Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-02-20

reached l, BOB early IN February.
DIR. A. Doud, president of the Kansas
State Dental society, died at Fort Scott
Feb. Z.
The supreme court sustains Governor
Stanley's appointment of four district
judges.
Geo. Chase, brother-in-law of ex-Gov.
Crawford, is practicing law in Wash
ington.
Anthony is to have cheese factory
in connection with its Swimming sta
ton
Examinations for county school di-
plomas will be given on March 90 and
April II.
Kansas has expended for public
schools s65, 357, 1896, during the last fif-
teen years.
The debt of tn city of Coffeyville has
decreased s6,615.23 during the past
three months.
The snow of the night of the 18th
14th covered Kansas, and was worth
big dollars.
The Kansas Livestock company of
Olathe has Incorporated to raise and
handle livestock
The state board of health reports
that no deaths from smallpox occurred
in Kansas during January.
The Bell telephone central office at
Junction City, with barber shop I'M
der it, have been Quilted by fire.
Another flowing gas well at Mound
feet. 1t is stronger than one before in
use.
An excellent program has been pre-
pared for the 18th annual meeting of
the State Dairy association at Manhat-
tan on March to 8.
Frank Ray, who was held in Jail at
Kingsley, charged with holding up the
operator at the Offerle station, broke
Jail and disappeared.
Senator Burton has been honored by
being called to preside over the senate.
The honor consists of this having &C.
CURED SO early in his first term.
Wellsville, Franklin county, has
granted a natural gas franchise on the
condition that the grantee furnish the
city with gas within two years.
A Rice county farmer who has been
to Ohio says that Kansas farmers can
put their wheat in the stack for less
than the Ohio farmers have to pay for
fertilizers.
After the roping contest at Wichita
c. A. Rice was gored through his neck
by an angry steer. The spinal column
was not touched but the horn entered
his windpipe.
DIR. E. R. Switzer, of Salina, is cred
tied with being the first man in Kansas
sas to have an alfalfa field. In 1874 he
put in two acres. He obtained the
seed in San Francisco.
An opinion has been given by the
attorney general that township officers
may use money collected for general
purposes for work on highways in
Guiding the building of bridges
The free delivery service will be es-
tablished at Wellington, Kas., June ],
which was discontinued in 1895, with
three regular and one substitute letter
carrier, and seven street letter boxes.
The Grain Growers association meet
ing will be held at Hutchinson on
March 4. A rate of one and one-third
fare has been granted from all points
in Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
One Topeka commission house re-
ceives a carload of poultry every day
except Sunday from Santa Fe towns
between Topeka and Newton.
Frank White, Fort Scott grocer,
went deliberately before a train and
allowed the train to run over him. He
had been unbalanced in mind for sew
eral days.
H. Burton, who was given a second
trial under decision of the supreme
court, has been the second time con-
victed of murder in the Marion county
district court
Masonic lodge No. 90 of Wichita has
bought 100 feet of ground and two
residences, on the northwest corner of
First street and Emporia avenue, for
S4 500, withthe intention of erecting a
temple upon it. The new building will
cost about $50, 600.
A monument has been placed IN a
Leavenworth cemetery over the grave
of Fred Harvey, the dead Santa Fe line
eating houses proprietor. 1t is plain,
is of the sarcophagus style and is made
of three pieces of gray Vermont gran
lite, and weighs over 80 tons.
The supreme court upholds that part
of the Hurrell law which makes the
possession of liquors prima facie evil
dence of the crime of selling it.
A. w. Kirby, druggist of Howard
fell dead in his store. He was county
superintendent of Elk county for two
terms.
The farmers of Leavenworth county
are now feeding grain to the quails on
their farms. The recent heavy snow
prevents quail from skirmishing up a
living and the farmers are giving them
assistance.
Grocer Sutton of Wichita, who was
supposed to have been murdered, killed
himself. This is shown by a letter
enclosing disposal of his property.