Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-12-27

Kingman county has commenced
agitating the question of new court
house.
Glen Elder will vote on the 18th of
January on going in debt to build
city hall.
H. o. Nudge, general superintendent
of the Santa Fe, has purchased home
in Topeka.
General w. s. Metcalf, of the Twen-
tieth Kansas, has opened a loan Office
in Lawrence.
State Treasurer Grimes pays the en-
ployes of the state week ahead of
time this month.
During the last month the salt mines
of Kingman shipped IA cars of salt
day for &c days.
A F. Casad, the new captain of the
West Point foot ball team, was born
and raised in Wichita.
There are only two members of the
the present legislature.
1t is claimed that gold worth 81 was
taken from a piece of rock the size of
an egg, found near Mound City.
The Missouri & Kansas Telephone
company has put up two long cables
in Wichita, each having 100 wires.
Thos Horribly, of Morris county,
brought back $4,000 more from the
Klondike mines than he took there.
Andrew Baird, state secretary of the
Y. NJ. C. A., has been reelected to that
position by the executive committee.
Bank note No. 1, issued by the Ma
tional bank of Honolulu, was received
on freight bill at Parsons recently.
The warden of the Kansas peniten-
tiary has notified all sheriffs that he
will receive no prisoners until the place
is free from smallpox.
Luke Kenosly, and Anthony Hanley
of Axtell, husked 157 and 1876 bushels of
corn from a. M. to $50 p. m. The
corn was hauled and unloaded by
others.
There is no statute in Kansas fixing
the manageable age and the common
law places the age of IL for women and
IA for men. There is talk of legislation
upon this subject this winter.
It is asserted by school architects
that there is more school room under
the single roof of the Friends Univer-
sity in Wichita than can be found
under any single roof in America.
! Members of the Lutheran church of
Gaylord started library which has
ually being merged into public Ii
brary by the application of 81 mem
bership fee.
Living southwest of Conway Springs
Siamese twins Formerly two SONS of
the other twin also lived in Sumner
county, but it is not known there
where they are now.
There are now 1865 books in the
travelling library department of the
state library The scheme was started
has on the average 20 readers, giving a
total number of readers of G, 800.
Abilene's business men, in meeting
assembled, have, jointly with the city
council, decided to continue to ''regu-
late" the liquor business as has been
done in the past The council says
that money must be raised some way.
eAdna Treat, aged 1o3 years, died at
Hays, Kansas recently. In 1924 he
was master of the Masonic lodge in
Troy, n. Y, which entertained La
fayette. Mr.. Treat was intimate with
Presidents Monroe and John Quincy
Adams. He was prominent officer in
the ceremonies of dedicating the Erie
canal.
A Lawrence firm has been awarded
the contract for grading about so miles
of the Rock Islands extension from
Liberal.
The flax seed crop of Bourbon county
averages returns of SIS to SIS an acre
There is no market for straw and it is
used for feed.
The new theater at the Leavenworth
Soldiers home has its first performance
on Christmas eve. Old soldiers will at
all times be admitted free, but officers,
employees and citizens will have to pay
! 80 and 25 cents
Geo. B. Edgar, Santa Fe operator,
has invented railroad ticket which
cannot be manipulated by scalpers. A
patent is applied for and offers have
been received from railroad passenger
departments.
An Ell Dorado girl received check
in 1889 for premiums at the county
fair. She had laid it aside and forgot
ten it but has now cashed it.
1t is said at the Kansas City stock
f yards that there is more rough feeding
5 and less full feeding of cattle in Kan
sas this year than ever before.
D. S. Richards, of Olpe, Kansas, sold
E 16 dehorned Shorthorn steers in Kan.
sas City, that averaged 1,737 pounds
. They tOpOed the market a f. 81 OK