Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-18
KANSAS. NOTES.

Otdtc superintendent Nelson has
made official visits to sixty counties
in this state.
Two fossil skeletons of gigantic
buffalos have been discovered near
Fort Scott,
The MCPHERSON papers claim that
ST.. 900 was expended in that town
1899 for new buildings.
The deposits in the Kansas banks
are now about $50, 600, 900, which is
between $40 and $50 per capita.
The electric line between Kansas
City and Leavenworth will not be in
operation before February ].
The city officers at Hays City are all
under % years of age, and all but the
mayor are unmarried.
1t is said that the Kansas people in
st. Louis are going 20 organize and
hold reunions
Fort Leaveuworth and Fort Riley
are now the two largest garrisoned
posts in the Department OF the Mis-
souri,
Conrad Ruch, Who was working on
the section mt Hoisington has fallen
heir to $50, 900 from brother in New
York.
Robinson's stingy man is said to
take long steps in order to save the
wear and tear on tho soles of his
shoes.
Charles Cavenaugh of Sedgwick,
who was with Dewey at Manila" is
banking on the prospect of about
$1,000 prize money.
Colonel ]. w. Forney, of Sumner
county, has shipped box of seventy
eight ears of corn for display at the
Paris exposition.
The fish commissioner of Kansas an
nounces that the United States fish
commission has sent him SOC. 900 bass
to plant in Kansas streams
Samuel Triplett of Labette county
has been given Il medal for bravery as
one of the crew of the Marblehead
who cut the cable at Cienfuegos-
A Kansas editor, in shooting it into
his esteemed contemp., says that he
has to dig under his toe nails with a
toothpick to find brains to edit his
newspaper!
A prize was offered in Doniphan
county Sunday school for the student
who would learn the most bible verses
during the year. The winner sue
ceeded in committing to memory s44
verses.
A wedding anniversary entirely out
of the common was the 9th anniver-
sary of the wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
;a1,
celebrated last week. Five genera
tions sat at tine same table.
During 1889 there were AGA weddings
in Sedgwick county. The average
age of the man was 27.7 years, and of
the women 90 3 years. The greatest
disparity was between 4 groom of 65
and a bride OF 10. The oldest groom
was 6S and the oldest bride 5S. The
youngest groom was 10 and the young
est bride Is. One bride of 80 had a
groom aged 80, another bride of 81
had groom Of %.
The Canadian government has Of
fered Buffalo" Jones a commission
of capturing buffalo, muskox and
reindeer for public geological park,
One of our little girls, says a
Wathena paper, wanted a new doll
for Christmas. Her mother told her
that her old doll was just as good as
new. and she replied, well, I'm just
as good as new. but the angels
brought you r new baby"
The little Filipino boy, Juan Cur
iendo, who was a mascot in the Twen-
tieth Kansas in the Philippines, has
entered the Sedan public schools. He
is the ward of Lieutenant Ball His
teacher, Miss Effie Pleasant, is now
teaching children of four distinct
races of the human family. She has
under her charge four negro children,
two Indian children, this Malay boy
and enough Caucasian children tc
make an enrolment of about sixty
five.
An attempt will be made by .he
defense to prove that Joseph Leach.
who is on trial in the federal cour,
for murder, is 4 degenerate. Leach
was a private in the regular army
stationed at Fort Riley, and he killed
a fellow soldier with 4 baseball bat
The attorneys for Leach claim to be
abe to prove that three of his uncles
were idiots; that a grandfather was
an habitual drunkard; that great
aunt died a raving maniac in an
asylum; that his father and mother
were first cousins; that his brother
committed suicide, and finally thai
the defendant himself is cigarette
fiend.
The first ball of binding Irvine made
by the penitentiary plant has beer
delivered to Governor Stanley, ant
will be deposited with the State His.
torical society. 1t weighs five pound.
and contains SOC feet of firmly spur
Irvine made of Yucatan sisal.
The old Attica sugar mill will be
converted into Mormon temple.
In applying for a marriage license
at Ottawa recently the bride gave hel
name as Mrs. Fowler Carruthers
Storms-Da,e," each of the hyphenatet
names standing for husband VIII,
had gone before.
In the district court at Winfield
w. s Workman has sued for divorce
He alleges that his wife drove hin
from their home in Illinois and nov
refuses to live with him. He says h
owns considerable property in Kan
sas, and that his wife owns $40, 90
mn