Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-06-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Elias Hahn, of Minnesota, has given
81 200 to the Western Theological SEM
mary at Atchison.
Prof. c. E. Arnold, president of the
Mcpherson college, is dead from an
operation for cancer.
The town marshal of Lyndon is given
$50 month; all fees taken to be turned
over to the treasury.
Governor Stanley has pardoned Car
rie Nation out of jja:! upon payment of
her fine of 500 and costs.
Lon Altman shot and killed Charles
RETAINER at Paola. They are both
of well known families.
Very heavy rains occurred on June
at Reading, Emporia and Arkansas
City. Wichita got a sprinkle.
prizes of SIS and $40 for the best and
second best kept lawn in the city.
An Atchison county township trustee
utilities old boilers. He takes out the
hues and uses the shells for culverts.
The total value of farms in Sedgwick
county is estimated at SIS, OPS, $50,
which is 90 per cent more than last year.
At the close of the revival in Con-
cordia the Blade said: SIT looks
mighty forlorn down on saloon row
these days"
The Topeka city assessors founds3,-
99s, $50 invested in manufacturing in
dustries, with an annual output footing
up Sic, s9s, 1853.
The old soldiers of Topeka gave Pen
sion Commissioner Eugene f. Ware a
reception on the night of May 81, at
Lincoln Post hall.
E. Sample is the prosecuting attor-
ney in Osborne county. Another E.
Sample is candidate for the same
Office in Barber county.
Emporia has raised 81, 900 in cash,
leased the necessary grounds and ar
ranged for required supplies; all to Sc
cure the annual encampment of the
Kansas National guard in the fall.
At Florence the storm of June badly
damaged the Santa Fe round house,
carrying away section of the roof and
moving out wall. The hail leveled
wheat and corn and broke skylights.
The president of the Epworth League
of Washington is a young man from
Wichita, now in the employ of the gov
eminent. His name is Edwin S. La
Fetra. He is the proprietor of hotel
in Washington.
Judge T. B. Wall, of Wichita, has
sold 1000 acres in the north part of
Seward county to j. b. Rhoads, of Ok
lahoma, for So an acre. Mr.. Rhoads
is now establishing ranch on the
land. 1t is located in the section of
the country known as buffalo flats"
and it is thought that at some ancient
time it was under water. Wheat has
been successfully grown on the land.
The land is not enclosed.
Mrs. Mary Fisk, of Newton, had just
finished decorating her husbands grave
on Memorial day and had climbed into
the buggy, when, without a moments
warning, she gasped two or three times
and fell against her stepson's shoulder.
She was taken from the carriage and
laid on the ground. The efforts of a
physician failed to restore conscious
ness She had died while in the buggy.
Mrs. Fisk was SO years old and had
lived in Newton 20 years.
There is bargain being negotiated
for the sale of the Topeka waterworlks
to the city; $3.50, 900 being asked. The
city had previously offered $3.50, 900.
During the cloudburt at st. Marvs
water enough fell to leave the streets
flooded with from eight inches to two
and half feet of water. The Union
Pacific tracks were washed out and
most of the stores were flooded. There
was four feet of water in the basement
of st. Mary's college. Besides the loss
of much other property considerable
stock was drowned.
Contract has been let at 1915 for
repairing the north and west steps of
the Kansas capitol; also a contract at
s5,615. 90 for marble sl1irtings for the
stairways in the building.
The executive council received bids
for paper to be supplied to the state
and awarded contracts to Cane Bros,
of Chicago, for binding material and to
the Butler Paper company for paper
The Moore Book and Stationey COM
pany, of Topeka, got the contracts for
stationery. The first two contracts
named are worth about SEQ, 900.
The term of Postmaster James CHS
ham, of Atchison, expires on July l.
Chisham weakened his chances of re-
appointment by giving Governor Bailey
his best efforts in securing Bailey's
nomination.
The Wellington Journal claims to
know quite a number of prominent
Sumner county men who lost large
sums of money on the board of trade
last week. According to it's figures,
over $4,000 of good hard, Sumner
county money was dropped through
the board of trade slot recently.
The Missouri and Kansas Miners
association at their meeting at Pitts
burg say a strike is certain if their de-
mands are not recognized. They say
that the men have been saving up
money for some time to be ready for a
contest.
Frank D. Brown, clerk of the U. S.
district court at Topeka, has bought a