Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-04-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


There were four tickets to choose
from at Ottawa.
Theregistration at Wellington closed
with 1,615 names.
The registration at Atchison beat
the record, being 5,es2.
Registration books closed at Leaven-
worth with 9,975 names.
Nathan Jones, city attorney of Sa-
betha,' was found dead in bed.
Kingman Methodists have paid off
the last cent of church Indebtedness.
Salinas registration counted out
1881, of which number $50 were wo-
mon.
The new elevator at Clearwater is
finished with a capacity Of 10000
bushels.
Kansas university raised 500 and
Chancellor Snow gives 200 for an Or
gan fund.
More Russians are expected in Ellis
county to arrive in time for the wheat
harvest.
Senator Burton is asking for several
consulships to be assigned to his ap-
pointing.
The state supplies 300 tents for the
use of the G. A. r. in their reunions
this year.
w. c. Miller. of Barber county, has
sold his Hereford cattle to Eastern Kan
sas parties.
Grass and feed in three townships of
Lane and Finney counties are destroyed
by prairie fires
The registration in Salina was 2,331,
slight increase although registration
of women fell off 176.
The name Of Emporia was taken
from that of a Greek colony just south
Of Carthage in Africa
The women of Kingman whispered
around and gathered s35 to buy COW
for the mother of triplets.
DIR. w. T. Armstrong, who recently
died at Louisville, KY, left S., 900 to his
two grand children in Salina.
Major L. ], Beam, who was an early
settler in Shawnee county, and served
in the Fifteenth Kansas, is dead.
There were thirty names on a list
published March &c, of candidates for
the office of railroad commissioner.
woman of Minneapolis has been
arrested for sending threatening dun
on a postal card through the mails.
The state live stock sanitary board
has appointed John H. johnson, of
Holton, inspector at Fort Worth, Texas.
A new theory of the creation is the
modest motif of a new book Just pub
lished by George Campbell, of Oswego.
The Santa Fe unloaded 5000 cars of
coal on the ground at Florence, need
ing the cars for other transportation.
The 5000 library building is COM
menced at the College of Emporia.
Andrew Carnegie furnished the funds.
new law authorizes county COM
missioners to deposit county funds in
any bank in the state in case banks of
the county refuse to pay interest.
There are enough cases filed on the
supreme court, to keep its seven judges
busy for two years, without touching
current business during that time.
Oil has been struck nine miles south
OF Cawker City. G. L. Hudlxins, who
owns the 1000 acre ranch where the
oil is, is trying to lease % adjacent sec
tons from Topeka parties.
There are now los children in the
Orphans home at Atchison. AS soon
as one reaches the age of 16 home is
found.
A 13-year-old boy of Florence was
killed with a rifle not supposed to be
loaded. The boys were playing ''pris-
oner" and when the prisoner tried to
escape he was shot.
Lieut.. Mitchell who was with Gen
eral Funston in the capture of Aguin-
aldo, was formerly lieutenant in the
Twentieth Kansas. He is General
Funston's nephew.
tin, of the G. A. r. of Kansas, has
about completed arrangements for the
cncampment at Junction City in April.
Joseph Slaughter, farmer, went to
Inman and got drunk. Then he COM
menced shooting at persons in the
street but was shot dead by the town
marshal.
Ernest Derby writes from the Philip
pines to his relatives at Peabody ex-
planning why he did not start home
with his regiment He had accepted a
place in the civil service at s75 month.
Three G. A. r. reunions are an
nounced; at Washington, August $3.50;
Phillipsburg on the same days; FL Do
RADIO, second week in September.
Three young men left their homes in
Missouri to work on the railroad grade
At Liberal One of them was taken
sick and his brother got him towards
home as far as Pratt. There he died.
His mother is a poor widow. The peo-
pie of Pratt sent the brother home
with the remains in casket, with
the charges paid. Pratt must have
good citizens.
Within two months SIS, 900 worth OF
farm lands were sold about South
Haven. Most of the buyers were from
Oklahoma.
THE last of sod school houses in Kan
sas-is; said to be in Gray county, but it
will be replaced by modern building
this year.
yJas. Burns, an Atchison county farm
er,'held sale of farm stuff. He de-