Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-09-11

| opened with 100 lieutenants as students
enrolled.
The new federal building at Kansas
City, Kas., was forally opened on Sep
TENDER /.
Five new buildings of the insane
asylum at Parsons will be completed
by January 1.
Four hundred tents are provided for
tie G. A. R. reunion at Wichita, of
September 22-27.
Frank Mixer, of Goodland. Rock
Island brakeman, was struck by a
bridge and killed.
Meriden is to have 10000 bushel
elevator. n mill for coarse grinding
will probably be attached.
Winfield is going after oil by the
bond route to the tune of SIS, 900 if the
people do the voting that way.
| 1t is announced that the Santa Fe
will establish shops for more than a
1000 miles of road at Amarillo.
Baxter Springs had &c passenger
trains every day to handle the reunion
crowds; IL carded trains and IA spe-
Gals.
Near Ottawa a horse in pasture
backed up to a wire fence and at a
flash of lightning had both hind legs
broken.
The Dickinson county high school
opened with an enrolment of 10, the
largest enrolment for the first day for
ten years.
The attendance of the reunion of the
| Southwestern Veterans association at
Dodge City was the greatest in the
history of the association.
st. Francis hospital at Wichita is
having another addition built which,
with laundry machinery to be placed
in it, will cost about S., 200.
The Salina House, near the Union
Pacific depo. at Salina is burned.
About 80 guests escaped leaving their
clothing and valuables to burn.
The Heckaman family of Harvey
county held a reunion and had five
generations represented. The great
great grandfather is 90 years old.
Fred L. Benedict died of typhoid
fever at Chanute. He was % years old
and was well-known in the grain trade,
operating with his father, Charles E.
Benedict.
Henry Pagler, of Pottawatomie
county, has threshed two acres of
wheat raised from Russian seed i'm
ported last year. 1t went so bushels
to the acre.
DR.. J. w. Minnick, of Wichita, pres
ident of the state board of health,
went to Topeka to attend the funeral
of DR.. VIM. b. Swan and to elect
new secretary. DIR. Charles Lowry, of
Topeka was chosen.
T. C. Jones, a retired attorney OF
Chanute, who had lived there SO years,
died in Michigan, where he was stay
ing with his son for his health. He
was one of the founders of Tioga,
which became a part of Chanute.
The biggest barn in Wilson county
was completed few days ago. 1t is
6tx1Os feet, and twenty-five feet in
height, and. belongs to S. NJ. Singleton,
a farmer who lives near Benedict
Seventy-seven thousand shingles were
required for the roof. The cattle room
will accommodate 100 at feeding.
The owner of an eighty lying just
north of the Lanyon Zinc company's
smelters in lola, has sued the company
for damages to the amount of S39,6s2
The land used to be in clover and
yielded a fine crop. Now the gas and
smoke from the roasting kilns of the
smelter sweep over it and all vegeta-
ton is ruined.
Irene Langley, 12 years old, saved
her brothers life by jumping into the
Kansas river at Topeka and pulling
him out by the back of his shirt as he
was going down the third time. The
heroine tainted as soon as she knew her
brother was safe.
The Seneca Courier tells of a young
man of Seneca, Is years old, being
called to visit his father at Sanduslxy,
Ohio. The father and son have never
seen each other, and the father was
dying. He is said to be a millionaire
and the boy is his only heir.
Mrs. Martha Sloat, one of the oldest
residents of Derby, dropped dead as
she was returning to her home from
church Sunday evening.
Judge Camp, clerk of Logan county,
was the prime mover in starting Sec
rotary of Agriculture Wilson on the
road to national fame. This was in
1865 when Wilson was a candidate for
nomination to the Iowa legislature
and Camp was in the convention. His
township delegation was contested and
Wilson's chances turned upon the ad-
mission of Camps delegation.
The present county attorney of Lo-
gan county, w. H. Wagner, was born
in Coffeyville. and is graduate of the
Kansas university law school.
The Santa Fe to meet the competi-
ton of the Rock Island, proposes to
construct a short line from the Pecos
Valley system to Ell Paso. 1t will start
from Amarillo or Roswell, probably
the latter. This cut off will give the
Santa Fe the shortest line between
Kansas City and Ell Paso. A new line
is also proposed between Roswell and
Albuquerque.