Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-02-13

The Kansas Association of Local
Fire Insurance agents will meet in To-
peka on February 10.
The Leavenworth street car strikers
early reached the stage in the game
of running omnibusses.
The Fraternal Aid lodge of Lawrence
is preparing to build $50, 900 building
during the present year.
at Fort Riley this year, and another
ward for the hospital there.
Kansas, Vermont, Michigan and Ore
gon are the only states which pay their
Legislators as low as So day.
Burlingame has been having hot
campaign over the question OF voting
bonds for a waterworks plant.
Benz Daniels, just confirmed at U.
S. Marshal of Arizona, used to live in
Ottawa where he has relatives.
Geo F. Collins was reelected presi-
dent of the state society of Labor and
dL GllC IOpCfAh
Great Bend has had a fire caused by
a gasoline stove. The fremen did well
in the matter of saving property.
The annual meeting of the three
grand bodies of the Masonic order will
be held at Fort Scott on Feb. 1920.
James Markham, Troy blacksmith,
is so years old and has worked at his
trade for 81 years, and is still doing
SO.
S. D. johnson of Paola was found in
Topeka filling two big valises with
snow. He talked wildly, in fact was
crazy.
The Grain Dealers association of
Kansas will meet at the Topeka city
building auditorium on March IS and
and 10.
A vote on waterworks bonds at Bur-
lingame was for the bonds by 10 ma
jority. There is talk of contesting the
election.
w. NJ. Davidson, superintendent of
the Topeka schools, slipped on the icy
walks on the state house grounds and
fell, fracturing two ribs.
Six families of Swedes, all related,
have bought 1900 acres near Emporia.
There are 80 children in the six fami-
lies and they are all cousins. The deal
involves $780,
Chanute has over eighty oil wells in
operation and an unlimited supply of
natural gas. The city has its own
lighting and heating plant, which
yields an annual revenue of about
SIS, 900.
Colonel Murdoch, who attended the
state Editorial association at Manhat-
tan says that the handsomest buildings
in Kansas are the structures which
make up the State Agricultural college
there.
A southern Kansas daily paper says
that while it was showing heavily in
northern Kansas the people in south
ern Kansas were making garden. The
truth being that the mercury was be-
low zero in southern Kansas, and
farmers rejoiced over having snow.
j. j.. Kemble of Fort Scott found his
father in Oklahoma and with his broth
er went to see him. The father left
his family 81 years ago with the de-
termination not to send for them until
he had home and a business. The
sons induced their father to go to
Coffeyville where their mother was
living and there was joyful reunion
of the family.
w. D. Blackford, an old time Kansas
man, has been an employee of the Uni
ted States senate for 25 years. His
present salary is 81, 800 year.
The Leavenworth street railway had
but one Ear running on each of its four
lines for few days, on account of
strike.
Captain Ralph Ingalls,, son of the late
Senator John j. Ingalls, of Kansas, is
in Washington endeavoring to secure
an appointment in the legal depart
ment of the government in the Philip
pines.
Joseph L. Bristow has been assured
that his resignation of the place of
fourth assistant postmaster general is
not desired by the administration.
Proposals were asked for and have
been made for site in Lawrence for a
new court house and Jail. The pro-
posals ranged from free gift to S12,-
600.
Twenty-Five or thirty Iowa home
seekers, from the southwestern part of
that state, are coming to Meade coun-
ty, their objective point being Bucklin,
on the Rock Island, in Ford county
Barthel Bretzen, who has just bought
a half section of land near Goddard
for $4,000, came to Sedgwiclz county,
several years ago and worked
as farm hand. His new farm is all
cultivated but has very little improve
ments.
Attorney General GODDARD hes given
a decision that county superirtendents
may receive payment for visiting eaeL
room of graded schools holding that
under the law a room is a sc lool. 1t
affects all graded schools in The state
except first and second class cities.
Some merchants of Arkansas City are
trying to beat the city ordinance for a
license tax. Their debtors claim that
an old law provides that bids cannot
be collected from parties Who are de-