Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-03-13

Edward >. Luunl. Sd1nd boy is as
sistant chief of police at Manila, P. 1.
Nordica gave Bethany college at
Lindsborg present of $500 after the
concert.
The Winfield police court has fined
one man 81, 500 and another So, 400 for
selling liquor.
Wholesalers say that more snuff is
sold in Lindsborg than in any other
town in the state.
The Lanyon Zinc Co. s rolling mill at
La Harpe has commenced running.
The first in Kansas.
succeed Cy. Anderson as register of
the Colby land office.
Mrs Carrie Kearney is in the Oswego
Jail for want of bail, on charge of aid
ing prisoners to make plot to escape.
Old soldiers are complaining that the
state encampment is set for the week
before pension day. Many could not
attend then.
Topeka drug stores are not selling
half the liquor they did before the wide
open disregard of law policy was adopt
ed for the saloons.
Judge a. A. Carnahan, of Concordia,
died on March 3 at the age of Ga years.
Judge Carnahan was a man who was
held in affection by very many Kan
sans.
Contract will be let on March 20 for
the main building for the branch nor
NAL school on the Fort Hays reserva-
ton; the building to be completed by
September 1.
The establishment of an experiment
station by the agricultural college will
probably cause the abandonment of
of the state forestry farms at Fort
Dodge and Ogallah.
Wellington druggists pay the city
500 year for selling whisky, and if
they sell beer they must pay $500. Five
drug stores are paying and another
with a woman proprietor is circulating
a petition.
II. II. Palmer, a South Dakota ed
itor, is visiting his mother at Irving,
90 years. Mrs. Palmer is one of the
heirs of the immense estate of Henry
Dolan, the Brooklyn millionaire.
Louis Klingbell, of Fort Scott, who
was a German soldier, was on guard at
the palace when Prince Henry was
born. Later he saw the baby in its
mothers arms while the present en-
peror, little tad, was Juggling at her
skirts.
Mrs Caroline Clark, the eldest white
woman resident of Kansas, died at her
home at Hammond, March 4, aged 81
years. She came to Kansas in 1888 and
located at Fort Leavenworth. During
the civil war she was with the Sixth
Kansas cavalry and was known as the
mother of the regiment.
Workers in Topeka laundries were
forming a labor union. One of the
laundry firms has been dividing profits
above a stated amount among its At
employees. The past year this added
an average of five weeks to the salaries
paid. The firm notified these people
that as they were about to enter an
organization in which they would take
a greater interest than in the work of
the firm, the division of profits would
cease. The people voted 45 to 1 to stay
at their work on the old plan. Other
laundry men do not object to the union
but say they will not discharge any
one for joining; if, however, they find
cause to discharge anyone they will
do so without asking the advice of the
union.
The Twentieth Kansas has had more
of it's members commissioned in the
regular army than any other regiment
which served in the Spanish war
Little River township of Reno county
issued S23, 900 in bonds to get rail
road. They were 80 year bonds draw
ing per cent interest. The township
learned that they could refund the
bonds at AZ per cent. The county
owns the bonds and will not let go; so
the township has sued the county for
the privilege of paying the bonds off
The case is now in the supreme court.
A farmers wife of Stafford county
saved the household from a lightning
rod graft of 5000 by using her shot gun
to stampede the grafters.
The library at Kansas university has
more than 1900 bound volumes; re-
ceives 544 periodicals and learned So
ciety publications, and 16o Kansas
newspapers.
Separate schools for white and col
ored pupils have always been main
tanned in Topeka, but now trouble has
arisen and the question of the right OF
separation is going into the courts.
For the first time since July last
water is running over the dam in the
Neosho river at Emporia.
The Syndicate Ditch and Land COM
pany bought in the property of that
concern at Garden City, paying $40, SOC
for the ditch and S125 per quarter for
the land. The agent of the company
expected to buy at their first bid which
would have been very low, but the
farmers of Kearney county made up a
fund of $4,000 to buy the ditch and
sent man to bid that amount. His
was the first bid.
Judge Simpson, of the district court
at Hutchinson, decides that county at
torneys are entitled to 20 per cent OF