Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-01-02
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Representative Long is advocating an
increase in the pay of rural mail route
carriers to 5000 year.
1t is said that within a year more than
S23, 900 worth of tombstones have been
placed in the Burlingame cemetery.
The ten-year-old son of Thomas Nc
Cormick, section foreman at Miltonvale,
was drowned in pond while at play.
Mrs. Lucinda Carlton, aged Ga, died
Dec. % on the Sedgwick county farm
upon which she has lived for 80 years.
Quincy R. Croft, of Osborne, Kansas,
has been appointed a clerk and type
writer in the agricultural department
at Washington.
The Neodesha Register announces
that the Lanyon Brothers are about to
erect and operate zinc smelter in
Neodesha, where they have extensive
oil leases.
Friends of an Atchison pastor started
out to gather 500, to give to him on
Christmas. 1t was so easily done that
they made it 5000 before they stopped
asking for dollars.
Kansas merchants agree that they
never had better trade; especially the
holiday trade, than during the season
of 1901. And never has the trade been
so close to spot cash.
DIR. J. G. Malcolm died at the home
of his daughter in Hutchinson. He
was well known as a writer on medical
subjects, and the author of several
books. He was native of Scotland
and was II years old.
The Santa Fe has contracted for 1 800
tons of ice to be taken from Lake Con-
trary, above Atchison in the river bot
toms of Missouri, one third of the ice
to go into their Atchison ice house and
1000 tons shipped to Topeka.
The new cell house in the Hutchinson
reformatory is abont completed and
ready for use on New Years. 1t has
240 cells and is the finest cell house in
the west. The walls of the cell are of
solid rock. The floor of each is one
stone, each wall one stone and the cell
ing one stone. Each cell is fitted with
electric lights and sewer connections.
II. D. Washburn, implement dealer,
and J. F. Enterline, miller, both of
Downs, have started upon six months
tour of the world. They went to San
Francisco to sail for Hawaii, thence to
China, Philippines, Egypt, Palestine,
Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Paris, London
and elsewhere. They expect to be gone
six months.
cM. NJ. Sherman has 40, 900 acre farm
in Ellsworth county upon which he
employs from 80 to $50 men, among
whom are three bookkeepers and ste
nographers. On the place are kept
1000 cattle, from which $500 are
shipped annually. Telephone lines
lead from headquarters at Geneseo to
the different parts of the farm. OF
rough feed 5000 acres are grown.
DR.. o. w. Crow, of Pawnee, Kansas,
purchased fifty Arizona heifers four
years ago at $3.50 each. He has sold
from this bunch and its increase enough
to bring him So, 300 and has left 60 head
of to year olds worth 1000. He
places the total expense and care of his
herd, including taxes and interest, at
not more than $500; leaving his account
with profit balance of So, 375. TWEEN
ty-two years ago he began with rs
cents and pair of ponies and an old
wagon.
John A. Morton, of Osborne, bought
a section of land in Sherman county for
1860 and sold it the next day for 81 ia
Alfalfa growing in Sherman county is
advancing the price of lands there.
Beginning December 90 the Missouri
Pacific will put on new train between
Wichita and Salina, to be known as
and 10; the first to leave Wichita at
SOS p. m. aud the other to leave Salina
at $50 a. m. Another change is the
Wichita-K iowa train, which now leaves
Wichita at $50 p. m. and will leave at
5p. m.
Judge Hazen, of Topeka, favors the
adoption of the law of Colorado and
other states which allows questions of
public Importance to be submitted to
the supreme court without argument,
for immediate decision.
H. Harner, Harvey county farmer
has from time to time employed 90
paroled prisoners from the Hutchinson
reformatory. Mr. Harner takes
strong personal interest in the boys
and encourages them to become good
citizens He has found most of them
to be satisfactory farm hands.
During Christmas exercises in col
ored school in Atchison Precilla Ker-
ford's clothing caught fire from candles
on Christmas tree and she was so
badly burned that she died in a few
hours.
Mrs Gillett, of Mexico. wife of the
near Moonlight, sick-and it is feared
with quick consumption. Her husband
cannot come to her, but he sent a tele-
gram last week asking that she be sent
to Mexico at once, but she is unable to
travel.
1t is stated that Geo. w. Jones, of
Mound City, and John Randolph, of
Clyde, will be the first deputy collect
ors appointed by ]. NJ. Simpson.
John P. Hayden, the irish member of
parliament sent to prison for noll-pay-
ment of land rental, is brother of