Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-28


capitol.
Both the ''wet" and the dry" can
didates for mayor of Wellington are
millers.
| AS usual Southern Kansas has had
| its winter in the autumn and in the
spring.
The Cudahy Packing company is kill
ing an average of 500 hogs a day at
Wichita
The registration at Wichita counted
up 10, 5s7, of which number 4,O41 were
women.
Governor Stanley expects to attend
the Y. NJ. C. A. meeting in Guthrie on
March 81.
Farmers about Osborne are organ
izing a new bank to do business in
that burg.
a miller at Lincoln started car of
flour to Belfast, Ireland, on St. Pat
rick's day.
Robberies are occurring in Emporia
to find clues.
VIM. H. Schoonover, of Rice county,
a pioneer, fell dead while playing a
game of croquet.
Garden City has lost it's north side
school building. 1t was insured for
SIS, 900; one-half it's cost.
A. V. Lindell, bond clerk in the
Office of the state superintendent of
public instruction, has smallpox.
The 18th annual tournament of the
| Kansas State Sportsman's association
| will be held in Leavenworth April To-
1s.
Quarantine for sheep has been es-
tablished at Andale, where the scab
is reported to affiict sheep about to be
shipped.
John Moorhead, of Baldwin, was
not member of the legislature. John
Moorhead's tongue has not becore
paralyzed.
H. F. Sidey, an Atchison dentist,
was fatally injured by railroad man
who was jealous over attentions paid
to his wife.
A chemist in the employ of the Orient
has been examining the soil and the
water along the line of that road from
Kiowa northward
An egg dealer at COTS received an
order by wire for carload of eggs and
placed 400 cases in a car at the depot
in less than half an hour
Miss Mary Weir, an Oklahoma girl,
took first honors at the Wichita high
school, and will be the valedictorian at
the commencement exercises in May.
A religious census of Hiawatha shows
that out of 1000 inhabitants more than
1000 are in church work. There are
only thirty families in the town who
do not attend church.
Thousands of geese circled about
Abilene during the late blizzard, DASH
ing into the electric lights. Sportsmen
killed large number of them, staying
out in the storm until daylight to shoot
the geese
In five years the Episcopal church of
Kansas has reduced it's Indebtedness
on parishes and institutions from 500
900 to S25, 900. The value of its prop
critics in the state is estimated at $780,
900. There have been $500 persons
baptized in five years and 1900 con-
frmed. This covers the period of
Bishop Millspaughs episcopate.
Charles Lease, of Wichita, is the pro-
moter of corporate scheme, to cost
stockholders dollar each, for the pur-
pose of sending men to our insular
possessions to investigate their indus
trial condition. \ charter when asked
for was refused.
The snow storm of March 10 covered
most of Kansas and extended over
Nebraska, Wisconsin, northern Mis-
souri,, Minnesota and western Iowa.
South Dakota, northwest Michigan and
Wyoming. 1t amounted to blizzard
in some of these localities.
Chaplain Morehead, of the house of
representatives, whose home is in
Baldwin, is suffering with paralysis of
the tongue.
A. L.. Jeune proposes to plant 100
acres of potatoes on his Greenwood
county farm, 100 acres of which are to
be early Ohios. He has bought two
carloads of early Ohio seed.
The four-year-old son of A. G. Card.
of Wichita, emptied powder from a pop
bottle into the fire. One eye was de-
stroyed and it took 81 stitches to close
up wounds made by pieces of glass.
Three women, followed by 100 men.
demolished saloon at Connor Station.
west of Kansas City, Kansas. They
were residents of the place. The men
took no part except to encourage the
women.
The water power at Blue Rapids, the
best in Kansas. is not now utilized be-
cause of some legal tangle which in
wolves the property.
Jerry Simpsons recent sale of cattle
amounted to S7,223.5O, and with the
exception of one small note the sale
was for spot cash.
Secretary Swan, of the state board
of health, and his bondsmen are sued |
by woman of Horton for being quar-
antined for two weeks in the same |
room with a man. She asks S. 600 to |
quiet her nerves.
James Stewart a colored man who |
was recently killed by train near
Sterling, was 81 years old and was the