Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-01-28
KANSAS COMMENT.
KANSAS

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HAS KANSAS LAwYER.-Win E.
Borah, formerly of Rice county, has
been retained by Senator Smoot.
THREE ArLANTAs.-There are towns
with the name of Atlanta in Mont
gomery, Cowley and Rice counties.
BERKSHIRE HoLs.-The biggest Berk-
shire hog man in the world is c. A.
Stannard, of Emporia, who raises about
1000 year.
START A MAGAzINE.-John P. Frittss
of Topeka. with two others, are to
start monthly magazine in New York
to be called Civic Pride.
SrocKMAN INJURED.-Tom Knox, a
prominent stoclxman of Leon, was badly
injured by being thrown from wagon
in runaway near that place.
HARRY E. TITUS DEAD.-He was the
travelling livestock agent for the Santa
Fe, and was the son of Eli Titus, gen
eral livestock agent for the road.
KANSAS MINERALs.-Last year the
total value of all mineral products, ac-
cording to the University Geological
survey, aggregated S23,61O, 1890
HIGH SCHOOL BURNED.-The high
school building at Logan was in ashes
90 minutes after fire was, discovered in
it. 1t is believed to be the work of an
incendiarv. The building cost $40, 900.
The library and all equipments We're
burned.
MOVED TO CoLoRADo.-Because the
clerks at Goodland refused to live in
Kansas and especially in that part OF
the state, it has been necessary for a.
T. Abbott, superintendent of the Colo
RADIO division of the Rock Island, to
move his office to Colorado Springs.
Nor A New TuING.-A curious thing
happened at Anthony recently when
LYMAN Beard dug well on the high
est point of land in the city limits. At
the depth of nine and a half feet water
came in so rapidly that the diggers had
to quit. In the lower sections of town
it is necessary to go forty feet to strike
water.
SEDGwIcK's CORN CRoP.-The Wich-
tia chamber of commerce has statistics
of the corn crop of Sedgwick county
for every year from 1878 to 1908. The
aggregate for the 10 years is 90.254, $50
bushels. The largest crop was $685.
$50, in 1903, and the lightest crop was
in 1901. The average crop for the pc
riodis GRE, 66O1l bushels.
Four BIsHoPs.-Four Bishops of the
Episcopal church were in attendance
of services at Grace cathedral at
Topeka together. They were-Bishop
futile, of ST. Louis; Bishop Edsall, of
Minnesota: Bishop Hare, of South Da-
kota, and Bishop Millspaugh. Bishop
Tuttle is at present presiding bishop of
the American church. Bishop Hare
has given up his life to work among
Indians of the northwest and is known
among them as the ''Great Father"
GIVEN TWENTY LAsHEs.-Charles
Gautney, who lives in Mound Valley,
was given twenty lashes across his
barred back and ordered never to reap
pear in Coffeyville again. He had been
fined SO in police court for swindling
shelter hands on the pretext of secur-
ing money to bury deceased relative.
After securing about $50 he went away.
He returned and was arrested. The
fine did not satisfy the men he had
swindled and they followed him to the
edge of the town and administered the
whipping.
For STREET CAR LINEs.-The city
council has granted a twenty year
franchise to j. J. Burns, of Chicago to
construct and operate an electric rail
way in Hutchinson. Work is to start
at once Seven miles of track will be
laid to start with, a portion of this to
be double tracked. The line is to ex-
tend to the state fair grounds, to the
state retormatory and salt plants.
"a CARS OF BY PRoDUCTs.-During
the year 1908 one Mankato produce
dealer sold "a cars of butter, eggs and
poultry.
REAL ESTATE HIGH.-The top notch
in real estate was reached at Ness City
when Charles Horchem bought three
quarters of land from John Snodgrass.
The price paid was $4,000. The pre-
vailing price has been $1,000 per quar-
ter. Charles Horchem raised $4,000
bushels of wheat this year and has
great faith in Western Kansas.
New BANK AT TRoY.-A national
bank has been organized at Troy with
a capital of SIS, 900, by E. T. Letson,
F. E. Hovey, w. A. Letson, Scott Hop
kins and II. r. Cornell.
LIKE A RoMANCE.-Fred Hetrick, a
Chanute farmer, was poor man when
element He can neither read nor
write, but he is public spirited. Cha
nute's new $4,000 opera house was
built and is owned by him. 1t excels
anything in the state or near the state
in architectural finish and inside finish.
OLD SOLDIER RUN OvER.-Peter
Basey, an inmate of the soldiers home
at Leavenworth, was run over and
killed by freight train in that city.
He was in the Second Kansas.
TREASURER LosT.-The county treas
urer of Doniphan county appointed an
agent at Highland to collect, taxes.
who sent in check on the Highland
bank for 1900 for taxes received to
date. The treasurer put the check in
the safe and held it for two weeks, but
in the meantime the bank had failed.
AS he did not show due diligence he