Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-07
HANsAs ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS


family difficulty.
Independence and Coffeyville are
rivals, and they sometimes show their
teeth at each other.
Mr.. T. Vineyard, prominent citizen
of Wellington, aged 70. is dead from
dropsy of the heart.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor A. j. Felt
leaves Kansas to make his home with
his son in Oklahoma.
During the late snow storms a cen
trail Branch train was II hours getting
over AZ miles of track.
State Auditor Cole has refused the
appointment rendered to him of war
den of the penitentiary.
The Santa Fe is making preparations
to make improvements on its line be-
tween Ottawa and Olathe.
Fort Scott is named for the annual
convention of the Kansas Christian En-
deavor Union on May 21-23.
Two shot frers were killed in coal
mine at Weir City. The timbers OF
the shaft were torn to pieces.
The railroad bill of this session is
the first one that ever passed the SEN
ate without an opposing vote.
Rev. J. W. Vanderlip, of Ransom,
Kansas, was among the injured in the
wrecked train at Millersburg, Indiana.
Jerry Simpson is opening a branch
in Wichita of the commission company
of Kansas City which he is a member
of.
The employees of the house Of repre-
sentatives have given Chief Clerk Lob
dell SEQ set of silver knives, forks and
spoons.
Nearly 1000 hogs were received at
the Wichita stock yards on February
-. and 2,446 of them went over the
scales
Another good wheat crop will turn
all the slurring talk about Kansas now
appearing in Eastern papers. to the
old style.
Chas. J. Webb, the grand master of
the Masonic grand lodge, has been pre-
sented with a magnificent grand mas
ter's jewel.
Walter Dunlap, of Bonner Springs,
was silly enough to quarrel with his
wife and fool enough to blow out his
brains latter.
State Treasurer Frank Grimes has
gone to Washington to get pointers on
his future work as private secretary to
Senator Burton.
Clyde Miller, of Usage City, succeeds
Henry j. Allen as private secretary to
Governor Stanley. He graduated from
Kansas University.
In the fifth annual oratorical con-
test at Midland college, at Stirling,
Martin Il. Dirks took first place and
Oscar Woods second.
c. D. Metcalf, a millwright, was
caught by a shaft in a mill at Coffey-
vile and was terribly mangled. His
utdIu was INSTANTANEOUS
Kansas University will probably use
the $40, 900 received from the govern.
ment on the old Free State hotel claim
for gymnasium and armory.
Governor Stanley stood firmly by his
declaration that he would not sign any
local bills passed after February Is
but most of those SO passed have be.
come laws by reason of his holding
them beyond the constitutional limit
A horse and mule buyer, direct from
South Africa, with veterinarians with
him has reached Kansas City after
more Kansas horses and mules.
Somebody suggests the profit there
might be realized by shipping trair
loads of Kansas soil to New England
and selling it by the pound as fertili
ger.
lola has lost one of it's S1s, 900 schoo
buildings by fire; the one which wa.
built in 1898. 1t was of pressed bricl
and was fitted with all modern con
veniences.
Mrs. Nation finally consented to give
n bond and two citizens of Topek;
signed it. She left Immediately fol
Peoria, Ills, where she had engaged
to edit a paper for few days: there al
whisky productions great center.
Colonel W. L. Cloud, who served il
three wars, the last being with tn,
Second Kansas in the civil war. is n
years old, and as active as a boy, walk
at the rate of five miles an hour, poe.
up stairs two steps at time and neve
knows what it is to be sick He wa
recently given pension of S25 month
Att. W. Logan's sale, in Franklin
county, steer calves brought $50, year
ling steers S31, cows SIS to $40. Out O
a sale of 81 600 it was all cash but S12O
DR.. Welcome w. Smith, aged IS, dice
at Peabody February %. He had LIVED
in Peabody about 20 years. He is sale
to have been the oldest Odd Fellow IL
Kansas.
Il want you to quit this fooling ant
let me out of here" She threatens t.
sue for damages in being unlawfully
held in Jail.
Rev. William Dring, a returned mis-
sionary from Assam, has given to tn,
museum of Ottawa University som,
valuable specimens among which are
sword, set of deer's horns and tn.
skin of royal Bengal tiger.
The total appropriations made by tn,
legislature at this term will aggregat,
something like 81, 800, 900, which il
nearly 81, 100000 larger than ever be
fore. This is accounted for by tn,
amounts given for new buildings and tx
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