Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-12-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cnemeld ingalls, name is on one
slate for state insurance commissioner.
Matthias Garthoffer, of the National
soldiers home at Leavenworth, was
frozen to death
There is a demand from many Kan
sans that Prof Dyche's animals be ex-
hibited at St. Louis
Galena reported the mercury as
standing at Is degrees below zero at 8
p. m. of December 10.
and Kansas men interested in its pro-
duction are jubilant.
The Methodist church at Wellsyille
is burned. The loss is about So, 500,
with 1900 insurance.
The supreme court has decided to
hear all cases involving the antitrust
law on April 8, next.
Judge C. A. Smith, of Cawlxer City.
is great-grandson of Ethan Allen, of
revolutionary war fame
At the Cottonwood Falls revival all
but five pupils of the high school joined
some one of the churches
Three men employed in the Wichita
freight house of the Santa Fe have gone
soldering in the Philippines.
A $4,000 Masonic Temple is to be
built in Topeka on lots which the fra
ternity has owned for years.
According to new city directory
about to be issued at Topeka, the popu-
lation of that town is 40, los.
Bethany college, at Lindsborg, sends
more graduates to Yale college than
any other college in the country
The total of taxes paid in Shawnee
county is S729, O21.Os of which the
Santa Fe railroad pays SIT, 1O6.Os.
Wallace Thompson will represent
Washburn college in the state oratori-
cal contest next spring at Winfield.
The people of Anthony are preparing
to welcome the first Choctaw trains,
which are expected about January l.
The total assessment value of proper
ty in Shawnee county is Sic, ST., $50 and
the total debt, all bonded, is S615,OOO.
Judge Hazen, of the Shawnee county
district court, has turned down the
search and seizure clause of the city
ordinance.
Snow is reported from all parts of
Kansas on the Rock Island, Santa Fe
and Missouri Pacific 1t was needed
by the wheat.
Jas. Connelly's house near Wetmore,
was burned and his neighbors bought
lumber and volunteered their work on
a new house.
During the month of November the
same number of recruits were obtained
in Wichita for the United States army
as in Philadelphia: 81.
Judge ]. C. Peclxham, pioneer resi-
dent of Winfield, dropped dead near
Lawton, o. T., where he was on bust
ness for the B. E. & S. railroad.
The revival conducted by the Oliver
brothers at Cottonwood Falls resulted
in more than 200 conversions The
population of the town is about 500.
Citizens of Marion are asking the
Santa Fe and the Rock Island TO erect
union depot there. They say that
each road needs new depot anyway.
The Topeka police force will disre-
gard Judge Hazen's decision in the
preme court renders decision on the
validity of the law.
E. A. Anderson, farmer some miles
from Jewell City, sold six dozen turkeys
over his rural telephone, and had his
rural mail carrier deliver them. The
turkeys were sold to many different
customers.
Governor Stanley is having a list
made of all the state officials and en-
ployes of the various state institutions,
together with the salaries they receive
Every day inquiries are received about
one position or another and the gov
ernor wishes to compile the facts so
they may be easily found.
A woman occupying apartments in
the Sedgwiclz block in Wichita took a
lamp into clothes closet and started
fire which looked dangerous for awhile
The fire was put out with stream of
water from one of the water hydrants
on that floor.
A handsome library, consisting of
1000 volumes of select works, has been
presented to the Western Theological
seminary of Atchison, by the family of
the late DIR. A. c. Wedekind, Lutheran
minister, who died recently at his home
in San Diego, California.
Shawnee county's taxes for 1901 are:
State taxes, $50, 191. 81; city taxes, $780,
1854; county taxes, S23s, 1913; town
ship tax. S24, O7O.7 rs; school district tax,
5000, 1913. So; total, S729. o21.Os.
A. H. Burtis, of Garden City, special
agent of the United States land de-
partment, says that the order of the
department regarding the tearing
down of fences surrounding govern
ment land is being complied with by
western cattlemen, and that most all
the fences, to which objections were
raised, have been torn down.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners has made final order prohib-
iting the katy" road from crossing
the Frisco yards in Columbus. Under
this ruling the katy" will either have
to use the Frisco depot on the usual
terms or build depot.
Henry F. Baker, of Elk county, was
killed by the accidental discharge of