Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-05-08
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Many Kansas wheat fields were
drifted over with sand in the storm of
last week.
There are 81 members of the grad
uating class of the Ottawa high school
pa girls and boys.
AS pension commissioner Mr.. Ware
will have no appointments to make ex-
cept the local pension boards.
Between $3.50, 900 and $500, 900 will be
expended by the government this year
on improvements at Fort Riley.
Principal F. H. Olney of the Law
renee high school had his face badly
broken up by a kick from horse.
Many Santa Fe employees have made
very profitable investments of their
savings by investing in the stock of
the road when it was low.
Herington people propose to raise
$4,000 to dig a 1000 foot hole in pros
pecting for gas or oil. They are en-
couraged by fiattering indications.
Herkimer, on the st. Joseph & Grand
Island railroad, west of Marysvilie,
was destroyed by fire. Only one bust
ness house, drug store, escaped the fire.
T. A. McNeal, in his address to the
Baldwin high school graduating class,
called Baker 1.-The greatest preacher
factory west of the Mississippi river. ;"
Near Herington ]. w. Creech lost As
head of fine cattle from eating poison
Gus weeds. The cattle were turned in
the pasture before the grass had much
growth.
Geo. Reitz, an electrician at Hutch
inson, is the only man in Kansas so far
as now known, who has received a
personal invitation to attend King Ed
wards coronation.
D. w. Heath offered to furnish the
NJ. E. church at Peabody with pipe
organ at his own expense if the church
was enlarged. The offer was accepted
and $4,000 was saised at a Sunday
morning service.
A negro shoemaker in part of To-
pela inhabited by colored people, has
been insulting girls as they passed his
shop. The colored women of the neigh
borhood set an hour for him to leave
in time to escape a suit of tar and
feathers. He left.
Miss NJ. E. Dolphin superintendent
of the public schools of Leavenworth,
has resigned, and the school board has
arranged to elect as her successor Prof.
D. w. Kendricl1, of Newton. Before
going to Newton six years ago Prof.
Kendrick had been superintendent of
the schools of Clay Center and Junction
City.
VIM. H. Harden died at Marysville,
April 10, aged 20 years. He was vet
eran of the Mexican and Civil wars and
was one of the leaders to the California
gold fields in 1S40.-This is clipped
item. If the man was only 70 years
old little figuring shows the incon'
sistency of the story of the Mexican
war and the gold fields.
The framework on the large addition
being built to the Santa Fe depot in
Wichita, has been completed and the
corrugated iron work begun. The adj
dition is $50 feet long and when fin
ished the Santa Fe freight room will
be $40 feet long. In addition to thi:
the platform is 100 feet long and the
Office department 60 feet long. The
total length of the depot is SCI
feet.
The county commissioners of Wash
ington county made an order that NJ
jointist sent to Jail will be released
until the full penalty is paid with costs
Senator Burton, of Kansas, was tn,
chief speaker at dinner given by tn,
Union League club, of Brooklyn, New
York, for General Grants birthday
April 26.
The S3rd anniversary of Odd Fellow
ship was celebrated at Kingman b,
lodges from towns near and far. Th
next meeting in this district will b.
held at Wichita next year.
There are five veterans who woult
like to hold the Office of register O
deeds in Sedgwick county. They hav
asked the old soldiers of the county t.
vote on them on May 10 to decide whicl
shall be the candidate.
The gas belt association of the Cd,
Fellows celebrated the S3rd anniver
sary of the order at Garnett. Specia
trains brought lodges from La Harpe
Colony, Wilde and other points, an,
the Missouri Pacific brought delega
tions from Yates Center, Westphali
and Leroy.
Five young men of Burlingame VIII
served in the army in the Philippine
remain there. Tom Hayson is inspect
or of police in Manila; Ruel March
in the signal corps; Bert Sanders an
Glen Hoover are both in the hospita
corps.
John Moffett is dead. He was col
onel on the staff of Governor Martin
Mr.. Moffet's business has been TO
years that of promoting large scheme
and in town building for railroads an
other interests. He died at La Port
Texas.
H. o. Tudor's annual sale of short
horns occurred last week in Holton
This sale will reduce his herd by ID
cattle. Some of them belonged to NJ
A. Low and A. D. Walker The sal
on the first day averaged s165 per head
Salina is to have a new bank build
ing which will be of stone and brio
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