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

ture tour and will continue it indef-
nitely.
The Missouri and Kansas association
of lumber dealers meet in Kansas City
this week.
Solomon has experienced several fires
recently. There are suspicious of in
cendiaries.
The records show that Leavenworth
has 122 joints, which pay the city s95
month each.
The bill to divide the sitting of the
Crawford county district court has
passed the senate.
John Emmeluth, late of Atchison,
has been elected a member of the first
legislature of Hawaii.
The house Judiciary committee killed
the bill to enable nine jurors to return
a.verdict in civil cases.
The whole camp of the Salvation
army in Parsons is quarantined on &C.
count of the smallpox.
Mrs Leases petition for divorce
was filed on January 81 in the district
court of Sedgwick county.
The plate glass insurance companies
have cancelled all policies covering
risks in saloons in Wichita.
W. c. Lee, of Toledo, attended the
Shorthorn sale at Strong City and pur-
chased a small herd of them.
There are still 21O APPLICATIONS for
rural delivery routes in the hands of
the special agents for Kansas.
L. D. Hampton, a nephew of Cover
nor Lewelling has married Mrs. Dora
Barns, at Kansas City, Kansas.
DR.. Thomas Archer, of Emporia, is
dead. He preempted a farm mile
and half from Emporia in 1855.
Colon Ball is in Washington to take
examination for a commission in the
army. He did good service in the
Twentieth Kansas.
The Emporia Elks propose to build a
home of their own, to contain lodge
room, parlors, club room, billiard room
kitchen and dining room.
Ploughing has been done on the
farms, during January, quite generally,
in the southern counties; three tiers
from the south line of the state.
The first telegraph wire was strung
in Kansas in 1859. It was up the Mis-
souri, river to Leavenworth. 1t was
several years later before there was a
wire up the Kansas river.
One Emporia man sued another for
81 IS for balance due on carting some
rock. The other man sued back for $40
damage to the rock through breaking
it and won.
Senator Smith says that hardly bill
comes to the Judiciary committee that
does not require to be rewritten so
that it will stand the test ofthe courts.
Many even forget to put in enacting
clauses and titles.
Injunction suits have been started by
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Union, against four saloons at Abilene,
| one at Lexington, one at Solomon and
two at Hope. Officers of the Union
say they will push the injunctions.
The Rev. S. S. Martin, pastor of the
Methodist church at Fort Scott, has
been granted pension of SO a month
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Mr.. Martin enlisted in Speaker Hen
derson's Iowa regiment when he was
but IA years old.
A concurrent resolution introduced
in the Kansas legislature provides for
a joint committee from both houses to
confer with the Missouri legislature
regarding alleged unjust discrimina-
ton against grain shippers by elevator
men and Spectators.
Senasor j. K. Cubbison has a brother
attending the West Point military
academy. Mr.. Cubbison voted very
decided AYE" on Senator Simons' reso-
luton denouncing hazing at the acad-
envy.
There is bill before the legislature
to authorize the use of voting machines
in such counties, townships and cities
as may adopt them.
Twenty-Five years ago on January
%, 1872, the Kansas legislature accept
ed from Topeka the 20 acres of land
now occupied by the capitol.
Senator Taps bill requiring owners
of stores and shops to provide seats for
their female clerks was killed in COM
mittee.
Postmaster John Guthrie, of Topeka,
has been appointed as one of the mem.
bers of the executive committee of the
National Postmasters' association.
Arrangements are making for the
establishment of branch of the Union
Live Stock commission company, of
Kansas City, at the Wichita stock yards.
principally for auction sales of of stock
ers and feeders.
Superintendent Nelson is showing
the legislature that a compulsory at
tendance law is needed by reciting fig
ures on school attendance. OF the $685.
354 children of school age in the state,
but $50, 6s2 are enrolled in the schools.
There appears to have been a mu-
tually arranged change Of telegraph
operators between the Santa Fe and
some other roads since the strike. The
Santa Fe officials are certainly pleased
when they hear of one of their old
employees getting a good place else
where.
The union revival services in Topeka
up to January 10, resulted in the ad.
dition Of 1000 to the Christians of that
city.