Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21

Kinsley is agitating for a city cleo
trio light plant, in connection with it's
waterworks.
j. H. Sadler was killed by a gunshot
in the head while in his corral near
Cherryvale.
The Centennial hotel az Ottawa is
burned The guests all escaped. 1t
will be rebuilt.
In Atchison, policies on plate glass
in buildings occupied by joints have
been cancelled.
The Woodmen in session in Wichita
voted that their next session shall be
held in Emporia.
All slot machines of every descrip-
ton have been ordered out of business
places in Salina.
Bishop Millspaugh is supposed to be
the only Kansas man who ever dined
with Queen Victoria.
During the late snow storms a Gen.
trail Branch train was II hours getting
over AZ miles of track.
The Moderd Woodmen camps of the
state met in Wichita on February 10.
with about 300 delegates.
The Wichita Country club has COM
menced work on a new club house on
the College Hill Golf links.
Salina mill employs coopers to
/ La ha ,ra1c in rxy1ioh 70 mol Hn11r
for the New England trade.
The NJ. K. & T. shops at Parsons
have turned out $4,000 private car
for the president of the road.
A farmer near Sedgwick has received
notice that his house will escape dyna-
mite by the payment of $500.
A commission signed by George
Washington, when president, has come
! to light in a lawsuit at Atchison.
The cities of Topeka, Atchison and
Manhattan were all incorporated dur
| ing st. Valentines week, A years ago.
A Pennsylvania man proposes to con-
meet the mineral cities of Crawford and
| Cherokee counties with trolley line.
A party of Iowa men have purchased
farms in Franklin county, 1000 acres
in all, at an average price of $50 an
| acre.
Carl Cocker, a German farmer, near
Lalxin, received a broken arm and
other injuries, given by vicious Jer-
sey cow.
Misses Mabel and Bertha Hammond,
of Smith county, are IL years and 81
years old. Mabel weighs 300 pounds
and Bertha 100 pounds.
C. f. Conklin, formerly of Kansas, is
showing New Workers how to play
billiards. He has the honors in this
years tournament there.
A committee of ten men is appointed
from each of the churches of Emporia
with orders to close the joints. The
women are ready to do their part.
Friday, the 18th, was the first quiet
day in Winfield. During the day a
large order upon wholesale house in
Wichita for arms was sent to Winfield.
At Perry IS women wrecked the
three joints and drug store. In the
drug store one woman was burned on
the hands by breaking bottle of car
bolic acid.
At Olpe the ministers and women
gave the joints fifteen minutes to close.
When time was called every one was
shut up tight The same process was
repeated at Cottonwood Falls.
At COTS jointist was arrested and
taken to Seneca where he was turned
loose. A crowd gathered to smash his
place but the sheriff had charge of it
the crowd went to the depot and
destroyed large lot of liquors.
The railroad bill, as prepared by the
joint railroad committee, places the
selection of the commissioners in the
hands of the executive council. 1t
the courts.
The Kansas & Southern which it is
proposed to build from Omaha to Wich-
ia, has become an important topic in
Council Grove.
st. Benedict's college at Atchison,
which was closed for month on &C
count of sickness among the students,
is now re-opened.
Perry, in Jefferson county, a town
of 500 or 600 people, has mill and
elevator that, during January, crushed
two million pounds of cornfor Local
cattle feeders, and paid out SOS, 900 for
wheat.
An Anti-Nation league has been
formed in Kansas City, Kas., with
plans to plant branches in Atchison
and other Kansas towns.
The supreme court decides in case
from Chautauqua county that a vote
which is cast and counted is presumed
to be legal until the contrary is shown
A young lady from neighboring
town went to Leavenworth to purchase
a bridal outfit. She was invited to a
ladies' party and when the game of
poker was over the young lady had
lost 1894, her entire wedding outfit
capital.
Homer Reynolds, who commenced
work when mere boy in the lumber
yard Office of the Santa Fe in Topeka,
and later filled good clerkships in
Wichita, Wellington and Newton, 60
ing then to the general Office in Chicago
has become chief clerk at Galveston.
The 25th anniversary of the Presby-
terrain church of Mulvane occurs Feb
ruary Is.