Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-04-24

at Galena, owned by Galena men ex-
clusively.
1t is proposed at Beloit to take in it's
populated suburbs, which will give the
city $500 people.
J. S. Watson and VIM. Morton, of
Vliets, have gone to the Philippines to
engage in business.
Over 600 ministers attended the an
nual conference at Topeka of the Sew
enth Dav Adventists.
Six sons of Sarah Brown Morgan, of
Brown county, acted as pail bearers at
their mothers funeral.
VIM. Smith, who recently sold the
Manhattan Republic, has bought an in
terest in the Lawrence Jeffersonian.
The president has nominated Burton
J. Mitchell, of Kansas, to be second
lieutenant in the Tweaty-second in
fantry.
James H. Mccarthy, who drew pen
sion for 30 years under his brothers
name, is sentenced to two years in
prison.
An accident at the new Santa Fe
shops at Topeka, the falling of scat
fold, injured E. w. Bowers and L. G.
Brandon.
lola has erected three school houses
in three years and has let the contract
for another one. They are all fine
buildings.
J. S. Kirkpatrick, the Jewell county
attorney, has bought an alfalfa farm
near Hoxie, Sheridan county, and will
remove to HoXie.
The state oil inspectors report for
March shows fees collected 81 ga; paid
out for help 1910, leaving balance for
the state of sl,o34.
w. G. Montgomery, for IL years agent
at Emporia for the American Express
company, died from stroke of apo
plexy on April 16.
The Cooperative or Grange store at
| Hackney. Cowley county has been sold,
! the stockholders realizing IT'S per cent
| in trade for their stock.
| The recent murder trial at Ottawa
brought out a continuous crowd of
! loafers; the majority of them wearing
! skirts and Easter bonnets.
| The Santa Fe railroad paid the To-
pelSa city treasurer So, 800 for paving
tax on East Fourth street, which runs
alongside the railroad yards.
Three of the convicts who escaped
from the federal prison at Leavenworth
are still at large. All of the eight have
been indicted on the charge of murder
| by the federal grand jury.
Bert Highlands, while riding over
the range in Harper county, roped an
eagle with his lariat. The bird rose in
front of his pony and the lariat caught
him while Is feet in the air.
Jos Connors, of ennsylvania, and
| a graduate of the New York state nor
NAL, had both of his feet cut off by the
cars at Manhattan. He, was enroute
to Denver to teach in local school.
State Grain inspector Northrup has
decreased the working force of his de-
partment. He has placed several in
spectors on half time and let ont some
of his Office help. This results from
the light shipments of grain.
AT the annual debate between the
universities of Kansas and Missouri,
neld at Lawrence, Kansas was declared
defeated by the judges, who were Eu-
gene f. Ware, Topeka; Silas Porter,
Kansas City, and S. a. Riggs, Law
renee. The debate was on the subject
of municipal ownership.
The state board of railroad assessors
and their wives are out on their mission
on special train; beginning on the
Liberal branch of the Rock Island.
Herman johnson, who made a lot of
lead cent pieces and played them in
Topeka slot machines, was convicted
in the federal court of counterfeiting.
He will be sentenced later. In in
structing the jury Judge Hook said it
did not matter if slot machines were
unlawful; that if a person played coun-
terfeit money in them he was guilty OF
crime.
Bank stock of one of the banks OF
Salina has reached selling value of
almost double par value.
Lyon county is proud of her financial
situation. There is more money in the
banks than has been for years. In the
last term of the district court there
were 14O cases on the docket, and there
was not a single judgment foreclosing
a mortgage of any kind. There are
now nearly &c, 600 people in the county
and more have come in within the last
four months than at any time for the
last nine years.
Miss Ida Beck, of Everest, Kansas,
has been appointed a teacher at the
Green Bay, Wis, Indian school and
Miss Maggie Neff, of Emporia, Kas.,
appointed teacher at Seneca Indian
school, Wyandotte, I. T.
At Osborne the other day w. w. Fer,
ris recei, ed a letter addressed to his
mother from the pension department
at Washington. 1t contained a checl
for 81 ,1Os, the sum due her in back
, pension from 1900, when she made hei
application. Mrs. Ferris has been dead
some time.
The Cowley County Grain Growers
: association decides to join the state as
ISOLATION for the protection of their in
| te1.csts They will shin their crrair