Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-02-27
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An eight foot salt vein has been
found north of Concordia.
The Rock Island is going to build
new $40, 900 round house at Herington.
The State Council of Red Men held
their state council in Wichita, opening
Feb. 10.
Prof. T. W. Conway of Sterling, is
candidate for the presidency of the
Alva, Ok, normal school.
John " Farwell, Chicago whole
sale merchant, visited Ottawa to assist
in conducting the revival there.
Lieut.. Adna G. Clarke has reported
for duty. He is assigned to the field
artillery at Fort Douglass, Utah.
Saml. Mitchell, a Caldwell real estate
man, thought he was drinking whisky
but it was chloroform and ether.
The quarterly payment of pensions
from the Topeka Office, commencing on
February 4, amounted to So, 4S3, $40. IS.
The Kingman Journal announces
that "since the advance in the price of
wheat, rubber-tired buggies have been
seen on the streets"
Alfred Shinn, of Fort Scott, be-
queathed to Washburn college, two
twelfths of his estate, which is con-
sidered worth from S12, 900 to $3.50
The Kansas horticultural society has
Just received a handsome gold medal
from Paris, as a reward for the exhibit
of Kansas apples at the Paris exposi-
ton of 1900.
A row occurred over the employment
of non-union plasterers on the compile
ton of the basement of the State house,
in Topeka. The con tractor surrendered
to the union.
The report If Grand Secretary Will
son shows the total Masonic member
ship in Kansas to be 22,3S6, with
limitations during the past two years
exceeding 1850.
Henry Grice of White Rock township
has lot of 1899 corn which he held
over and which he is selling for seed
corn. It's about the same as so much
goldsmith County Journal.
]. A. Peel of Finney county recently
sold Jersey red hog that was raised
on alfalfa and finished with 300 pounds
of corn. The hog netted him s24.s so,
the profit paying his taxes for 1901.
Eugene F. Ware of Kansas, has been
appointed by the president, member
of the visitors to attend the annual eX-
animation at the National Military
Academy at West Point, in June 1902
The semi-annual appointments
among the school districts, of interest
on the invested school funds. will be 80
cents for each person of school age in
the state The amount to be distrib-
uted is S196, 545.57.
The salary of the city attorney of
Winfield is S1666 a month. The city
council gave him a special fee for
certain work and one of the council
men has sued to recover for the city
the money so paid.
Judge J. G. Clogston of Eureka is
dead after long sickness. He has for
many years been prominent in public
affairs of Kansas. He came to Green
wood county at the close of the civil
war in which he served He was 81
years old.
1t is said that the extension of the
Missouri Pacific from Mcpherson to
Marquette, Kans., about fifteen miles,
will be built the coming summer. 1t
is also stated that a line will be built
from Salina north to Yuma, Ks, about
forty-five miles.
Rumors are afloat all along the line
that the Frisco will build a new line
from Wichita to Blackwell, Okla, and
from there to Sapulpa, l. T.
E. B. Denison, Chicago man, pro-
poses to put S275, 900 into a sugar mill
at Independence this spring, and have
it ready to handle the sorghum crop of
1902. He asks for gas well and site
for his mill. He is asking the farmers
TO make contracts to grow 1,5OO acres
of sorghum the coming season; for
which he will pay $3.50 ton at the
factory.
]. II. Clark of Lyon county is hero
He had dynamite in a box near stove
to thaw it. He left the room and upon
returning saw that the box was on
fire. He carried it out in his arms and
threw water on it.
Palmyra grocers refuse to buy butter
from farmers who order everything
from Chicago. The ladies of a church
bazaar of Palmyra, wrote to the Chi
cago firm which has been filing their
mail orders for contribution, and the
firm replied that it confined its giving
to charity to their home town. See?
The State Railroad Commission has
been notified that the next Legislature
will be asked to pay per diem and
mileage to the witnesses subpened in
the live stock rate investigation during
Governor Leedy's term.
farmer told in the office of the
Smith County Pioneer, this story. He
came to Smith county four years age
with Sc. so of capital, and rented farm
He has raised one crop of corn and
three of wheat; and now he says he
could buy the farm and perhaps he
will.
VIM. Sharraden, farmer near juno
ton City, has been milking 9 COWS
which he fed on alfalfa hay and pas