Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-30
KANSAS COMMENT.

scr, 900 of per cent bonds at per
cent.
A COUNTY HIGH SCHooL--1n accord
ance with special act passed by the
the last legislature the board OF county
commissioners established the Keno
county high school at Niclserson. In
consideration the city of Nickerson
gives the county school house worth
$4,000.
For GOOD RoADs.-Four delegates to
the National Good Roads association,
which meets at st. Louis April 27 and
90. have been selected. They are: ID.
c. Congdon, Grant Hornaday. Andrew
i. Sherman and W. War;, all of Fort
Scott. Other Delegates to this meet
ing will be appointed later.
FOUR MORE DELEGATES.
Bailey has appointed four more dele
gates to the good roads convention,
which meets in st. Louis next week.
They are: r. NJ. Chilcott, Wamego;
0. q. Smith, Wichita; William Brad
bury, Topeka, and T. A. hraiher'
Plainville.
For THE KINGsBURYs.-Jud Z. L..
Kingsbury, of Burlington, has been
notified that he was willed $4,000 by
his brother, George L. Kingsbury, who
died at Scranton, Pa, March 81. Mrs
Lucy Hampshire, of Sedgwicls, daugh-
ter of Mr.. Kingsbury. is given $4,000.
Mr. Kingsbury's sisters son, George
Fisher, Is given 10000, and daugh-
ter, Emily Fisher, gets what is left.
SHOT HER Foor.-While the excur-
sionists to Lindsborg to hear the "Mes-
siah" were boarding their train for Nc
Pherson a man on the train fired a
shot from a car window. The bullet
struck a woman in one foot. She was
one of the students at the college,
Bertha Olson. An attempt was made
to arrest the shooter on the arrival OF
the train at Mcpherson, but he could
not be found in the crowded train.
IRRIGATIoN ACCOUNTABILITY del
egates met at Garden City and organ
lied the Western Kansas Irrigation as
ISOLATION, with I. L. Diesem as presi-
dent; J. c. Starr. of Scott county, vice
president; John Hall, of Syracuse,
treasurer; c. A Louclls, of Lallin, secre-
tary. C. T. Johnson, of Cheyenne,
Wyoming, addressed the convention.
Other addresses were made by Victor
Murdoch, Charles T. Clyne and John
Hall. The meeting was enthusias-
tic.
c. A. BARR, NoTAEY.-It seems from
INQUIRIES received by the secretary OF
state that land swindles of more or less
magnitude have been perpetrated IN
Western Kansas by means of convey
ances which pretended to be aclkpowl-
edged by c. A. Barr, a notary public
of Ellsworth county. An examination
of the records shows that there is no
such person holding a notarial commits
sion.
ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLING.-Samu
D. Pollock, representative in the legis-
lature from the ffty-6fth district. has
been arrested for, embezzling 1894 from
the United States government The
theft was committed when Pollock was
assistant postmaster in the Arkansas
CITY Office and was done by tampering
with money orders and records. Pol
lock confessed and exonerated every
one else connected with the Office. The
thefts were committed between May
a5 and July o, 1902.
THAT SOUTHEAST LINE.-It is be-
coming almost certain that the railroad
line to the Indian Territory coal fields
projected and surveyed by Wichita
people, will be constructed. Eastern
capitalists are to secure the profiles OF
of the survey, with the field notes, con-
ditioned upon their commencing the
work of construction soon.
PENIrENT1ARY FARM.-Warden jew
EFT raises enough potatoes by convict
labor on the penitentiary grounds to
supply his 1000 boardcrs the year
round. Now he is clearing ground to
raise enough corn TO fatten a sufficient
number of hogs to keep the prison sup
piled with all the hog meat consumed.
RATES For CAsH.-Money is being
loaned in Vermont at per cent. In
Kansas she loan agents can get but
five per cent. Kansas money is seek
ing mortgage Investments in the east
ern states.
PRIZES FOB LAwNs.-The Hutchin-
son water company is offering prizes
ranging from $50 to SIS each for the
best lawns of various sizes developed
this season.
New TELEPHONE CoMPAN1.-A new
telephone company known as the
Dewey-Wareham Telephone company,
has been organized to operate in Cen
trail Kansas, and has taken a charter.
Its capital stock is $50, 900, the greater
part of which is held by c. p. Dewey
of Chicago, and II. P. Wareham, .ol
Manhattan, Kas.
THIRTY ACRES EACH.-There are
only little over 5000 people in Rush
county, and there are $4,000 acres
planted to wheat. That county will
have wheat to spare, sure.
HoRsEs For EURoPE.-Eastern horse
buyers in the past six weeks have
> shipped nine carloads of horses from
Saline county for English markets
Kansas horses command higher prices
than for years in London and Liver
pool.
HAND AND FooT CRUSHED. While
playing on trestle in the Santa Ft
yards at Coffeyville the six-year-olt
son of Thomas Edmiston was struck by