Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-02-25
KANSAS COMMENT.

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GRAND LoDGE.-The Masonic grand
lodge is holding its annual meeting
at Topeka this week.
In HARD LINEs.-A man at Farming
ton whose wife is dead, has eight chill
dren down with measles.
MORE HORSES SHIPPED.-Four more
carloads of horses were shipped out OF
Dickinson county for the east.
OTTAWA PASTOR DIEs.-Rev. w. R.
Wood, of the Ottawa Baptist church,
is dead. He was a native of Canada.
EUREKA's PARK-That city is to have
a beautiful park of about nine acres
which is well wooded, with a small
stream and natural ampitheatre.
DEWEY TRIAL-After more than
week spent in securing jury the trial
of Millionaire Dewey and his cowboys
for killing settlers is now on at Nor
ton.
KNIGHTS OF PYTmAs.-The ANIMAL
meeting of the Twelfth district of the
knights of Pythias of Kansas holds its
annual meeting at Wichita on Febru-
airy 10.
WAS A WREsTLER.-L L. Dayhoff,
State superintendent of public instrnc-
ton formerly was the champion catch
as-you-can wrestler of Jasper county,
Missouri
WHERE is ALLEN.-The Wichita po-
lice are trying to find John Martin
Allen to tell him that he has inherited
property in Moundsville, w. Va. 1t is
believed in Moundsville that Allen
lives in Wichita.
KANSAS GREAT Loss.-The death of
Carl Swensson, president of Bethany
college at Lindsborg, takes from Kan
sas one of her most worthy and most
able of college men. He died of pneu-
monia at Los Angeles California.
ENLARGING PACKING HoUsEs.-It was
given out that the packers in Wichita
do not want SO many hogs for ten days
as they have been getting lately. Cud-
ahy has had an open order for the
last two months, and his buyer has
been taking everything in sight. SUI
perintendent Brown of the Cudahy
plant informed the commission men at
the yards that he would want only
from 400 to 500 hogs daily for week
or ten days.
TRACK Is DANGER SIeNAL.-Judge
Madden threw out of court at Emporia
$4,000 damage suit against the Santa
Fe railroad. The suit was brought by
Mrs. A. T. Hopes, whose husband was
killed last April by Santa Fe passen-
ger train. Judge Madden held that
Hopes death was brought about by
his own carelessness. He said rail-
road track is in itself a danger signal,
and that man should take the neces-
sary precautions when standing on or
crossing over one.
LOST THE SUIT.-The farmers grain
trust has lost its suit against the Santa
Fe railway company before the state
board of railway commissioners. The
trust made application to the company
for elevator sites at number of towns.
Some of the sites were granted and
others. We're not. The ground for re-
fusing some was that that the towns
already have good enough elevator
facilities Tho hno,.l lan;la1 hot
had power neither to order the road to
grant sites nor to require it to build
elevators. The case will be appealed
to the supreme court.
DEAD IN BED.-At Wellington Ben
jamin S. Hood, an old Illinois news
paper man, was found dead in his bed
at the residence of his son, Charles
Hood, one of the publishers of the
Monitor-Press. Death was due to
heart disease. He was 70 years of age.
For AUDIToRIUM-Cott Falls
has voted SIS, 900 in bonds to build an
auditorium. An enabling act of the
legislature gave the women the right
to vote, and they We're out en- masse.
A large vote was polled and the bonds
carried by majority of fifty.
WANT CITIRENsHIP.-The Mennonites
in Kansas, who are all Russians, have
never taken citizenship in this country
but on account of the Russian war they
are now besieging the district court at
Hays city with applications. The de-
sire to avoid any chance of being com
PEELED to return to Russia and be draft
ed into the army.
MISSIONARY SECRErARY.-Rev. J. FL.
Franklin the new district secretary of
the American Baptist Home Mission
society, is touring his district. He
preached in Wichita on Sunday.
HAS JOHN Browns GUN.-Dave
Leahy has for years collected old re-
volvers at the Wichita police station
and sent them to his friends as ''relics,"
explaining that they were carried by
noted men of the early days. Jerry
Black has one of them which he be-
lieves was carried and used by John
Brown.
Nor THIS YEAR.-It is the purpose
of the war department to have the
maneuvers next fall in the Atlantic and
Pacific divisions and in 1905 ut Fort
Riley and West Point, KY.
MATHEMATICS TEAcHERs.-Steps are
being taken by the teachers in the state
to organize a Kansas Association of
Teachers of Mathematics. The object
of the association is to stimulate
deeper interest in all questions relating
to the improvement of mathematical
teaching in the schools of Kansas.
ALLEN REcoUPs--Jacob Allen, of
Winfield, who paid 5000 for sgold
briclxo has inst rea1ized GO mn ~, q