Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-12-04
Kansas Events
- ~ IN PARVIIY ~

kansas City, did damage to the proper
ty amounting to So, 500 or more. The
chief damage was done to the library
by the water. Mr.. Love has an extern
sive and valuable library and the water
which was thrown into the house
caused the ruin of several of his best
/ books. The bindings, some of which
! were very valuable, were entirely
ruined.
YELLOW CoRREsPoNDENTs.-O of
them, w. R. Draper by name, is in the
tolls for sending out an alleged libellous
report to the Philadelphia North Amer
lean dated at Wichita. The Eagle says:
draper has been sending similar stuff
from Wichita to newspapers and mag
azines for several years, deriving a
good income from it. Several repu-
table magazines have been as badly
taxed in as the North American was"
FATHER AND Son SLUGeEd.-Wm.
Zimmerman, a wealthy farmer OF
Douglas county, who was walking
home from Lawrence along the rail-
road track, with his son about o'clock
at night, was held up and slugged and
robbed. Both the men were attacked
and knocked down without warning
and about SIS taken from their pockets.
The son revived in about an hour and
summoned help to take his father LONE.
JACK THE PEPPER SHoT.-Bob Bry-
! hot inc M lxy
killed by City Marshal bud Keifer of
Council Grove, who was a Twentieth
Kansas soldier He had put Bryant
under arrest who went along peaceably
until the prison door was reached,
when he whipped out a razor and made
desperate pass at his captor. Keifer
was too quick for him, shooting him
dead in his tracks.
WANTS WALL-Superintend
Simmons, of the Hutchinson reforma-
tory, says that institution needs wall.
He says: 1--WE have in the institution
men who are of the right age to he
reckless and daring. 1t looks to them
like escape would be easy, and to pre-
vent escape requires constant care. 1t
requires more guards to get a certain
amount of work out of them than if
we had wall"
New KATY RoUNDHoUsE.-Plans and
specifications were received at Parsons
for the erection of new round house.
The old round house has become mad
equate and too small for the class of
engines now used on the Katy. The
new one will have thirty stalls built
for the large new type of engines
adopted by the road. The old one will
be converted into a shop of some
kind.
Poultry SHIPMENTS Armour
poultry house at Clay Center, during
the Thanksgiving rush, shipped 10O,-
600 chickens, turkeys and ducks from
there, most of the fowls going to Cali
fornia and Utah.
FIRST Snow Nov 2s.-The rain which
fell all that day in a large part of Kan.
sas turned into heavy storm of sleet
and snow. In some central counties
nearly two inches of snow fell.
Bonds FOR GAS PRosPEcTING.-The
commercial club of Wichita is asking
+ the city council to call special cleo
F ton to vote SIS, 900 in bonds to pros
l pect for gas.
S IMMIGRATION AGENT.-Gov. STANLEY
: has appointed c. z. Bolmar, of Topeka
as a state immigration agent. The
l job is an honorary one and has no pay
attached to it.
e FORMERLY OF ERIE.-Five Erie esi
l dents in the past were elected to offict
: at the last election in as many differen
D states, viz: A county superintendent
S in Oklahoma; state senator in Idaho
!. a county treasurer in Montana, a coun
y ty attorney in Oregon, and county
commissioner in Texas.
: KICKED BY HoRsE.-Everett Shells
S of Medicine Lodge, aged 6 years, wal
,, kicked in the back of his head by
: horse. His skull was fractured bu
: the doctors say his injury is not neces
sarily fatal.
n GIRLS WITH NERvE.-NIiss Pear
:, Fuller, student at the state norma
o school, and Miss Mabel Friels, of Law
e renee, climbed to the top of the new
: state normal library at Emporia, ant
S under the supervision of a bricklayer
n laid the last brick on the highest poin
of the building and standing on TIN
l,,..1 IL hat ga.
r. feet from the ground.
e THE SECOND TIME.-The Galva post
5 Office has been robbed again. The SAT-
: was blown open and S1o3 and guam
tity of stamps taken.
S FARMER LEAVES S1O0, oOO.-J. w
p Osborn, Lyon county farmer, die,
d recently leaving an estate valued a
). 100000. Osborn came to Kansas
Il poor man in 1874 and settled on tn
/; farm where he died. He made hi
money out OF, farming and stock rails
a ing.
IS LARGEST IN KANsAs.-The Bell
Q Springs Creamery company is compile
;, ting the largest creamery building il
e Kansas. 1t has complete ice-malSiu,
n and cold storage plant and is fitte,
throughout with modern machinery.
d WOULD BE CHAPLAIN.-The Rev. B
a c. Swarts. of Arkansas City, has an
q nounced that he will be a candidat
II for chaplain of the housee of repre-
&c sentatives in the next session. He is
% Methodist minister and was the frs