Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-02-15

county to connect by telephone Hia-
watha, Reserve, Robinson and other
towns.
The second annual meeting of the
State Society of Labor and Industry
was held in Topeka, commencing Feb
ruary 5.
The management of the Santa Fe
will spend 3,OOO,O 900 in improvements
this year; much of it for the reduction
of grades.
J. w. Clayton, engineer of mining
plant at Galena, was caught by the
betting and his skull fractured. Death
resulted.
The city superintendent at Ottawa
says that no cigarette smoker gets into
the high school; they drop out before
they reach it.
The miners are trying to GUST Edward
Keegan, state mine inspector. They
say he is on too friendly terms with
the operators.
Alex Hurd, of Drum Creek has just
shipped to New York a carload of wal
nut logs. This occurs frequently from
many Kansas places.
Ex-Governor Morrill,, who was COM
PEELED to spend several weeks at Hot
Springs, Ark, last year for his health,
is sick again, and will go back to the
springs as soon as he can stand the trip.
C. A. Woodland, the Santa Fe station
agent at Dalton, who was acquitted in
Justices court in Wellington of the
charge of criminal assault, was tried
nj Dalton before a committee of the
NJ. E. church on charge of immortality
and convicted.
During the first nine months of the
operation of the law providing for
the renting of school lands, the sum of
Sc, 1888 was collected in rentals and
turned into the state treasury. This
money goes into the school fund to be
distributed among the schools of Kan
sas.
In Kansas there are six kinds of Adj
gentists, thirteen of Baptists, seventeen
of Methodists, twelve of Presbyterians,
three kinds of River Brethren, and
four of Plymouth Brethren, six kinds
of communistic religious societies, and
four kinds of Dunkards. The Friends
are of four different sorts, and the
Mennonites of twelve.
Cali the experiments made with
sorghum by the government have been
made in Kansas" writes Secretary
Wilson. ''The sorghum seed intended
for distribution by the various con-
gressmen is raised on Miss Best's farm
at Medicine Lodge, in Kansas, and the
government is not expanding a single
cent in any other state.
Emma johnson, of Galena, took
poison and died. She had been quar-
reling with her lover. She was sixteen
years old.
The Wichita Carnival and Fall Festi-
val association have invited the people
of Kansas and Oklahoma to submit
designs for souvenir button for the
Street Fair and Carnival in October
next.
Len Cooper is at the Leavenworth
federal penitentiary from Oklahoma.
His parents travelled there in wagon
to make him visit.
Colonel E. N. o. Clough, of Leaven-
worth is dead. He was rs years old.
He was veteran of the Mexican war
and of the civil war.
A six foot vein of coal has been found
in Barton county at the depth of $50
FEET. A company is engaged in obtain
coal leases and propose to sink a shaft
IN a short time. The quality of the
coal is good.
Ringing Bros. have leased the build
ings of the Burton car works in Wich-
tia and will fit them for permanent
winter quarters for their circus.
Mrs. Laura Ramsey, an aged widow,
| at Sabetha, was murdered in her home.
There have been no arrests. The
officers have no clue to work upon.
The motive of the crime was probably
robbery.
The city council of Paola has placed
a penalty of $50 on parents who do not
have their children who attend school
Vaccinated.
The Kansas association of local fire
insurance agents was held in Topeka
February 5. A good representation
from over the state was present.
During the month of January Frank
Fairchild of Tonganoxie, MIXED &c
COWS, and sold to the creamery SO, SOC
pounds of milk for S36s; an average fol
each cow of S5.57.
The nine-hour rule has been made tc
apply to all departments in the Santa
| Fe shops. The men working on the
piece system are obliged to stop work
ing at the end of the nine hour day
just the same as those who work by the
day. There is plenty of work on hand
but not enough to warrant working any
overtime.