Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-16

alton OF town lots IN tie SIX hlgnest
counties as follows: Wyandotte re-
ports 20, 700 town lots for taxation and
values them at $40, $50, 80; Shawnee.
40, S3s lots valued at So, 96s, 35i; Scdg-
wick, Sc. 9o1 lots. valued at S4,337, 23s;
Leavenworth. 24.I77 lots, valued at
81, 23S. 80; Bourbon, IL, 800 lots, valued
at 81, 444, 495; Atchison, 7,106 lots, val
ued at 81, GA, 507.
SHORTAGE OF CAUSE.-THE first com
plant comes from North Topeka where
the Mid-Continent mills cannot get cars
enough to fill orders. Some of these
orders have remained untitled for Il
month as n result of food conditions
and those who made them are frantic
ally sending kilograms and letters of
inquiry.
COUNTIES MUsT PAY.-Thcre is no
law providing for payment by the state
of sheriffs for taking insane persons to
the asylum, or iprisoners to the State
reformatory. The So. 900 appropriated
for the payment of sheriffs for taking
prisoners to the pcnitentiary cannot be
used for the other services above men
toned.
THE SIX LARGEST The total valua-
ton returned by assessors of the six
leading counties, of both real and per-
sonal property, is here stated. In
Shawnee it is ST., 700, j97; Wyandotte,
ST, BIS, 400; Sedgwic<, Sli, sol. 4s3:
Leavenworth, 50, COL. SOC; Bourbon, So
81, GAS; Atchison, S., O6S, G3O
DEATH FROM BAY RUM.-At Delplos
Dick Benson, Il barber, drank bay rum
and died in great agony. Bay rum is
supposed to be made of pure alcohol,
but some druggists. it is said, use the
poisonous wood alcohol because it is
cheaper. 1t is said that Benson sup
posed lie was getting pure bay rum.
AN OLD SETTLER SIRICKEN.-Judge
j. :. Magili. one of the first three white
settlers of Marshall county, was strick-
ell with paralysis at his home last
week. He is past SO years of age and
has no reserve vitality to draw upon.
He settled in Marysville in 1856.
AL GREENE DID IT.-A. Z. Greene, of
Kansas, special agent of the interior
department, is honored on the Pacific
coast by having his picture on the front
page of all the papers. He won the
distinction by ferretting out swindles
in taking public lands.
PosToFFICE RECEIPTS. records
for the fiscal year ending June so, 1908.
show that the total amount received at
the Topeka postoffice for postage, mon
ey orders, etc, was Sill 1888 Sc; show
ing an increase of about l41L5 per cent
over the preceding year.
CONNECTING TRACks.-Suits are com.
menced AZ Harper before the board OF
railroad commissioners TO compel. the
Orient and Santa Fe railroads tc build
connecting tracks, SO thaS freight may
be transferred there without changing
cars.
ACREAGE AssEssMESTs.-The six
counties showing the highest val,,a-
tons per acre, for taxation of farm
lands arc: Wyandotte. S2o Is per acre;
Allen, $40; Leaven worth So 80: Brown,
SIS. IS; Shawnee, S7.54; Ncmaha, sos.
WHERE is CIosE.-F'red Close built a
north and south road through Kansas
on paper some years since. His old
time friends are wondering that his
name has not been connec ted with the
Nebraska and Gulf road.
Coal FOR FEDERAL BUDDING Penn
sylvania hard coal, $50 tons of 1t, is al
ready stored in the basement of the
federal building in Topeka. Uncle
Sam seems to be providing against
strikes.
School PoPULATIoN.-That OF COT
feyville is 1.6Sl white and 235 colored.
A separate school fight is now going on
there.
WALL. AT REFoRMAToHY.-Wor on
the construction of the wall around the
Hutchinson reformatory will begin at
once. The legislature appropriated
Sic. 500 for the wall. The wall will be
a.700 feet long and twenty-five feet
high. 1t will cost $40 foot. The APP
preparation is not large enough to COM
| plete the wall The managers will
build the wall sixteen feet high with
the money now available, and ask the
legislature next year for an additional
appropriation of $4,000 to complete
| it.
GETS TWICE AS MUcH.-Not month
passes that instructors i'll state institu-
tons do not leave Kansas tempted BY
better offers elsewhere. The latest is
Mrs. Cora McCoiluin Smith, a mem Der
of the faculty of tine Kansas university
school of fine arts. She goes to the
| Minnesota state normal school, where
see will receive just double the salary
| Kansas has been paying her.
HALsrEAD HosPTrAI. -Halstead has
an up-to-date hospital, completed and
open for business. 1t is owred by a
home company.
BLOWN BY DYNAMITE.-A trolley ear
in Topeka was blown from the tracks
on the morning of the Fourth. Several
powerful dynamite bombs ha2 been
| placed on the tracks by unknown par
tics and the passing car exploded them.
No one was seriously injured, but all
| were given a severe shal<eup.
| SAMPLE OF AssEssMENTs.-In Chey-
enne county piano is estimated to he
worth only s9.4o for the purposes of
taxation while down in Clark county
pianos are valued at ST4 each. The
average valuation is about $50