Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-01-30

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Slot machines are being banished
from Kansas towns, Washington being
the latest noticed.
In Dickinson county towns there are
eleven less joints. Judge Moore closed
them by injunetions.
Colonel D. R. Anthony is being push
ed to become candidate for com
mander of the Kansas e. A. R.
An old tin can was unearthed near
Paola which contained $3.50 in gold.
Mrs. Hymer proved that it was hers.
Children and matches caused the loss
by E. A. Weller, of Wamego, of barn,
three horses and his hay and grain.
When Granville II. Meixell, of Mid
land College at Atchison died, his
friends sent $500 in cash in lieu of
flowers.
Washington pays the Methodist
church of that county seat city $40 a
| year for the use of its bell for fire
alarms.
A dynamo in the state house heating
plant burned out and the executive
council is investigating where to locate
the blame.
T. B. Gerow, director of the State
Free Employment bureau thinks that
homework should be taught in the pub
lie schools.
Brakeman George Turner had a wrist
broken and was otherwise badly in
/ jured from falling from train near
the Slate Creek junction.
A new town between Jewell City and
Beloit, where coal is expected to be
| brought to the surface in car load lots,
is to be called Mineralton.
Peter A. Hartig, a member of the
original town company and ever since
much respected citizen of Eudora,
was recently killed by train. He was
nearly so years old.
City Attorney Chas. F. Spencer, of
Topeka, told the municipal league
convention at Wichita that Kansas has
no law by which a city can condemn a
waterworks system.
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company are to supply their customers
in Topeka and Wichita with the new
instruments which call Central" au-
tomatically, with no bell ringing.
Postmaster Guthrie of Topeka is to
be from now on the paymaster who
will send the cash pay every month to
all the rural free mail carriers in
! Kansas. There are now about 200 of
them.
Supt. Pearls, of the Haskell Institute
is asking for a supply of guns for his
Indian battalion. He has two COM
| panies of Indians who make a fine
| appearance as soldiers; one company
pany only trifle smaller. The super
intendent will also ask for regular
army officer to drill his battalion.
DIR. Phillips was once the bosom
| friend of Abraham Lincoln. He came
to Kansas in the early days and for
tune smiled upon him. He lived in
Allen county and was surrounded by
many friends. But old age overlook
him, his friends and fortune passed
from him, and the other day he died in
the Sedgwicl1 county poorhouse at the
| Of a,-lr-
| Phillips was prominent enough to be
the recipient of an unusual honor. His
wife died at Humboldt, and Senator T.
b. Plumb hurried all the way from
Washington to be pallbearer at her
| funeral.
The Cowley county commissioners
hired a man to hunt for tax dodgers.
His work resulted in placing on the
tax rolls $751; more property.
An air pressure gasoline lamp ex-
ploded in store at Meade and the
county commissioners promptly pro-
hibited the use of such lamps in the
court house.
A Salina company which puts up a
couple of patent medicines has agreed
to turn over every year to the Kansas
Wesleyan university of that city 10 per
cent of all sales made.
Rev. II. E. Mills, pastor of the First
Congregational church of Fort Scott,
and Mrs. Mills, offered themselves to
the American board of foreign missions
for service abroad, and were rejected
because they were both past 80 years
old.
st. Louis doctor has heard that
''the village doctor" at lola is about tc
leave, and he has written to the mayor
asking if the people are able to pay an
other one to take his place; and this
doctor is supposed to have brains some
where about his anatomy.
Congressman Scott says that at the
presidents reception the handsomest
women were from Kansas.
The Southwestern Soldiers Reunion
association will hold the next reunion
September 9, 10, II and 10, 1902. The
o4ISeHs loi A9O~ dro' D. W. odnAoA u
president; Elias Neff, first vice presi
dent; Allen Mowry, second vice presi
dent; NJ. n. Sirnott, treasurer; c. 7
Thurston, quartermaster; J. D. Guthrie
assistant quartermaster; Patrick Fra
ney, provost marshal; H. T. Roberts
recorder; F. w. Miller, secretary.
A. G.. Patrick, a pioneer of jefferson
county, known by all old settlers o
Kansas, is writing some interesting
raD,inisoapoaS of tho varv, aarl1- dave