Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-04-17

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been laid out in rural mail delivery
routes.
Miss Jessie Morrison secured $40, 900
bond after eight days in Jail and was
released.
A Kingman firm has already offered
IS each for the five largest pumpkins
raised this season.
Two hundred out of town Masons at
tended the Scottish Rite annual re-
union in Wichita
Twenty-eight freshmen and sophie
mores or Kansas university have been
suspended for ruffianism.
A clerk of the city election at Fort
Scott developed case of the smallpox
on the day after the election.
Ten families arrived together at
Atchison from Kentucky, their inten-
ton being to engage in farming.
Albert Reid, the Topeka artist, had
more drawings at the Kansas City
newspaper artists exhibition than any
other artist.
were closed on the day of the funeral
of Mrs. Chloe Leland, stepmother to
Cyrus Leland.
The first to be completed of a num-
Der of buildings being erected at the
Santa Fe shops in Topeka, is $50 feet
long and 152 feet wide.
Cherokee county fruit growers are
confident of having big crop this sea-
son. The crop of fruits will be i'm
mense excepting strawberries.
The Santa Fe proposes to expend
thousands of dollars upon its Wichita
& Western branch, for improving its
road bed and lettering the facilities of
traffic.
Richard Nevins, of New York, who
died in Chicago this week, was the
mainstay of the supporters of the pro-
posed line between Emporia and
Omaha.
The commercial club train of Pull
mans will leave Wichita early on the
morning of May 5th for an eleven hun
bred mile trip on a visit to Oklahoma
towns.
The Lawrence city council passed
telephone franchise by unanimous vote;
at the next meeting the mayor vetoed
the ordinance and the council sustained
the veto by q unanimous vote.
P. P. Duffy, who was sergeant
under Funston, and is now a conductor
for the Katy road, had as many of the
members of the Goth Kansas regiment
as could attend, at his wedding.
R. T. Olverson, Reno county farm
er, has started to attend the coronation
of Edward VII. He was one of the
10000 school children who sang at the
coronation of Queen Victoria, 65 years
ago.
VIM. Reece, postmaster at Willard,
was riding to Topeka in the caboose of
freight train and had his hand on
the door jam when the train made a
bump. The door caught a finger and
took it off.
Miss Florence E. Culver, of Wichita,
has been appointed teacher at Ponca,
o. T., Indian school, and Miss Carrie
E. Secor, of Highland, Kas., an assist
ant teacher at Leech Lake, Mimi, In
dian school
Kansas and Kansans were discussed
pro and con at the first annual dinner
of the alumni, former students and
former members of the Kansas state
Agricultural college, at Washington
the other night.
The farmers in one section of the
state say that Secretary Coburn is I'M
derestimating the crop and is SANDER
the state; the farmers in another Sec
ton say he has over-estimated the crop
and is helping out the bears on the
Chicago market.
John A. Stevens and S. S. Taggart,
two of the Oldest citizens of Western
Kansas and of Garden City, died on
April :.
Word has reached Wellington that
the eagle released in that city last No
vember by Cash Moore, has been killed
at Phillips, Wyo. Moore's name on
card was attached to it.
The Lindsborg News tells of a party
there who is constructing windmill
on top of his wagon box, which he be-
ieves will enable him to beat the speed
of a fast team on the road.
Geo. r. Peck's daughter Ethel was
married in Chicago on April 9. All
Kansans know Geo. Peck, and there
are many who remember his daughter.
Frank Montgomery sent this to the
Kansas City Journal: Zone of the fun
niest sights ever witnessed in Topeka
was reserved for favored few the
other day. The Santa Fe closed it's
general Offices on account of repairs
being made to the building. A politi-
clan came along, found the doors locked
and ''cussed" for ten straight minutes
because he couldn't get in to get pass.
G. W. Smith has sold his 100 acre
farm in Sedgwick county to his neigh
Dor, Mr.. Giser, at SIS an acre.