Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-02-13
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Lawton, Okla, where he had gone on
business.
Fire has destroyed in Herington a
meat market, doctors Office, and
damaged furniture store and the
postofice.
Records show that the first company
of colored soldiers raised for the Union
army was raised in Linn county, Kan
sas, in 1862.
Superintendent Frank Nelson has
second circular out on the consolidation
of rural schools. The first circular was
well received.
Frank B. Orr, a merchant of Harper,
has shot himself. He seemed worried
over his business, although he was well
fixed financially.
Fire at Erie destroyed four business
places on the morning of Feb. l. The
row was in the center of the business
portion of the city.
The supreme court has decided to
take up the Jessie Morrison case in full
court The case had been assigned to
Q division of the court.
The receipts of the internal revenue
at the collectors Office for Kansas and
Oklahoma for the month of January
amounted to S54, 273.15.
Martin Reilly of st. Marys, market
cd 81 Aberdeen-Augus and Galloway
steers of his own raising, at Sc 80. They
averaged l, AL pounds.
A Leavenworth, Kansas and Western
train was wrecked at Leonardville by
snow drifts and Henry J. ortman, the
mail clerk, was badly bruised.
The title given the Missouri Pacific
railroad company to what is now
Lowers addition to Ell Dorado has
been decided to be good title.
The republican state convention at
Wichita will probably meet on May 27
instead of the 2sth, so that delegates
may get home for Memorial day.
The contract for painting and deco
rating the courtroom, ante room and
Judges chamber of the Topeka, Kans.,
federal building has been awarded at
s735.
Mrs. Brooke mother of ex-President
d. NJ. Brooke, of Lane University at
Lecompton was perhaps fatally burned
at her home. She is n years old and
feeble.
The state Society of Labor at its ses-
sion at Topeka discussed the presenting
of bill to the next legislature for
establishing a state board of arbi-
tration.
Trainmen on the Kiowa branch from
Wichita say that almost every farmer
southwest of the city has a small ice
house and they were filling them with
9 inch ice.
The brief in the case of Kansas
against Colorado in the matter of the
use of the water of the Arkansas river,
has been filed in the United States
supreme court.
The Kansas University Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity has held reunion at
which former members of the society
and alumni of other chapters in the
West were present.
There are sc railway postal clerks
on the payroll of the Wichita district.
The amount they are paid annually for
railway mail service through the Wich-
tia postoffice is $50, 600.
Topeka has an industrial school for
girls with 500 enrolled. There is "a
like school for boys with an average
attendance of 100 Both of these were
organized and are under the direction
eff Mrs. Thorpe, the police matron.
Young natives and the more recent
IN coming to Kansas of the present
population do not know that Colorado
was once part of Kansas and that in
1856 Arapahoe county voted for dele
gate from Kansas and in 1857 was
represented by a member in the Kan
aas legislature.
Shawnee county, declined an appoint
ment to West Point, which was tender
ed to him by Congressman Curtis.
A farmer in Cherokee county who
allowed man to put lightning rods on
his house ''for IA nominal sum. in order
to advertise them" and put his sigma
ture to a contract, found out later that
the signature was on the business end
of note for $500. After wrangle a
compromise was effected and Mr.. Mis-
guided Farmer got out on payment OF
s175.
The republican state convention was
dated by the central committee for
May %. Now Governor Stanley sug-
gests that the convention may extend
into the third day which would bring
it to Memorial day, and for that reason
he asks that the date be changed.
Mrs. Mary Parker and children OF
Emporia, the family of veteran of the
civil war, who is dead, leaving them in
destitute circumstances, have fallel
heir to between $780, and $500, 900
left them in New York city. Mrs
Parker is 20 years old.
A box of quail, mallards and jack
snipes was found at the Wells Fargo
express Office in Wichita and seized
The company and the shipper are
both liable to a penalty of 500 fol
shipping or having in possession tc
ship, for each bird. The birds were
given to the hospitals of the city.
An Emporia family expects to receive
between three and four hundred