Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-01-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS.

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In Lawrence there is plan tn build
a sec, 900 Y. NJ. C. A. building.
Clark Kincaid has bought 5000 acres
of wheat land in Meade county for
$500.
Judge Benson, of Ottawa, succeeds
E. F. Brown, of Chicago, as receiver
of the First National bank of Chicago.
A vein of coal has been found in
Mitchell county which is three feet
thick. 1t will have to be mined by
stripping.
The old county Jail in the court house
square at Garnett is to be torn down at
last. The county commissioners have
SO ordered.
Bert Cirtwell, of Nortonville, has sold
Buffalo Bill fifty white horses to take
the places of those killed in wreck
month ago.
The alumni of the Emporia normal
900 to erect an alumni building at the
state normal.
Mrs. Henry Moberly, of Anderson
county, and her 12-year-old son lost
their lives while crossing railroad in
farm wagon.
A Dunkard church is being built in
a country district of Osborne county
which will cost 81, 900 and will be paid
for when completed.
Frank Grimes, state treasurer, says
that more counties are now paying off
bonds before maturity than at any
other time since 1895.
Thirty-eight men and Al women of
asking that an application to sell
liquors be granted.
An Elk City fire destroyed two stores
and several offices. 1t is believed that
the fire was caused by burglars. The
loss is about 81, 900.
A Topeka jointist has brought suit
against the city for Sc, 900 which he has
deposited from time to time in the city
police court, on liz counts.
Two years ago Ewing Herbert sold a
quarter section of Brown county land
for So, 800. A Nebraska man has just
paid 81, 200 for the same land.
Judge Glass, of Marysville county,
quietly surrendered his position to
Judge Kimball, of Manhattan, who
was appointed for that district.
Contracts have been let for building
a S25, 900 observatory at Washburn
college. There will be expended on
telescope and furnishings $4,000
Miss Margaret Town, county superin-
tendent of Wallace county, attended
the State Teachers association and
caught cold. Pneumonia resulted from
which she died.
A system of promotion has been
adopted at the state industrial school
for girls at Beloit. They are taught
everything of woman's work, from
kitchen work to dressmalling.
An old negro brought his son from
Kentucky to Augusta to visit his old
master, G. w. Sweeney. They found
that both his old master and mistress
were dead, and his grief was pitiful to
see.
Senator S. J. Stewart, of Allen coun-
ty, who is a regent of the state agri-
cultural college, is in Washington in
the interest of the college in connection
with the Fort Hays agricultural ex-
pertinent station.
A S25, 200 addition is to be made to
st. Francis hospital in Wichita, making
As new rooms and 100 rooms in all.
The addition will be 100 by 40 feet,
three stories high, with a porch 100
feet long with four floors. Seven years
ago the hospital had but Is rooms.
Stafford county people deny the ex-
istence there of a smallpox epidemic.
The only death in Stafford of late was
an old lady who died of old age, being
over 81 years old. No one there be-
heves there are as many as five cases in
the county.
Former students of Kansas Univer-
sity living in Sedgwick county, are
forming an organization for the pur-
pose of working for their alma mater.
Five former school teachers of EN-
poria are now in the schools of Colorado
Springs, and one ex-Emporian is a
member of the school board of that
city.
S. H. McManigle, of Harper, and
formerly Wichita druggist, was walk.
in his yard with his wife, when he
sank to the ground and died imme-
diately.
Judge Andrews opened court at La
Crosse in defiance of the appointment
of C. E. Lobdell as his successor Lob.
dell will await the action of the su.
preme court.
Judges Lawrence, appointee, and
Mcbride, holdover, of Sumner county
reached an understanding to prevent
trouble in the court room. They agree
that court shall be adjourned until
tcDI utIy D. ny WHICH Iline IL Is eApecU'
ed that the supreme court will have de-
cided upon the validity of appointment
of Mcbride by the governor.
Carlos Diamond, native of Wichita
the son of a Wichita born, bred and
married mother, took the gold medal
awarded by France at the annual Chill
dren's international show. He was the
only American child in the show His
mother is trombone soloist in the Bar
mum & Bailey circus.
Mrs. Minnie Y. Tricley, widow of L.