Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-09-18
KANSAS hOMMENT


for the Wichita carnival.
Kansas City, Kas., receives SIS, 900 a
month from saloons contrary to law.
Benedict, Wilson county, holds an
"Old Settlers day on Wednesday, Sep
TENDER 10.
The Kansas legislature will be asked
to provide for the examination of
threshing machine engineers.
The 46th annual meeting of the Kan
sas River Baptist association was held
at Manhattan ending last Sunday.
Lane university at Lecompton, has
started upon its 57th yenr with an UNI
usually large number of students, both
new and old.
Miss Ida Scott, of Hays City, was
burned to death from the explosion of
a can of oil from which she was pour
ing oil upon fire.
Thomas Black, Of Valley Center. was
unloading lumber and run q silver into
his hand. Lockjaw resulted and the
case became serious.
VIM. Tuell, farmer near Maize,
was unloading straw and fell off his
wagon on an upturned pitchforh, and
almost bled to death.
Miss Nellie Richards of Ottawa was
dangerouly burned while using either
kerosene or gasoline for kindling the
fire in cook stove.
Edward Hopkins, Frisco brake
man, was shot by a robber while on
top of car in moving train east of
Wichita. His wounds are serious.
It is stated that there were about
5000 people attending the log rolling
at Fort Scott of the Woodmen of the
World. Twelve bands were in the
parade.
In one day the recruiting station at
Topeka received 81 applications for en-
listment They were from Is to IS
years old. Not more than half of them
will be accepted.
An excursion of soldiers to Abilene
on pay day occurred because of boy
colt upon Junction City brought on by
the electric line charging 10 cents fare
from the Fort Riley.
Charles H. Barnes, formerly of Ak
tell, Marshall county, is now chief
clerk of the Manila penitentiary, at a
salary of 81, 400 year, and is next for
promotion to assistant warden.
Robert Bright, secretary to Chan
cellor Snow at Kansas university, of
which school he was a graduate, died
at his home in Fort Scott on September
10. He was recently married.
So many army officers and soldiers
stationed from time to time at Fort
Lcavenworth have married Leaven-
worth girls that the place is called the
mother-in- law of the q. S. army.
Allan C. Caster, q merchant of Kipp,
Saline county, was sentenced to pris-
on term of two years for obtaining
money and credit under false pre-
lenses, hung himself with towel in
the Jail.
During the maneuvers to be held at
Fort Riley this month all captains OF
the K. n. G. will receive So a day:
ieutenants, 81; first sergeants, 81: mu-
sicians, IS cents: corporals, 90 cents;
privates 80 cents.
The Rock Island, according to rumor,
will establish n round house and re-
pair shops at the Burton car works
north of Wichita, to be reached by the
proposed new branth from Hutchinson
to connect with their southern line at
that place.
All the car hogs coming to the Wich.
ita market are extra and of good
weight. The wagon deliveries are also
better than they have been.
The roadmasters of the middle divi-
sion say that the Santa Fe is in the
worst kind of need of men to do sec.
ton work. Although agents are al
different towns trying to get workers
it is almost impssible to hire any
There is much need of work along the
line now in cutting weeds and repair.
ing the track, preparing for winte,
when little work can be done.
Fred Beeler, of Jewell county, begar
moving and stacking his alfalfa three
weeks ago and has been at it ever since
and now the first side of the field he
cut three weeks ago is ready to cu
egain. He now has 600 tons in the
stack.
Almost together Hutchinson had tive
Sunday fires-the McDemed mill anC
elevator and a residence. The insid,
of the mill was burned out and the los
on machinery is over $1,000. The los
on the residence and contents was an
other $4,000.
The Rock Island will send three ex
cursion trains from Kansas and Okla
homa to the national G. A. r. reunion
at Washington on October ell. Th,
three trains will be made up at Topeka
Herington and Oklahoma.
The Missouri Pacific has established
a rate on hay of 22N cents per hundred
pounds on carload lots to Colorad,
common points, from all points in Kan
sas. This gives Kansas shippers Mis-
souri, river rates while formerly Kan
sas shippers had to pay ~ cents more
than river rates.
In the many years that John Seatol
has represented Atchison county in til,
legislature he never has had opposition
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