Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-05

liz 4hooOhlC hOluC dL w lCllId Is
quarantiued on account of a case of
scarlet fever.
Alexander Parker, the founder of
Cawker City, Ks, died at Tacoma,
Wash, recently.
The state house is closed on Thanks
giving day and many officials went
to their homes.
1t is stated that the fee of Waggener,
Horton & Orr in the famous stockyards
case is 500, 200.
Leayenworth is to vote, December 81,
on the question of municipal ownership
| of the city waterworks.
Fire destroyed general merchandise
store and the postoffice at Eaton, Leav-
enworth county, on November %.
The four Kansas counties of Sumner,
Barton, Rice and Mcpherson produced
more wheat than either Illinois or Mis-
souri,.
d. S. Waite, the Colorado ex-governor
who dropped dead the oth9r day, was
member of the Kansas legislature from
Larned in 1879.
w. II. WATSON, clerk in the state su-
perintendent's Office is suffering from
blood poisson which resulted from a
fall in his barn.
Patrons of the South Haven postoffice
stand by their postmaster and have
nearly all signed a remonstrance
against his removal
The secretary of the state board of
health says that as compared with re-
cent years there are but few cases of
small pox in the state.
Contrasting parties hun ted rabbits
about Lecompton on Thanksgiving day
and killed thousand of them. The
losing side furnished big supper.
Two steel range agents have been
swindling Bourbon county farmers and
they are resisting the collection of their
notes given for the ranges on condi-
tions.
There were so acres planted to tobacco
in Kansas this year which yielded 1850
pounds, valued at s., LES. The largest
acreages were in Ellis, Rush and Frank
lin counties.
An Atchison county breeder of fancy
hogs brought boar from Wisconsin
which introduced hog cholera into his
pens and he lost 40 hogs speedily.
They continue to die at the rate of 10
day.
R. S. Cross, an old settler of Topeka,
died at his home there recently very
suddenly. When he retired he COM
planned of pain at his heart He was
dead before he had time to remove his
clothing.
DIR. c. Perry, retired banker of
Winfield, announces his intention to
give modern pipe organ to the Epis-
copal church of that city. The Metho-
dist and Baptist churches now have
pipe organs.
Conductor Samuel Lightcap has been
in the employ of the Union Pacific for
more than 80 years. His present run
is between Kansas City and Ellis. He
has been on day RIM through Kansas
for many years.
A swindler with a variety of names,
among them being c. B. McVickers,
w. II. Burton and Andrew Adams, has
victimized a number of ladies in east
ern Kansas. He represents himself as
an agent of New York cloak company
whicd does an extensive mail order
business. He takes cash deposits with
orders and also from parties whom he
pretends to make agents in different
towns; these being usually milliners.
The National Cloak company will pay
500 for his arrest.
Governor Stanley, of Kansas, is now
sounding some of the school superin-
tendents of the state as to whether it
would be wise to use the school children
of the state as means of raising Kan
sas' share of the Mckinley monument
fund.
All of the meetings of the State
Teachers association will be held in
the state house in Topeka this year.
Heretofore the side meetings have been
in church and school buildings. The
legislative committee rooms were not
then finished.
Farmers are taking care of their
wheat straw to make certain of enough
feed. A Douglas county farmer thinks
it may reach SIS ton in some sections.
DIR. R. B. Magee, of Topeka, is in a
serious condition from blood poisoning
caused by the bite of cat on his hand.
The poisoning quickly extended to his
shoulder.
I. Il. Wall, district judge of Sedg-
wick county, has picked up in parcels
5000 acres of land in Stevens county,
which it is said he will stock with
horses and cattle.
Jesse Miller, negro of Leavenworth,
secured $50 reward for capturing an
escaped negro convict and the negroes
of the town ran him off for doing it.
In the case before the supreme court
of the United States involving the va
lidity of the Kansas statute empower
ing the state to fix rates of charges on
stock in stockyards within the state, is.
that the law is in conflict with the 14th,
to the U. S. constitution.
Justice Brown handed down the de-.
cision. This is the old case known as
the ''stockyards case"
The Modern Tonties meet in Wichita
in state convention on December IL.