Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-03-27
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

North Lawrence has $500 people and
not one doctor on that side of the Kaw.
Secretary Coburn's reports show thai
buffalo grass grows in 50 counties Of
Kansas.
Governor Stanley has appointed E.
C. Ellet as member of the penitentiary
board for term of three years
Insurance rates at Olathe have beer
reduced 10 per cent because of more
satisfactory arrangements concerning
the city fire department.
Sumner county commissioners have
given the use of lots the county has
bought for taxes to be used for gardens
by people who have none of their own.
The register of deeds of Sedgwicl,
county says that so per cent of the more
valuable property sold in the county in
the past ten years was bought by home
people.
Mrs. Sarah Z. Adams, mother OF
James Barton Adams, the verse writer
of the Denver Post, died at her home
in Topeka, on March IS. She was o.
years old.
The Winfield city council has accept
ed Mr.. Carnegie's proposition to give
SIS, 900 for library there conditioned
upon the city's giving 81, 500 year for
its support.
The Rev. Mr. Soderman, of Linds-
borg, who has been missionary in
China for several years, supported by
the church at Lindsborg, died in the
Orient recently.
Oscar Saunders, a farmer near Downs,
found his pocket book in his hay field
with two five dollar bills in it, in good
preservation. He lost his pocketbook
a year and half ago.
Editor Hanna, Of the Salina Repub-
lican, has started a movement for the
construction of an auditorium at Sa-
lima. His plan is to raise funds by
popular subscription.
Former Lieut.. Gov. A. J. Felt has
been given a pension of s24 a month,
and Geo. H. Evans, the Topeka con-
tractor now at the soldiers home, gets
$50 4 month pension.
Henry S. Hall, who was at Ripon
college, Wisconsin, and died there of
pneumonia, was brought back to Kan
sas for interment. He attended Wash
burn college for five years.
A Rock Island conductor recently
took up a pass which belonged to
Sheriff Smith and which he carried
when he was killed at Lawton. 1t
was presented by U. s. deputy mar
shall.
DIR. and Mrs. Inglis, of Usage City,
are going back to Pelzin to re-enter the
missionary service of the Presbyterian
church and will resume charge of the
hospital which was destroyed by the
Boxers.
Parties who sold the land to the
Bourbon county socialist colony, and
are members of the colony, have
brought suit for the purchase money
due and asked for the appointment OF
a receiver.
John L. Giles. of Wichita, has bought
5000 acre ranch in Comanche county
from Andrew H. Baker, for SIS, 900.
With the conveyance of the 900 acres,
the lease on 1000 acres additional was
also conveyed, giving Mr.. Giles the use
of 5000 acres of land. The land is
fenced and improved. Three hundred
acres is sown in wheat and the rest is
covered with a fine growth of buffalo
grass Mr.. Giles will stock the ranch
with cattle and sheep.
Nemaha county has seven independ-
ent telephone lines in operation. A
meeting to be held March "a will like
ly form communion of interests in
these lines, so as to cover the whole
county without relays.
In some northwestern towns of Kan.
sas there exist branches of an associa-
ton called the Kansas Utopia club.
Its chief feature is plenty of strong
drink on tap. At Inman and at Smith
Center their Utopian scheme has been
interfered with in the way of confisca.
ton and fines
John B. Kell, who was a lumbe,
dealer and stock shipper at Clearwater
died at Phoenix, Ariz., where he went
in the hope of regaining his health
At Empire City two children were
burned to death. They were not to
respective homes, while their mother,
were absent. At John Aliens house
were two children, one of whom was
rescued. but baby four months ole
persisted. Frank Weatherby's house
caught fire and baby one year ole
was burned.
Ottawa university, in its decision
against football will have the mora
support of all the mothers of Kansas
and most of the fathers too.
Jerry Simpson has $50 acres neal
Roswell, N. NJ, and has left Wichita
with his family to make his home or
the land where he will handle bloodeC
stock.
Major Fl. B. Merrill, for 80 years /;
prominent citizen of Saline county
and owner of the Hope stucco mills
died last week at Watertown, N. Y.
aged 20 years.
The school districts of ROCKWELL,
township, Rice county, have taker
steps to consolidate all the schools il
one building in the center of the town