Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-07


| the liquor nuisance bill.
More than 12o bills were sent to the
governor in one day last week.
Every masked ball in Kansas now
has one or more Mrs. Nations.
Mrs. Nations trial in the district
court in Wichita is set for March 8.
The total appropriation for the state
normal this year amounts to sl59,ooO.
Bank Commissioner Albaugh has
chose Sam1 Moore, of Lawrence as his
deputy.
The Mulvane state bank has three
times as great deposits as on January
1, 1900.
The women of Usage City are raising
money to spend on the three public
parks there.
Wallace county stock growers have a
standing reward offered for the capture
of stock thieves.
A five days fair held by Concordia
Catholics made net gain averaging
$3.50 for every day.
Corn that has been stored in Smith
Center for five years has just been sold
at SO cents bushel.
The Salina Union says that the city
Of Salina collected $4,000 from joint
keepers in a months time.
The receipts of the Wichita postoffice
for February, 1901, were 25 per cent
greater than for February 1900.
The Eureka fire department enjoyed
a banquet SO well that it took a fire
alarm at 2:3O a. m. to adjourn the af-
fair.
Upon her return from Peoria to To-
peka, Mrs Nation went directly to the
county Jail and delivered herself to the
sheriff. Her bond was cancelled.
A gang of train robbers walked into
trap at Riley, and Frank Wharton,
their supposed leader, was captured
and taken to the Jail at Manhattan.
George w. Tincher has cut 10000
posts from his catalpa grove two and
one-half miles west of Wilsey and ex.
poets to cut from 1000 to 5000 next
| season.
The injuries received by Postmaster
Guthrie of Topeka, prove to be serious
His fall from street car dislocated his
shoulder. burst an artery in his Shout
der and split piece of bone off his
shoulder blade.
According to a census completed in
Kansas As years ago in February the
territory had a population of s,5O1, of
which 9,9o5 were voters. There were
4Os persons of foreign birth, ISL free
negroes and 1872 slaves.
Captain William Crozier, who has
been appointed to professorship at
West Point military academy, entered
| West Point from Kansas and his home
has always been in Kansas. He is the
inventor of the disappearing gun car
riage.
English parties owned 2,O5s acres of
land in Sedgwiclz county and sold it
recently to a firm in Wyoming, who
have sold it to Newton real estate
firm for SGT, 900. Tney bought it on a
speculation and are selling it out in
single quarter sections
]. Clark Baldwin, who was employed
in a job printing Office in Wichita,
committed suicide, leaving as a reason
his i'll health and the fear of becoming
insane. He left directions for the pay
ment of certain bills and that his es-
come into possession of, should go to
his sister, who is professional nurse
and is living at Larned.
Representative Epperson, of Scott.
has smallpox, and Representative Claw
son, of Cherokee, went home because
his family has smallpox.
Orlando C. Troxel, the son of Dick
inson county farmer, has just gradua-
ted from West Point and has been as
signed to an infantry regiment in the
Philippines.
Elijah Collins, of Highland station,
is dead at the age of Sc. He was a
charter member of the first Masonic
lodge in Kansas. He had lived in Kan
sas 40 years.
Both branches of the legislature took
half hour off just before the noon ad-
journment and held jollifcation over
Kansas getting first place at the st.
Paul Butter Makers meeting. The
$3.50 banner won there, was brought
by the Kansas delegation direct to To-
pelSa.
Among the barrels which had their
heads knocked in by the women of
COTS were several barrels of pickles.
1t is not yet settled which will cost the
ladies the most per barrel, whisky or
pickles.
A Westmoreland man in one day
traded an SO acre farm for town prop
erty; sold that to farmer and rented
the latter's farm. Before night he had
rented his own town home, and had
sold 25 cattle. Hustler? Oh! yes, con-
sidering that it was short winter day.
A Wichita wholesale hardware COM
pany has ordered a million pounds of
nails to be delivered during the next
sixty days. The firm expects their
orders for nails will exhaust the entire
invoice by the time the sixty days ex-
pires.
Dick Walker is reported as saying
that now that Bill Hackney has gone
back to Winfield he will go back there
too.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kretsinger, who
have lived in the vicinity of Wellsville
since 1857, have celebrated their golden
wedding.