Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-11-20


heir to her property with the condition
that should he die first it should go to
charitable ''home" at Washington,
D. C. The matter has been in litiga-
ton until it has reached the supreme
court The young mans heirs contend
that as he was good swimmer he must
have survived his mother, and this is
the only point in the case.
CONCERT FOR TEACHERS. 40
voices from the musical department of
Bethany college at Lindsborg will take
part in a chorus on Wednesday night
of holiday week before the State Teach
ers' association at Topeka. The pro-
gram will be of high order and in
clude quartettes and both instrumental
and vocal solos.
TURNIPs FOR STOCK. farmers
of Brown county raise turnips for
stock feed. Morgan Walters has raised
1000 bushels from seventeen acres.
Ae says that cattle like turnips better
than they do corn and will fatten fast
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left in the ground and dug only as
they are fed.
HEAD END CoLLIsIoN.-It took eight
hours to clear the wreck at Perry,
Kansas, between freight trains of the
Rock Island and the Union Pacific.
In the meantime the trains of both
those lines used the Santa Fe tracks
between Topeka and Kansas City. No
one was hurt.
SECOND CROP APPLEs.-David D.
Kailor, whose farm adjoins Wichita,
exhibited samples of second crop of
| apples and said some of his trees are
now in bloom. Mr.. Kailor has har-
vested Is tons of alfalfa from az acres
of land this season.
WOMEN BANK OFFICERs.-An lola
woman, Mrs. NJ. E. Northrup, is presi-
dent of the Northrup National bank
there; and Mrs. Lizzie Hartman is vice
president of the Bank of Allen county.
LIGHTS But Nor NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of Burlingarne voted in favor of issuing
bonds for the purpose of putting in
electric lights, but turned down the
proposition to put in waterworks.
Co-OPERATIvE TELEPHONES. AT Hia-
watha there is a movement for putting
in another telephone exchange on a
cooperative plan. Actual cost is to be
prorated among its subscribers.
AGAINST HEDGE LAw-Harvey coun.
ty voters cast 631 votes for the adop.
ton of the hedge law and 2,O97 against
it. Every precinct in the county gave
a majority against it.
Snow STORM UP NoRTH.-Tbe north.
west part of Kansas, along the Rock
Island has had snow storm. There
was a two-inch fall at Belleville which
melted at once.
ASSISTANT SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT.
County Superintent Swingle, of Riley
county, will be first assistant to State
Superintendent of Schools l. L. Day
hoff.
AFTER A ZINC SMELTER.-Neodesha
is negotiating for S1Oo, 600 zinc smelt
er. The city holds oil lands and lease.
and they figure in the bargaining.
WHERE ARE THE BooKs.-W;nfield i:
wrestling with the question, -whers
are the books to fill the Carnegie Ii
brary to come from?
IT STILL LIvEs.-The annual meet
ing of the Kansas State Grange will bt
held at Lyndon on December Gil.
SENATOR INGALLS, GRAvE.-Th,
grave of the late John ]. Ingalls, will
be marked by a native boulder deposit
ed in Kansas soil in the glacial period
This will be done in obedience to
letter written in the senate chamber a
Washington, December 10, 1890, t,
Mrs. Ingalls, in Atchison.
SENATOR INGALLS, BROTHERHOOD
ert Morris Ingalls,, brother of tn,
late John J. Ingalls,, died at hospita
in Boston. Mr.. Ingalls, was presiden
of the Standard Fire Escape company
and was 65 years old.
SHORT HORN SALE.-Groom Bros.
raisers of fine registered range Short
horn cattle, in Texas, will hold a sal
of some of their cattle in Wichita De
cember IL. 81. I. Groom, member O
the firm, has completed the arrange
the first one of its kind ever held il
Wichita.
SIXTY DEFECTIVE BAILoTs.-In on
precinct in Kingman county sixty de
fective ballots were thrown out, an
forty-seven of these were cast by Re
publicans.
PosToFFIcE RoBRED.-The postoffic
at Staffordville, Chase county, whic
was in hardware store, has bee
robbed of s36.76 in money orders an
$50 in cash. The hardware store ais
; lost about 5000, divided about equal
between cash and goods.
: SENATORIAL CANDIDATES. The Cope
land hotel is busy place. State ser
, ators and members of the legislator
. are dropping in daily to talk the situa
ton over. Quarters at the Copelan
: have been assigned to the senator's
candidates.
MASONIC REUNIoN.-The big Scot
tish Rite temple in Wichita was mdd
ready for the grand semi-annual rt
, union. The elegant rooms were gill
, ter of light and the visitors wer
1 greeted with comfort and luxury. o
y the first night there were 125 cand
a dates for degrees and rs of them wer