Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-05-07

announced. Pestana il an old soldier
and now state senator from Russell
county. The place pays 81, 900 year,
now, having been cut down from 81. 800
by the legislature.
had Coon NERvE.--Whlle q newly
married couple were returning from
their honeymoon on Missouri Pacific
train to their home at Bushton, Kans- ,
the bride walked off train that was
running ut thirty-fvc miles an hour.
Her shoulder was disiocated and
bruised. She did not lose conscious
ness.
ALL RAILROAD MKN.-The Interna-
tionai convention of the Railroad Y.
NJ. C. a. at Topeka, consisted of LOO
or /, 800 railroad men of the United
States and Europe. They represent
the very best type of railroad men. an
army of workers in which the standard
is constantly being raised.
REFoRsf1ToRY MANAeERs.-Govern
or Bailey reappointed Phillip Kelley,
of White Cloud, and Z. j. O'Neil, OF
Usage City, as members of the board
of managers of the Kansas state re-
formatory at Hutchinson. They win
serve term of four years. 3
FIRST Snow THEY EVER SAw.-H.
Audrey and wife, of Frcemantile, AUS
tralia, passed through Salina on their
4l,, A,,1rar- &c
wealthy miner and left Sydney on
November 5, 1902 The first snow he
ever saw was falling.
NAMED FOR FRENCH BATTLEFIELD.-
1t is stated that the town of Sedan,
county seat of Chautauqua county, was
named by an early traveller who saw
the site from a neighboring hill and
was struck with it's likeness to the
French battlefield.
A SHOW HoRsg.-A fine horse raised
by James Haddocls. of Glasco, was pur-
chased the other day by A. B. Mont
gomery, of jamestown, for $500. The
horse will be exhibited at all the big
llOISc SAOWb, anu AI bthVC AdlEs.
A HIGH WALL-Work has com.
menced of building wall around the
Hutchinson reformatory. 1t is to be
90 or 25 feet high. The appropriation
for it was $685. The work is to be
done by convicts.
STOCK KILLED ~ BARN-A barn on
the farm of Eli Saindon. near Palco,
Saline county, was struck by lightning
and destroyed by fire. Eleven head of
horses and eleven head of other stock
were burned.
At WAsHBURN CoLLEGE.-The trus-
tees of that old and popular school
have established musical conserva-
tory, and it is proposed to make of it
the leading institution of the kind in
Kansas.
THREE Towns UNIrE.-Coffeyvi
Cherryvale and Independence may
unite in granting q franchise for an In
terurban electric road to serve them
all.
KANSAS ESCAMrMESr.-The twenty
second annual encampment of the Kan
sas G. A. r. will be held at Mcpherson,
beginning at $3.50 e. m. of May 90.
WITH RoosEvELr.-Secretary Root
was called to Kansas to accompany the
president through a portion of his trip
through the state.
Cost OF CoFFELT JURY.-In the Coffelt
murder trial in Sumner county 3a7
jurors reported and were examined at
a cost of 81, 365.75.
HAS NEEDED IT LoNe.-The Union
Pacific is to build a new passenger
depot at junction City.
AT Ell DoRADo.-A new engine has
been built at the Missouri Pacific shops
at Ell Dorado.
empty JAIL.-The Rice county Jail
at Lyons has not a single prisoner
in it.
To INSPECT IN TExAs.-Governor
Bailey and the members of the state
livestock sanitary commission have
agreed upon plan to prevent much of
the double inspection of cattle coming
into Kansas from Texas. J. n. John
son, the state inspector at Arkansas
City, has been ordered to go at once to
Fort Worth, Texas, and inspect.
RAISED BIZ HTMsELF.-George Car
pen ter, Clay county farmer, the other
sold spau of matched black Percher-
on-Normans raised by himself for
$500.
BARBER TO PRosPECT.-Many of the
heaviest tax payers of Medicine Lodge
aud Barber county favor experiment.
ing on the county poor farm for gas,
oil or minerals. Petitions are being
circulated asking the county commits.
sioners to submit the question to the
voters of the county.
FLOUR TO NoRwAY--Onec carload OF
-four has left Wichita for Christiania,
Norway. The -four was shipped by
the Watson Mill and Elevator Co., and
billed through to Christiania. 1t bears
many labels stating its origin.
A REMINIscENcE.-W Seth Wells
was out with the board of railway as.
SCISSORS last week, travelling in a special
train, he looked out through plate
glass windows over country which he
viewed from crack in a box car about
twenty years ago when he had only
fifteen cents in his pocket
THROUGH LINE TO NEW ORLEANS
The Missouri Pacific promises to give
better service over its line from Fort
scott to Topeka, and to give Topeka a
through line to Memphis and New Or
leans.
He LIVED ALoNE.-Peter. Thaucr, a
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