Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-01-15
KANSAS COMMENT.

marriages.
FELL Down SHAFT.-Frank Baker.
farmer living near Independence fell
down an elevator shaft in an imple-
ment store and died from his injuries.
LIBRARY REcEPTIoN.-At a formal
New Years reception the new public
library rooms were first thrown open
to the people of the city of Abilene.
Miss Ida Romig, a X. S. q. graduate,
is the librarian.
KANSAS APPOINTMENTS The presi-
dent has appointed the following post
masters in Kansas: William C. Pal
mer, Jewell; Caddie Smith, Lebanon;
Joseph Fl. Wooden, Mankato; Sydney
w. Gould, Weir.
DocToBs Neutrality-suspicious. from
ten counties in that part of Kansas
met in Concordia and organized the
Third district auxiliary of the Kansas
State Medical Society, with DIR. Saw
hill, of Concordia, president.
On CENTRAL BRANCH. The heavy
business being done along the Central
Branch road has compelled the Western
Union to string an extra wire as far
west as Concordia, making four wires
between Blue Rapids and Atchison.
MORE MODERN COAL CHUTEs.-W. c.
Stiff's force of carpenters having fin
ished the coal chute at Syracuse, has
gone to Lamar to build one. From
Lamar he goes to Garden City to put
in a modern chute. The Lalsin chute
will then be torn out.
DEATH OF Mrs. DR.. HEwIrT.-Mrs.
Lulu S. Hewitt died at Topeka on jan
nary Z. She was a daughter of the
Rev. DIR. McCabe, so long a Topeka
pastor, and her husband was president
of the Presbyterian college of Emporia,
of which Mrs. Hewitt was a member
of the faculty. Her sister Martha
is now a member of the faculty.
New Rock ISLAND DEPoT.-The
ground has been surveyed at Salina
for a New Rock Island depot to be
erected soon. The building win be on
the site of the present station. The
present depot will be moved and used
as freight house. This improvement
by the Rock Island is the first of many
railroad improvements to be made in
Salina this year.
AN ANCIENT GUN.-It is claimed that
the gun which discharged the first shot
at the battle of Bunker Hill is the
property of Samuel N. Simpson, of
Kansas City, Kas. He is a grandson
of the Revolutionary soldier John
Simpson, of Deerfield, n. H, who fired
the shot in violation of the order,
don't shoot until you see until you
can see the whites of their eyes
DOUBLED THEIR RECEIPTs.-The
Kansas City Journal says that north
eastern Kansas horticulturists who
sent their pear crop into cold storage
last fall are now in clover. When the
crop was picked pears were worth S4. so
barrel. Now they are worth 50 and
the price is still advancing. Several
farmers have made from $1,000 to
IS, 900 each by holding their pears.
ABOUT $50 MEN.-The Missouri and
Kansas Telephone company is string
ing six wires from Wichita to Fort
Scott via Ell Dorado. Another extern
sion under way is a direct line to
Woodward, Okla, through Alva and
many other towns. Another is line
from FL Dorado to lola, and one from
South Haven to Geuda Springs. In
this work there are employed 90 gangs
with an average of IA men.
COAL FROM THE PENITENTIARY.-It
takes close to 5000 tons of coal each
month to supply the various state in
situations. Warden e. B. Jewett of
the state penitentiary reports that dur
lug the month of December he had sup
piled the state institutions with 49,
sos bushels of coal valued at about
$4,000.
MORE PROMPT TAX PAYING.-County
Treasurer Philips, of Shawnee county,
finds that there was $50, 900 more paid
in taxes before the end of the year
than in 1901.
INDIAN GIRLS vIc1oRIoUs. The
Haskell Indian girl basket ball team
won from the Topeka high school team
on the Haskell court by a score of 25
to s. 1t was fast and hard game
from the start, but the locals had all
the best of it. They were faster than
their opponents and had faculty of
e ~,
RAINFALL INCREAsE.-The annual
report of DR.. Frank Snow on Kansas
weather conditions notes that 1902 was
exceeded in rainfall only by the years
1876 and 1888.
WAR ON, SLOT MAcHINEs.-The Abb
lene city council has begun the new
year by beginning war on slot ma
chimes, many of which are in opera
ton. The marshal has been ordered
to close all such machines and to ar
rest parties who continue to run them.
SHE USED FLoUR.-A gasoline stove
exploded in Wichita restaurant and
the room was filed with the blaze.
Mrs. Latham, the proprietor's wife,
with the assistance of the clerk, put
out the fire by scattering a quarter
sack of flour on it
KANSAS EXPORTS DEMONSTRATIONS
ing mills of Junction City have COM
pleted an order for 5000 14O-pound
bags of flour that was exported direct
from Junction City to Belfast, Ireland,
and another of 1000 2sO-pound sacks
of -four which was sent to Glasgow,
Scotland. At present they are work.
ing on shipment of five carloads of
flour that is to go to Mexico.