Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-10-04
CURRENT KANSAS FACTS.
BRIEF MENTION OF INTEREST
ING EVENTS OF THE WEEK..
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

All Rock Island freight equipments
are to be constructed at their shops in
Horton hereafter
The Santa Fe shop employees in To-
peka raised S3O6 for the relief of rail-
road men in Galveston.
Legislative districts of Kansas are
due to be reapportioned at the 1901
session of the legislature.
Atehison has a new fire engine which
cost 81, $50. 1t has pumping capacity
of $500 gallons minute.
Two Montgomery county boys, about
16 years old, have been arrested for rob-
bing several farm houses.
james Richie, of Augusta, has been
appointed to a position in the treasury
department at Washington.
The Mcpherson commercial club
proposes to raise $1,000 to bore, no
ping to find coal, gas or salt.
A strong artesian well has been
struck near Muscotah in the swamp
1duNlS VI b1c beldWdT0 valley.
Mrs. Mary Griffin, of Lawrence, Wis
iting in Japan, received an invitation
to ball given by the Mikado.
Rev. DR.. w. w. Ayers, Episcopal rec
tor at Lawrence, has accepted call to
church at Canon City, Colorado.
About 30 of the inmates of the State
Soldiers home at Dodge City, drove to
Meade to attend the reunion there.
P. c. Bonner, under arrest in Iowa
for forging deeds and mortgages, is
wanted in Wichita for like crime
Plans are maturing to provide Wich-
tia with system of drinking fountains:
series of lectures to provide the funds
Tramps have new shibboleth now:
they have lost everything in Galveston;
and there are plenty of them in Kan
Sas
VIM. Ehart, of Leavenworth county.
was fatally injured by a young bull
while he was walking through the
pasture.
Clay Center has fair and coursing
meet, which commenced on the 25th.
There were 10 hounds to catch $50
rabbits.
The Third district federation of
women's clubs, met at Chanute. Sep
TENDER 1896. Thirteen clubs were
represented by 60 women.
The Kansas conference of the United
Brethren church was held at Abilene.
commencing September 20: Bishop
Floyd, of Indiana presiding.
A small tornado visited Neodesha
September %, wrecsing two houses,
three barns and damaging others.
Mrs. John Ford and her little son were
injured, the first seriously.
The lights in the dome of the new
Topeka auditorium are in the shape of
a sunfiower, formed of 10 incandescent
lights, set in a brown center and sur
rounded by yellow petals three feet
long.
Jack Gossage, of Baldwin, dreamed
at the hour of the destruction of Calves
ton, about his son, who was there. He
went to Galveston, but found that he
had been crushed by falling building
while helping two comrades out of the
hospital.
Toronto and vicinity experienced
destructive winds on the night of Sep
TENDER %. Richard Williams house
was torn to pieces and his mother was
injured. Barns, fences, ETC., were
damaged. Thirty tombstones were
wrecked in the cemetery.
Rev. James Shaw, aged 90, is dead
at Atchison. He had been Metho-
dist preacher &c years and had been
preaching in Kansas since 1857.
President A. Monroe, of the Mer-
chants National bank of Lawrence,
has given $3.50 to Kansas university
for special scientific researches in the
department of physics and physical
chemistry.
The board of regents of Kansas
Agricultural college have elected Prof
c. E. Goodell of Franklin, Indiana, to
the chair of history and economics
There was, last week, only four
houses in Norway without a case of
typhoid fever. Only one death has
occurred.
The Odd Fellows lodge at Dighton
borrowed money of other lodges in
1898 to furnish members with seed
wheat. The last of the borrowed
money is now repaid.
Engineer Fred Chick, who pulls the
Santa Fe passenger train between
Kansas City and independence, has
been constantly employed as engineer
since November, 1869.
The old buffalo grass sign would in
dictate the approach of severe winter.
The seed on the buffalo grass is report
ed to be very thick.
The Santa Fe's Panhandle division
is furnished with special officers en-
powered to arrest tramps whenever
found on the trains or the right of
way.
An Ottawa man who has contracts
for railroad work in Kansas, Oklahoma
and TeyaS has difficulty in o,,r,,;c.