Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-03-14
Kansas raises more cotton every year


John Seaton will again be a candi-
date for governor on a resubmission
issue.
The law to provide seats for women
clerks will be in force as soon as pub
lished.
Train loads of lola cement are being
shipped to fill orders from New Or
leans.
Kingman miller gets orders for
-four from Philadelphia in three car
load lots.
The Wichita mattress factory re-
ceives its supply of cotton in lots of
five carloads.
Warden Jewett says he started with
the office of police Judge and landed in
the penitentiary.
The mill at Halstead took in $4,000
bushels of wheat in four days, paying
50 cents a bushel.
Morris Fraley, of Brown county, is
still living on the 16O acre claim which
he pre-empted in 1857.
A gas company has been organized
at Sedan and the work of drilling will
commence Immediately.
Capt Schilling, ex-senator from
Brown county, is still considered to be
in dangerous condition.
Alfred Harrison, of Ell Dorado, usu-
ally takes trip every year, and this
year expects to visit Hawaii.
A Spring Hill woman on her death
bed told her husband where to find
her savings, amounting to $500.
Two hundred and fifty resident and
visiting citizens of Kansas attended a
reception to Senator ]. R. Burton.
Judge David Martins remains were
taken to fredericksburg, Ohio, to be
buried beside those of his parents.
The ss4, 900 appropriated to pay the
Quantrell raid claims will all go to 90
persons who have bought up the $50
claims.
The Catholic church in Salina which
was something grand in the early days,
is to be replaced with Il new one to
cost So, 200.
The state board of health reports
about 1000 cases of smallpox in the
state, fully one half of them in Craw-
ford and Cherokee counties.
The big extra edition ordered by the
legislature of Secretary Coburn's re-
port will not be out before August, as
the work of the state printer is great,
The contract is soon to be let for the
erection of the Y. NJ. C. A. building at
Coffeyville with money furnished by
Miss Helen Gould, the Missouri Pacific
and citizens.
The case of Bali Stark, the young
Topekan found guil>y of trespass in
one of the Nation raids, will be taken
to the supreme court, and an early de-
cision is looked for.
At a gathering of farmers wives at
a farm house in Riley county, fifteen
in number, near neighbors, eleven of
them had travelled abroad, through
Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land.
There will occur something not alto
gether agreeable to the hoodlums who
break mail boxes on rural delivery
routes and use them as targets. Severe
punishment is provided for destroying
| +I,o,,, 10
1t would astonish Kansans to see
the blood and thunder stories published
| in England about the liquor crusade.
| The stories have the state militia fight
ing with the mobs continually. They
stated that 200 crusaders were driven
! into a church at Winfield and many of
them shot; etc, etc.
Indictments against the hotels of
Kingman for dispensing intoxicants
caused them all to close their doors for
awhile.
Kansas will continue to pay the old
maximum rates for school books for
another five years. All efforts to raise
the limit so as to get better books, were
beaten in the legislature.
Under the new election law the pres.
ent incumbents of the offices of county
clerk, register of deeds, treasurer,
sheriff, coroner and county surveyor
will hold over another year.
Kansas University students are nu-
merous from Brown and Harvey coun.
ties; these counties leading in attend
ance.
Captain William Crozier, the invent.
ing soldier who has been raised to a
professorship at West Point, is the son
of Judge Robert Crozier, deceased, OF
Leavenworth.
Governor Stanley has appointed as
regents of the state normal school: L.
b. Kellogg, Lyon; L. ]. Altowager,
Reno; ]. H. Glotfeller, Atchison, They
were confirmed.
The richest farmer in the house OF
representatives is said to be j. NJ.
Davis, of Bourbon county. He is a
young man.
G. C. Clemens had bill of 81, 500 be-
fore the legislature for arguing the
validity of the special session of 1895
in the supreme court. 1t was not al.
lowed.
A. J. auckland is dead. Since 1879
he has been very prominent in business
and in politics, both at his home in
Great Bend, and in state and county
politics.
Representative Epperson, of Scott,
has smallpox, and Representative Claw
son, of Cherokee, went home because
his family has smallpox.