Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-11-28

teen miles of pavement.
The furnishings of the EIks' club
rooms at Emporia cost $4,000.
Judge Ellis of the Wichita supreme
court has recovered his health.
Logan, Phillips county, has a popu-
lation of 40, of which number 20 are
widows.
The estimated value of the property
Az. 392
Farmers institutes are popular as
they are attended by professors from
the agricultural college.
a company is being organized at To
peka to establish creameries in Mexico.
country which now has no cream
cries.
The Coffeyville pottery plant is to-
it will be rebuilt on a much larger
scale.
Ira NJ. Collier, now 81 years old. lives
in Marion county. He is the son of an
officer under Washington at Valley
Forge.
Walter Studer. Bourbon county
farmer, shipped quails to Chicago.
When indicted he plead guilty and was
fined $50.
Auditor Cole says the indications are
that fully threefourths of next years
taxes will be paid during the first half
of the year.
The application for the pardon of
Emmett Dalton. after being holly
pressed for month, was suddenly
withdrawn.
1t is stated that there is more gin
shipped into Phillips county than of
other liquors. There are many Hol-
landers there.
The secretary of the state board of
health says that as compared with re-
cent years there are but few cases of
small poX in the state.
Only three men out of eighty paroled
from the penitentlary by Governor
Stanley have broken their parole and
been taken back to prison.
The Kansas State Grange will hold
its annual meeting in Topeka on De
| cember 10. Governor Stanley and SUI
perintendent Nelson have agreed to
make addresses.
Two young negroes are in custody at
Hiawatha, charged with highway rob-
berry. They attacked T. c. Horr and
left him minus his valuables, and with
serious injuries. He loses one eye.
The school population of Kansas is
sos, $50, which is greater than the COM
bined school population of North Da-
kota, Montana. Rhode Island, New
/ Hampshire, Vermont and Connecticut
Forty Dickinson county farmers have
had telephone connection with all the
towns in the county circuit, and be-
| yond. for some time. and there is no
| doubt that the number is doubled by
! this time.
Gen. VIM Crozier has been appointed
chief-of the ordnance bureau with rank
of brigadier general. General Crozier
| grew up in Leavenworth. Kas. He is
the son of Robert Croz;er, ex-United
States senator.
One advantage of telephone connec-
ton among the farmers is the oppor-
tunity given to spread the news of
new graft to the neighbors. Lightning
can be headed off in that way.
First Lieutenant Fred Il. Fitzpatrick
has been elected captain of Company NJ,
Kansas National Guard. to succeed
| Captain c. T. Milton. retired. Fitz-
! patrick is about % years of age, and Is
probably the youngest militia captain
/ in the state.
W. j. Patterson. a prominent bust
ness man of Ell Dorado, died in cattle
car at Clearwater. He saw some of his
cattle in a car were down. and went in
to help them up. After doing so he
was seen leaning over calf and was
| found to be dead.
In Kansas out of 1872 towns of which
inquiry was made, p openly license
joints, twenty-three secretly license
| joints, - do not recognize the jointists
and make occasional war ON them; %
do not have joints and only occasional
bootleggers.
/ The county teachers association met
in Wamego. They passed a resolution
condemning the contract text books in
use in the schools of Kansas
E. E. Ellis, stoclman of Osborne
county. has shipped 100 cattle to mar
ket which were fattened on wheat chop
They were in perfect condition for the
market.
Omar Gregory, of Osborne county.
has eleven living children, sixty-two
grandchildren and fourteen great
grandchildren. Mr.. Gregory is not yet
80 years old.
| Prof. Carruth. of Kansas university.
lectures the students in opposition to
professionalism in football playing.
While giving lectures on the science
of combustion to railroad engineers in
a private Frisco car of the Information
al Correspondence school of Instruction
at Fort Scott. a gasoline lamp exploded
and Prof. HarlIins, who has charge of
the railroad school, and an assistant
named Dolin, were seriously burned
about the face and hands. They are at
| the hospital in bad condition but will
| recover
Fred Baudier. another of the gang of
horse thieves operating near Winfield,
has been arrested. Deal and O'Daniels.
who pleaded guilty and were sentenced,
in their confession implicated Baudier