Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-01-09

issued.
On the morning of January much
of Kansas was covered with a blanket
of snow.
More than one half of the lands of
Kansas are still unoccupied and I'M
developed.
Isaac Grifiths, farmer of Saline
county, died from injuries received in
runaway.
Leavenworth has voted $500, 900 of
bonds for the purchase of the water
works plant.
Coffeyville proposes to erect monu-
ment to commemorate the services of
Co. G, goth Kansas.
Philips county officers are looking
for lightning rod sharp who has been
working the farmers.
Geo. Pritchard, who enlisted at En-
poria, was killed by another soldier in
a quarrel at Fort Leavenworth.
Four hundred acres lying adjacent
to Newton has just been sold to an
Iowa investor for S22, 900 in cash.
General Fitzhugh Lee is to address
the Spanish-American war veterans
reunion in Topeka on February II.
Jewell City has sunk shaft down
10Y feet in searching for coal. The
shaft is nearly full of salt water now.
The new pipe organ just installed in
the Church of the Assumption (Catholic)
in Topeka, cost the congregation 81, 900.
In 1861 the expenditures of the state
of Kansas for all purposes were s46,-
1899. In 1901 the disbursements
amounted to nearly ga million dollars.
A Missouri Pacific section boss on
the Burr Oak branch gave up his job
last week after holding it for twenty
two years; ever since the line was built.
Sedgwick county has 14,356 children
of school age. The county employs 2s4
teachers. The average salary of male
teachers is S45 month and of females
is $40.
The Bourbon county grand jury is to
overhaul the socialist colony planted
by Carl Brown on the matter of the
practice of free love being carried on in
the colony.
Bill Fisher, the Horton politician
and horse man, who weighs something
less than ton, has been at Colorado
City for five months, where he is inter
ested in banking and lumber enter
prises.
Frank Ray, who says he is from
Paducah, KY, is held for holding up
the night operator at the Offerle de-
pot. He claims that he was mustered
out of the army in San Francisco last
October.
The experiment station at Halstead
of the department of agriculture, has
growing 500 varieties of grain. The
cerealist of the department, on his re-
cent inspection, found most of the 800
in fair condition.
The franchise of the Missouri & Kan
sas telephone company in Wichita hav-
ing expired, the city commenced fight
by arresting men who were setting
poles. This case will go through the
courts, of course.
The completion of the Choctaw into
Anthony beat the time set by their
agreement three days. 1t was to get
there by January 1. This gives An
thony four competing railroads and the
Orient will be the fifth.
Clyde Moore was sentenced at Win
field to serve 20 years in the state pen
itentiary for the murder of C. L. Wilt
berger, who was killed last spring
while on the way to his home in the
country near Winfield.
Deputy Fish Warden Tegmier caught
five persons spearing fish and arrested
them. The minimum penalty is a Jail
sentence and a fine of S25, with costs.
The Kansas meeting of teachers
brought !, 800 of them together. The
Missouri meeting only counted 700, and
Missouri is fifth in population of the
states.
o. W. Coffelt, who is charged with
the murder of Detective Montgomery
at Winfield, is said to have been the
official hangman for several years at
Fort Smith.
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ness houses, the opera house block, and
the Cherryvale Daily and Weekly
News, with other business places. The
total loss is about $4,000. A later dis
patch leaves out the news.
Governor Stanley decides that he
cannot legally appoint an officer to fill
vacancy until on actual vacancy ex-
lists, and will therefore take no action
on appointment of sheriffs until jan
uary 10. He will then make one ap-
pointment and press the question to an
early decision by the supreme court.
The Kansas grand lodge of the True
Eleven, colored organization, which
now has free night school for aged
colored people in Atchison, has decided
to institute such schools in IS impor-
tant towns in the state where they
have lodges.
Judge Gilpatrick has denied the writ
of habeas corpus asked for prisoner
in the Kansas penitentiary, whose
term would be expired now if time was
credited to him when he was out on
bail. This is the first judicial decision
on that point.
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