Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-07-24
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

llBHIS III Iue Guy
Ex-State Treasurer Otis L. Alberton
is slated for one of the places of the
Wakeeny land office.
The citizens of Ports, Smith county,
offer reward of $50 for the arrest and
conviction of a bootlegger.
Charles Voc, of Independence, sue
ceeds Edwin Snyder, of Oslealoosa, as
member of the state board of charities.
Brent X. Yates, Hiawatha drug
gist, accidentally killed himself. His
rifle was discharged while he was load
hight.
Thousands of shocks of wheat floated
down the Missouri river past Atchison
having been washed from fields farther
up the river.
Ex-U. S. Senator Martin is contract
ing for right of way for a railroad
which C. J. Devlin. the big coal opera
tor is building in Illinois.
Robert Harvey, of Finney county,
has five acres of sugar beets growing
without irrigation, from which he ex-
poets an 500 an acre crop.
NJ. A. Rogers, of Wichita, has gone
to New Mexico for the purpose OF buy
ing 10, 600 sheep to eat Sedgwick county
corn. He is an experienced sheep
feeder.
The Salina banks report a large
amount of counterfeit dollars and for
eign fractional currency in circulation.
The majority of the coins bear dates of
1898 and 1901.
Mrs. N. C. Blood, who died recently
at Des Moines, Iowa, was the wife of
Thomas w. Barber, the free state
martyr of 1855, and for whom Barber
county was named.
A Pratt merchant placed his money
In a waste basket when he closed his
store for the night and the clerk who
opened up in the morning burned the
contents of the basket.
The Argentine water plant was sub
merged on July IL. The Kaw river
was still rising and the town was at
the mercy of flames; and there was a
water famine imminent.
Since January last there have been
101 farms sold in Leavenworth county.
They contained s,952 acres of land.
The aggregate price was 1896, 500, an
average of S37. 60 per acre.
The state railroad commissioners are
spending this week on tour of the
Santa Fe system. Their annual in
spection will continue until all the
roads have been gone over.
The postmaster general has allowed
the postmaster at Wichita three addi-
tional letter carriers on September 1
for the extension OF service to Fair
mount and the stock yards.
The governor has approved the ac-
ton of the state military board in To-
eating the state encampment of the
militia at Emporia. The time fixed
upon is the week beginning August 10.
The boiler of threshing machine
exploded near Mound Ridge, killing
Arson Crippen and seriously injuring
Charles Nippleton and John Friesen,
farm hands. Crippen was literally
roasted alive.
John Seaton is nominated by ACCLAIM
alton to represent Atchison county in
the legislature again. This will give
him ten consecutive terms, if he is
elected, as he has been member of
nine legislatures, or for eighteen years
continuously.
The assessors returns show Fort
Scott to have gained in population
2,23S in the past year, making the pop
ulation 12,S92.
The Parsons yards of the NJ. X. & Il.
road are in the city and because of ae-
cidents the yards are to be moved out
side as soon as a suitable site can be
secured.
Mrs Charles Marsh, of Peabody, was
using her gasoline stove when it ex-
ploded and set fire to the house. Every.
thing in the house was burned except
an organ and few chairs
1t is stated that C. f. Ressigue will
go to the Mexican Central at a highe,
salary than he received from the Santa
Fe. Later: Ressiguie denies this
The Newton Republican tells of a
reunion of the Ely family in Newton.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. L. Ely are each 81
years old, and all of their seven chill
dren were present, the eldest 4s and
the youngest 80 years old. In this
family of seven children, twenty
grandchildren and one of still another
generation, there never has been o
death.
James F. Legate, the old politician
of Leavenworth, is SO far recovered
from his illness as to work upon his
autobiography. This work is likely to
tear open many old political sores
The farmers of Cowley county are
starting movement for good roads
A meeting was held at Winfield to per.
feet county organization that will Co
operate with the state and national or.
CARNATIONS. The plan to induce each
township to purchase machinery and
use limestone on the roads for an eight
inch road bed.
w. F. Hoyt has been elected acting
president of the Kansas Wesleyan uni.
versity to ell the vacancy caused by
the resignation of A. B. Gridley. Hoyt
formerly was an instructor in the
Chamberlain institute of New York
state.