Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-01-25
Topeka has levied a poll tax of 50. 90.

of Grenola ss3 carloads of stock; valued
at s42e, 900.
Mound City is to be placed in the cir
cult of the Missouri and Kansas tele-
phone circuit.
julius Fischer, who has been raising
Boer fund at Lawrence, has sent S1sa
to Boer authorities.
O1athe is likely to soon be connected
more completely with Kansas City by
the building of an electric line.
Owing to the danger of an epidemic
of typhoid the city council of Lawrence
Investigated the city's water supply.
Stockton has a young lady real estate
agent, Miss Bessie Dunaway, who closed
up So, 100 real estate deal last week.
There has been considerable trouble
caused of late by thieves entering
freight cars and helping themselves to
the goods.
j. c. Robson, of Towanda, while at
tending the state poultry show, as a
side line bought $1,000 worth of Per-
cheron horses.
Edward Smick, the 17-year-old son
of K. c. Smick, editor of the Kansas
Agriculturist, of Wamego, Kan, was
killed by a train.
The grade out of Kiowa, Kansas, is
still an unknown quantity. Parties
making the grade fear that it will be
sold and not used.
A Cawker City man spends his leisure
time in gathering mussel shells which
he ships to button makers. He has a
bottle full of pearls, rescued from the
shells, which he says is worth $12O.
S. o. Osborne, of Garden City, man,
damused the school authorities to per,
NIT his children to attend school with,
out being vaccinated. The district
court decided against him and he ap'
peals to the court of appeals.
w. o. Vanarsdale, James Elem, OF
Burton, and party of Wichita sports
men have purchased the land south OF
Burton, on which the Patterson Lake
is situated. They will expend 1,OOd
in building and equipping brick club,
house.
Three town ships of Dickinson county
have refunded their railroad bonds al
5 per cent. They were drawing 6 per
cent. The owners of the old bonds
take the new ones at no expense to the
townships to prevent the state school
fund getting them.
! Catherine Smith has filed suit against
the city of Columbus for SIS, 1000 dam,
ages alleged to have been sustained by
reason of the city permitting saloons
to be run in violation of law, thereby
causing her husband, C. w. Smith, to
become an habitual drunkard.
Captain J. P. Grinstead, of the Thirty,
second Infantry reported killed in the
Philippines, was a veteran officer OF
three wars. He served during the re.
bellion, as captain in Kentucky cav
| airy regiment, was elected captain OF
Company L, of the Twenty-frst Kan.
sas, recruited in Sumner county. He
was city mashal of Wellington for sew
eral years and was prominent in the
! @. A. r.
The Kansas State Historical society
has had twenty-one presidents, viz
Judge Samuel A. Kingman, the first
president, George A. Crawford, Gov
John A. Martin, Gov. Charles Robinson
T. Dwight Thatcher, F. P. Baker, D.
R. Anthony, D. w. Wilder, Edward
Russell. William A. Phillips, c. K. Holt
day, James S. Emery, Gov. Thomas A,
Osborn, P. G. Lowe, v. J. Lane, S. O.
Thatcher, Gov E. N Morrill,, Harrison
Kelley, John Speer, E. F. Ware and J
! G. Haskell.
Lawrence and Douglas county have
joined in the purchase of Cuban
bloodhound to catch the increased mum.
her of criminals infesting the county.
The Union Pacific has paid to the
relatives of s. Honeywell, who was
killed by freight train collision east
of Abilene last fall, S5,ooOin settlement
of the damages.
The Santa Fe ear shops in Topeka
are engaged just now in building ten
new chair cars and 200 furniture cars
The new chair cars are so feet inside
and modern in every particular.
The Union Pacific is running two
ballast trains daily from Lawrence
west. They carry the burned gumbc
from the gumbo kilns near Lawrence
Governor Stanley and Department
Commander Coulter have been investi
eating Irregularities alleged to exist al
the State Soldiers home at Old For
Dodge.
In Dickinson county relief associa
ton has been formed and is sending
corn and other supplies to missionarie
CT the River Brethren church in famin,
stricken India.
Representative c. A. Fowler, serving
his third term in congress from New
{ Jersey, commenced the practice of Law