Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-02-06
JOHN d. wEHRLE, Pub.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

out OF the city park at Clay center.
The Union Pacific is to erect a new
$4,000 depot in Topeka next summer.
State Printer w. Y. Morgan has been
elected president of Hutchinson bank.
He retains his newspaper.
Arrangements are being made to re-
open the Solomon salt wells which have
been shut down for two years.
Morton Albaugh has sold his home in
Kingman and will reside in Topeka
during his term as state bank commits
sioner.
The biennial election law was argued
In the supreme court on Jan. 81, in a
case affecting the appointment of
judges
Contracts amounting to more than
$4,000 have been let for the compile
ton of the ground floor of the Kansas
capitol.
The democratic state convention in
Wichita on May 20 will consist of re
delegates with a like number Of al
ternates.
General Funston has named his boy
Arthur Macarthur Funston. The boys
mother naturally wanted his name to
be Frederick.
Mrs. Mary Battey, wife of postmaster
D. C. Battey of Florence, died from
blood poisoning caused by the prick of
a pin on her finger.
The travelling section of the Kansas
state library contains s,274 books
There are now 153 travelling libraries
from the state library in use in the
state.
The board of directors of the Kansas
State Masonic Home passed favorably
on the plan for new dormitory and
so report to the grand lodge which
meets at Topeka on February IS.
The boy found frozen to death near
Winfield has been identified as Frank
Jones, of Cedarvale. He had left home
to go to brothers home at Tisdale.
The boys blind mother lives in Wich-
tia.
The Coffeyville Window Glass COM
pany has applied for charter. 1t is
composed of capitalists of Muncie, Ind,
glass manufacturers and has capital
of $50, 900. The factory will employ 20
men.
The alfalfa acreage of the state last
year is given at 319,142 acres, alfalfa
now being the second tame grass in the
state, considerably exceeding clover
and blue grass and but slightly behind
timothy.
Cases brought by Shawnee Indians
for possession of fine farms in johnson
county for which parties have held deeds
for 25 years, approved by the interior de-
partment, are meeting with no success
in the courts.
The four hay and fodder plants,
sorghum, millet and Hungarian, kafir
corn and alfalfa, increased in acreage
in the state from 9Os, sS5 acres in 1895
to 1864, 1s1 acres last summer, or more
than 100 per cent in five years.
Geo. N. Goddard, of Nortonville, has
just paid a judgment of $4,000 in a
breach of promise case, with 5000 in
terest and $500 costs. He is on old
man and these payments nearly ex-
haust his income for one year.
The big engine at the penitentiary
which furnishes power to run the shop
machinery broke down, causing a prac-
teal suspension of work The engine
has been IN use for twenty-one years
and this is its first breakdown.
Book publishers are notified that
copies of their publications, with bids,
must be sent to the school book COM
missioners, not later than April 1, and
that no bid will be received later than
4p. m. of May 6.
Kansas has next to the largest soap
factory in the United States. 1t, like
the packing houses, brands its export
products ''From Kansas City, U. S. A
while all of them come from Kansas
City, Kansas. Are these manufacturers
of soap and packers of animal products
ashamed of being located in Kansas?
Ed J. Herring, Santa Fe engineer
has married Miss Nora NJ. Stone al
Wellington. They will make theil
home at Hutchinson.
An Indiana corporate company ha.
promoters at work upon a plan to Sc
cure gas leases within 100 miles O.
Wichita and to pipe the product int
the city.
Harry Donmeyer, of New Cambria
took 40 2-year-old native steers t.
Chicago and sold them for Sc 95 pei
cwt. The steers brought an average
of sos head.
Welcome Wells has died at his HON,
in Manhattan, aged SO years. He wa
a member of the first Kansas legisla
ture. He has been considered the sec
ond Oldest Mason in the world. Hi
wife died year ago, they having iveC
together II years.
The Missouri Pacific depot for Sterl
ing is mile out of place in the matter
of convenience for the town. A petition
from every business man in town an,
another from municipal taxpayers ha
been sent to the company asking TO
removal of the depot.
The Baptist church at Marysville i
disrupted one part blaming their pas
tor for never having publicly referre,
to the death of President Mckinley
The war resulted in lock out of tn
supporters of the pastor.
The Bowersock bill for leasing gov
eminent land for grazing is opposed il