Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26


ment.
Mcpherson county is to have % rural
mail delivery routes to start off on Feb
ruary l.
Two farmers near Osborne have de-
cided to erect SEQ, 900 Touring mill in
that city.
Several serious accidents have oc-
CURED at Burlington from fails upon
icy sidewalks.
The Atchison furniture factory was
Quilted by fire in half-hour, with a
loss of s25, 900.
James H. Guy, negro lawyer of To-
peka, is candidate for appointment as
minister to Hayti.
Earl Fl. Ellis, of Pratt, has been
given a commission as second lieuten-
ant in the marine corps.
1t is the town agriculturalists who
have the wheat killed by freezing
The farmers are keeping still.
Marie and Mary Mcfarland, twins,
who are to sing at King Edwards coro-
nation, were born in Atchison.
Ike Lambert purchased Lyon coun-
ty farm of 800 acres last week, paying
for it at the rate of $50 an acre.
The people of Holton put $3.50 into
the hat at the first collection for the
meetings by Evangelist Williams.
Wabaunsee county and his horse was
frozen so badly that he was killed.
Cold weather has stopped the distri-
button of fish. Mr.. Wiley has a good
supply on hand to distribute in the
spring.
Homer A. Seip, of Summerfeld, Ks,
has been appointed an inspector at the
naval station at Cavite, Philippine
islands.
An old citizen of Fort Scott. VIM H.
Simpson, died of paralysis on December
II, at the age of % years. He leaves
a large estate.
Nine Kansas counties have county
high schools. They are Atchison, Clay,
Dickinson, Norton, Scott, Sumner, La
bette, Montgomery and Cherokee.
c. L. Short, conductor of the Santa
Fe plug between Topeka and Kansas
City, has been appointed trainmaster
of the Southern Kansas, with head
quorters at Chanute.
WinZar. Of nnni,,Iar
claim that they have found that flour
worth 81 n hundred pounds is better
and cheaper for fatteIing hogs than
either wheat or corn.
Colonel John f. Bull and his wife
were found dead at their home in Par
sons. 1t is believed that they had been
murdered. Col. Bull served in an Ohio
regiment during the civil war.
The ten-year-old son of J. r. Ballard,
of Topeka, acting under his fathers in
structions, refused to repeat the Lords
Prayer in a Topeka school. He was
expelled, and the father will take the
matter to the courts.
Rev. W. L. Grant. of Kansas CITY.
Kas., and formerly of Topeka, the col
ored evangelist who made many
speeches in the last national campaign,
is, through Mr.. Curtis, likely to be
made an army chaplain.
The Methodists of Wellington have
recently spent about 81, 200 in improv-
ing their parsonage, and it is now one
of the most complete parsonages that
could be desired. A furnace has been
put in, several rooms added, a tower
built and minor improvements made.
The public schools of Horton are
closed on account of the prevalence of
diphtheria.
Jud Shive, a switchman at Hutch
inson, was run over by freight car
and killed.
At public sale near Washington
cows averaged $50 each and calves av-
eraged S22. Feed must be plentiful
there.
An old round house at Topeka has
been used during the cold spell for
housing cars loaded with California
fruit.
Walter Bird, of Montgomery county,
who struck Harry Linton with a ball
bat from which Linton died, has been
sentenced to 81 years in prison.
General. ]. c. Stone is dead at the
age of 70 years. General Stone was a
veteran of the Mexican war and at the
beginning of the civil war he was made
adjutant general of this state. He
raiSd and differed the 10 regiments
raised during that war in Kansas. He
was also a prominent factor in the,
building of the Union Pacific rail-
road.
A dispatch from Kansas City states
that the lowest temperature reported
from Kansas was at Emporia, 16 de-
grees below zero.
Three thousand people depended upon
the Argentine smelter for their sup
port. 1t is shut down, its owners say,
because it needed modern machinery
and it would not pay to put it in.
WorRmen begun on the work of the
construction of the stairways in the
state house. These stairways will run
from the basement to the fifth floor
and will cost about $50. 900.
One Fredonia gas company has two
wells with an immense flow of gas and
is drilling more wells A line of ,,iy,as
was laid miles to the city and gas
furnished for fuel within ~ days from
the time the company got the franchise
An explosion of gas occurred on east
bound Santa Fe passenger train No. s,
near Garden City. The smoker, chair