Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-04-04
Fort Scott is to have a new Jail.

ing club.
Vitrified brick walks are being built
in Harper
The city of Atchison has established
a school for truants.
Holton registered l ,Os3 voters, about
one-third of them women.
The new auditorium at Strong City
is to be opend on April 10 and 20.
o. E Learnard, jr., has been ap-
pointed city judge at Lawrance.
Steel rails have arrived for the new
street car lines at Junction City.
Up to the 25th of March there had
been SO headers sold at Ellinwood.
There was picnic set to come off in
the last week in March at Goodland.
Parsons is flirting with people who
may be induced to give her electric car
lines.
Ten thousand pounds of fresh meat
goes weekly to Fort Riley from Kansas
City.
Bishop Walden. of the NJ. f. church,
was one of the pioneer preachers of
Kansas.
The registration at Junction City
was 2,257, of which there were LOGS
women.
NJ. A. Low is said to be promoting
scheme to hold state fair in Topeka
| this year.
The First NJ. F. church of Winfield,
proposes to build $4,000 church of
Winfield stone.
upon the new Santa Fe yards and de-
pot at Lawrence.
Salina expects to entertain 200 COM
mercial travellers at their annual meet
ing there in May.
Committees are at work in Kingman
county raising IS, 900 for monument
to veterans buried there.
President Mckinley informed Repre-
sentative Charles Curtis that he will
stop in Topeka on his western trip.
Lieutenant Governor Richter is ask
ing for a donation from Andrew Car
for library for the Kansas Medical
College.
Mrs. Margaret King, aged los, died
the other day at Eureka. at the home
of her granddaughter, Mrs. J. II. kirk
patrick. Mrs. King was the mother of
| 13 children. One of her brothers lived
to be more than 100 years old.
The 18th annual conference of the
negro branch of the NJ. L. church in
Kansas, Missouri. Nebraska, Iowa and
Oklahoma, met at Fort Scott on March
%. Over 100 ministers were present.
Bishop E. &. Andrews. of New York,
presided.
The Fort Hays reservation will be
utilized for experiments by the Kansas
agricultural college; especially in find
ing ways to make grains and forage
plants resist drouths, and to find new
grains and forage that will do well on
the plains.
1t is all right for Kansas to get bit
crazy over General Funston's successes,
but it is silly to mix up politics in it by
commencing again to talk about giving
him high up Office outside the army.
| The general would run away from that
| as he did before.
The Masonic order of Bellville, Re-
public county, and the State Historical
society will unite in Fourth of July
village, when the corner stone of the
Zebulon Pike monument will be placed
on the spot where Pike hauled down
the Spanish flag and swung the Stars
and Stripes.
| Two farmer boys were on their way
home from Lawrence when one shot
the other twice with revolver. The
wounds were not fatal though serious.
government inspector reports hav.
ing found 1T documents in one county
court house that were without the
stamps necessary to give them legal
standing.
juror in Hamilton county has sued
the sheriff for damages for placing him
in cold, damp jury room, thereby in
juring his health The case is appealed
to the supreme court.
Mrs. Hetty Sinex, of Peabody, whose
son died in San Francisco while on the
way to the Philippines has received ;
pension of S12 month together with
s261 back pay. Young Sinex enlisted
in the army at the outbreak of the
Spanish war.
Mrs. Mary E. Bradley is dead. She
started in the hotel business where
Salina afterwards grew u9 around her
Her place was of logs with dirt roof
Bayard Taylor described the place in
letter to the New York Tribune wher
he crossed the plains.
George Evans. formerly prosperous
contractor at Topeka, is now in the
Soldiers home and in very poor health
He has had several contracts in the
course of the building of the state
house.
The rewards offered for Estelle, who
killed deputy sheriff of Morris coun
ty, have been in the courts and The
matter is at last settled by dividing
the money equally among the sever
claimants. 1t will be remembered tina
Estelle is now at large, having escaped
from the penitentiary.
The secretary of war has authorized
the state historical society to talk
charge of the building used as the frs
capitol of Kansas. pending the actor
of congress on the request of the legis