Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-10

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it.
The state treasury received ST., 900
from county treasurers in one day re-
Gently.
Farm land in Graham county is sell
ing 25 to so per cent higher than last
year.
Cherokee won out over Girard in the
vote for the location of the county high
school.
j. A. Newman, chairman of the Santa
Fe telegraphers, has moved to his farm
in Oklahoma.
A perceptible shock of earthquake
was felt at Mound City at o'clock of
January Bird.
Osawatomie voted bonds to the
| amount of $40, 900 to build waterworks,
by vote of 916 to log.
The Christian church at Newton is
out of debt and is able to raise the
pastors salary another 500.
The Rock Island ice house at Herring
ton has been doubled in crpacity. 1t
now has room for 1000 tons of ice.
The Hutchinson Salt company gave
as Christmas gift to each of its 500
workers, turkey and small cash
| present.
District court at Columbus adjourned
and the schools closed on account of
smallpox 1t is estimated that there
are 200 cases in Cherakee county.
r. F. Morrow. son of Bob Morrow,
the older hotel man, and his father-in
law, ]. j. O'Rourk; both of Lawrence,
have purchased the Throop hotel in
Topeka for $4,000
B. F. Williams, who has been con-
nected with the Santa Fe freight de-
partment for nearly 10 years, has re-
signed the place of chief clerk to AS
sistant Freight Agent Maegley.
During December more than 500, 900
in life insurance was written by agents
in Ottawa. Most of it was of the en-
dowmeut kind, with heavy premiums,
| the sort that is taken as an invest
| ment.
L. f. Duggan, manager of the Wich-
tia station of the Missouri and Kansas
Telephone company, has been made
district manager for all the lines south
and west of Usage City, with headquar-
tiers in Wichita.
A force of men are building a new
Rock Island depot at Enterprise in
place Of the one that was destroyed by
fire last month. The new depot will
be frame structure, larger and better
finished than the old one.
A farmer near Argonia has 80 acres
of sandy soil which was considered al
most worthless, having failed to raise
either wheat, corn or oats He then
tried fruit and has better profits than
others have on good grain land.
At the home of o. N. Gray in Jewell
City, little boy sat down to his Christ
mas dinner in company with his father
and mother, his two grandfathers and
his two grandmothers, and his great
grandfather and great-grandmother.
The mother of DIR. Mitchell, at At
Gibson, is "a years old. She was mar
ried at IA and now has ten living chill
dren, 120 grandchildren, 100 great
grandchildren and 7great-great-grand-
children. She still rides horseback to
| church.
Judge NJ. s. Adams recently died at
his home in Cannon City, Colorado.
He was a member from Leavenworth
o. the Kansas legislature, and speaker
of the house, in the sessions in 1862 and
| 1868. He was later a candidate for
member of congress, at the time of Sid
ney Clarke's last nomination and cleo
| ton.
At the regular monthly meeting of
the ministers of Wichita a resolution
commencing the action of Mrs Nation
was defeated by large majority.
Fort Scott has had an Electric Light
and Power company, Street Railway
company, and Steam Heating COM
pany, but they are now consolidated
under the name Consolidated Supply
company.
Sheriff Sughrue died at his home in
Ashland January 2. By his request a
national flag was placed in his hands
and held there when he died.
Captain ]. II. Wing, of Coolidge, is
said to have taken eight tons of honey
from his bee stands and that the bees
consumed two tons.
During Christmas week there were
twenty-five applicants for enlistment
examined at the recruiting station in
Wichita and only two of them were
accepted.
Geary county captured the silk flag
at the State Teachers meeting at To-
peka for the largest attendance of
teachers in proportion to number en-
ployed in county.
Work of building the st. PauI's Ca
thedral church in Olathe is completed.
The Kansas Historical society library
has 3,o51 volumes of books, %, 9o7 vol
umes of newspapers, 67,41s pamphlets,
making total of 114,376. During the
past two years there have been added
to the library 2,024 volumes of books,
1901 unbound volumes and pamphlets,
and 3,026 volumes of newspapers in
addition to large number of single
copies of newspapers, maps, manu-
scripts, pictures and relics of different
sorts.
A. ]. Rice, of Graham county has 300,
acres in alfalfa and will sow as much
mora He has alraadv cfarfad .o,o-.l