Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-09-20
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The death of L. D. Lewelling leaves
six ex-governors of Kansas still alive
One thousand sacs of -four have been
put up at Mulvane to be shipped to
South Africa.
The Doniphan county court house
has been set on fire but there was not
much damage done.
Preparations on a large scale are
being made for the G. A. r. reunion at
Wichita, October 2-5
The football team of the Smith Cen
ter high school challenges any high
school eleven in the state.
Coroner B. E. Wheeler, of Pawnee
county, died from an overdose of NOR
phine taken by mistake
Wellington excludes beggars and
hand organs and the like from the
streets during the jubilee.
The work of clearing the site for the
new federal building to be built in
Kansas City, Kas., has begun.
United States geodetic surveying
party is making its headquarters near
Anthony. The party lives in tents
An 1tinerant picture charging graft
er has victimized the liverymen and
hotels of Woodson county and skipped.
The Topeka postofice in one week
of September paid out s1a, 143.44 on
&c T.
err.
The library of Paramount college
Wichita, now has 81 900 books, besides
piles of unbound magazines and pam
phlets.
VIM. Kimball, aged IS, of Saline
county, played pull away at the school
he attended, and was injured SO that
he died.
Topeka has 90 miles of paved streets
and little more than two miles con-
tracted for. The city has 11s miles of
streets.
The putting in of the heating ap-
paratus at the enlarged federal build
ing at Topeka has been contracted for
at 81, 46s.
The floors of a store in Arkansas
City gave way and much merchandise
went into the cellar. The damage is
about $500.
A curbstone spectacle dealer paid the
Salina street fair committee 500 for the
-rrrsl Of rlnc
during fair week.
A Leavenworth county farmer made
actual measurement and found that
his sorghum yielded LAG gallons of
syrup to the acre.
Numerous reports are published
about relief sent from towns in Kan
sas for Galveston. Space permits men
ton of but a few of these.
The Wichita Chapter of the Daugh-
tets of the American Revolution are
working on plan to erect statue of
George Washington in Riverside park.
A Russell county teacher who attend
ed the normal institute, rented a fur
nished room and boarded ten of her
fellow teachers, making her expenses
and something more.
The Wichita trolley street railway
manager gave to the Wichita hospital
one-fourth of the receipts of the day
on which the ladies were given three
fourths. This was surprise.
James NJ. Davis, of st. Louis, who
two years ago gave the old Garfield
University to the Friends church, is
now preparing to raise 81, 900, 900 en-
dowment for the same establishment.
John Waller, of Kansas, once repre-
senting the United States in Madagas-
car, is now reported to be earning his
bread at manual labor.
VIM. Hatton shot and mortally
wounded D. P. Hamilton at Great
Bend, September II. Hatton was in a
hack and the driver called Hamilton,
who was at the barn, to come and help
take him out. When they got him,
Hatton commenced shooting at the
driver and Hamilton rushed on Hatton
to stop the shooting but was shot him.
self.
The work of moving the state library
to the new rooms prepared for it, is
going on. It is a two weeks Job to
move the books. The state historical
society is to occupy the rooms vacated.
Sheriff S. P. Costigan, of Franklin
county, was shot in the arm, by John
NJ. Tanning, while the sheriff was at
tempting to secure child under writ
of habeas corpus. Tanning and wife
had parted and their child was given
to the wife by the court. Tanning had
secured the child and refused to give il
up.
Charles Congdon, the Arkansas City
conductor who was killed by his OWL
train, was a walking encyclopedias on
the subject of fast horses, stage char
acters and political candidates, cover
ing period of 25 years.
A reunion of linen of '56'' has been
held in Lawrence. Geo. w. Martin,
secretary of the state historical society
was the principal speaker. An organ.
ization of '56ers was formed and it was