Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-19

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Franklin county has commenced
preparations for fair next year.
A contract has been let for county
high school for Norton county, for S19,-
900.
Barton county Jail at Great Bend has
leaked prisoners four times within four
month.
The Keystone flour mill at Sterling
burned on December 8. Loss about
SIS, 200.
Henry Heitfelt, U S. Senator from
Idaho, lived at Seneca, Kas., for over
20 years.
There were only 1877 cases of small
pox in Kansas during November, two
of them fatal.
Wellington has contracted for an ice
plant, to be ready to commence produc-
ton on April 1.
w. A. Johnston has just completed
his 18th year as associate justice of tbs
supreme court.
Syracuse has % charter members in
it's commercial club, and expects to
triple the number.
The postoffice at Empire is discon-
tinued and a sub-station of the Galena
postoffice takes its place. .-...
There are 70 gas and oil producing
wells around Chanute and there are
10 drilling outfits at work.
The state association of comfy clerks
will hold its annual meeting iu Hutch
inson during the holidays.
The Norton Golf club has purchased
40 acres adjoining the town for their
links. The price paid is $1,000.
The policemen's ball at Wichita
raised enough money to buy each man
a regulation overcoat and then some.
Smith county is preparing to cele-
bvate the day on which it will be thirty
years old. 1t occurs in February, 1902.
Shawnee county casts more votes
than the state of Nevada, which has
two senators and a representative in
congress.
Jos. Smith, a pioneer of Norton
county, crawled through wire fence
with his gun which was discharged,
| killing him instantly
The Wichita branch of the Santa Fe,
which extends west to Pratt, has been
changed from the Oklahoma division to
the Panhandle division.
Representative Fowler, of New Jer-
| sey, lived in Beloit, Kansas, in the early
SOS. He is with Mr.. Calderhead, of
Kansas, on the committee of banking
and currency.
| The district court of Finney county
took the responsibility of changing the
punctuation of the law concerning the
appeal to the supreme court of misde-
meanor cases, so that it would give the
right to appeal.
d. A. Valentine, clerk of the supreme
court, is calling the attention of law
yers to the; necessity of their paging
and indexing records filed in the SUI
preme court and making the proper en-
dorsements on all papers presented.
Many lawyers now fail to do this.
Avery Turner is to go to the Pecos
Valley division of the Santa Fe as it's
superintendent, to succeed d. II.
Nichols, who comes to Arkansas City
to take the place of manager of the
Kansas Southwestern, which line, it is
said, will be operated independently in
the interest of the Santa Fe and of the
Frisco.
Kansas City packers secured most of
the contracts for meat for the state in
situations which were let by the state
board of charities.
Barney Lantry, head of the Lantry
company, whose latest contract with
the Santa Fe company is for An Ss,OOO,-
900 job, worked as stone mason only
25 years ago, and his oldest son Henry
was Santa Fe engineer for several
years. The Lantry company owns sew
eral hundred cars and ten locomotives,
and is putting in repair shops at Strong
City.
A freight train on the Union Pacific
ran into an open switch at Grainfeld
and the fireman and head brakeman
were injured. The engine and tender
were derailed and badly damaged.
Chas. L. Seagraves, travelling pas
senger agent for the Santa Fe, is ma
king collection of newspaper clippings
about the sugar beet situation in West
ern Kansas. After the clippings are
compiled they will be printed in book
form, for the purpose of advertising
Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado
as sugar beet country.
Edwin H. Brown, of Girard, dropped
dead while visiting his sister in Kan
sas City. He was one of the promoters
of the Union Pacific railroad and built
the Joplin line from Joplin, Mo-, to
Girard.
w. II. Smith, secretary to the board
of railroad commissioners, is quaran-
tined on account of scarlet fever in his
family.
The Santa Fe now has depot of its
own at Pittsburg. Heretofore that
company has occupied a depot jointly
with the Memphis road.
The division point of the Santa Fe
will be changed from Wichita to Ar
kansas City on the first of the year.
Superintendent Tice, with his office
force will make their headquarters at
Arkansas City.
DIR. ]. F. McNaughton, of Decatur
county, has been selected for appoint.
ment as assistant physician of the IL
sane asvium at Tonelxa