Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


voted that their next session shall be
held in Emporia.
Jerry Simpson has bought a 81, 400
residence in Wichita and proposes to
make it his home
Lawrence has granted franchise to
L. NJ. Erb, of New York, for an cleo
trio street railway.
The three grand Masonic bodies held
their annual sessions in Wichita, com
mencing February Is.
1t is now predicted that all of the
exposition appropriations will be beat
en- in the legislature.
During the late snow storms cen
trail Branch train was II hours getting
over AZ miles of track.
The bill for an agricultural expert
ment station on the Fort Hays reser-
walton carries $4,000.
1t is said that L. S. Marshal w. Z.
Sterne will move to California when
his term of office expires.
A drilling outfit has been purchased
to make oil prospecting holes in the
earth in and about Ottawa.
Mrs Kansas Eifert died in Pleasan-
ton, within sight of the house in which
she was born 43 years ago.
The joints in Lawrence are mostly
run by colored toughs, and there are
many colored bootleggers
Ottawa wants some hotel man that
has the stuff to do it. to put hotel in
their city to fit its 1000 population.
1t is now announced that Secretary
George W. Martin has given up his
plan to compile a history of Kansas.
Charles E. Gault, a prominent attor-
ney of Topeka, has smallpox. The
disease is quite prevalent in the city.
There have been 5, 200 horses shipped
from Lawrence, having been sold to
agents who buy for the British army.
A Pennsylvania man proposes to con-
meet the mineral cities of Crawford and
CQeTOkee COuuUleS Will d ITOllcN lluC'
Two Kansas men have bought 2,o6s
acres of pasture and meadow land in
Sedgwick county, paving for it s27, 900.
Citizens of Beloit command the city
authorities to punish the instigators of
turning the fire hose on the crusaders.
IA =. fho% 20. DaF
fer is going to Washington to live be-
cause his asthma troubles him less
there.
B. F. Stocks, of Garden City, is seek
ing appointment as member of the
board of regents of the state normal at
Emporia.
A body of Arkansas City women
pledged themselves to withhold all
their trade from merchants who do not
favor law and order.
The Kansas Day club, Il state organ
ization, has met at ten annual ban
quets and at none of them has there
been drop of wine, whisky or beer.
There are a number of people in the
departments at Washington credited
to Kansas, whom the Kansas members
do not know. Congressman Miller
finds % credited to him in the interior
department whom he does not know.
There will be a wedding out.
Justice Brewer. who left the Kansas
supreme court for his present place on
the supreme bench of the United
States. says that in his thirty years
experience on the bench he has never
been approached with a bride or any
intimation that Il bride might be his.
An invitation has been given to Pres
ident Mckinley to attend the G. A. r.
state encampment at junction City on
May S.
The railroads oppose the proposed
bill for district ownership of school
books, because they pay a large part
of the school taxe=.
There are four candidates for Judge
of the new Labette-Mort gomery dis
trict court: o. p. }.rger bright, of indie
pendence; j. Il. Higler. of Indepcud-
ence; C. H. Kimhau, of Parsons: and
Nelson Case, OF 0swego.
The employees of the state senate
that tried the Fallon- Stuart judicial
contest in 1898 have put in claims for
their services aggregating $1,000.
The auditorium prepared for the
rendition of the Messiah at Lindsborg
seats 81, 900 people. The affair COM
mences March 31st and extends to
April :.
The secretary of the Wichita w. C
T. q. informs the Eagle that resolu-
tions have been passed that the saloons
must go and that they will not accept
any kind of a compromise.
There are still between 400 and $50
rural delivery routes in Kansas being
considered by the postoffice depart
ment.
Farmers institutes have been con-
Quoted at 156 places in the state during
the past year by the faculty of Kansas
Agricultural college. The total at
tendance, 64,031.
The Topeka chief of police has fled
charges with the city council against
the police judge of collision with
liquor sellers and conspiring TO prevent
harmony in the police force.
Sterling is dry town now. The
city and county officials received de-
mand from the citizens to close the
Joints and the demand was needed.
The people of Hutchinson in mass
meeting, decided upon active opera
tions, and the town is dry for the first
time in years Joints and drug stores