Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-05-29
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

General Fred Funston is sick with
malarial fever.
The state executive council has let
the contract for a vault in the Office of
the state superintendent of schools.
Anthony was as happy as boy with
his first pants over the completion of
the first mile of track in Kansas of the
Orient railroad.
The Wilson, Kansas w. R. c. has
erected 81, 900 monument to the SOL
diers buried there, which is to be dedi-
Gated on Memorial day.
John Thorp, a tenant farmer near
Portland, Sumner county, was found
dead in an elevator at Portland, with
a bullet hole in his head.
Congressman Charles Curtis is eX-
pected to attend the state convention
of his party at Wichita and to deliver
memorial address at Topeka.
C. W. Goodlander, of Fort Scott, has
been stricken with apoplexy and the
chances of his recovery are slight. Mr..
Goodlander is the heaviest capitalist in
that city.
C. G. Rodgers, of Douglas county,
walked on the track ahead of the linn
tied at Topeka; did not hear the train
and received injuries which were
fbounbf IN ba fatal
The G. A R. State encampment
elected H. c. LOOMS of Winfield as de-
partment commander. The next en-
campment will be held at Mcpherson
and the reunion will be held at Wich-
tia.
About twenty-five book men, who
were in Topeka trying to get their
books adopted by the Kansas commits
sion, left there for Utah, where the
commission of that state begins its ses-
sion this week.
Allen Reed, aged 60, of Marshall
county, is dead. He was member of
the Kansas legislature when Pomeroy
was politically buried. Mr.. Reed made
three tours around the world during
his eventful life.
The Union Pacific Land Company is
reported as having raised the price of
its land along the Smoky and Saline
rivers, in Western Kansas, to $40 an
acre. The demand for gold shale land
is said to be the cause.
The new telescope for the Kansas
Wesleyan university at Salina has been
received and is being placed in readi-
ness for use. The object lens is twelve
and one-fourth inches in diameter; said
to be the largest one in the state.
Stephen Thomas, a farmer living
near Lawrence, was killed in runa-
way. He was sitting in his buggy
talking to a friend when a pigeon
which was under the horse suddenly
flew with whirr. Mr.. Thomas was
kicked over the heart.
C. A. Ousler, of Circleville, one of
the first to bring a stock of merchandise
into jackson county and for many
years the banker of his town, died the
other day. Old settlers of Jackson and
e Nemaha counties mourn the loss of an
early and true friend.
Geo. W. Martin, secretary of the
Kansas Historical society, has turned
over to the College of Emporia $50 vol
umes relating to Kansas and Kansas
matters. He owns the largest collec-
ton of this class of books in existence.
While checking off the books as he
packed them to send to Emporia he
found that there were 40 volumes miss
ing, and it will be some time before
his wrath subsidies.
Robert Stone, a stonemason of Read.
ing had been drinking heavily of late
and then shot himself with shotgun
The wound was considered fatal.
Emporia business men have raised
enough money to begin the work o.
prospecting for oil and gas. The drill
is to be sunk eight miles southeast O.
town.
James S. Clark, of Downs, was shot
in his own door as he opened it, with ;
pail in hand to go for water. The
charge of buckshot riddled the back O
his head.
Jas. F. Legate has suffered strols
of paralysis. He has served in II ses
sions of the Kansas legislature as
member of the senate or the house.
The millers of Southern Kansas me
in Wichita, May 81. There was join
meeting between the millers and tn
grain dealers, who asked the millers T.
buy exclusively of them. Both com
binations were anxious to make friend
of the Farmers Cooperative associa
tons. The sentiment among the mil
lers was to buy where they could ge
the lowest prices.
Mike Shooter, a cowboy from tn
Moseley ranch in the territory, wa
killed at Arkansas City by his hors
throwing him, his head striking tele
phone pole. He was drunk and wa
riding recklessly to escape arrest.
Brown county orchardists repor
their trees being killed by canke
worms. Frank Glenn has plum OF
chard of 5000 trees, one third of whic
were killed in few days. Chase an
Son, of Padonia, think they have lxille
by spraying about all the worms il
their 100 acre orchard
The pupils of the Kansas Wesleyan
business college at Salina, made u
$50 which was forwarded to the treas
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