Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-08-21

Wellington owns the electric light
plant but Eliminates the city building
with gas.
Peder Paulsen, of Plum Grove, But
Ter county, harvested 1900 bushels of
oats off 20 acres. +ft
The Topeka free employment bureau
is unable to supply the demand for la
borers in that city.
Miss Bertha NJ. Rowley, of Topeka,
has been appointed typewriter at the
Ell Reno land Office. -r.
President Harris has appointed Craig
Harris, son of Senator Harris, as a
cadet at West Point.
Lane county has gained fifty votes
in the past year. Cattle and wheat are
the principal industries.
The Teichgraber Bros -four mill at
Gypsum, near Salina, was burned,
causing loss of s25, 900.
Cattle are dying in Greenwood coun-
ty from strange disease. 1t is thought
that it may be hydrophobia.
Carbonate small boys digging where
barber shop once stood resurrected a
couple of dollars in nickels and dimes.
A portion of Captain John Seaton's
foundry at Atchiton is burned. The
fire did not stop the work at the foun-
dry.
Prof. c. NJ. Brink, of Kalamazoo,
Mich, has been elected to the chair of
literature at the state agricultural col
lege.
j. L. Jones, of near Lane, lost two
cows by lightning. They were lying
with their heads almost under a wire
fence.
Ex-Speaker and ex-Judge Steve J.
Osborn has left Salina to become law
partner of Henry C. Dooley, of Coffey-
vile. sE.
Officials from Washington visited
Hutchinson to view and report upon
proposed sites for a government build
ing.
In the Marshall county Republican
convention Coroner Boyalsin, who is sc
years old, made speech. He has held
office for 80 years.
During July there were issued in
Reno county three marriage licenses.
There were nine petitions for divorce
filed during that month.
Newton crowded a special train of
ID cars and refrigerator car to go to
Halstead to the old settlers picnic.
Over !, 200 went on the special.
August IA and Is were the hottest
days of the season as reported from
Atchison, and along the Central branch
and from Leavenworth, Ottawa and
other places.
William Meyer has sold half-section
farm in Marshall county for ST., 500
cash, or SIS per acre. This is the high
est cash price ever paid for Marshall
county farm.
The Bali family held an Information
al reunion,at Penn Yam, N. Y. There
were present connections of the Balls
from Ohio, New Jersey, Kansas, Hi
nois, Indiana and' New York. Mother
Bickerdyke, who died at Bunker Hill,
Kansas, was Ball.
VIM. Tillberg discovered on his farm
near Salina, crude sotne weapons; one
shaped like an axe, except that it is
longer and thinner and sharp on all
edges. The other is shaped like pick.
The stone is of a kind not found in
that part of Kansas.
The new Friends church near Claflin
was dedicated free of debt. The church,
supplied with the necessary furniture
and seats, cost about 81, 400, and is
neat structure. The Friends society
is quite strong organization in that
| part of Barton county.
Roland Wiley, the father of Mrs.
Castle, who was killed by Jessie Nor
rison, is travelling man, and this fact
is lining up large percentage of the
travelling men against the subscriptions
by members of that guild to raise
IuQu MISS , III GCTcSD.
A Reno county alfalfa raiser says
that ii acres devoted to that crop will
bring in better returns than 100 acres
of prairie hay land.
A Wichita man proposes to sue one
of the telephone companies of the city
for running trees which he set out years
ago and had cared for with love for
them.
Colorado officials held a meeting to
prepare to fight the case of Kansas
versus Colorado in the matter of the
use of irrigation water. 1t was de.
cided to contest the case to the last.
J. Fl. Mcmahon, the originator of
the Independent telephone system in
Kansas, died at Alma of creeping par
alysis. He was AZ years old. He
started the Independent telephone
business about seven years ago.
Col. ]. C. Gordon, proprietor of the
Copeland hotel, was painfully injured
while on his way to Topeka from st.
Joseph. Some tough threw missile
through the car window and struck
Mr.. Gordon on the nose, cutting cash
about an inch long which bled pro-
fusely.
The first county auditor of Sedgwick
county turns down claims for rewards
offered by the county commissioners
for the capture of horsethieves on the
ground that there is'no law authorizing
the commissioners to offer such re-
| wards. =, $40 q ,.ss.. :