Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-02-01

Howard is to have telephone ex-
change.
The commercial club of Ottawa is
having fine growth.
Harness thieves are again abroad in
many parts of the state.
A convention of county treasurers
met in Wichita January "a.
Mankato's waterworks plant is COM
pleted and accepted by the city council
At fire in Wichita the other night a
water main bursted and flooded whole
block.
A Clay Center photographer ''took'
four newly married couples in one day
recently.
February is the thirty-fourth ami
versary of the founding of Washburn
college.
E. B. Davenport, a farmer near Atch,
ison, sells capons in Kansas Citp at IS
cents each.
Kansas towns are generally forming
commercial clubs. The latest to do SO
is Pleasanton.
Ellis expects the Union Pacific to
spend lot of money on Improvements
there this season.
Mrs. Lee Cochran was killed and her
husband badly injured at road cross
ing at Lebanon.
Lieutenant Uline took seventeen ar
tillery recruits from Wichita. He goes
to Pittsburg next.
w. H. Biddle, state treasurer under
the Lewelling administration, is now a
resident of Wellston, o. T.
James Huffman, brakeman on the
Hutchinson & Southern, was run over
and killed at Rago, Kingman coun.
ty.
Miss Helen Gould has contributed
$500 for a library to be placed in the
Y. M. c. A. reading rooms at Fort
Scott.
A bill is before Congress to build a
civil federal reformatory at Leaven-
worth, for the confinement of young
prisoners.
The secretary of war transmitted to
the house an estimate of 1925, 900 for
rebuilding officers quarters at Fort
Leavenworth, Kas.
Christian Scientists of Howard have
established reading room, open to all
who wish to take advantage of it from
to 4 p. m. every day.
The J. S. Smythe bank at Stockton is
closed and settling up. 1t is hoped
that it will be able to pay out in full,
at sacrifice of its capital.
A stock company with a capital of
about $1,000, has been organized at
Williamsburg, for the purpose of bor-
ing for gas or oil. Williamsburg is en-
thusiastic over the prospect.
In the southwestern part of McPher-
son county are some sand hills and
sand lands For years they were avoid
ed. Germans came in and took them
garden.
D. A. Guilds, of Fort Scott, through
Major Martin, of the Twentieth Kan
sas, has received from the adjutant
general the gun carried in the Philip
pine war by his son, Halle Guilds, who
was killed on the firing line.
DR.. Charley Howe, of Atchison urges
the residents of towns threatened with
smallpox to remember the vinegar
treatment DIR. Howe cleaned the
smallpox out of Lenora with the vine
gar treatment and says that it is doing
good work at Centralia, where the dis
ease has been confined to single case.
| Mr.. John Kyle relates that when he
first came to Cawl1er in 1871, he made
trip to the present site of Gaylord,
and while there woman died and no
coffin could be procured. Part of the
roof of house was taken off to make
box for her burial. The cost of lum-
Der at that time was $50 thousand.-
Cawker Ledger.
Milton Bernheizer, while running a
threshing engine over bridge near
Manchester, went down with both en-
CINE and bridge, being pinned under
. the engine more than an hour. He
was badly hurt but may recover.
| A history of the Masonic home in
| Wichita has been ordered compiled and
| printed in neat booklet form, which
will be illustrated with cuts of the va
rious buildings, showing exterior and
interior views, and these will be dis.
tributed among the Masons of this and
other states.
The Wichita council and school board
have been talking over plans to make
the city library free. 1t is at last de-
| cided that it shall be free.
Prof. Virchow, of Berlin, will ex-
hibit to his class in pathology Kan
san, Leeds Wilkins, reputed to be the
tallest man in the world, pointing out
the remarkable abnormalities of his
skull
Lewis J. Monroe was shot in stage
duel at a Wichita ODera house. and