Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-31
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS

The State Temperance Union meets
in Topeka January 27-29.
Mrs Carrie nation is to be tried in
probate court for insanity.
Rev. Longston, of the Independence
Christian church, has smallpox.
The State Editorial Association
meets in Topeka January 3O-31.
Mr.. Caves bill for the determination
of prairie dogs has passed the house.
A Caldwell contractor has contracts
for the foundations of eight residences.
The State Society of Labor and In
dustry meets in Topeka February 4-6.
The colored men of Seattle have
offered $50 reward for the burners of
Alexander at Leavenworth.
Mrs. Elizabeth Greer died in Topeka
the other day in the house in which
she had lived forty-one years.
Congressman Long has been invited
to address the American Protective
league in New York in February.
John C. Hermann, Nickerson boy,
is now high clerk in the corporation
counsels office of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Herb Rogers, of Douglas county, lost
his barn with considerable corn and
oats, by the upsetting of lantern.
John NJ. Tanning was convicted last
week at Ottawa, of assault and attempt
to kill Sheriff Costigan last summer.
The banks of Marshall county hold
deposits to the amount of SAC for every
man, woman and child in the county.
Representative Ridgeley voted for the
re apportionment bill which would
have given Kansas only seven members.
Or. E. II. Creditor, of Wichita, is vice
president of a company formed in Chi
cago to exploit oil fields in California.
The city of Howard claims to be en-
tirely free from the colored element,
not having a single inhabitant of that
kind of skin.
One of the search lights procured
for American harbors during the Span
ish war has been brought to Fort
Leavenworth.
D. E. Thompson, one of the Nebraska
candidates for United States senator,
was once the conductor on the Santa
Fe branch between Topeka and Atchi-
son.
Gasoline engines are of as small cost
as windmills and are always ready; SO
there are many irrigators in the west
ern counties who are using the former
for pumping water.
Angora goats are tempting and prom
Use profit, but it may be as we'll to re-
member that there was a similar craze
about 40 years ago. What became of
it? Does any one know?
The Hackmen's Union of Leaven-
worth, has decided, in case Mrs. Ma
ton goes there, to inveigle her into a
hack and drive her long way into the
country and dump her out.
Many of the schools of Kansas pre-
pared to celebrate John Marshall day
February 4 is the centennial of Chief
justice Marshall's first membership of
the United States supreme court.
Lewis Bubb, jr., of the Effingham
high school in Atchison county, was
hazed by having a part of his head
shaved and painted red. Bulbs par
ents threaten to arrest the hazers.
S. NJ. Scott, former candidate for
congress from the Fourth Kansas dis
trict, says he owns 325 acres next to
the great oil we'll at Beaumont, Texas,
for which he could get 1000 an acre.
There are about 5000 acres of gov
eminent land in Kansas as yet unoccu-
pied. Most of this land exists in scat
tered tracts of about 40 acres each.
Amos Riggs, an s-year-old boy, of
Pittsburg, ran under a loaded hay
wagon to catch a ride. When he let
loose he fell under the wheels and was
instantly killed.
Major H. Wood Martin died in Mount
Vernon, Ills, last week. He was a
member of the first Kansas legislature.
In 1861 he was appointed agent of the
Sac and Fox Indians
The oldest volunteer soldier, Thomas
E. Sauls, aged 81, died recently in
Webb City, Mo. He served in the Sem
mole war, in the Mexican war and in
1862 enlisted in the Sixth Kansas and
served three years in the civil war
J. NJ. Frost, who was pardoned out
of the pen by Governor Morrill,, has
been sentenced to another term of five
years, by Judge Simons of Fort Scott.
His wife and daughter were also SEN
fenced, the first for five years and the
latter for one year. What crime they
committed is not stated.
Charles Gormally, late chief musi-
clan in the Twentieth Kansas, is
bringing Filipino band from Manila,
and will tour the country.
The outgoing board of county COM
missioners of Waubaunsee county
named the superintendent of schools
elect to fill the vacancy until his term
began. When the new board secured
control they reconsidered the action
and named the retiring superintendent
for the interim. Both claim mail at
the postoffice and both are refused.
OF course there are other complications.
The chairmen of the committees on
Judiciary of both houses of the legisla-
ture expect their committees to report
favorably upon the measure to provide
a death penalty for premeditated muir
der.
The Hutchinson jubilee is appointed
for June Az this year instead of the
first week in May, as has been the prac-