Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-21

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The Leavenworth postoffice sold s7s,.
6o5.2 % worth of stamps in February.
Wabaunsee county people fixed
March Is for the closing of saloons.
Tho county clerk of Osborne county
has resigned to go to work on his farm.
An Osborne county has team OF
mules that has served him for "a years
A first shipment of 10000 pounds OF
' lead ore has been made from Pleasan
| ton.
! The Citizens and the Democratic
/ city tickets of Leavenworth are both
I wet"
Independence now has two gas com.
| panies: the second having been given 8
| franchise
Senator Baker resumes the practice
of law in Leavenworth with his son as
his partner.
w. d. Bird, of Topeka, succeeds w.
L. Holcomb as clerk of the State Labor
commissioner
! Fort Riley day is one of the drawing
cards for the q. A. Il. encampment at
Junction City.
/ Daniel Jones, of Preston, was frozen
to death on the prairie during the re.
cent blizzard.
Z. A. Runyan has been acquitted of
the charge of wrecking the state bank
of Yates Center.
Many students at the state normal
school have smallpox. There are fifty
cases in Lyon county.
James Goforth was found dead in his
/ bed at Burden. He was 60 years old
and a. respected citizen.
The Excelsior water mill at Burling
ton has been sold to c. d. Parker, OF
Kansas City, for Sll 900.
Kansas already has 1S7 rural deliv-
cry mail routes, with others being
added. Missouri has only 81.
The Manhattan library association
has sold zoo shares at S. each, with
which to start a public library.
| The annual convention of the Chris
tian churches of the Seventh district
opened in Wichita on March IL.
Pat Coney is at his home in Topeka
| and is almost blind from the effects of
an explosion in his zinc mine in Mis-.
| souri,.
Cnn,plotnf j. ado tlnt Ecl
sweeping Kansas streams of their fish,
regardless of the new law which pro-
hibits seining.
| 6The anti-fusion election law is not in
force until published in the statute
books, and therefore does not apply to
spring elections.
Under a new law city city clerks can
not refuse to allow registration books
to be copied by representatives of po-
| liticll organizations.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of the
discovery of coal in Southeastern Kan
sas has been celebrated in Pittsburg.
Crawford county is the largest pro-
Queer of coal in the state.
The college farm department at Man
haitian finds that calves fed skim milk
and whole corn gained three pounds a
day, while those fed skim milk and
corn meal gained one and half pounds
a day.
A passenger train on the Leaven-
worth, Kansas & Western was ditched
near Soldier and eleven passengers
were injured: Leo Chadwick. superin-
tendcnt of bridges and buildings, being
the most seriously hurt. The express
car caught fire.
Mrs. Nation brother, c. II. Moore.
of Kansas City, provided bond for
her release from Jail in Topeka. She
says she will stay in Topeka.
The Hutchinson school board has de
cided to provide truant school, to
which to transfer unruly scholars, and
to gather in young loafers on the
streets.
Heavy rains and hail are reported to
have occurred on March 0 'all over
Kansas" amounting in some places to
almost a cloudburst. This sounds
strange in southern Kansas.
Governor Stanley has published re-
ward of $500 for the apprehension o,
members of the Leavenworth mob.
The reward stands good 90 days.
Law suits are becoming common be-
tween incumbents and elected county
superintendent, since Judge Thomp-
son decided the Wabaunsee county
case.
The private bank of J. H. Springer,
at Argonia has been looted by three
men and s.. 600 in cash and $1,000 in
L. S. bonds taken. The bank carried
| 81, 500 burglar insurance.
The Legislature provided for an agent
in every county of the state to hunt
homes for children of the orphans
home They are appointed by the
state board of charities, and are to re-
ceive SO day for time employed.
Ex-senator Baker is likely to be
named as one of the United States
commissioners to the st. Louis exposi-
ton. :.
Grading for the Orient road is being
rushed in Harper county. The yards
in Anthony are being prepared for
track laying.
The big extra edition ordered by the
legislature of Secretary Coburns re-
port will not be out before August, as
the work of the state printer is great.
The contract is soon to be let for the
erection of the Y. NJ. C. 4. building at
Coffeyville with money furnished by
Miss Helen Gould, the Missouri Pacific