Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-03
KANSAS COMMENT.


at Lyons, it is said, there was SIS re-
ccived for chicken pie.
PROSPERITY IIEM.-Scven agents are
selling three different kinds of ency-
clopedias in Sumner county.
SALOON MEN E.-Three sa-
loon keepers at Ellinwood carry good
sized ads in the local paper.
WuooPING CoueH.-An epidemic of
this disease has caused the closing of
number of schools in Geary county.
HIsroRIcAI SocIErY.-The State
Historical society will hold its 9sth an
nual meeting in Topeka on December l.
HORTON DEFEATS BoSDs.-The city
of Holton defeated "a proposition for
bonds for watcrworlis by 80 votes, a ma
jority of the votes cast
CONWAY TO LARNED. The Missouri
Pacific Railroad company has estao-
lished passenger service between Con-
way Springs and Larned.
STRUCK ANTHRACITE while drilling
new gas we'll at Chanute, at depth
of 500 feet FIVE foot vein of anthra-
cite of the first quality was found.
aFoR ELECTRIC L1NE.-Rails are be-
ing laid on the electric line from Rose
dale to Olathc. At Rosedale connec-
ton will be made with the Kansas City
lines.
INHALED SrEAM-The fve-year old
son of Geo Lowe, OF Norton county,
put his mouth over the spout of tea
kettle and inhaled the steam. The
doctors gave no hope of his recovery.
WINFIELD To IMPRovE.-At joint
meeting of the executive committee
and the commercial club it was recon-
mendcd that petitions be circulated
calling an election to vote S134,Ooo in
bonds for municipal waterworlSs, cleo
trio light plant and to prospect for
natural gas.
WORK on OEIENT.-That new rail-
road has three contractors at work on
the grade Just out OF Wichita. An
other steam excavator has been put to
work and the grading is being pushed
While the recent cold weather did not
hinder the work any, the last rain put
the graders behind some.
WoMAa CARRIES RURAL MAIL
every morning." says the Register,
"a bright-eyed neat little woman
drives out of lola for twenty-four mile
trip north of town, carrying the mail
on route No. 3. Her name is Lillian
Smith and she is the regular carrier
and expects to continue the work this
winter. Miss Smith is college bred
woman, an ex-school teacher, u talent
ed musician and charming lady"
ENCOURAGE WATEGwoRKs. - The
Kansas Fire Preventing association
held their annual meeting in Topeka,
about 40 insurance men being present.
The object of the association is to in
duce cities to improve their water
works systems and their fire depart
ments. Whenever city makes these
improvements the association reports
the fact to the insurance companies
and the rate is reduced.
SMALL Pox AT GooDLAND.-
cases of smallpox have developed at
Goodland and the county health officer
has laid quarantine. Mayor Swartz
has issued proclamation enjoining ali
public meetings. The schools have
been closed and the churches notified
to hold no service until the quarantine
has been raised. Excitement: is high.
The smallpox is thought to have start
ed first i'll a gang of Greeks employed
on the railroad section gang.
SHERIFF SEXES CoAi--At Leoti
Sheriff Thrapp seized and sold six chr
loads of coal which had been standing
on the tracks for several days. The
coal was sold in 1000 pound lots for
the market price and the money de-
posted to be turned over to the owner
of the coal when its ownership is
proved.
A HUNDRED MORE MEN.-Thc new
improvements and additions to the
Cudahy packing hous, in Wichita, just
completed, will give einploymcns to
100 more men.
COUNTY Full. OF TuIEvEs.-In Cher
ol>ce county a gang of thieves gets"
somebody every twcntv-four hours.
Farmers are held up on the highways
and their houses burglarized All the
smaller towns have had burglaries, in
GLIDING railroad depots, the one at
Cherokee half dozen times. Stores
are robbed everywhere.
FRISCO SECTION HANDS. Several ST.
Louis & San Francisco section hands
in the Pittsburg district struck be-
cause of recent reduction of their
pay of 10 cents day.
JUSTICES ARE RLsIGNINa. The COM
pensation for justices of the peace in
Kansas must not be lucrative. Many
of them seem to be resigning. Justices
of the peace are constitutional offices
and vacancies must be filed by APP
pointment by the governor. Within
thirty days over seventy justices have
resigned. Not single one gives any
reason for doing so.
SHEEP TO WINTER Over four thou
sand sheep reached Geary county in
the first shipment, to be fed during the
winter.
on IN ToPEKA.-Since the report has
been circulated about the oil discovery
near Big Springs, it has developed that
the oil is in close proximity to Topeka.
Ira Howe, the chief miller at the Cros-
by mill, says that there is oil in the
well which was dug back of the mill so
thick the water cannot be used.