Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-04-10
A populist state convention is to meet

Topeka defeated the proposition to
issue bonds for park improvements.
heavy fall of hail occurred at At
tica on the night of April =. Fruit was
damaged.
Postal receipts at the Salina post
office have increased 95 per cent in the
past four years.
The Santa Fe has contracted for
500, 900 worth of new machinery for
the new shops at Topeka.
Business men of Salina and Osborne
are finding the best route for a new
railroad to connect the towns.
Emporia gave a majority for the issue
of $50. 900 of city bonds to improve its
electric light and power plant.
Among the latest grafters in Kansas
are the fellows who sell wall paper to
the farmers at a third more than it
sells for in town.
The constitutionality of the county
fees and salary law passed in 1893 is
attacked in the supreme court in a case
appealed from Kingman county.
Some one, name not given, has do
rated $4,000 to the Kansas medical
college at Topeka for the erection of an
addition to the college building.
The Mcpherson NJ. +. church well
coined their deposed pastor, Mr.. Low
ther, with well attended gathering at
the church, where bounteous supper
was served.
Citizens of Bcloit have formed an or
ganization for the purpose of buying
an electrical launch to be used in the
vicinity of the Chautauqua grounds
near the city.
Superintendent Aver, of the Western
division, who lives at Dodge City, is
having a two-seated car built and
equipped with gasoline motor for his
personal use.
DIR. F. w. Colgrove, who attempted
to cut his throat while on a snow
bound train in North Dakota, was
president of Ottawa university from
1892 to 1896.
The state superintendent of insur
| ance is parceling out to the cities of
the state entitled to share of it, the
freman's relief fund, amounting to
S22, 900 this year.
Residents of Chanute are expecting
the removal of the Argentine smelter,
which was closed some months ago, to
their city SO as to use some of their
natural gas output.
Wiley Bollinger, who came to Bour-
| bon county with an OK team in 1855
and has lived near Redfield since, died
recently. He was a member of the
| Legislature in 1880 and has been justice
| or the peace for - years.
Albert Strobe, formerly of Fort Scott
where he still has relatives. died on a
train while coming from New Mexico
to Fort Scott. Mr.. Strobe has been a
teacher in Indian schools in Indian
Territory and in the Northwest.
kinsley had an ordinance prepared
to prohibit the setting up of billiard
| table in the town ard referred it to the
attorney general. who decided that
such an ordinance would not be legal
but that the town had the right to
prohibit the use of billiard tables for n
profit.
Mr. Curtis secured amendments to
the sundry civil bill to increase the ap-
preparation for the electric light plant
! at Fort Leavenworth from $500 to
81 800. Another was to appropriate
s., 500 for the extension of the boiler
house, and Sc, 500 for two new boilers.
Another was to appropriate $40, 900 for
combination barracks.
The Topeka Industrial and Educa-
tional institute for colored youth has
made its annual report to State Super
intendent Frank Nelson. The insti.
tuition has ten teachers and officers. III
students and net property valuation
of $4,000.
The Baptist academy at Hiawatha is
assured. The people have met the re-
quirement of the New York man who
offered $40, 900 if the people would add
as much more. The amount needed
was raised in two weeks, Ex-Governor
Morrill, giving S. 900 of it.
The First Unitarian church of WITCH
tia is to have a $40, 900 church building
the plans having been completed.
Hiram Allen died at williamsburg
on March 30, after an illness of severa
weeks. Mr.. Allen served as adjutant
general during the Leedy administra
ton.
The Frisco line passenger depot al
Ellsworth is completely destroyed b,
fire, caused by lingtning. The fir,
started at 1:l5 a. m, when there wa.
no one in the building. Several car
loads of lumber were burned.
Kansas manufactures one-fourth O.
all the olemargarine in the Uintct
States and more than any other STATE
except Illinois.
Miss Myrtle O'Neil, assistant princi
pal of the Conservatory of Music a
Leavenworth, completed a long and re
marl<able fast, which she imposed OF
herself in the belief that it was by Di
vine order. She began her fast OF
March 1, and did not take nourishment
until March %, when her father finally
persuaded her TO drink a glass of but
| termilk.
Ralph Gilmore who was employed a
the Wichita stock yards, was killed be
tween the bumpers of two stock cars.