Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-04-17
JOHN d. wKHRLE. Pub.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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On April ., heavy rainstorm at
Lexington with u strong wind, broke
windows and did some other damage.
The supreme court holds that there
are no vacancies in the Office of sheriff
which the governor is authorized to
fill.
1t is stated that President Roosevelt
has decided to make Senator Harris, of
Kansas, a member of the Isthmian
canal commission.
The RusLin, Neb., bank robbers
were chased into Kansas until they sep
arated at Belleville. Their trail was
lost near Scandal.
Cheney has been provided for by the
township board, who have decided to
issue s., 300 in bonds and put the pro-
ceeds with 81, 500 cash in hand, to build
school house at Cheney.
The supreme court decision leaves 81
Kansas sheriffs in Office who would
have been let out by new appoip tments
if the decision had given the governor
the authority to make the appoint
ments.
The United States supreme court in
an opinion delivered by Chief Justice
Fuller, overruled the demurrer of the
state of Colorado in the case of the
state of Kansas versus the state of Col
orado.
Mrs. NJ. L. Matthews, temporarily in
Wichita, hes been robbed of 81, o6O by
a professional mind reader land clar-
voyant, who got away. The rogue
while at Wichita bore the name of A.
B. Stewart.
r. II. Balding, Assistant State Bank
Commissioner, turned SALT into the
treasury for examining building and
loan companies and Bank Commissioner
Morton Albaugh turned in s1s5 for ex-
aiming banks.
The Wichita infantry company of the
K. N. e., of which Captain Andrew F.
Brannan was once member, presented
his mother with life size portrait of
her son. Captain Brannan was killed
in the Philippines.
The Missouri Pacific is negotiating
for township bonds along the route of
the new link the road desires to build
from Larned to McCracken, to complete
the most direct line between Denver
and New Orleans.
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State Board of Medical Registration
and examination, has turned into the
state treasury 81, 800 in fees collected
for examining physicians for licenses
to practice in the state.
Frank Bunker, Slick Grim and Dan
Schrader are all in Jail at Hutchinson
charged with burglary. A large
amount of goods stolen from Hutchin-
son merchants in the past two months
was found in their possession.
The Central Christian church of
Wichita has decided to tear down its
church building and erect new one
for which and it's furnishings S35, 900 is
pledged. The new church will have
seating capacity of 500 and will have
pipe organ.
There are six candidates for depart
ment commander of the Kansas G. A.
R., viz: j. B. Remington, of Osawat-
omie; H. C. Loomis, of Winfield; Col.
D. R. Anthony, of Leavenworth; l.. C.
Weldy. of Galena; A. d. Campbell, of
Hutchinson, and Charles Harris, of
Emporia. A. w. Smith has concluded
not to be a candidate.
C. ]. Devlin, who owns more coal
mines than anybody, is not troubled
about exhausting the patrimony due
his descendants. He says: "After TO-
900 years of continuous mining Kansas
will still be turning out as much coal
as she does today"
There are cases in the courts which
Involve the amount of So, 500 claimed
from the city of Wichita for labor done
in overtime hours after the eight hour
law was passed. One of these cases
has been decided by the supreme court
in favor of the city.
It is announced that the Santa Fe
tracks between Florence and Yelling
ton are to be relaid with rs and so
pound steel; and that building for a
Harvey eating house will be erected in
Wellington.
The banks of Parsons have deposits
TO the amount of 1854, 900; loans to the
amount of s4s7, 900, and cash on hand
to the amount of $500, 900.
w, A. Wilson, the Atwood attorney
county treasury, has been sentenced to
seven years in the penitentiary.
The state is given credit by the Ma
tional City bank of New York, the fis-
cal agency for Kansas, of S135.os, be-
ing the amount of interest accrued on
state funds during the month of March
at per cent on daily balances.
Convicts in the state penitentiary are
making brick to be used in building
the new insane asylum at Parsons, also
for the erection of other smaller build
ings at other state institutions. A fine
grade of brick is made at the prison
and the plant is saving the state a great
deal of money.
]. w. Cooper, late superintendent of
the Newton city schools, and well
known over the state in the work of
conducting county institutes, died at
his home in Newton on April Z.
Mrs. Susan Bright lives in Topeka.
She was born near Richmond, Va. Aug.