Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-26
KANSAS COMMENT.

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A SECTION For SHEEP.-A $40 acre
tract near Sterling has been sold for
s25, 900. 1t will be used for sheep
ranch.
STANLEY CoNFIRMED.-Ex-Gov
Stanley is confirmed for member of the
Indian commission. Tams Bixby is
made chairman of that commission.
THIRTY CARS OF LUMBER.-They
have been unloaded at Burns in two
weeks. There is much building in
progress and in prospect
SEVENTY five HoMEs.-There are
now in course of erection in lola rs
homes, some of them small cottages
and others large residence buildings.
OVER New COURT HoUsE.-The trou-
BILE in Neosho county over the erection
of new court house has reached the
legislature. Erie asks legislation but
Senator Carpenter, of Chanute, is OPP
posing it.
OPENED WRONG SAFE.-Burglars en-
tered the office at Yohe's mills at Doug
las and broke into the safe. The same
safe had been blown open few years
ago by burglars and since that time
has only been used to protect books
and documents from fire.
DEPOT RoBBED.-Sealed express
packages were taken by burglars from
the Valley Center express Office which
were accepted by the company at a
value of 500. Owing to the fact that
the ticket clerk always takes the pro-
ceeds OF his ticket sales home with him
at night he escaped without any money
loss.
6. A. B. APPOINTMENTS. c. Fleck,
of Salina, has been appointed on the
staff of Thomas, j. Stewart, command
er-in-chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic. Fleck was delegate from
Kansas to the national encampment at
Washington last October, where he
met the commander and made his ac-
quaintance.
AFTER 40 YEARs.-Richard Hazel, of
Harper, who is a member of the Kan
sas legislature, met his brother, Thorn
as NJ. Hazel, in Atchison after separ
alton of nearly forty years. While at
Topeka Hazel nude inquiries at the
pension office and learned that his
brother lived in Atchison, and he took
the first train for that city. The
brothers had known nothing of each
others whereabouts since the civil
war.
A KANSAS FEDERATIoN.-Ata meet
ing in Topeka an organization was eff
fected to be known as the Kansas Fed
Grafton of Commercial Interests. The
Kansas towns represented were: Hutch
inson, Arkansas City, lola, Winfield,
Independence, Wellington, Dodge City,
Marion Frontenac, Chanute, Kingman,
Great Bend, Anthony, Coffeyville,
Plainville, Blue Rapids, Lyons, Linds-
borg, Cedarville, Topeka, Beloit, Sa-
lima and Wichita.
HAD TO PAY The TAx.-In 1899 Hia-
watha put in a sewer system. James
Falcon, lawyer, enjoined the county
treasurer in order to avoid the pay
ment of $40, which was assessed against
his property as sewer tag, claiming
that the city had no right to place
sewer in his alley if he did not want it.
In the district court Judge Stuart de-
cided in favor of the city, but Falcon
appealed to the supreme court, which
has just sustained the decision of Judge
Stuart. Besides the costs in the case,
which may amount to more than 500,
Falcon will have to pay the original
taxes and fifty per cent interest, which
will bring the total up to another
500.
MANY HORSES BURNED.-The Nor
gan livery and sale stable in Wichita,
and harness shop next door, burned
down with 80 high grade horses out of
40 in the barn; together with large
amounts of carriages, harness, etc. A
car load of roadsters and draft horses
were ready for shipment to eastern
markets. The total loss, including
damage to nearby buildings is fully
$4,000, with So, 900 insurance.
DAIRY PRODUCTS Co.
burns report gives the value of dairy
products of Kansas in 1902 at So, 545, 296.
KILLED BY ENeINE.-Frederick Hall,
a convict from SedgwiclS county in the
Kansas penitentiary, while handling
traction engine hauling rock, was adj
justing some machinery, and his cloth
ing caught, throwing him down and
wheel ran over him.
CARLOAD A DAY.-A Concordia COM
mission man who is shipping eggs at
the rate of a carload a day, sent two
cars up into British Columbia last
week. The Blade says the consignees
will have to pay duty of dollar
case on them.
GAMBLERS MUST Go.-Judge Reeder,
who commenced his judicial term this
year out in the Western Kansas coun-
ties on the Union Pacific, proposes to
stop gambling in his district if possible
In sentencing prisoner he read him
forcible lecture on the subject of gam
bling, explained the law and gave it
out cold that he proposed to rigidly en-
force the law, and gave gamesters
full warning.
FoR A PARK--At the spring election
the voters of Eslsridge will decide
whether the town is to have park
AGED 90 YEARs.-Mrs. Betsy Green's
death in Sherman township, Clay coun-
ty, makes a record for age. She was
born in Industry, Me-, February Z,
1904, and died February 6, 1903. She
was married to Samuel Green and was