Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-09-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Sumner county high school
opened with an enrolment of over 200.
Brakeman o. Smith was scalded at
Kiowa by hose slipping off the steam
pipe on the engine.
The heavy showers of Friday and
Saturday, September Is and IA, were
general in Kansas
New York men propose to sink shafts
and build power house at Little River
to work the salt mines.
r. ii. Bishop, aged 70 years, is dead.
He was justice of the peace in Salina
continuously for thirty years.
The New York World mentions
Chester 1. Long as among the POSSIBLE
ties for a member of the cabinet
Pratt has hole 1 300 feet deep which
it is proposed to sink 200 more before
giving up the chance of finding oil.
Sterling people are agitating the
starting of city library and making a
home for it in the new Masonic temple.
Major j. w. Bolus, of Fort Scott, is
dead. He had a remarkable war
record. Major Bolus had lived at Fort
Scott since 1866.
The monument of granite to be erect
ed on the site of the old Pawnee village
in Republic county was shipped last
week from Vermont.
n ,sal
from the Philippines, was sandbagged,
drugged and robbed at Parsons of $500
in gold and $500 in currency.
The Carr Coal company of Leaven-
worth voluntarily raised the price paid
for mining to 80 cents a ton of mine
run; an advance of six cents ton.
A Cherryvale' man, after getting out
of Jail where he was put for fast driving
was put on the streets to work out
s14. 80 for using abusive language.
State Oil Inspector S. o. Spencer has
filed his report for the month of August.
His collections were 81, 1915 expenses
s45O.54; profits to the state 81, 9O7.O6.
l.. ~. L nOIlDoOI. VI DOhCis ohaN iCN
county, took 13 of the IS first prizes
awarded at the Nebraska state fair.
He had no cattle in the other five
clesses.
A man who went into Pawnee county
and killed a lot of prairie chickens and
tried to ship them, was forced to put
up for fine of SIS and costs amounting
to SIS.
]. H. Dye of Clearwater, was run out
of Wichita for making disrespectful re-
marks about President Mckinley and
for proclaiming he was an anarchist.
He claims to be a dentist.
The K. n. G. officers school went
into camp at the fair grounds in Tope-
ka, living in true army style. Colonel
Metcalf and Colonel Hoisington are
the principal instructors.
A bridge being built east of Caldwell
collapsed from the action of a rushing
food. Several men who were strength
ening the false work fell among the
twisted timbers 35 feet below and were
injured.
A socialist official in the local organi-
cation of Topeka appointed a meeting
and found the hall closed against him.
Efforts were made to secure another
place to convene, no place being open
to them.
At Hartford a man said he wished he
had been in position to pump a few
bullets into the president himself. He
was ordered to leave town, and the
people did not even give him a chance
to say good-by to the members of his
family.
Owing to short crop of sisal that
product has jumped from to cents
a pound, and the Kansas penitentiary
will have to raise the price of binding
Irvine to the farmer.
An Alton hired girl was offended at
remarks made by the man of the house
concerning president Mckinley and
chased him out of the house. She then
took her things and went home. The
girl is the daughter of an old soldier
The people of the town took up col
lection and gave her handsome pres
ent.
]. w. Robson, Butler county farm
err, has 600 acres of alfalfa and intends
to make it 1000 this year.
A young soldier of the Kansas
Twentieth named Miles, whipped
Topeka socialist who was bawling
against the government. The next
day Secretary Hawk, of the socialist
organization, got out hand bill calling
Miles an anarchist. Miles went to the
Capital Office for reporter to go along
and get the straight scory of how he
was going to lick Hawks. The licking
went off according to time card.
The missing Reno county farmer, w.
T. Gregory, whose disappearance caused
SO much alarm, came home as quietly
as he went away. He says he has been
in Oklahoma to look for farm.
A man in Osawatomie said he wished
he had the honor of shooting President
Mckinley, or that he would be partly
satisfied if he could take the hand of
Czolgosz. A mob soon gathered and he
was strung up four times only pleading
after the fourth time. He was then
tarred and feathered and given ten
minutes to get away.
Miss Amanda O'Conner, formerly of
st. Marys, has accepted the place of
first assistant in the piano department
of the territorial university at Norman,
Oklahoma.
Superintendent Nelson suggests
changes in the school tax laws to make
them more equitable to the smaller dis