Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-01-30
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t is now said that Commander Nor.
ton was not drunk at Concordia
A travelling man says he counted 216
cases of whisky in the Osborne depot
one day last week.
The Dodge City commercial club pro-
tests against leasing government lands
in Kansas to cattlemen.
R. Forsyth has sold his farm of 400
acres near Wakarusa to II. G. Carls, of
Clay Center, for S11, 800.
The Brown county farmers institute
proposes to use the county poor farm
as an experimental seed farm.
Mrs. Anna Thompson is travelling
about buying junk. At Ports, Smith
county, she gathered a carload.
Frank D. Freeman, county clerk of
Lane county, is dead. Infammatory
rheumatism was the cause of his death.
Sumner county will have 35 rural
mail carriers. The farmers like the
scheme but the merchants in the small
towns knock on it.
The Kansas Association of Charities
and Corrections and the Kansas Society
for the Friendiess, have both asked for
an Office in the state house.
W. Freidberg, a bachelor hermit of
Emporia, lived in a barn which was
recently burned, and he was badly
burned. He is worth about SIS, 900.
j. NJ. Simpson. of Mcpherson, has a
son who has been for two years holding
a 81 600 cierkship in the office of the
fourth assistant postmaster general.
Nearly all classes of railroad workers
have already named delegates to the
annual meeting on February of the
State Society of Labor and Industry.
Alexander Phelon, the founder of
Neodesha, died recently in Idaho. He
had a trading post there among the
Osages, around which the town grew.
The Citizens bank at Sedgwicl was
burglarized and $40 in currency taken.
The robbers left on a hand car which
they had broken open a tool house to
secure.
There will be four series of teachers
institutes this year, an early one being
added for the benefit of the teachers in
the wheat belt. The dates of opening
are May &c, June 2, June 80 and July
%.
There are now 264 inmates at the
Hutchinson reformatory and there are
only $50 cells. The hospital is used as
a dormitory for the overplus. With
the new cells the number will soon be
$50.
City, Kansas, is the first Republican
ever elected in Texas to as high an
Office as mayor. He was chosen by s
majority as mayor of La Porte in that
state.
The NJ E. church at Kinsley caught
fire in the basement just as Sunday
school was about to be opened. The
children were taken out safely and the
fire was put out before it got into the
main room of the church.
A. E. Berry, wealthy farmer, is
arranging for rural telephone system
in the neighborhood of Conway
Springs. 1t will start with so or 90
phones, and it will connect with the
Conway Springs exchange.
The Sumner county commissioners
require the county repositories to re-
port monthly the daily balances on
hand and the amount of interest due
the county. The county repositories
pay tho county one per cent interest on
daily balances.
The reward offered by Mrs c. L.
Wiltberger for the arrest and convic-
Mon of the murderer of her husband
was paid to Cal Ferguson. Cowley
county has paid its 5000 reward and TIE
state will soon pay its 5000 reward.
The Kansas Society for the Friend
less finds that there are l 600 people in
our state prisons and industrial schools;
that the average age upon entering is
21 years, and that large portion of
them come from villages and farms;
while a smaller per cent come from
cities.
E. A. KAT, formerly of Caldwell, Ks,
has invented new explosive, which,
when fred, throws off thousands of
particles, each an independent explo-
sive when it hits anything.
The little home in Wellington be-
longing to widow with one daughter
was burned destroying everything they
owned. Contributions were sought for
their relief, $3.50 in cash being raised,
and an abundance of food and clothing.
A home will be built and stone pasons
plasterers and carpenters will give
their services without charge.
Chairman Allen of the state board OF
charities has been to New York to in
vestigate the workings of epileptic and
insane institutions. 40 as to be able to
make recommendations in the matter
of constructing the new Kansas asylum
at Parsons.
The payment of the first half taxes
for the year is the largest Shawnee
county ever had. The amount of tax
paid is S535, 900 out of a possible tax OF
S72s,ooo. This is about IA per cent OF
the tax and in previous years has never
exceeded 65 per cent.
Graham county has just paid the
state S2,7oo and Ellis county has paid
$3.50 for money advanced for seed grain
in 1891 and 1895. OF the S16O. 600 an