Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-04-11
There is but one city ticket in Pea

Haddam, Washington county, elect
ed women to every city Office.
The news of Funston's feat reached
his mother on her 6sth birthday.
Smith county is losing citizens who
are going to Oklahoma to seek new
homes.
Russell is agitating the extension of
the Missouri Pacific to that place from
Hoisington.
The city officers of Manlxato hold over
because the people were too busy to
hold an election.
| The secretary of the state board of
health sees the approaching end of the
smallpox in Kansas.
| Leavenworth elected a city clerk,
whose sir name has eleven letters, only
two of them vowels
Governor Stanley was the orator at
the laying of the corner stone of the
new court house at Beloit.
| The issue at the election at Severy
was on free range for chickens ard the
| women's votes set the chickens free
Leavenworth goes to the limit and
| pays the mayor an annual salary of
$1,000 and its councilmen 5000 each.
| Barney Sheridan. his wife and IL
children have arrived at jamestown,
Cloud county, direct from Ireland.
| President Mckinley informed Repre-
| sentative Charles Curtis that he will
stop in Topeka on his western trip.
A new Baptist church has been dedi-
Gated at Abbyville, Reno county. The
building is SO by 40 feet and cost about
800.
| Fire destroyed the boat house at
Forest park, Ottawa The boats were
saved, but much Quitting stuff was
! lost.
The new railroad board will occupy
the old supreme court rooms in the
basement of the east wing of the state
house.
The acts passed by the last legisla-
ture will be out in book from about
May Is. They will make a larger book
than ever before.
The snow caught Atwood and towns
west of there, with not enough provi-
sions or fuel. People burned loose rail-
road ties, fence posts and lumber.
The Colum 6iau building in Topeka
which brings rental of $40, 900 year,
has been purchased from its owners in
Vermont by Topeka man for $50, OOo
Congressman Bowersock warns peo-
pie that parties who are offering a
book only to people whose names are
secured from congressman, are liars
and frauds.
The snowfall of last week was Il
inches at Larned. Roads were block
AIDED and business suspended. The
snow covered the wheat belt of central
and western Kansas.
Capt. George Cooper of Osawatomie
claims to have enlisted 500 men to
Cooper is an original boomer, associ, ,
ated with Dave Payne.
An Ellis county farmer had settle
ment of his account with a merchant
which had been running for about
year. The fact developed that the eggs
he had sold the merchant amounted to
about the same as was charged to him
for groceries during the year.
The cuts between st. Francis and
Atwood, some of which are 20 feet
deep, were filed with wet snow and
pany had every man and snowplow
that could be secured, and it took a
week to move trains. The snow on
the prairies was two feet deep
President Brooke, of Lane University
at Lecompton, has resigned. He has
held the position for ten years. Dur
ing that time $4,000 mortgage has
been paid and the college is practically
out of debt.
The city clerk of Topeka is receiving
a heavy mail from eastern parties who
want to buy the bonds voted on April 2
for more Ssanta Fe shops
Mrs Cynthia Ashton, aged 81, is a
resident of Wichita. She is one of the
three or four widows left who draw
pensions for the war of 1872.
f. j. Ward, who has been division
superintendent under Mr.. Webb at
Wichita, has been made superintendent
at Osawatomie. c. +. Nedro who has
chief dispatcher, succeeds Ward. and
L. f. Gillian of st. Louis takes Nedro's
place.
The Eden Park ranch of II 200 acres,
which is located partly in Saline and
partly in Ellsworth counties. has been
sold to George P. Tremble of Ellsworth,
for $4,000. The land was owned by
New York parties. This is one of the
largest ranches in the state.
There were three candidates for sec
rotary of the railroad commission:
Flenniken. of Lyon; Nelson, of Cow
ley, and Beezley, of Edwards.
John Hafer of Smith county has
added AGA acres of land to his farm and
now has .s4 acres. lie came there
poor and made what he has by farm
ing.
DIR. Sidey, the Atchison dentist who
was struck down by a husband de-
tends himself. He says the wife was
in his dental chair when he was at
tackled.
case has been taken to the supreme
court to settle the dispute about the
to fill the gap in the terms caused by
changing the time for terms to begin to