Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-11-28
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Contracts aggregating s14,166 have
been closed for new county Jail at
Marysville.
John Wager, a Wichita baker, caught
his arm in the machinery and it was
terribly mangled.
Eight Winfield jointists pleaded
guilty and four We're fined 5000, three
500, and one Sill.
Prof E. d. Adams has resigned the
chair of history at Kansas university to
accept place at Leland Stanford mi
versity.
About all the Swiss within 80 miles
attended the annual guertifest at
Marysville and hundreds came from
more distant places.
o. E. McElfresh. has resigned his
position as postmaster at Usage City.
and has been appointed inspector of
free rural delivery routes.
Out of 457 tax receipts issued by the
treasurer of Sumner county in the first
half of November, only six were less
than the full amount of the tax.
A newly organized company has pur
chased site in Coffeyville upon which
to build a factory for making plows
and other farming implements.
Major G. w. Young, of Newton, sent
a well worded acknowledgement of the
assistance given there by the Wichita
fire department, at the recent fire in
his city.
Seven miles west of Winfield an old
miner claims to have discovered gold in
paying quantities. There is quartz in
ledge and gold in the sand along a
creek.
Warden Jewett says that the records
of the penitentiary will show that the
longer judge serves the more merci-
full he becomes toward the offenders of
the law.
Topeka has opium dens and in the
absence of city ordinance the police
cannot disturb them. Chief Stahl has
prepared an ordinance which he sub
mits to the city council.
A Wisconsin man offers to rid Kan
sas of prairie dogs for 500, 900, payable
when majority of committee of %
prominent citizens of the state says he
has performed his contract.
Wellington decided by majority of
$50, in comparatively light vote, to
issue SIS, 900 in bonds for a city electric
light plant. 1t is proposed to run the
plant in connection with the water
works system recently purchased by
the city.
A wealthy man living somewhere in
Eastern Kansas, who covers up his
identity, is gathering through the sec
rotary of state at Topeka. list of the
various institutions for orphans in the
state. He states his intention to will
his property to these orphans homes,
to create endowment funds.
A soldier, supposed to be from Fort
Riley, killed two men in the street at
Junction City, with no provocation.
He met Z. L. Cooper in the middle of
the street and put a bullet into his
right temple. City Marshal James
White was near by ana started toward
the scene but the soldier cut an artery
in his neck with a bullet before he
came near the soldier. White died i'm
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volver but hit no one else: while
doing this he yelled and repeated Il
want to die" He disappeared and
posses were sent out to find him.
F. A. McAlister, farmer of Osborne
county, has kept tab on his wheat crops
for five years. During that time he
has raised 16, 900 bushels of wheat on
100 acres of land, or an average of 20
bushels an acre for each year.
A local paper tells of an assault by a
woman in church at Harper, at the
close of the service. A young lady
laughed and the old lady thought she
was the party laughed at; so she slapped
the yonng lady and stuck a hat pin
into her couple of times. The wounds
came near being serious.
head end collision occurred at
Pawnee south of Fort Scott, on the
Frisco and seriously injured two ladies,
Mrs. U. S. Purton being one of them.
Fred Wellhouse, whose orchards are
in Leavenworth and Usage counties,
realized $4,000 for hrs apple crop OF
this season. His orchards cover SOC
acres.
Superintendent Couser of the Indian
school service has been transferred
from the Fourth school district to the
First which includes Kansas and Okla.
homa.
Mr.. Kemper, of Butler county, had
eleven acres and 20 rods of alfalfa, this
season, from which he got tons of hay
per acre and 122 bushels of seed from
field; the crop bringing him Sl07.5O an
acre.
The Kansas Association OF Charities
and Corrections has elected as its Off.
GERS, President, F. w. Blackmar, Law
renee; vice presidents, DIR. D. NJ. Fisk,
Topeka, and r. Vincent, Washington
secretary, Rev. E a. Fredenhagen, To
peka; treasurer, Mrs. I. F. Carver, To
pel1a.
Two hundred of the convicts in the
Kansas penitentiary take daily papers
and many weeklies are received there.
The news of the escape of the 20 from
the federal prison caused much interest
in the state prison.
The attorney generals Office has ad-
vised an enquirer that it is doubtful il
city council could be authorized by
stata lazy To order the vaccination Cd