Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-01-21
KANSAS COMMENT.

comfy mortgages to the amount OF
s52I, sl2 have been released in the past
year.
HAS MORE FARMs.-Secretary OF
State Burrow has sold his 6OO-acre farm
in Smith county for $4,000. He has
other farms left.
SCARLEr FEVER. Owing to the prev
alence OF scarlet fever in Republic City
the authorities have ordered schools
closed and forbidden public gather
ings.
ALL IDENTIFIED.-Every one of the
bodies of the victims of the Rock Island
wreck at Willard have been claimed by
relatives and taken to their former
homes.
FIRE AT ST. MARY's-The st. Mary's
mill is burned. 1t was the property of
the St. Mary's Mill & Elevator Co.
The loss is about So 900, partially COW
cred by insurance.
NoRDIcA AT BETHANY-Nordiica has
been engaged to sing in Bethany audi
torium, Lindsborg, January20. Special
trains will be run to accommodate
ueighboring cities.
AT CoFFEYVILLE.-Thec congressional
committee of the Third district has Sc
lected Coffeyville as the place to hold
the district convention, and has fixed
the date on March 3.
OPENED POWDER WITH FILE.-Wm.
Hill powder man in mine of the
Pittsburg district, was killed while
trying to open a powder can in the
magazine. He used an ordinary steel
file, which struck a spark and ignited
powder The magazine was blown to
atoms. The explosion was heard for
miles.
ONLY FOR FIREMEN.-Several of the
lis towns in Kansas which receive
money from the state firemens aid
fund want to know if they can use the
money for general purposes. Insur-
ance Superintendent Luling has adj
vised them that the money must be
used exclusively for the aid of fire
men.
WILL Nor LEASE AGAIN.-About
eighty citizens of Ogden township,
Geary county, have signed petition
to President Roosevelt protesting
against the use of their land for the
army maneuvers and pledging them
20 +ln
government for such purposes in the
future.
BLANCHE BOISE AGAIN.-This Topeka
joint smasher, just retired from a term
in the Shawnee county Jail, went to
the rooms of the State Historical So
ciety and attempted to destroy the
picture of the Pine Ridge Indian fight,
presented to Clusters old regiment, the
Seventh Regulars, by distiller. The
picture is valuable and is held where it
for the regiment. She broke the
glass and then attempted to cut up the
picture but was stopped.
ATTACHMENT FOR NoN-REsIDENT--In
a case from Norton county the supreme
court holds that an attachment may
be brought against nonresident of
the state in any county where he has
property, although he is at the time
personally present in another county
of the state. 1t is also held that a
simmons may be issued to the county
in which the nonresident is present
and service of the summons there will
give the court jurisdiction over him,
at least to the extent of the attached
property.
CoBURN ON HAND.-F. d. Coburn,
secretary of the state board of agricul-
ture, and director of the livestock de-
partment of the st. Louis exposition
came to Topeka from st. Louis to at
tend the meeting of the Kansas Live
Stock Breeders association and the
state board of agriculture.
ENTITLED TO AcCRETIoNs.-The SUI
preme court has decided in the case of
Cora Black against NJ. r. Diver from
Sedgwicll county that owners of land
natural and artificial accretions.
WEIGHT OF ALFALFA.-It is still an
unsettled question how many cubic
feet of alfalfa hay it takes to weigh a
ton. j. w. Marley, of Butler county,
cut down a small round stack of alfalfa
to feet cubed which weighed over the
CITY scales 9 425 pounds.
FROM ARROW WoUND.-Henry Grimm,
one of the wealthiest citizens of Wa
baunsee county, is dead at his home near
Alma. He came to Wabaunsee in 1857.
The cause of his death was an arrow
wound received in an Indian fight at
Platte Bridge in 1864.
LAND FOR ROUND HoUsE.-Forty
acres of land has been purchased by
the Santa Fe, just west of the Rock
Island crossing, at Hutchinson, for a
new Santa Fe round house, where &c
stalls are to be constructed in the
spring This was decided upon soon
after the round house fire occurred al
Newton.
CHAIRS ORDERED OUT.-The mayor
of Emporia, having the Iroquois thea
ter in mind, threatened to stop a re-
vival meeting if chairs were not taken
out of the church aisles.
In TROUBLE AGAIN.-County Attor.
ney E. E. Wilson was arrested on a
charge of embezzling S3,115 from the
Citizens Bank of Belle PLANE. While
acting as cashier of the bank in 1902
Wilson is charged with taking that
amount from the bank funds, making
out notes to which he signed fictitious
names.
JAZZ. DELIYERY=Eive white nrison.