Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-04-11
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS

oPPointeu a railway mall clerk.
The Topeka Capital succeeds the
Mail and Breeze as the official state
paper.
Ex-Governor Leedy informs his Wich-
ita friends that he expects to make
Seattle his permanent home.
All the laws which come into force on
their publications in the official state
paper, have now been published.
The snow which fell on April COW
cred Kansas and considerable territory
outside. 1t is welcomed by farmers.
1t is funny, yet packing house meat
is advertised and sold way out where
cattle come from in western Kansas.
Assistant Attorney General West has
given it as his opinion that the bien-
NAL election law is valid at all points.
Effort and expense will not be want
ing to give Harvey county a fair in
September that will be county heater.
Experiments made at the Overlook
creamery are reported as showing that
kafir corn does not produce good but
ter.
The Missouri Pacific sent a special
from Wichita to Lindsborg on April 3,
to take people to the great Messiah"
concert there.
The county court house at Abilene is
to be remodeled and provided with
more vaults and made more convenient
in other ways.
Harold Chase, editor of the Topeka
Capital, must stand trial for criminal
libel for saying things about Police
Judge McGaw.
Joseph O'Byrne of Topeka, a Mis-
souri, Pacific brakeman, was burned to
death in a wreck of his train between
Leroy and Aliceville.
General Funstons commission as
brigadier general dates for April 1; that
of Smith, on March 30, making the lat
ter outrank the former.
Jerry Black, the Santa Fe's boss tick
ct man, kept a pistol to shoot burglars
and the burglars got it, not takiag any
thing else from his house
Thos. Alley. Saline county farmer
claims to have guessed right ON the
corn crop for the past 20 years. He says
that prospects are very favorable for a
large yield this year.
AS lawyers disagree upon the valid
ity of the new biennial election law, a
test case is to be made in Shawnee
county and pressed to an early decision
from the supreme court.
Democrats carried Kansas City, Kan
First reports give Topeka a democrat
ic mayor, all other offices filed by re-
publicans. J. W. Orr, democrat, is
elected mayor of Atchison. The entire
democratic ticket was elected in Leav-
enworth. There was but one issue in
Wichita and the vets won, electing
Mclean for mayor by 1,5OO. He was
republican nominee. Concordia repub-
licans had dry ticket and were beaten.
Harper went wet by large majority.
Republicans of Great Bend ran a wet
ticket and won. Emporia elected dry
ticket which was also republican.
Earned elected a non-partisan dry
ticket Law and order ticket won at
Eureka, and also at Manhattan. In
Fort Scott the republican ticket was
dry and it won. Salina elected a dry
ticket and so did Arkansas City, also
Usage City, while Chanute went wet.
Hutchinson elacted wet mayor. Hol-
ton beat the wet ticket. independence
went wet.
George Evans, formerly a prosperous
contractor at Topeka, is now in the
Soldiers home and in very poor health.
He has had several contracts in the
course of the building of the state
house.
The mayor of Hutchinson forgot to
issue proclamation for the city cleo
ton and now the courts may be asked
to decide whether there has been a
legal election held. There was an in
creased number of votes polled, which
shows the lack of a necessity for the
law requiring a proclamation.
The Rock Islands Colorado line is
ballasted as far west as Phillipsburg,
and it is the intention of the company
to complete the ballasting as far as
Goodland this year. Crushed rock is
used.
A nine-acre farm, a mile north of
Cherryvale, has been sold to a gas COM
pany for 81, 900. 1t lays in the line of
their gas wells
A notice posted in the Missouri Pacif-
the men. 1t raised wages of all ma
chinists - cents day.
A Wichita physician has bought a
buff cochin cockrel lately. paying $40
for it. He also bought another pen OF
six hens and a cocl1rel for S45.
The Topeka millers have employed
an attorney to commence a suit to en-
join the railroads from abolishing the
5-cent differential rate on wheat milled
in transit.
Lieutenant L. W. Prunty of Wamego,
who lately graduated from West Point,
has been given a banquet by his home
people. Prunty has a tip that he short
ly will be ordered to the Philippines.
Kansas has 2,642 school districts that
months, a94 with four months, IL with
three months. with two months and 9
with only one month of school. Super
intendent Nelson based his proposition
for consolidating schools upon these
figures,
The Santa Fe has handled 26O more
trains out of Emporia wards since Feb.