Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-04-10
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Abilene had but one city ticket at
the spring election. The registration
was very light
At public sale near Garnett $500
worth of property changed hands, all
of which except about $40 was paid in
cash.
The Northwest Kansas Veterans as
ISOLATION viii hold its seventeenth an
nual encampment at Goodland Septem-
her to 6.
John 7. Stewart has presented to
the city of Wellington so acres of land
for park and $1,000 with which to
improve it.
The Santa Fe California flyer No.
left the track in North Ottawa and was
delayed two hours or more. No one
was injured.
The Sunday fire at Hutchinson de-
stroyed the Martin dry goods store,
the stock being valued at $4,000.
There was So, 900 insurance on stock
and fixtures.
Geo. Bucl1ner, notorious negro at
tackled Mrs. J. w. Bell and robbed her
of sac on the street in Topeka. His
wife is now in the penitentiary for
highway robbery.
REGULATIONS at Midland college, Atchi-
son have been suspended on account
of some cases of smallpox. Prof. Dorm
blazer and several students have a mild
form of the disease.
Mrs, William Small has given $50, 900
to establish an old ladies' rest in Leav-
enworth, which is to stand as a memo
rial to her late husband, a pioneer
merchant of Leayenworth.
VIM. Bristow, father of Joe Bristow,
fourth assistant postmaster general,
has resigned the position of clerk of an
Indian school in New Mexico, AID will
settle down at his home in Baldwin.
Eastern capital is being invested in
Rush county and adjacent territory, in
large amounts. The wheat crop is in
fine condition there and the ground is
wet down deeper than the roots grow.
The car repair force of the Santa Fe
at Florence has been reduced leaving
only cleaner. Several engine men
have been laid off also, and the depot
and round house forces expect a reduc-
ton.
Mrs. Martoa Smith, of Paola, in her
will left the bulk of her estate to the
Paola free library and reading room.
After the requests and expenses are
paid it is estimated that there will be
$4,000 left for the library. Mrs. Smith
made the bequest as memorial to her
late husband John Ulrich Smith
Fred Smith and his bride of week,
with Edward Smith and Minnie Mainey
who were to have been married on Sun
day, were driving home together from
Woodman dance at st. Marys. At a
crossing between st. Marys and Ross
vile they were struck by a train and
three of them instantly killed. Fred
Smith may not recover. The team and
vehicle are complete loss.
A. Lambotte, of Salina. has two old
violins which will go to the st. Louis
worlds fair. One of them bears the
date of 1913. and SO far as he knows is
the Oldest violin in the world. Mr.
LGmbOtte will also send to ST. Louis a
violincello made by himself. A soloist
from Chicago came to Salina to see
this instrument and he pronounced it
the sweetest toned cello he had ever
put bow on.
The Rev. A. Watkins, Episcopal
archdeacon for Western Kansas. seems
likely to be chosen as bishop of the new
diocese of Salina.
The First Methodist church of Hutch
iuson asked the bishop to send a GER
tain Chicago minister to their church
the church Offering to give him 81. OOC
and the use of the parsonage. A man
was sent to them who was not salts
factory and the church will give him
only $500 and charge him half of that
for rent. The church has 1850 mem
bers
c. S. Culp, of Scottsville took car.
load of Holstein cows to Mexico and
sold them at prices ranging from SIT:
to $500 each, Mexican money.
Miss Cole Mira Three Fingers
daughter of a Kiowa chief, is visiting
the smaller towns of Central Kansa.
on lecture tour. A principal attrac
oh lN,-,r
hear her is her dress of buckskir
trimmed with 425 elk teeth, which i.
said to be worth $500. Miss Thre.
Fingers is well educated and accom-
pGshed.
County clerk Moore of Pawnee coun
ty, has been suspended for neglectinf
to keep certain accounts, a cash bool
to correspond with the treasurer's casf
book. There are no criminal charge.
against Mr.. Moore.
Judge Dennis Madden decided in 6
case of dispute concerning the true
boundary of certain lots in Emporia
that if piece of property is occupied
by party for Is years before being
notified to move the boundary fence
the property belongs to the person who
occupied it.
The street car strike at Leaveuwortf
which has been on since February 1
has been settled. The strikers con
coded everything on condition that they
be taken back.
Rienhart township, Dickinson coun
ty, held an election to decide upon con