Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-09-24
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Wichita Live Stock.

Massachusetts Prohibitionists in
state convention 1T Worcester nonina.
ted i full ticket.
The Philippine government mas au- 4
thorzed tile enlistment of 1000 Moros
in the constabulary.
The United States transport Sher.
man has arrived ut San Francisco from
Manila with the Tenth infantry.
More than 5000, ooo 900 pounds OF
sugar valued at over 500, 900, 900, was
brought into the United States in the
fiscal year just ended.
Congressman Vincent Borcign, the
only republican in the Kentucky con-
gressional delegation in congress. died
on September 16 ut London, Ky.
Forty-two women and children were
poisoned from eating ice cream at
church carnival in Bellena, New York.
An old lady was the worst affected.
c. Sam Nichols, newspaper man,
who has founded numerous papers in
Kansas, Missouri, Colorado and Wy
oming since the close of the civil war,
died in Salt Lake aged 60 years.
Fort Leavenworth is TO be supplied
with a motor car with all kinds of tools
for any necessary repairs, even while
the troops are on the march. 1t is
equipped to pull itself out of the mud.
The old claim of the government
against the Kansas Pacific railroad be-
fore that became Il part of the Union
Pacific system, has just been paid at
the end of long litigation. The amount
paid if s5e6, 300.
Eleven hundred and thirty. eigb,
trains arrive daily in Chicago upon
twentythree railways, carrying an av.
erage of 10000 passengers. OF these
trains 34s are for through traffic and
so4 for suburban business.
General Baldwin, commanding the
department of Colorado, regrets tn
abolishing of army canteens. He says
it has caused marked difference in
discipline, and that in the absence of
canteens the enlisted men resort to vile
brothels clustered about fort
The detachment of soldiers received
their new rifles, 1, 900 ag-Jorgensons.
while in camp and on guard at Cripple
Creek. With the rifles were 10000
rounds of ammunition. This is TIE
first new equipment sent to the Colo
RADIO department under the Dick bill.
piece of land near the theological
seminary at Chester, Pa, is said to
be sinking. The villagers insist that
some subterranean agency is at work.
The mine owners association of Grip
Pile Creek district, announces that it
will not employ men belonging to the
Western Federation of Miners in the
future.
The department. store of Wolf &
Marx ut San Antonio, Tex, is burned,
entailing loss OF over 5000, 900.
SchoIe's roof garden was also de-
stroycd.
The department of stenography and
business in Missouri university at
Columbia has been indefinitely discon-
tinued.
Admiral Francis A. Cook, who COM
manded the Brooklyn at Santiago, has
oeen retired after 40 years service, on
his own application.
Rough estimates of the financial loss
due to the storm arc So, 600, 900 on and
around Manhattan Island alone
Eighteen lives are known to have been
lost and it is believed that this num-
Der will be doubled.
Col. L. w. Jewell and General w. II.
Jewell were both in the civil war, but
on opposite sides. Their regiments
were both at Gettysburg but they did
not see each other then nor lave they
seen each other since the war. They
met last week at the home of their sis
ter at Lynn, Mass.
Judge Rogers, of the federal court at
S.. Louis sustained in decision the
absolute right of employers to dis
miss employees for any reason; and that
btic bo-ceelIcu UldciA-llSb may ue mdQe
and given out for the use of others.
A dictionary of the ancient Egyptian
language which contains ESQ, 900 words
or subj ,cts. has been complied by the
Berlin Academy o: Sciences.
Coal operators of the Wyoming re-
gion look upon the decision of Umpire
WRIGHT eriuinr theu, the ,-irr,f ~ die
charge employees, as very import
ant one.
At the recent encampment in Califor-
mia w. P. Kelly of Co. D. 9th Kansas,
and a. c. Kelly, of the 18th Kansas,
met for the first time since their en-
listment during the civil war.
Senator CarmaclS will introduce a
bill in the senate. which has two sec
tions. One line for section 1, will re-
peal the Fifteen amendment Another
line for section 2, will remove all
negroes from the United States posses
sion.
Pope Plus x proposes to have the !
apostolic palace of Lateran repaired,
which is outside the Vatican, and was
tho pope's summcr residence befo.c
his two predecessors shut themselves |
up in the Vatican. He is expected 70
reside there.