Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-07-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Winfield Chautauqua assembly
is said to have been successful to re-
marl1able degree in all departments of
the work.
The rate of taxation in Kicwa county
is S9.42 on 500; the highest in the
state. Cove county has the lowest
rate-S2.1O.
CLAW Center is now about rid OF the
cotton bearing trees. The battle to eX-
tirpate them has been going on for
some years.
Miss Edna Wood, of Topeka, has
married William Lysaght, of County
Cork, Ireland, who is first heir to
large estate.
A number of renters in Smith county
will emigrate to the Big Horn basin in
Wyoming next fall to settle on govern
ment land.
Excessive rains are doing much dam
age to crops. Over 700 acres OF har-
vested wheat is under water in Potta-
watomie county.
Mrs. Peter Boysinger, of Galena, has
died from the sting of scorpion.
When stung she became unconscious
and never rallied.
The Westinghouse Air Brake COM
pany has contributed $3.50 toward the
building to be erected in Topeka for
the railroad Y. NJ. C. A.
Ex-Mayor Charles Fellows, of Tope-
ka, is awarded the contract for build
ing a $50, 900 hotel for the Santa Fe r.
r. at Trinidad, Colorado.
Mrs w. V. church, wife of superin-
tendent of Insurance Church, was
thrown from her carriage while driving
and probably quite severely injured.
The horse ran away.
Larned Is prosperous. Several good
buildings are being erected. new
telephone exchange building is COM
pleted, with toll line connections be-
tween all the height boring towns.
Little River township of Reno county
is still making efforts to get its S23, 200
in per cent bonds. The township
wants to pay the bonds which the
county holds and will not give up.
A culvert was was was washed out
on the Leavenworth, Kansas & Western
R. R. in Clay county, and work train
with 81 men on it was wrecked. All
of the men were more or less injured.
G. A r. officials, department of Kan
sas, now in Washington preparing for
the national enoampment there in Oc-
tober, told reporters there that Kan
sas would send from 5000 to 5000 peo-
pie.
All Kansas railroads made half
fare rate for the state fair at Hutchin-
son September 1919. The premium
list foots over $40, 900, of which So, 900
is to be given in the cattle depart
ment.
Look out for clothes line wire faker
who pretcnds to represent a home hard
ware store and sells 20 feet of wire
after bargaining to sell so feet. He
was working in Labette county at last
accounts.
Mr.. Bailey, if elected governor of
Kansas, will not be the first bachelor
so elected. Sam J. Crawford was not
married man until the end of his first
term. Crawford was the youngest
governor ever chosen in this state, be-
ing less than 80 years old when he tool,
the Office.
One of the governments lSeenest
scientists is Miss NJ. E. Pierce, former
ly of Manhattan, Kansas. Miss Pierce
is a chemist of high repute, and is the
soil analyst of the department of ag-
riculture. 1E
On July 1, 3.s5 inches of rain fell at
Lawrence in two hours. Cellars were
flooded and several bridges on country
roads were washed out.
Mrs. C. A. Scott, of Busby, Elk
county, lost her house by fire with $3.50
of money in it. She had narrow es-
cape with bad burns.
Parsons lodge, A. o. U. w. No. l.,
the first lodge of the Workmen organ
lied in Kansas, will celebrate its a5th
anniversary on August 10.
F. G. Hansiclser, of Usage City, has
been appointed one of three clerks to
compile an index to the house journal
from the Fifty-frst to the present con-
gress at ST, 600 a year.
Kansas congressmen-Long and Simp-
son, and Representative Overstreet, of
Indiana, and Delegate Flynn used to
live in that county.
The solar salt works at Solomon,
which was for long time the leading
salt plant of the state but which has
been closed for two years, is to be i'm
proved and put in operation. The
wells are to be deepened.
The city council of Topeka has passed
the cottonwood" ordinance, which is
directed against the cotton" bearing
tree. According to the terms of the
ordinance it is an offense to plant any
kind of a cottonwood in street parkings
and the cutting down of those now
standing is authorized.
State Superintendent Frank Nelson
has received a request from an Aus
trian official for copies of the school re-
ports of this state and also plans and
descriptions of the country and city
school houses of Kansas.
Third Vice President Kendrick, it is
announced, will remain with the Santa
Fe, declining the position of European