Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-05-15

ton was sold on the stump the other day
for $3.50.
Dirt drifts were formed in Jewell
county by the wind, three feet deep in
the roads.
Jewell and Mitchell county farmers
are losing cattle by turning them on
green alfalfa.
The music teachers of Kansas held
the last days of April.
The Cottage hotel at Burton was
burned on the night of May Z. The
loss is more than $4,000.
An excursion train took $50 people
from Junction City to Manhattan to
attend revival meeting.
| A prairie fire swept over the south
western townships of Rocks county
last week, doing much damage.
| The insane asylum at Osawatomie
turned into the treasury S4sO.4O, col
lected for the care of an insane pa
tient.
Canker worms are said to be strip
ping the leaves from the orchards near
Lawrence and are attacking the forest
trees.
A training school for nurses has been
established by the state board of chart
ties. 1t is located at the Osawatomie
asylum.
The Barry brick yards at Atchison
are completely destroyed by fire, at
loss of 100000 About As men are
thrown out of employment.
| Prof. G. w. Kendricl1 does not go to
Chicago. Newton offered him accept
able terms and he has accepted the SUI
perintendency of the Newton schools.
Catherine Wyatt, a lawyer of Par
sons, argued a case in the supreme
court last week. This is said to be the
| first time that a woman has done this.
| The Hiawatha Democrat says: SIT
is conservative estimate to say that
there are at least 1000 new voters in
Brown county who have never cast a
ballot here yet"
The Emporia electric light plant,
which is owned by the city, cleared
| 81, $50 last year. Elnporia recently
voted bonds to the amount of $40, 900
with which to enlarge the present plant
or build a new one.
| John L. Wright, of Ottawa, wealthy
man, was taken to the Osawatomie asy-
lum. He was once injured by blow
on his head, and of late he has fancied
himself called upon to organize uni
versal church, and addresses imaginary
crowds.
During January, February and
March BOG transfers went on record in
Brown county, involving a total of
81, 144, 900, of which 81, O7O, 900 went for
lands and S73, 900 for town lots. The
largest single transaction called for
SCI 200.
-Four complete pack trains have ar
rived at Fort Riley from Cuba. Each
train is complete with packmasters,
packers etc, fifteen men in all. There
are sixty-seven mules with each train,
and the entire equipment was brought
with them.
The total amount of donations re-
ceived from Mr.. Carnegie by Kansas
towns for libraries reach S21O,5
Fort Scott and Emporia head the list
with $50, 900 each; Leavenworth comes
next with gift of 100000: Lawrence
gets $40, 900; Ottawa, Salina and Win
field were given SIS, 900 each, Newton
comes in for SO. 900, while Blue Rapids
gets a donation of $500.
DIR. S. w. Williston, professor of his
torical geology and vertebrate anatomy
at the university of Kansas, has decid-
ed to accept similar chair at the uni
versity of Chicago, at a salary of So, 500
year.
The Methodist church of Hutchinson
has surrendered. The church was dis
pleasedwith the p aston appoin ted over
them and talked out loud about it.
DR.. Wood has captured their approba-
ton and the church gave him recep-
ton, at the close of his first month, to
tell him about it.
Archdeacon Watkins. of Ellsworth.
goes to Kenilworth, a suburb of Chi
cago. He has been archdeacon for his
district of the Episcopal church for
number of years.
Major E. A. Osborne died in Chicago
on May Z. Major Osborne was the
town lot agent of what is now the
Santa Fe railroad, in the laying out
and disposal of the town lots of Coffev-
vile. He also laid out Osborne's addi-
ton to that town. He liven and died
a bachelor and was considered quite
wealthy.
The Miller Grain Drill company, of
Newton, Kansas, is incorporated
with capital stock of SlOO, 900. The
purpose of the company is to put on the
market a recently patented grain drill
The Wichita association of building
contractors, with two opposing votes
decided to employ no member of the
Carpenters Union. This effects nearly
200 carpenters. There are about 30
members of the association of contract
ors The contractors object to pay
ing some men more than they earn and
other men less than they earn.
Elwood real estate is worth some
has acquired 20 acres of it. The work
of constructing the Rock Island bridge