Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

very large eagle in a wolf trap.
The state auditor collected fees in
January amounting to s132.5O
Joab Mulvane has purchased s25, 900
worth of stock in the Salina Cement
Plaster Company.
Three new churches have been erect
ed in the Swedish settlement of Raw
Inns county in the past two years.
The ladies of Enterprise have estab-
lished fine reading room in the place
vhere joint was recently smashed.
JAS. Stewart, veteran of the 55th
Massachusetts, volunteers, was run
over by a train at Sterling and killed.
The United Mine Workers in session
in Topeka. elected Edward Kugan, OF
Pittsburg to a third term as secretary.
The Prohibitionists of Topeka de.
clare that Mrs. Nations practices had
nothing to do with the movement to
close the joints.
A block of one of the zinc smelters
at lola, containing 600 retorts, was de-
stroyed by fire which was caused by
the ignition of gas.
Besides A. w. Smith there are others.
Major T. ]. Anderson and Senator S.
j. Stewart are candidates for Cyrus
Leland's place, that of pension agent.
Elwood PETER, son of ex-senator PEI
fer, died at Bay City, Mich, February
8, from pneumonia. He was 26 years
old and was assistant superintendent
Of the Bay City sugar plant.
Robbers entered the Grand Island
depot at Beattie, emptied the money
drawers and cut open and rified three
mail sacks of registered letters. Blood
hounds were put upon their trail.
Mr.. Knapp, drilling on land leased
by the city Of Chanute, struck the big
gest gusher yet; estimated at 1000, 900
feet in "a hours. The well reverts to
the city upon payment of actual cost.
Osbun Shannon, son of the territori-
al governor of Kansas of the same
name, died in Chicago February IL.
He was at one time postmaster at Law
renee. He also published democratic
paper at Lawrence.
Mrs. Achman owns the building in
Inman which has a billiard hall up
stairs; she suspected that joint was
there also and demanded admittance.
Being refused she broke down the door
and smashed the outfit.
A man with smallpox took the train
at Colorado Springs, with his face and
hands covered. When the train
reached Philipsburg it was found what
allied him. The car was sidetracked
and converted into a pest house.
Clifford Brown has been in one of
the hospitals in Wichita ten or twelve
weeks with broken thigh and with
bis jaw broken in four places. The
case which was placed on his face has
been taken off and his features are not
altered. After long, doubtful fight
for life he now has prospects of being
a well man soon.
Quarantine in Wichita is a riddle.
A child had a mild case of scarlet fever
and was entirely well in ten days, but
the household was shut up behind the
big red card for AZ days. A case of
smallpox occurred in big block with
hundreds of people in it. The patient
was promptly taken out and the top
floor of the block was quarantined,
and the riddle is why the quarantine
was declared off in less than a week,
emily.
During the past four years Rush
county has produced 6,2sO,694 bushels
Of wheat and all that time La Crosse,
the county seat, has been wanting a
mill. Now there are prospects of there
being two mills built there.
Leading ladies of Harper visited the
saloons there and insisted that they be
closed; to be followed by destructive
acts.
A trip to the Kiowa- Comanche coun-
try is proposed for the Seventh district
editors after their annual meeting in
March.
]. K. Hudson will return to Topeka
and start an afternoon republican pa.
per.
Numerous Atchison saloon keepers
including the proprietor of the best
outfit in the city, have notified their
landlords that if the crusade continues
they will vacate their premises.
w. w. Walkey, who is said to be the
oldest teacher in the state, commenced
his life work in Wisconsin in 1s49 and
for the past 81 years has taught in
Kansas; now in Sheridan county.
Two hundred and fifty-eight women
Of Eureka have petitioned the probate
Judge to refuse liquor licenses to the
druggists of Eureka.
Superintendent of Insurance Church
has received reports from thirty-five
Gre insurance companies doing bust.
ness in the state in 1900, and the re.
ports show that there has been a reduc-
ton of four cents on the hundred over
the year 1899. This is in addition to
the reduction of cents of 1899 over
1898. The reduction that year was
about seven cents.
General Fred Funston is said to have
refused an offer of $4,000 year from
the New York World to report the
South African war.
Judge Stephen Osborn, of Salina,
may be appointed by the governor to
revise and annotate the Kansas laws
under the bill now pending in the