Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-06-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANS,

@. w. Miller's large barn in Winfield
is burned at loss of SEQ, 900.
Wichita received its first carload of
tomatoes from Texas the other day.
Three wrecks occurred at Florence
within ten days; each delaying traffic.
There are more acres, of potatoes
now growing in Ellis county than ever
before.
The 18th annual session of the Chris
tan Endeavor society was held in
Leavenworth.
A Morganville miller advertised that
he would give feeders corn for wheat
bushel for bushel
Pension Commissioner Ware has ap-
pointed w. E. Connolly, of Topeka, as
special pension examiner.
Nine state banks were installed last
week. This is the largest number ever
set at work in the state in one week.
Harry Severant, aged 10, of a suburb
of Topeka, lost his life in trying to
rescue his little dog from drowning.
James A Beates, of Junction City.
has been appointed an observer in the
of Washington.
Sam Tracy, of Shawnee county, is
marketing his potato crop at go cents
a bushel. He says his crop is averaging
Al.
Exit, mortgage sale advertisements.
Enter, hungry capital seeking invest
ments. Columns of Kansas newspa-
pers exhibit this change.
The Salina city council has increased
the amount of monthly blood money
from the joints, which has been from
SIS to $50, to from $50 to S1OO.
John Scott, aged 80 years, died at
Atchison June 16. He had resided
there since 1854. Mrs. Scott survives
him. They had lived together SIS years.
Allen county has two women NOM
mated for county offices; they are Miss
Francis Wilson for county treasurer
and Miss Olive Knowlton as school
superintendent.
VIM. q. Allison, steward of the in
Olathe, is dead, aged 63 years. He
was a veteran of the civil war and his
home was at lola.
The Wellington Mail says the presi-
- Al.
pays taxes on $50 worth of personal
property, while barber in the base
ment of the bank pays taxes on Sl2O
worth
Sunday harvesting has been a feature
in Kansas always to some extent, but
it has probably occurred to greater ex-
tent this harvest than usual. The
rains have been interfering with the
work.
Eliza J. Graham, widow of Robert st.
Clair Graham, an early judge of the
Atchison district court, who died at her
home in Moberly, Mo-, was a daughter
Atchison in 1858.
VIM. Coclxerill, an old citizen of Mar
shall county, was drowned in Blue
river. He was crossing in boat and
the swift current capsized the boat.
He was 20 years old and had lived at
Marysville SO years.
Artificial stone for foundations,
veneer, building stone, curb stone and
ornamental designs, is to be manufac-
tured in $4,000 factory in Wichita.
The stone is made by hydraulic pres
sure, and the press employed has a
capacity of two tons day.
The government pays certain sum
to the state for each veteran soldier
supported in the State home at Dodge
City. The last remittance received at
the state treasury was So, 600.
Eunice Batch and Bertha Woolsey.
two little country misses of Cowley
county, recently wrote a letter to Teddy
Roosevelt, Jr., telling him about things
in Kansas and asking him about things
in Washington. And Teddy responded
with gentlemanly little letter to each
ofthe girls. Those letters are likely
to be long preserved.
The Sixth battery which took the
seven new field guns on a carriage test
on trip from Fort Riley to Topeka
and return, made firing test on their
arrival at the post. The battery will
be sent back to the Sandy Hook prov
ing grounds.
Decatur county has 10, 264 acres in
alfalfa. Last year it had COIL acres.
In wheat the county has 1924 acres,
against Al, s23 acres in 1901. The av-
erage of corn has fallen off about 5000
acres, there being only 1O2, 1893 acres
this year.
There are three separate interests in
building an electric line between Kan
sas City and Topeka; the third one
having just completed it's survey.
George Myers, of Hoxie, put up two
stacks of thistles last year and says his
cattle ate them in preference to straw,
and he thinks they are more nut-i-
tious.
Marking nails are used by the Santa
Fe to date their picked ties. The
brass foundry at the Topeka shops
''tinned" $50 kegs of them in one bunch
last week.
The Ladies' Improvement association
of Parsons built pavilion in Forest
Park large enough to seat 600 people.
1thas just been dedicated, and stands
as worthy testimony that women's
climbs sometimes do sensible +b;nre