Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-08-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Hogs are scarce and hardly to be
bought to take the enormous corn crop
of Kansas this year.
The Farmers Grain & Livestock as
ISOLATION commenced last week 10 ship
grain cut OF Wichita.
Phillips county, where corn had been
suffering, had general heavy down.
pour for over two hours on July &c.
Adding new switches in railroad
yards is very common thing in the
busting shipping towns of the state.
The shipment of new wheat to mar,
ket has commenced. The Santa Fe
made the first reports of such shipments.
Senator Burton announced on Sum-
day, July 81, his selection of w. H
Mackey, of Junction City, for U. 8.
marshal.
Abilene has abandoned its gas we'll.
In the second well put down the drill
stuck at i, 400 feet and could not be
taken out.
There is proposition up for the
Frisco line to put in a branch to To-
peka from somewhere on its main line
south of Kansas City.
Sheriff Swayze, of Ottawa county,
says he has not been called upon any
official service but twice this year. He
travels for an implement firm.
At Independence Harry Feltz, the
l2-year old son of retired farmer,
was drowned in the Verdigris river
while bathing. He was alone.
A secret committee from the strikers
at Cleburne, Texas, has been in Topeka
to get the men in the Santa Fe shops
to go out on sympathy strike.
A fire in the shoe shop of the peni-
tertiary at Lansing caused a $50, 900
loss to the state. The fire ragged two
hours before it was under control.
The fire department at the peniten-
tiary is made up of TRUSTEES and they
did strenuous work at the shoe shop
fire which occurred in the night
A 2-year-old daughter of Carl Kurtz,
living southeast of Eureka, fell into a
tub of boiling water and was fatally
scalded, death resulting in few hours
Farmers about Cawker City who fur
nish milk to the Swimming station,
compared notes and found that their
COWS paid an average of s. each in 80
days.
A sanitarium after the Battle Creek
idea is established in Wichita. 1t is
the only one of the kind in the state
and the nearest one to it is at Lincoln,
Nebraska.
A Beloit, Kansas, dispatch tells of
the birth there of boy baby which
weighs % pounds. The mother is %
years old and the baby is well devel-
oped and hearty.
At the Chautauqua assembly at Cav
ker City August 1924 there will be a
Joint febate between Congressman
Chas. B. Lands, of Indiana, and Champ
Clark, of Missouri.
Farmers about Wellsville expect to
ship within the next few weeks about
20 carloads of blue grass seed. The
price is ~ cents a pound and their
crop figures at $3.50
Charles L. Vermillion, of Hiawatha,
Kansas, has been appointed book
keeper and Fred Lees, of Downs, Kan
sas, appointed typewriter in the agri-
cultural department at Washington.
Rev. Denese, who has been pastor of
the Clay Center Presbyterian church
for number of years, has rendered his
resignation so as to accept a call from
church in suburb of Pittsburg, Pa.
The state encampment of the Kansas
National Guard, billed for Emporia,
has been declared off by the state mil
itary board. Emporia was unable to
furnish the required number of artil-
lery horses. The encampment will be
held later in the fall at Fort Riley.
F. n. Cole has sued Postmaster C. C.
Gray, of lie Roy, for $1,000 damages
for failure to deliver a postal card
which would have notified him of the
death of his father. He charges the
postmaster with carelessness and neg
iigence in employing careless clerks.
Topeka's police matron, Mrs. Thorpe,
and ]. e. Nissley, took 200 Topeka
newsboys to Mcfarland for picnic.
They filed two Rock Island passenger
coaches. The excursion left at $50
q. m and returned at $50 p m.
Mrs. Eugene McKibben, living near
Mayfield, jumped into u cistern and
saved her baby, just big enough to be-
gin to walk, from drowning. She
stood in the water which was up to her
armpits, holding the child until its
father came from the field and drew
them out with rope.
Every employee of the Katy in Par
sons will give one days wages each
month for three months to help raise
the cost of the railway Y. NJ c. A.
building, for which the city gives IS, 900
and the katy" $1,000.
The Wamego barrel factory operated
by j. Fl. Bennett, is constructing an
additional building, 30 by 4s feet to &C
commodate ten more hands, The bar
ra-malSing enterprise has proved a
profitable one and has also furnished a
market for few surplus cottonwood
trees.
The contractor for work at Fort
Riley has purchased rs carloads of
lumber to be furnished by lumbar