Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-06-04
KANSAS
KANSAS COMMENT.

at Ellsworth last week. He was hale
and hearty in spite of 90 years, up to
few hours before his death.
AT CHEToPA.-J. NJ. Roper, an old
soldier and old resident there was
drowned, with the horse he was riding
in the overflow of the Neosho river.
TOWNSHIPS WIy.-Attorney General
Coleman has ruled that the bridges
and culverts built by townships along
road, belong to the township in case
the road is abandoned.
KILLED 300 SHEEP.-A Santa Fe
stock train was wrecked four miles
west of Kinsley and about 300 sheep
were killed 1t took abont fifteen
hours to clear the wreck
KIsHESEFF RELIEF. Bal
ley has agreed to act of treasurer for
relief fund which has been started in
Kansas for the relief of the Jewish
sufferers at Kisheneff, Russia.
CANNOT GARSIsHEE. Attorney Gen
eral Coleman says that the weight of
authority declares that public policy
will not permit school district or
board of education to be required to
answer in a punishment proceeding.
STRIKE AT GYPSUM MILLs.-Thirty
men employed on tine gypsum mills and
quarries at Medicine Lodge are on
strike. An increase of ~ cents an
hour in wages was refused. They were
receiving 81. rs day. The gypsum
works are owned by an English syndi-
cate.
STORM AT MUDvANE.-T storm at
Mulvane did great damage to orchards
and outbuildings. The wind blew at
sixty miles an hour followed by a
driving rain. Outbuildings were
blown hundreds of feet, trees were up
rooted and many residences and barns
were twisted.
To APPROVE SCHOOL SUPPLIEs.-A
meeting of the state text book commits
sion probably win be held in August
for the purpose of approving school
supplies needed by the various districts
in the state The State Teachers as
ISOLATION at its last meeting asked that
meeting be held regularly every
August for the purpose of approving
supplies.
EUREKA BADLY INJURED.-A tornado
midnight. Large trees were torn up
by the roots and some twenty dwell
ings were wrecked. Some houses in
the path of the storm were left stand
ing while the wrecks of other houses
were scattered around them. Seven
people were injured and two may die.
OLDEST MASONIC LoDGE.-Highland
has the oldest Masonic lodge in Kansas
-Smithton lodge No. l, A. T. & A. NJ,
organized Nov. so, 1854. The first
meetings of the lodge were held in the
open air on high bluff near Smithton,
after which the members met at Iowa
Point for several years. By consent of
the grand lodge it was moved to High
land, and has always been in a pros
porous and harmonious condition.
AT CoFFEYvILLE.--The greatest dam
age occurred when the water flowed
through the yards of the Coffeyville
Vitrifed Brick and Tile company, the
largest plant in the west. Six kilns of
fine brick were completely ruined
and the machinery and boilers badly
damaged. The loss will be fully So
900. The water also entered the large
factory for making straw board filters
for egg cases. The factory will sus-
tain damages to the amount of $50, 900.
passed over Hodgeman county, fifteen
miles northwest of Kinsley, destroying
Dan Gleason's house and killing Mabel
futile, who had been teaching school
and making her home at Gleason's
Gleason's daughter was injured.
CHURCH so YEARS OLD.-The FIRST
Presbyterian church OF Highland was
organized October 81, 1s43, in the old
Indian mission to the Iowa and Sac
tribes 1t is the oldest Presbyterian
church in Kansas. The church has had
fifteen ministers.
BITTEN BY A CAT.-Miss Phelps, an
instructor in the Emporia normal
school, was bitten by cat and is very
sick from the wound and suffers in
tensely. She had cat on her lap
when dog ran near by and frightened
it into fit. The cat bit her face,
which soon began to swell, and at.
tanned large proportions. Attending
physicians fear blood poisoning.
IoLA's PooULATIoN.-Iola's city as.
SCISSOR, estimating from the returns
now in, says that the population of the
city proper will be pretty close to g, 800.
In GREENWOOD COUNTY. par
ties which traversed the path of the
storm report things in bad condition
to the southwest of Eureka for nearly
twenty miles. Every house in the
path of the storm was either badly
shattered or entirely demolished The
total number of badly injured in Green
wood county is nine. Numerous Others
were hit by flying timbers and
bruised.
ToRNADoEs.-They are fewer in Kan
sas than in the New England States
according to the records.
HoIsINeToN HIeH ScHooL-Thai
thriving, busy town is to have new
high school building. The contract
was let to Cork & Frye for SILL
The building is to be of brick with
stone basement, will contain eight
rooms and be thoroughly modern in
every respect.