Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-11-14

years nave been warmer than the one
just closed.
Fl. NJ. Reid, of Crawford county, has
lost several cattle from blackleg. Mr..
Reid is big breeder of fancy cattle.
The place of Physician at the insane
asylum at Topeka is vacant and lines
are out to find the best man to fill it
A new Congregational church is to
be built at Osborne. 1t will be of stone
and will cost between So, 900 and 81, 900.
Three banks of Salina hold deposits
amounting to 81, 341, 1924. so, which is
over SIS for every inhabitant of Saline
county.
J. E. Hurley, division superintendent,
is quoted as saying that the division
terminals at Coolidge will be removed
to Syracuse.
Thirteen banks do the business of
the $4,000 people of Brown county.
The combined assets of these banks is
S2,179, OO6.53.
The new Mitchell county court house
at Beloit has room especially designed
for rest room for women of the coun-
ty who come to town.
A two-year-old girl of Eureka, while
eating walnuts, was choked to death by
a kernel lodging in her throat. She
was the daughter of Edward Miller.
The California Limited will pick up
the fast mail car at Newton and take
it to La Junta and the returning linn
tied, No 4, will take it back to Kansas
City.
Henry Williams, of Gaylord, is be-
coming quite wealthy by fattening cat
tie on alfalfa. This year he has 400
head in his feed lots which he will feed
this winter.
In and within three miles of Cherry
vale there are sc gas wells with a pro-
ducing capacity of 100 million cubic
feet daily: equivalent to $500 tons of
coal. or 400 carloads.
The binding Irvine plant at the Kan
sas penitentiary will start to work
dDOuI l. " dINCii cC"Obb mas
secured enough sisal to keep the work
going through the winter months
Judge Hazen, of Shawnee county, de
cides that an assistant attorney general
cannot punish a witness who refuses to
give him evidence, under the inquisition
law, which gives that power to county
attorneys only.
The counties of Stanton, Grant, Has
kell, Morton, Stephens, Seward and
Meade and part of the counties of
Hamilton, Finney, Kearney, Gray,
Louisiana Purchase.
Rev. P. II. Anderson has just re-
turned to Abilene from the Klondike,
where his mines have this year given
large fortune, and has purchased sew
eral farms in the county and settled
his relatives upon them.
The present term of the supreme
court has on the docket 643 cases. 1t
will take the court year to catch up.
There are about 40 new cases coming in
monthly, which would make l, 900 cases
in sight for the next year.
The old law suit over the mineral
springs property at Carbonate has
reached a verdict in the Emporia dis
trict court for SIT, 900 damages for the
Burdicks. The case is against the Car
bondale Investment company and it
has been in the courts for IL years.
Ed Winchester of Leavenworth, has
has had leg amputated. 1t was the
result of Injuries received in a football
game.
Cattlemen are buying up tax deeds
and unsold school lands in western
counties, taking every acre they can
get hold of.
H. L. Jones, aged II, the first men,
Der of the legislature from Saline coun-
ty, is dead. He was the original "Buf-
falo Jones" representing large section
of the state which was then covered
with buffaloes.
Reports received by Superintendent
Nelson from % of the los counties of
the state show that $50 new school
houses have been built during 1901.
The second Jail delivery within a
month occurred at Great Bend. Four
prisoners took stone out of the wall
and the next day were lodging blood
hounds.
Blacl1leg among young cattle in Sedg-
wick cc-nty is attributed to sudden
change of the stock from grass to pas
turage on early sown wheat with a
rank growth.
Two sets of heirs and the state of
Kansas are trying to get the property
left by John Gamer, of Butler county.
The states claim is based upon the
alien law which was in force at the
date of Gamers death.
Rev. Thayer, who has been pastor of
the Congregational church of Wichita
for a number of years, during which
the fine edifice now occupied by that
congregation was erected, has resigned,
having been chosen to succeed Rev. L..
2. Broad as field agent of the Congre-
gational Home Missionary society.
w. H. Haskell, of Smith county, is
appointed to succeed Elmer z. Ames,
of Norton, as director of the peniten-
tiary, Ames having resigned when APP
pointed T. S. bank examiner.
The Modocs, the famous singing club
of Topeka, celebrated the 25th ami
versary of it's organization few days
since. Among the list of names of
those present, according to our recol-
lection, Mayor Thomas j. Anderson,
its leader during a quarter of a century,
is the only one of the original member