said:
at is the first time 1 ever saw a mis-
fortune like ours that the people did
not try to make something off its VIC
Tins
Wichita boomers are organized for
the purpose of getting prompt news of
the Ell Reno drawing which commences
July 20. 1t is proposed to have a
trusted agent on the ground to wire
names as fast as they are posted.
Stafford county has issued $40, 600 of
refunding bonds TO take up bonds is
sued 1887 for the Denver, Memphis and
Atlantic railway. The old bonds drew
6 per cent and the new bonds draw AZ
per cent. The refunding bonds have
been registered at the Office of the
state auditor.