Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

uhHcr county DanRS are 1ull OF
money; the farmers own the most of
it.
Joseph R. Mari, of Burton, was a
member of Company C, and was among
the killed on the island of Samar
The commercial club of Hutchinson
is agitating the purchase by the city of
the waterworks and light plant.
County authorities raided five joints
in Arkansas City, and took the jointists
and their stocks on hand to Winfield.
Wichita is awake to the probability
of the extension of the Choctaw road to
that city from Alva about 100 miles
away.
The Rev. J. E. Everett, Congrega-
tional pastor at Onaga, is the new sec
rotary of the Kansas State Temperance
Union.
Two negro convicts in the U. S. peni-
tertiary at Fort Leavenworth, attacked
John Kennary, guard, severely in
juring him.
The state firemen's convention meets
this year at Junction City on October
Is. This is the 14th annual meeting of
the association.
On Sunday, September %, Dodge City
had the highest recorded temperature
in the United States. The thermometer
registered 95.
The section house at Dodge City, a
two story building, is burned down.
W. Glaze, who occupied it, lost valu-
able library.
The barb worm which infested wheat
fields in Saline county, proved bene-
fit to the crop by cleaning the boards
from the wheat.
A. B. Hulitt, late of Topeka, has
Hereford ranch near Chihuahua. He
raises them and ships in many for the
Mexican market.
In Admire, Lyon county, citizens
headed by a brass band and armed
with hatchets, etc, smashed all the
joints in the place.
The city marshal of Junction City
says the last pay day at Fort Riley was
the first in 80 years when no drunken
soldier was seen in the city.
Bank Commissioner Albaugh is OPP
posed to banks with less than $4,000
capital, but the law recognizes the right
to organize with only half that much.
Orville Myers, Topeka boy, while
out duck hunting with other boys,
dropped his gun which was discharged
and the load struck him in the back of
the head and tore the skull off.
The industrial department of the
State reform school is now making
clothing for the inmates of other state
institutions. They also make shoes,
and are taught all sorts of trades.
In some counties there will be no
elections held, there being mutual
agreements that township officers shall
hold over, or in some cases, that the
county boards shall make appointments.
Attorney General GODDARD says that
the governor has authority to appoint
sheriffs to fill vacancies caused by the
biennial election law, and Governor
Stanley announces that he will name
sheriffs on October Is.
Mrs. Cox, of CORTLAND, Kansas, with
her four children, were on a train at
Alliance, Nebraska, and attempted to
go into another car while the train was
going around a curve and with her
s-year-old child was thrown from the
moving train. Both were seriously
hurt.
John Dawson, bond clerk in the state
treasury, is gobbling up all the gold
land in the Trego district that he can
get hold of.
Judge Moore, of the Eighth district,
will hereafter make freedom from faint
of anarchy a requisite for citizenship
when applications for naturalization
are made.
The new election law of Kansas is
considered almost an insolvable riddle
to the average voter. 1t will require
much study to master its intricacies,
say the critics.
Business men of Emporia are plan
ming to buy lots adjoining the grounds
of the state normal for the new library
building There is but one vacant place
on the grounds to put it and that is
out of sight from anywhere; back of the
main building.
One entire outer wall of the Wareham
ny1a-a hOnca foil
with it about ten feet of the front. The
telephone office is in the building and
the system is damaged so that service
was cut off for a time. The building is
insured only against fire.
The afianced bride of Lieutenant
Burton Mitchell, Miss Marley, of
Olathe, died recently. Lieutenant
Mitchell is aide to General Funston.
Mrs. A. F. Mcintyre, of Olathe, was
burned to death. While she was put
ting some gasoline from cup in her
wash boiler, some of it dropped in the
fire.
Mrs. II. T. Haines, proprietor of the
Frisco dining hall in Fort Scott, has
received s21, 900 as her share of an ,es-
tate left by her grandmother in Phila-
delphia.
Alfalfa growers near Cimarron are
getting fourth crop of hay this year.
This is remarkable considering the
drouth.
There will be no sheep feeding about
Solomon this year, for lack of feed. For
years thousands of sheep have been
nrenared for market there every year