Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Clay Center high school has bicycle
rack in its corridor.
The new 5000 bushel elevator at
Harper is completed.
A 100 acre farm in Nemaha county
sold recently for 81, 800.
A Lindsborg mill will ship $40 bar
rels of -four to Venezuela.
Forty Mormon missionaries are at
work in Kansas at this time.
The farmers near Solomon propose to
buy an elevator at that place.
A carload of poultry was shipped to
San Francisco from Larned last week.
When Bill Hackney returned to Win
field he was met by delegation OF
citizens with brass band.
The clerks of the district courts of
the state met in Topeka last week.
They have SALARY" complaint.
The government census gave Topeka
a population of 33,6Os; the assessors
reported that they found 36,7s2
The Schillings, of Enterprise, who
had the fracas with Mrs Nation lost
their all in the Galveston storm.
The architects estimate of the cost
of building plant for heating and
lighting the state house is $4,000.
Mrs. Rich has brought suit against a
Wichita saloon keeper for $4,000 for
making drunkards of her two sons.
The young men of Saline county
neigborhood got together and drove the
lightning rod sharps out of the county
Finney, Kearney and Hamilton coun-
ty farmers are entering into an agree
ment to put in 700 acres of sugar beets.
Rev. Pease, an aged Presbyterian
minister, of Wichita, is crazy over Mrs.
Nations doings. and is confined in
all.
l. ]. Stuckey, of Sedgwick county,
was awarded gold medal for his dis
play of white ear corn at the Paris ex-
position.
George Brown, who halls from Ne
braska, was assaulted by negroes at
North Lawrence and beaten in a fright
full manner.
w. H. Walsh died in a Wichita hos
pital January 90. He had been connect
ed with the R. G. Dun for IS years and
for IA years was travelling reporter for
the agency.
Every saloon and joint in Montgom-
cry county has been closed, through
threatening notices from the county at
torney. Drug stores are selling only
In strict compliance with the law.
Aman by the name of Kelley, was
was killed by Bartender John Switzer,
in saloon fight at Bruce, Crawford
county. KeIley's friends gave Switzer
beating with chairs. Switzer was
taken to the Jail at Girard.
Citizens on rural mail routes must
comply with the regulations as to mail
boxes or their free delivery will be cut
off. Inspection is going on and notices
will follow where boxes are found
which do not fill the requirements.
At Augusta, young man was dressed
TO represent Mrs. Nation, and walked
uptown after the arrival of the Frisco
train, carrying a large hatchct. OF
course a crowd Immediately gathered,
some of them being in the secret
When the excitement was at its height
Mrs. Nation disappeared to the box
car where the toilet had been made up.
The joke was on two business places
supposed to be doing straightforward
business, where the doors were locked
and windows barricaded.
Charles 81. Nettles, who was official
court reporter when C. J. Foster was
q. 8. district judge, and later an ex-
pert stenographer, city councilman
and probable candidate for mayor OF
Topeka, died at his home in Topeka
on January %.
Thayer, Neosho county, expects a
special train of IA emigrant cars from
Iowa to come to Thayer soon. Each
car will carry the goods of one family,
and a coach in the rear will carry the
IA families. All Of these people will
locate on farms near Thayer.
Herman Newman, of the senior class
Of Friends university, has been granted
$500 scholarship in Haverford college
of Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elijah Hughes, of To.
peka, celebrated their 65th wedding
anniversary. He is an old soldier and
has lived in Kansas since 1856. He
owns much property and, although sc
years old, looks after all of his OWL
business affairs.
Walter C. Stephens, the speaker Of
the Oklahoma house of Representatives
was raised in Mitchell county, Kansas.
The new Rock Island depot at Alma
was burned last week. 1t was built q
few months ago after it's predecesso,
burned.
The enacting clause of the bill which
is intended to make it possible to ge,
intelligent juries in Kansas in murde,
cases, was knocked off by the house Of
representatives.
John Wilson, the young man who
disappeared at the time he was to have
married Strong City young lady, has
returned. 1t is said that the marriage
will be consummated.
Kansas Day, January 20. was cele.
brated by the Ladies' Library club, OF
Paramount college, for the benefit OF
the Domestic Economy department.
VIM. J. Meredith, who is to become
registrar of the University of Washing.
ton at Seattle on Eehruarv was horr,