Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-03-13

Contract has been let for erecting a
Catholic convent at Concordia, to cost
s47,oO
Professor Snow is back in Snow hall
of Kansas university, in his old chair
and is happy.
The mother of Hill p. Wilson, of
Hays City, celebrated her 92nd birth
day on February %.
The Leading Manila paper says that
Aguinaldo is to be sent to the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth.
1t is frequent thing for Kansas
newspapers this year to note the addi-
ton Of books to public libraries.
The Indian appropriation bill carries
SO, 900 for two bridges in Jackson coun-
ty, on the Pottawatomie reservation.
Robert Farrell, a laborer of North
Topeka, was knocked down near his
home and robbed of sac and watch
T. B. Gerow, director of the state
free employment agency, is receiving
large numbers of applications for work
from men living outside the state.
in Lawrence as the trains are so sched-
uled as to permit him to spend the day
at the pension office in Topeka and be
at home nights.
contract has been signed by bust
ness men of Independence and capital
lists of Chicago and New York to locate
a plant to manufacture sugar, paper
pulp and cellulose from sorghum cane.
The Osawatomie insane asylum
turned into the state treasury s24O.4o
fees collected during February for the
care of patients whose relatives were
financially able to pay their expen-
ses.
The financial report for the Topeka
school board for the month of February
shows cash in the three funds, the gen.
eral fund, the interest and sinking
fund and the building fund, amounting
to s55, 696.41.
John Mckinley, of Marshall county,
90 years old, deaf, blind and feeble
minded, has been sent to the poor
house. He was first cousin of Will
liam Mckinley, late president of the
United States.
The Kansas insurance department
took in S1OO, 900 in fees from outside in
surance companies in February, break
ing all records. February, under the
departments system, is the month
when annual fees are paid.
colony is looking over the Westcott
ranch near Solomon with a view of
purchase. The price asked is S125, 900.
The colony comprises about 30 families.
The ranch contains 4 900 acres.
Postmaster John Guthrie, of Topeka.
has announced that the pay of the
rural mail carriers had been increased
from $500 to $500 year. This will
affect nearly 500 carriers in the state
and was purely voluntary increase by
the department.
robberies and holdups. A vigilance
committee was organized who finally
learned that the gang of outlaws was
made up of dozen boys, children of
prominent citizens. The boys were ar
rested but compromise was reached
by which the warrants will be held
over the boys for a period long enough
to give their parents time to effect a
reform.
There were IA students at work in
the machine shops of the Kansas uni
versity School of Engineering during
the FIRST term of the present session.
People still guess who owns the Fort
Scott. lola & Western road, the track
of which is being laid through lola,
although a Katy engine delivers the
materials.
The Kansas University school of
pharmacy has graduated 225 students.
10 of them women. Sixty-one of the
male graduates are now proprietors of
drug stores.
county agree that the wheat crop OF
that county is in better condition than
on March ], 1901 and that the acreage
is largely increased.
C. NJ. Carver, of Dickinson county,
fattened IS Poland-China hogs with
ground wheat. They averaged 2s2
pounds at Arkansas City and topped
the market at Sc. 421z hundred pounds.
He says the hogs gained IA pounds for
every bushel of wheat, while his best
record with corn was IL pounds for
every bushel fed.
Work has begun at. Independence on
$4,000 hotel to be rs by 125 feet and
four stories high, heated by steam and
lighted by natural gas and electricity.
The young ladies of Downs actually
sold S52. so worth of concert tickets tc
the members of the Kansas City com
merciai club in the short time of their
stop there.
The State Sunday School association
in session at Abilene finally decided
that Salina shall be the place for its
annual convention instead of Wichita
1t will be held on May 10 to Is.
A lecture manager offered Genera
Funston 81 200 lecture for so lectures
He replied that he was going to attend
to his duties as brigadier general il
the army and was not going to do any
thing else.
C. L. Short, ormerly well known