Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-07-23
KANSAS COMMENT.

assessors Mt 3.66; in Nemaha, $40; in
stevens s5.47, and in Anderson at
SIG. IS.
PENSIONERS DYING.-There have
been / 300 pensioners stricken from the
rolls Of the Topeka U. 5. pension
agency by death during the past Eve
months.
ASSESSORS CATTLE VALUATION. In
Leavenworth county cattle are valued
for taxation at s1s.13; in Nen,aha ut
$3.50, and in Montgomery at 50. "a.
Only eight counties in the state value
their cattle at over $40 each.
A BEAUTIFUL. TREE. is a
balm OF Gilead trea in Anthony which
is 20 years old. 1t measures ten feet
and seven inches around the trunk one
foot from the ground and measures
through the foliage from north TO
south sxty-nine feet, and from east TO
west sixty two feet. This is a beauti-
fully shaped tree, in perfect health,
with wood as hard as hickory and
leaves as soft as velvet
LOOKING AFTER MORTG AGES.-The
county clerk of Shawnee county is go
ing TO compare the returns of the as
SCISSORS with the mortgage list taken
from the records and in this manner
find ont who the tax dodgers are. The
law empowers the county commission
ers or county clerk to assess penalty
of so per cent of the value against all
property which is not reported to the
assessors
FACTS AND FIGURES DISAGREE
With mortgages running into the mil
lions in nearly every county in the
state and with bank deposits aggre-
eating more than % million dollars,
the reports received by the state audi
tor show that but S7,664,O 46 in mort
cages and Sc, 2i2,679 in money have
been returned for taxation in Kansas
this year The assessed valuation is
much lower, being but So, 523, l41 on
mortgages and So, 939, 65l on money.
MAIL CARRIER "A YEAEs.-Samuel
Robinson has served "a years as mail
carrier in Topeka. His certificate of
appointment is dated September %,
1879. For "a years, winter and sum-
mer, ne has walked his ten or twelve
miles day, with never a layoff from
sickness of more than one day at a
time. Even the dogs along his route
love him; women and children watch
for his coming and meet him with
smiles
DISTRICT JUDGES. a ruling
of the supreme court, in a contest case
from Wyandotte county, the district
judges whose terms expire this year
will not hold over by virtue of the 'bi-
ennial election amendment to the con-
stitution and Governor Bailey will fill
the vacancies created in the offices by
reason of their retirement. The court
holds that district judges are neither
county or township officers and there
fore do not come under the law.
GATHERING FLOOD HIsToRY.-G. w.
Martin, secretary of the State Histori-
cal society, has sent to every town in
tainablc photographs of the liigh
waters and of the damage done. They
will be filed in the historical society's
vaults. He is also compiling news
paper history of the flood from the
local Kansas papers, securing two
copies of all flood editions and FASTING
the stories in large scrapbool1s. The
photographs are being furnished by
city councils. boards of county COM
missioners and newspapers.
CASH AND WHEAT.-Kansas has $780,
900, 900 on deposit in her banlis and
for every dollar on deposit she has Il
bushel of wheat additional ready for
market.
AS TO HoGs.-In Wyandotte county
hogs are returned by the assessors at
S1.25 cents each; in Gray at Sc cents,
in Smith at S5.10 and in Shawnee at
S496.
SCHOOL PoPULATIoN.-That of COT
feyville is 1851 white and 235 colored.
A separate school fight is now going on
there
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBIT. Tho Kan
sas commission to the st. Louis expos-
ton has named W. +. Schell, of Wich-
ita. as superintendent of the Kansas
horticultural exhibit The commission
has decided to employ c. Fl. Kassel-
baum, of Atchison, to make corn dis
play for the state.
A New PEsTERATioS-Frien of a
Salina bride and groom fastened a ffty
pound bell on the axle of the hack that
took them to the train. rope over
the top of the cab in the drivers hands
did the rest.
MULES WORTH MORE Than HORSES
In 100 of the counties mules are as
sessed at from - to 50 per cent more
than horses. Reno is the greatest
mule county of the state. 1t has a,19o;
Crawford comes second with ..169;
cowley third with 2,142; Haskell has
only 90.
RUSSIANS BUT LASDs.-Russians.
who are large fruit growers in Ellis.
Ellsworth and Rush counties. have
bought twenty sections of land in
Trego county and want 100 sections
more.
FROM WICHITA TO ScoTLANp.-R. n.
Davidson, of Glasgow, Scotland, acts
in the capacity of foreign agent at that
place for the Cudahy Packing Co. Two
and three carloads of export meat load
ed and prepared at the local plant are
shipped directly to Scotland billed to
Mr., Davidson at Glasgow each week.
The NEB.. KANs. AND GULF. A
meeting of delegates from Lindsborg,
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