Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-06-19
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

he CITY dsSesSOE VI NOlIc.yNlll 1Ouuu
a population of 6,474; gain of 1,915 in
one year.
Rain stopped the harvest in Sumner
and Cowley counties and in northern
Oklahoma.
Several hundred feet of Santa Fe
track was washed out between Florence
and Marion.
John Doyle, II years old, attempted
to jump on the pilot of an engine and
fell under the wheels.
The Santa Fe is about to build a spur
to Fort Leavenworth for transmitting
army supplies to the post.
-Four men of Arkansas City are float
ing down the river in n boat and they
plan to fish and hunt for two weeks.
The Santa Fe shopmen of the Topeka
shops have subscribed over 1000 for
the new railroad Y NJ. c. A. building.
Salt water was found in well near
Holton alter going down los feet.
company is being organized to develop
it.
An Esl1ridge merchant says he knows
of farmer who brought eggs to town
to sell which had failed to hatch in an
incubator.
The Neosho river was - feet higher
than normal, flooding the bottoms.
Easements of stores in Burlington
were flooded.
Riley county harvesters could not
stand it to have a good harvest day go
to waste, SO they kept their reapers
going on Sunday.
At Council Grove the Neosho river
beat its record and for time the cur
rent of the river was flowing through
the principal streets.
At the 3Oth commencement at Kan
sas university 224 students were grad
uated. There was an unusually large
attendance of alumni.
Water reached the pump houses at
Independence and put out the fires
under the boilers, leaving the city
without water service.
H. A. McConaughey, living north of
Concordia, lost by lightning five horses,
600 bushels of corn, 400 bushels of oats
and 20 tons of alfalfa.
The assessors count gives Wichita
IS, 163 people, an increase of 1851 over
1900 figures. The total assessed valua-
ton of the city is So, 2s2, $50.
The Fredonia Citizen tells of cy-
clone that destroyed two barns tore up
fifty young apple trees, broke porch,
lifted a third barn from its foundation
and killed cow.
Harrison Hannahs, who has just died
in Denver, was an old settler of Tope-
ka. In 1865 he sold his property for
81, 900 and gave Washburn college half
of it. He has not seen the college since
that year.
Red ants are said to be eating up al
falfa and corn in Mitchell county.
People sink empty fruit jars in the
ground and the ants get in them in
large numbers, and cannot crawl out
Then they are drowned.
Near Hays City the Capucian fathers
are building monastery. They had
100 barrels of lime stored in building.
The rain came through and Stacked
the lime and set the building on fire
and burned up big lot of property.
A &c fo, .f
state fair at Topeka are being carried
forward with success. Stock and cat
tie men throughout the state are being
interested in the fair project and stock
in the company is being sold to them.
The oats crop in central Kansas is
the finest in years and the corn acreage
is very large. Fruit is light but pas
ture and hay are in fine condition.
The enrolment of the normal school
at Emporia has, the past year, been %
per cent greater than ever before. The
graduating class is composed of Is men
and four women.
John E. Martin, of Whiting, sold sc
hogs on the Kansas City market for
S765 cents n hundred pounds. Mr..
Martin bred them and they were in
prime condition.
The flood did not reach lola at its
greatest volume until June o. Much
growing grain was destroyed. The
city waterworks plant was surrounded
The Neosho river was from five tc
seven miles wide at Chetopa on June Z
The lowland crops are DESTROYED anG
$4,000 is the figure placed on the los.
of wheat alone.
A sale of unclaimed freight at the
Santa Fe freight house at Topeka
lasted a week or more. There were
Is carloads of it gathered up at station,
along the line.
Edward L. Glasgow, formerly cap
tain in the Twentieth Kansas, recently
appointed a first lieutenant in the ar
tillery corps, has again been ordered
to take an examination for further
promotion.
DR.. c. E. Mum. pioneer physician
of Topeka, is dead. DIR. Mum wa.
bacteriologist of the state board o
health, lecturer on hygiene and SAM
tation at the state university and lee
turer on bacteriology at the Kansas
Medical college. He was recognized
authority in his line
The city meat inspector of Topelx;
says that Topeka used $1,000 pound.
less meat during May than during the
same month last year.