Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-07-10

NOyOICS arc h1ihS ohCCP III Lynn
county. The losses are reported as
severe.
The Rev. C. NJ. Sheldon's father puts
in typewriting all the manuscripts of
his son.
Someone who has kept tab says that
in Kansas there were only six clear
days in June.
The state school fund holds S642, s65
of Shawnee county bonds and S643, 900
of state bonds.
1t is not unusual for good wheat
land in Sumner county to sell at from
$40 to $50 an acre.
The dome of the state house at To-
pelia has been closed because of van
dalism by visitors.
A small twister struck the home of
j. C. Curry near Arkansas City doing
considerable damage.
r. E. Michaels, a Missouri Pacific
fireman, fell from his engine near Dill
Ion and broke his neck.
State Superintendent Nelson has is
sued ukase against the use of district
school houses for dances.
The new lieutenant governor of Ohio,
Harry L. Gordon, was twice a member
of the Kansas legislature.
Governor Stanley's son Harry utilities
his school vacations at $50 a month as
clerk in the governors Office.
Fred Beeler, the big Jewell county,
stock feeder, has 1000 acres of corn
growing on one of his places.
s. C. Lobabaugh, postmaster at Har-
per, was the last man confirmed by the
senate just as the session closed.
J. P. Wilkins, of Horton, has been
appointed deputy U. S. marshal in
Indian Territory. He went to Vinita.
Attorney General GODDARD holds that
school boards cannot deduct pay for
holidays from the wages of school
teachers.
III. M. Grafton has harvested his po-
tato crop off two Wichita city lots and
it produced at the rate of 367 bush
els to the acre.
Mrs. Thorpe, police matron of To-
pel1a, has founded an industrial school
for young children which has an at
tendance of Isl.
The Rock Island proposes to move
its general freight Office from Topeka
to Kansas City when a suitable build
ing is secured there.
The Topeka city railway company
proposes to spend 500, 900 in improv-
ing the system provided no franchise is
given competing company.
A. H. Williams has taken charge of
the Holton postof1ice, relieving NJ. NJ.
Beck, who served 16 years. Williams
has lived in Jackson county since 1853.
The fuss between the Choctaw and
the Orient roads over their crossing in
Harper county has been amicably set
tied. 1t looked for time as though
there would be legal battle.
Henry Starr, of Hagerstown, Ind,
followed Miss Alice Ressler to Milan,
Sumner county, and shot himself in
her presence because she refused to
marry him. His recovery is doubt
full.
A hundred or more Kansas school
teachers leave Topeka on Sunday, July
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meeting at Minneapolis, held July Sill.
Many will take side trips and be gone q
month.
Dr. C. Fl. Richard, druggist and
physician of Cleo, o. T.. was, with his
wife, arrested in Wichita, charged
with ill-treating a three-months-old
girl baby, which they had come here
to adopt some two weeks previously.
Miss Anna Horn, of Girard, % years
old, shot herself through. the heart.
1t is thought she did the rash act be-
cause two of her former girl chums had
committed suicide in February, 1899.
The 'Orient has purchased SIS, 769. so
worth of land, consisting of 495 lots,
little more than 20 acres in one piece,
and a lot of about 12 acres, at Wichita
for terminal facilities and shops The
deeds were made on January 81 last,
but were withheld until condemnation
proceedings were completed on another
tract.
When President Roosevelt gave Cal
vim Titus, the young Wichita soldier
who scaled the wall of Pekin, medal
at West Point, the president said to
him, Cadet Titus, please don't get the
big head now and spoil it ALL" Titus
| tells this himself.
The local fraternal lodges of Kansas
are seemingly much interested in the
| plans for a Temple of Fraternity to be
built at the st. Louis exposition
| grounds. 1t is to contain so rooms
and will be on the style of the Par
| thenon at Athens.
Allen Green Campbell, the founder
of Campbell university, at Holton, left
by his will So, 900 to be used for the
needs of the poor of Jackson county.
He recently died in Utah.
Assessors report the valuation of
farms and improvements of Saline
county at s7,973, 755. The farmers of
the county had on hand $50, 1854 bushels
of old wheat and 6,557 bushels of old
corn. The value of poultry and eggs
sold during the year was ST., 159. and
| 2s1 ,s94 pounds of butter was made on