Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-14

The senate refuses to bar lobbyists
from the senate chamber.
The state auditor collected fees in
January amounting to s132.5o.
Abilene is trying to raise a revenue
of 81 800 by an occupation tax.
Lyndon claims Harry Goof, Roose-
velt's guide, as former citizen.
The State Society of Labor and In
dustry met in Topeka February 4.
A new national bank has been au-
thorized to be organized at Great Bend.
The postoffice at Climax, Greenwood
county, has been robbed of sos worth
of stamps
Only one farm in Salt Creek town
ship, of Lincoln county, is owned by
nonresident.
The daily capacity of the Salina
Touring mills is from 1850 to 1000
barrels per day.
The divorce docket of the Montgom-
cry county district court has sixty
cases already fled
The board of managers of the Sons
of the American Revolution met in To-
peka on January %.
Frank Wells, of Seneca, Kansas, has
commenced building a home for him
self at Oklahoma City.
| Bank Commissioner Mort Albaugh
has appointed S E. drummer, of Belle
vile, one of his deputies.
Thirty of the guards employed to
protect the saloons in Wichita carry
deputy sheriff commissions.
On February :, 1871, Sumner county
was organized by Governor Harvey. 1t
was named for Charles Sumner.
commission signed by George
Washington, when president, has come
to light in lawsuit at Atchison.
Kansas Republicans in Washington
are preparing to entertain the Topeka
f1ambeau club at the Inauguration.
A Bourbon county man applied to
the county commissioners to be ap-
pointed as a rural delivery carrier.
The joints at Wellington were closed
by the mayor upon the supposition
that some kind of raid had been
planned.
Two hundred and fifty-eight women
of Eureka have petitioned the probate
/ I'D ~ 70 thn
druggists of Eureka
| J. T. Houston, an Atchison county
farmer, has just finished new house
on his farm which has cost S12, 200. 1t
has all modern conveniences.
The ministers of Arkansas City have
united in request to the mayor to
close the joints. They say they can
no longer repress crusade.
J. Il. Bosserman, postmaster and
sort of local preacher, of Clinton, Doug
las county, is under arrest for violation
of the prohibitory law. He gave 5000
bond.
There are three corps of engineers at
work on the Orient line between Wich-
tia and Kansas City. How best to get
through the Flint hills is still unset
tied.
Grading on the Orient road is near
being pushed. The work of securing
right of way in Sedgwiclz county viii
be done in March.
]. d. Coffey, heretofore road foreman
of engines, has been appointed train
master of the middle division of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe at New
ton, Kas, in place of r. D. Fowler,
who has been transferred to position
in the office of the third vice president
at Chicago.
The Kansas agricultural college
dairy makes 1880 pounds of butter a
week.
Quahine, the Pottawatomie woman
who was killed by her husband, had a
funeral in the ancient Indian style.
A hollow tree had been cut off at the
proper height for the purpose and the
coffin was put down into it, feet fore
most and left there.
While Mrs. Nation was in police
quarters in Topeka, she received a tele-
gram from Buffalo, N. Y, offering to
pay her expenses if she would go there.
Reverend Ralph Newman, of the
Congregational church, Leavenworth,
was the only minister in the town who
denounced the burning of Alexander,
and he also announced that unless his
congregation endorsed him, he would
resign. The congregation endorsed
him.
Ten years ago Jimmie Nolan kissed
his Irish sweetheart good-by and sailed
away to make a nest for her. And
last week, after all these years of
faithfulness, the sweetheart came to
Erie and the pair were married.
A little daughter of o. H. Putney, of
Sumner county, caught her arm in a
milk separator. After amputation
blood poisoning resulted and she died.
The Wichita consistory has sent an
elaborate invitation to President Diaz
of Mexico, who is a 33rd degree Mason,
to attend their twentieth century ju-
bilee in April.
John Kilburn, of Bourbon county,
has just sold about 1000 bushels of
flax seed at S1,55, which he figures
paid the entire cost of his farm with a
surplus of SIS per acre.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Palmer, of
Nortonville, recently celebrated their
9th marriage anniversary. Mr.. Palmer
is 90 and his wife nearly as old.