Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-14
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS

Kansas on even numbered years.
Wilder 5. Metcalf, of Lawrence, led
one of the divisions in the inaugural
parade
Hereafter insane people will be tried
before medical board instead of
jury.
Under the new game law December
is tie only month in which quail can
be shot.
She penitentiary wagon trade bill
died in the committee OF mines and
mining.
The bill was passed authorizing
county boards to purchase and use
voting machines.
During the late snow storms a cen
trial Branch train was II hours getting
over AZ miles OF track.
Ranchmen are now required to have
gates for passage through their pas
lures on the lines of highways.
Cities of the first class are authorized
by the new law to pay the mayor 81, 0oe
a year and councilmen 5000 year.
Judge Theodore Botkin, of Hutchin-
son, is said to have decided to remove
to Utah and settle either in Ogden or
Salt Lake City.
+. NJ. Rea, postal clerk on the Engle-
wood branch of the Santa Fc, was in
jured while switching at Ashland. He
will have to lay off for some time.
The Winfield crusaders smashed a
cigar store in front of a saloon, and
the cigar man has brought suit for
damages against every preacher in the
town and a whole lot of women.
Four anti-joint laws were passed at
this session, which are believed to
mend all the fences, so that there can
be no further chances to bubble over
disputed renderings of the statutes.
At the oratorical contest at Ottawa
Robert Loofburrow, of Baker Univer-
hity, won first place, and John e. Quinn =,
of Ottawa University, second. The
Baker man was only one point ahead.
The Frisco depot at Arkansas City
has been robbed by blowing up the
safe, and S59S in checks and $50 in cur
rency taken. The robbers threw the
checks away and they were recovered,
Mrs. Grant Gillette is in Kansas
She says that the recent stories about
her husband are untrue; that he is not
expecting to come back to Kansas soon;
that he has charge of mine in Mexico
and is doing well.
The high winds which were general
on March was hurricane at McPher-
son, where the new round house Just
completed by the Missouri Pacific was
demolished, its large timbers being
twisted and broken.
AS there are some who think the BIZ
cnnial election law of county officers is
unconstitutional, a case will be pre-.
pared with the view of having the su
preme court pass upon the question
before the full election.
Frank Pinkerton, of Wichita, re-
ceived notice that his uncle in Wales
had bequeathed to him one third OF
his estate. With the notice there came
draft of $500 with which to to make
the journey to Wales and he has gone.
Under the law creating free employ
ment agencies the control of that bust.
ness is taken away from the cammis
sioner of labor and given to new state
officer, appointed by the governor,
with salary of 200 year with $500
for office expenses.
G. Christensen once lived in Marshal
county. He is now a prisoner in St
Helena, having been captured while
serving under General Cronje, the Boer
Hereafter Sumner and Montgomery
counties will have township registra
ton of voters. Its success there will
likely extend the system to all border
counties.
Walter Scott, of Atchison, who wa.
at work at Fort Leavenworth on new
building, fell from the roof and broke
his neck. He died at the Fort Leaven
worth hospital.
The cooperative store at Canton ha.
been broken into and burglarized bu
nothing was missed save a few cent.
taken from the money drawer, and tn,
hand car which the thieves went OF
with.
Mrs. w. D. Clay, of Wellington, be
ing affected with disease of the heart
had been warned to avoid excitement
She was frightened by the scattering
of trash fire in the yard by the wind
but controlled herself for a time, bu
when about to sit down to dinner she
fell dead.
The legislature appropriated So, 5ot
to start the litigation upon the Arkan
sas river water supply for irrigation
in the case against Colorado.
A special Santa Fe train was rur
from Topeka to Atchison for the &C
commodation of those who desired t.
attend the funeral of Judge David Mar
tin.
The oldlady of Wichita who attempt
ed suicide by eating heads off from
matches will either be taken care of by
her son, Mr.. Millison, of Fort Worth
Texas, or be sent to the insane asylum
The Topeka city council has passed
an ordinance on the lines of the new
search and seizure law.
Senator Codding, who is a farmer
says that not single law in the inter
ests of the farmers was defeated in thi,
legislature. He cites the railroad bill
which he says is worth pile of money