Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-02-08
Current KANSAS FACTS.
BRIEF MENTION OF INTEREST
ING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

pleted. 1t is funrishsd in grand style.
Kansas Day is President McKinley's
birthday also. He was born January
20, 1s43.
1t cost Harvey county only se2.s3 to
run its poor farm the last twelve
months.
Kansas towns are generally forming
commercial clubs. The latest to do so
is Pleasanton.
The contempt case of John P. Reese
in Jail at FIT. Scott, will be taken to the
Federal supreme court.
The amount of oleomargarine ship
ped into Kansas during the fiscal year
1899 was 1883, 544 pounds.
The Citizens bank at Altoona has
been robbed of 1920 in silver. The burg
lars failed to get the currency.
Representative Ridgeley has bill
before the house for an appropriation
of 100000 for a public building at
Pittsburg.
Mormon elders are said to be making
many converts in Coffey county. They
are given crowded houses and respect
full attention.
sLeavenworth has about given up GET
ting the $500, 900 appropriation for build
ing cell houses at the new federal peni-
tertiary site.
Bert Cole was driving in buggy
near COTS, and collided with Central
Branch train at a crossing. He is in a
critical condition.
James O'Neal Gleason, Twentieth
Kansas volunteer, was shot and killed
recently in San Francisco saloon
where he was tending bar. q.
Jacob Dewitt, past grand commanded
Knight Templars and past grand high
priest and past grand master A. E. and
A. NJ, of the state of Kansas, is dead.
DIR. Fischer, veterinarian at the Agj
ricultural college believes the diseased
cattle on Swift's ranch, near Hoyt,
were suffering from the effect of too
much cottonseed meal instead of hydro
phobia.
The prevalence of chickenpox in
Kansas towns has cut off opportunities
to get small jobs by the poor. Fear Of
contagion is the cause. Poor commits
sioners' supplies are overtaxed from
this cause.
The assistant attorney gdneral rules
that clerks of district courts cannot
legally charge the county fee for
keeping the minutes of the court. Sew
eral district clerks have been collecting
fees for this work.
Kansas Republicans will hold a
double state convention at Topeka, on
May 16, to nominate state ticket and
to name delegates to the national con-
vention. There will be $50 delegates
in the Kansas convention.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared a second dividend of 10 per
cent in favor of the creditors of the
Atchison National bank, of Atchison,
Kan, making in all 40 per cent on
claims proved, amounting to S166,29
There was shipped from the Florena
stone quarries, near Irving, in the year
just closed, 1879 carloads of stone,'
there was such demand for this stone
that the proprietor couldn't fill all the
orders. Recently capitalists from
Beatrice, Neb., have purchased several
acres of stone lands, and will at once
open another quarry, which will give
employment to large number of hands.
The most of this stone has been ship
ped to other states.
DR.. Elizabeth Mcintyre, graduate
of the Kansas Medical college, has
struck rich find of lead and zinc in
northern Arkansas. DIR. Mcintyre had
an Office in Topeka at one time, but
will now devote her time to her inter-
ests in Northern Arkansas.
Lieutenant Uline left Wichita with
seven more men and said that during
the last month, recruiting stations
have been open at Kansas City, Topeka
and two Kansas towns, and only %
men have been secured, compared to
SO men for the Wichita station alone.
Mrs. Louisiana Fl. Delahay, widow OF
the late Mark W. Delahay, the first
federal district judge of Kansas, is very
low, and her recovery is not expected.
This venerable woman has reached the
age of II years and has been i'll for
some time.
The State Teachers association will
recommend that the next legislature
pass law providing for the study of
agriculture in the common schools.
Should this succeed, Secretary f. d..
Coburn will be asked to write text
book.
Mrs. H. A. Brown has been postmis-
tress at Homestead, Chase county, for
almost twenty-five years. She is now
succeeded by Mrs. John Findley.
Mrs. Tom Ryan, of Topeka, wife Of
Secretary Ryan, has gone to Santiago.
Cuba, to visit her son, Fred Ryan, Wild
is in the commissary department of
Santiago.
The second term of Kansas Univer-
sity opened January 90 with an in
creased attendance. The registration