Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-11-27

| gagged in relieving a chute filled with
fine salt which had become clogged.
The mass of salt above fell upon him
forcing him through the chute to the
basement where the large volume Of
| salt crushed the life out of him.
APPOINTED A CADET.-Congressma
A. NJ. Jackson has appointed Blanton
Tandy, of Winfield, as a cadet to West
Point to fill the vacancy of Cadet Young
of Independence, who served two years
and had to resign on account of poor
health. Harvey Ellridge of Parsons,
and R. NJ. Wrinkle, of McCune, were
applicants.
AN EARLY FRIEND OF KANsAs.-A
bronze bust of Frank B. Sanborn, a
friend of Kansas in the early days, has
been received by the State Historical
society from the Boston Museum of
fine Arts. D. w. Wilder, who has
known Mr.. Sanborn for half century,
will write a sketch of him for the So
ciety.
WILL ASK FOR SIS, OOO.-Senator ].
c. Carpenter, of Chanute, president of
the Kansas commission to the Louisiana
Purchase exposition, says that the
commission will ask the legislature for
an additional appropriation for the
Kansas exhibit at the fair of only $751;
600 instead of $50, 900 as reported.
STATE BUYS PoTAToEs.-J. E.
Brewer, of Abilene, has secured the
contract for supplying the two state
insane asylums, the school for the deaf
and dumb, and the imbecile asylum,
during the next six months. 1t is es-
| timated that 1000 bushels will be used.
ANTI TRUST LAws.-County Attor.
ney Nichols of Shawnee county has
brought suit against IS fire insurance
companies for violation of the anti
trust laws. A test case is set for trial
on December 2.
A $4,000 LENs.-The objective lens
for the Grand Prix telescope at Wash
burn college will come packed in cot.
ton and curled hair, from Cleveland,
where it was made. The lens is valued
at So, 500.
torney general has decided that teach
ers cannot be locked for not holding
school on thanksgiving. School boards
in Central Kansas made the opinion
necessary.
DROWNED IN WATERING TANK.-Miss
Mollie Starr, daughter of Dickinson
county farmer, was drowned in a
watering tank. She led the horses to
water and evidently tainted, falling in.
SHOPS DEDIcATED.-Over nine hun
dred couples attended the dedication
ball at the new Santa Fe shops in To-
pelka. The new shops will give work
to about 1000 men.
EARNED PRoMoTIoN.-County Clerk
Elect John Wright of Shawnee county
has served as deputy or clerk in that
Office for thirteen years.
SERVED UNCLE SAM "a YEARS
James Fl. Beddon, wagon master, has
served 81 years for the government at
Fort Leavenworth.
BooKKEEPERs TO MEET.-Their state
association met at Emporia on Novem-
Der 25. C. Meserve, of Emporia, is
president.
GAINED neutrality-suspicious.
Longs majority is over five times that
he received two years ago.
To CONSOLIDATE PosTs.-Sedpwicl,
county Grand Army Veterans are agi-
tating the consolidation of all posts of
the county, leaving Garfield post, in
Wichita, which is the parent organiza-
ton in the county, as nucleus for the
concentrating of them all
SYRACUSE TO THE FRoNT.-The new
Santa Fe time card shows that SYRIA
cuse is at last division point; coal
chutes, dining room and other i'm
provements are being put in, and after
this everything on wheels will stop
there.
Hoe CHoLERA.-The Sedgwicl1 Pan
tagraph says that good many farmers
are scared over the epidemic of hog
cholera, or fever or whatever it is that
is causing the hogs to die off so rapidly.
As result great many young hogs
are being rushed to market by farmers
for fear the disease will get into their
stock.
ONLY ELEVEN Observation-Disclosures
Jewett's annual report says that only
eleven of the 1,Os9 prisoners in his
charge at the Kansas penitentiary are
natives of Kansas.
LAID OUT LAwRENcE.-Captain A.
D. Scarf, who laid out the TOWNSHIP OF
Lawrence, died recently in Colorado.
His funeral occurred at Lawrence
under the charge of the G. A. R. post.
He was prominent in other engineering
work in the early history of the town
and of the state
INVESTED IN GOLD MINEs.-The edi.
tor of the Burlingame Chronicle says
that to his certain knowledge So, soc
has within the past two months been
invested in Colorado gold mines by
parties in and near Burlingame.
WILL DRILL FOR O1L-Mr HOLSTER
of Mulvane, announced that he had Sc
cured the money necessary and would
begin drilling at once to develop the
gas find on his farm. Citizens of Null.
vane proposed to form company, but
Mr.. HOLSTER decided to make the
venture alone.
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