Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-09-12

Political gossips say that Major 7. ].
Anderson, of Topeka, is to be given
consulate in Germany.
Only nine bankruptcy cases have gone
to the courts in Kansas under the new
federal bankruptcy law.
A national convention of the blind
assembled IN Kansas City, Kansas, to
see each other, you know.
VIM. Brown, of Atchison, aged 81,
fell in commissions as the result of ex-
cessive cigarette smoking.
s. P. Woodson, Jr., the Caldwell
hotel keeper, raised $1,000 bushels OF
wheat THE year on the side.
The Newton public schools opened
with an enrolment of LIB. of which
1s2 were in the high school.
A man at Preston was on top of a
windmill tower and counted thirty
three steam threshers at work.
T. X. Thompson, of Dover, Shawnee
county, won three prizes on his Short
horn cattle at the Iowa state fair.
The Santa Fe will have damage suits
to defend. Emporia people who lost
two blocks of buildings will bring the
suit.
Old settler reunions have followed
the reunions of veterans and there has
been about as many of them in the
state.
There is Fort Scott girl in Paris
Miss Essie Lee, who is called by the
Paris papers ''the most beautiful vio-
linist."
The attendance at all the veterans
reunions in the state was larger than
usual, with the exception of the state
reunion
John H. Cram, a Fort Scott attorney,
had a fight with James Burton, an ed
itor of that city. 1t arose from saloon
license disputes.
C. B. Combs, of Reading, married
Miss Rose Vickers, of Saltwater, Okla
Immediately after she had filed on a
claim at Lawton.
Adjutant General Fox has issued a
revised edition of the rules and regula-
tions for the government of the Kan
sas National Guard.
Mrs. Stansbury, of Coffeyville, has
sued the liquor sellers of the town for
5000 damages, alleging that they
made her husband drunkard.
The reunion of the Southwestern
Soldiers and Sailors association at Ar
kansas City brought $4,000 people to-
gether. Colonel Weldy conducted the
campfire.
Larkin Heron, whose home is at
Oxford, was playing as pitcher for the
Arkansas City Grays, when he fell dead.
1t is thought he burst a blood vessel
while sliding to base.
d. R. Gordon, of Dickinson county,
| offered 25-acre field for $40 an acre.
He raised alfalfa on the land and took
two cuttings of hay and one seed crop
from it, the whole bringing $50 an acre
or S45 an acre after paying all expenses.
There will be still another light hay
crop.
Bids were opened at the Indian office
in Washington for construction of five
cottages and domestic buildings at the
| Haskell institute, Kansas The bidders
were: Ernest II. Schneider, Lawrence
for cottages, $500; domestic building
S25, 200; w. L. Leis, of Lawrence, fol
domestic building, S23,474: if extra
story is built 81, 125 additional.
Eleven members of the Twentieth
Kansas are now officers in the regular
army, and thirty-five others are serving
as privates or non-commissioned officers
There are IA of the regiment holding
some kind of official positions in Kansas
near Ottawa, are to receive $500 each il
lieu of land offered to them by the gov
eminent in 1888, when the tribal HON,
was in New York. Such of the trib
descendants, are now entitled to $50
each.
A P. Ravens, member of lumbe
firm with many yards, dropped dead a
Minneapolis, Kas. He was an earl,
settler and a veteran of the civil war
Train crews of the Missouri Pacifi
have been overworl1ed of late and a
Garnett one of them turned switcl
while in state of somnambulism whicl
wrecked two engines and hurt a fire
man.
Charles Wolff, the Topeka packer
. has received two letters after the styl
of those sent to Cudahy, Omaha. Cues
Charley is little scared.
There are 13 kinds of native trees il
Riverside park at Wichita, viz: bur
: oak. white elm, redbud, cottonwood
blackberry, black walnut, sycamore
caffeenut, honey locust, white ash
5 willow, mulberry and box elder
; Four new coal mines to give employ
) ment to from 200 to 500 men each, az
now being sunk around Pittsburg
while three others have just been com
: pleted. The Mount Carmel Coal com
pany, the fuel department of the SAINT
Fe is putting in two big new mine
south of Pittsburg.
Chairman NJ. c. Campbell, of the liv
: stock sanitary board, has found a cas-
of Texas fever at Kechi, Sedgwic
county, which he says is the only cas-
in Kansas and the range has bee
quarantined. The other cattle hav
, been CREASED with petroleum.