Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-05-24
The state Temperance union has

Mrs. Grant Gillett, of Mexico, is Wis
ating friends in Dickinson county.
R. A. Short, of Cloud county, gets
a 5000 clerkship in the census bureau.
There has been but one death in
Haskell county for more than a year.
1t is believed that returns will show
10000 acres of alfalfa in Jewell county.
A Rochester, N. Y. horse dealer gets
stock to sell largely from Harvey coun-
ty.
w. R. Weaver, a, paper-hanger, was
cut in two near Valley Center by a
train.
Holton is receiving bouquets for its
happy handling of the G. A. R. en-
campment.
OF 6s teachers who took examination
in Cherokee county only Is were given
certificates.
John Hanshay was killed by being
caught between two street cars in
Hutchinson.
twenty-five of the forty graduates
of the Independence high school are
young women.
During April there were shipped
from Wakefield % cars of hogs and 600
cases of eggs.
A new gusher has been struck at
Chanute which flows at the rate of g.
100000 feet day.
The Witt brothers, who robbed a
store in Upton, have been captured
and goods recovered.
The debate contest between the uni
versities of Kansas and Nebraska was
won by the Nebraskans.
Harper county offered $4,000 in
bonds for the new transcontinental
road and their offer is accepted.
Every town and village in Marion
county is equipped and connected with
local and long distance telephone
system.
Two unclaimed. estates in Atchison
county revert to that city and to the
state; the personal property to the city
and the realty to the state.
The supreme court has affirmed de-
cision of the district court against
Garden City for $780, 900 worth of trees
which that city purchased during the
boom.
Three thousand head of feeder cattle
on their way from Texas to Montana
were unloaded at the Wichita Union
stockyards one day last week and they
were fed, watered and rested
The Kansas grand lodge, A. O. q.
W., has won the prize of $4,000 offered
by the supreme lodge of the order to
the grand lodge making a gain of 25
per cent in its membership in one
year.
A fake story is going the rounds of
the eastern papers that thousands of
Kansas farmers will attend the Kan
sas City convention, making the trip
across the state in caravans of covered
wagons.
An NJ. K. & T. stock train broke in
two on trestle near Moran and two
stock cars and the caboose went over.
j. R. GLADDEN. was killed and the con-
iductor and brakeman and two others
were somewhat injured.
Teachers are again complaining of
the character of the examination ques-
tions sent out by the state superinten-
dent. Out of 40 who took examination
in one county only six received GER
tifcates. The teachers are indignant
over being required to guess puzzles.
1t is said that w. A. Quayle, who was
a Shawnee county, Kansas boy, and
president of Baker University at Bald
win, can have the presidency of De-
paw university in Indiana if he will
take it.
Willis K. Foulks, treasurer of Kan
sas university, has sent E. E. Brown to
Cape Nome. Brown was Chancellor
Shows stenographer.
Department Commander w. w. Mar
tin, of Fort Scott, has appointed Frank
Lyons of the same place as adjutant
general of the G. A. R.
A bullet was found in an elm tree
near Atchison imbedded near the CEN
ter, and inside of 100 rings which show
the annual growth of the tree.
Two chicken thieves have been SEN
fenced to the penitentiary from Sedg-
wick, for six years each. There are
two more of the same gang yet to be
tried.
whisky drummer is in Jail at Troy
and the only chance to get out is to pay
fine and costs amounting to S241. His
friends in st. Joseph and Atchison are
making up purse for him.
There are numerous telephone lines
in Dickinson county and when the Abb
lene band gives concert the people
gather at the farmers homes and listen
to the music with as much pleasure as
if in town.
A Vermonter is looking over Kansas
for chances to loan money for life in
surance company. He says that the
rating of Central Kansas farm loans is
practically the same as Iowa and east
ern Kansas and that investors are salts
fed that one is equally as safe as the