Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-01-03
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Hunts for coyotes are the common
thing in Sumner county these days.
Miss Jessie Morrison's bond was not
filed in time for her to spend Christmas
at home.
A mutual burial association is new
organization in Wichita with 400 mem
beers already.
Dodge City reports a shortage of
coal, extending to about all of the
surrounding towns.
A Stevens county man has shipped
$500 pounds of watermelon seed to an
eastern seed house.
Wichita women have arranged for
iron watering troughs at twenty of the
entrances to the city.
The two girls who tried to burn the
Beloit reform school have been dis
missed and sent home.
Superintendent of Machinery of the
Santa Fe Player denies the statement
that he intends to resign.
John Ryan, of Florence, lost so tons
of hay by fire, started by locomotive
on the Ell Dorado branch.
Newspaper clippings in regard to
prominent Kansans are preserved by
the state Historical society.
During the past two years five Kan
sas banks have failed and all of them
owe depositors only $500.
There are now nearing completion in
Columbus, county high school and
new Jail and sheriff's residence.
The Santa Fe paid taxes in Franklin
county, the other day, of SIC, 349. BY
paying all the rebate was S419,21.
The attorney general tells Warden
Tomlinson, of the Kansas penitentiary,
that he has the right to offer reward
for the capture of convict who has
been conditionally pardoned and has
broken his parole.
C. w. Goodlander has written his
tory of Fort Scott, which is on sale at
the Goodlander hotel, the Goodlander
II, the Goodlander bank, the Good
lander lumber yard and at Mayor
Goodlander's Office.
Mandamus from the federal court
has been served upon the city of Med
icine Lodge, to compel a levy to pay
So, ZOO of interest. The people say
that it is not possible to secure such
sum by special levy.
There is a movement to repeal the
law providing for the organization of
private banks. There are now 55 of
them, and under the proposed legisla-
ton they will be compelled to incor-
porate as state or national banks.
The cook of the Copeland hotel in
Topeka refused to give waiter plate
of corned beef hash for breakfast and
all the walters went on a strike. Din
ner was somewhat delayed before the
places of the walters were all filled.
The penitentiary board will ask for
telephone and fire alarm protection.
They also favor giving discharged pris-
oners better clothing. The binding
Irvine plant, they say, should be made
a separate institution with a superin-
tendent.
Bank Commissioner Prudential says
that from present indications state
banks will continue to be the favorites
with Kansas people and if changes
which experience suggests are neces-
sary, are madein our state law from
time to time, there is no reason why
Kansas should not build up system
of state banks superior to any yet es-
tablished.
VIII Weaver, who went to the Phil
ippines from Nemaha county, married
a Japanese girl and is now keeping a
hotel in Manila.
The big artificial lake, in Barton
county, between Great Bend and Hois-
ington, is reality at last. The water
was turned on Thursday, and the big
basin is now filing up. The basin is
eight miles long and three miles wide
and when filed will be the largest
body ot water in Kansas. 1t will be
used to feed three big irrigation bitches
and also for a summer resort.
The Lutheran church of Abilene now
has $1,000 pipe organ.
Frank Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
magnate, told friends in Wichita that
he expected to spend his declining
years on or near his ranch in Kiowa
and Clark counties. He is in love with
the climate of southern Kansas. His
residence at the ranch is large mod
ern building, erected with comfort
rather than luxury in view. 1t is sup
piled with hot and cold water, and
with gas manufactured on the prem
Uses.
The Fort Scott flax tow factory is
now operating on full time, after be-
ing idle for four years. A large force
is, employed. The factory was idle
from lack of straw but farmers have
commenced raising it again in quanti-
ties to justify the reopening.
Auditor Cole is preparing an estimate
of the expenditures of the state for the
next two years; classifying them into
those provided for by permanent and
by temporary appropriations; for the
legislature committees of Ways and
Means.
The three national hanks of Wichita