Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-04-03

SiXty-four dollars an acre has been
paid recently for 125 acres in Park
township, SedgwiclS county.
The police of Winfield claim to have
driven 40 hobocs out of the town in
one round up. They started north.
Lee Watson. the only son of J. L.
Watson, of Parsons. was killed by con-
tact with live wire while being hazed
by his school class.
John W. Haughey. of Wellington,
has received his commission as fish
commissioner of Kansas. The place
pays 81 900 year
a Topeka greenhouse man has been
shipping asparagus to New York City.
For little lunches about the size of
your wrist, he receives 81 dozen.
s II. Hoyt has sold his ranch in
jackson county, known as the Cleming-
shire ranch, to J, p. Larsh, Nebraska
speculator The price was S3s, 900.
Arthur Linn, a young single man,
was smothered to death while working
at the salt mines at Kingman, caused
by cave-in of the bins in warehouse.
The body of General Leavenworth
will be removed from Delhi, New York,
and buried at Fort Leavenworrh, Dec
grafton day. General Leavenworth
died over so years ago.
Mcpherson is chosen as the location
for cooperative wholesale grocery
house, organized by retail grocers of
that district, dividends to be paid them
in proportion to their purchases.
The Continental Creamery company
expects to pay out this year in Kansas
one and a half million dollars t. farm
ers for their milk. The company pays
S275, 900 to Dickinson county farmers
alne.
Kansas contains more old soldiers
than any other state in the union and
the pension agency at Topeka disburses
more money every month in the way of
pensions than any other agency in the
country.
The Rev. Z. A. Hoyt. a preacher at
tending the NJ. E. conference at Arkan-
sas City, was seriously hurt by being
thrown from wagon in which he was
riding with his brother to the home of
the latter.
The Rev. Granville Lowther, while
on trial for heresy at the NJ. E. con-
ference in session at Arkansas City,
was proffered acquittal on the condi-
ton that he would not preach the truth
as he saw it. He refused, saying that
his convictions We're honestly held by
him.
j. L. Norris, who was visiting his
cousin near Furley, Sedgwick county,
having come with his brother from
Harris, Ill, in the hope of quieting his
delusions. developed insanity and was
to have been taken in charge. When
parties went to his room for that pur-
pose he shot through the door at them
and later shot himself dead.
The bureau of forestry of the depart
| ment of agriculture mas sent men to
measure the growth made by the ca
talpa trees on the Yaggy farm in Reno
county. The catalpa forest on the
| farm consists of 40 acres, planted close
enough to shoot the growth upward
The first posts were cut last year;
| an s0-acre tract was thinned out and
thousands of posts We're sold from it..
! The great railroad companies are
watching this forest, being deeply in
! terested in catalpa culture, and are es-
pecially interested in Mr.. Yaggy' S
grove as it is the most noted catalpa
| forest in the United States
! City Marshal Metz of Eudora. was
wounded by shot by Clyde Hughes
whom he had arrested for attempted
| burglary, while he was searching his
prisoner. Hughes got away but he
carried with him in his leg bullet
sent in his direction by the marshal.
Mayor Parker, of Topeka, was as.
saulted with a horsewhip while in his
office by Miss somebody, IS years old.
The Miss declared she would next at
tack Governor Stanley and may do SO
if the insanity regulations are slow of
application to the case.
| The executive council has appointed
three assistant state mine inspectors as
follows: Peter Braidwood, of Leaven-
worth, for the Leavenworth district;
James A. Orr. of Cherokee, for the
| Southeastern Kansas district: Thomas
IIerzog, of Usage City, for the Osage
district
Miss Lena Schmale. a farmers daugh-
ter living near Garland, Bourbon coun-
ty, was burned to death from the ex.
plosion of a bottle of gasoline from
! which she was pouring portion into
a boiler of hot water.
Il. E. Conway alleges that he shipped
cattle from Caldwell in October 'O1 to a
Wichita commission firm who sold the
cattle for S3O7.O2, of which he has re.
ceived no part. He has brought suit
for the money, his expenses and for
damages.
The oldest man in Wellington is L.
D. Chaddon, a justice of the peace. He
was 81 last Sunday. His wife is rs
and they have been married sixty
years. He was chummy with Roscoe
Conkling and used to go squirrel hunt
ing with him.
The mayor of Cripple Creek. Colo.
was in Wellington and declared it tc
be his opinion that there are zinc and
lead ores there, and that the town has
| oil underneath Ii