Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-01-14

KANSAS AT ST. LoUIs.-Kansas will
get some good advertising out of the
worlds fair. Its state building is one
of the most attractive on the grounds;
its agricultural display will be larger
than that of any other state; its min
eral exhibit will equal that of any
other state; its fruit display will rank
next to Missouri's and its livestock dis
play will have few equals. In addition
to this dozen or more palaces are
built of Kansas cement. kansas will
receive four times as much money for
cement alone as its state exhibit build
ing and all will cost it, said one of
the building supervisors.
TRANSFER OF C1ERKs.-It is an
nounced at the Santa Fe general offices
in Topeka that the tariff clerks of the
freight department of the road are to
be removed to Chicago in short time.
f. c. Maegley, assistant general freight
agent for the road, was transferred to
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clerks will be in his department.
For HIS BABY.-Dennis Mahoney, a
blacksmith of Neosho Rapids, with his
wife and child, were on the cars going
home. He got off to get some candy
for the child and was trying to get on
the moving train and was thrown
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crushed and he received other bruises.
COOPERATIVE CoMPANY.-The farm
miles south of Abilene, have united
and bought the general merchandise
store there. They have formed a CO.
operative company and will conduct
the business themselves after March 1.
Gov. STANLEY's SoN.-Harry Stan
ley. son of Ex-Governor Stanley, was
badly burned upon the face and hands
by a gas explosion in his fathers
house in Wichita. The burns are not
considered serious.
AGED 95 YEARs-Roswell W. Acers,
of lola, is dead at the age of 95 years.
He drilled the first gas well in Kansas
in 1872 and lighted and heated his ho-
tel with gas many years before other
gas wells were made.
ORIENT SHoPs-The Orient has an
nounced that with the coming of spring
the construction of the shops will be
commenced at Wichita and the occu-
patton of the yards and necessary side
tracks would be made.
HER TOOTH BIRTH DAY.-Mrs. Chris
tiana Burkhart, of Gypsum City, was
born on New Years day, 1904, She
died on New Years eve, 1904. She had
lived in Kansas 80 years.
HE DIED.-John w. Hall, the Mis-
souri, Pacific porter who was injured at
Yates Center some time ago by having
his head crushed between two passen-
ger coaches, is dead.
STATE CoNvENTIoN.-By vote of 81
to IL by the Republican state committee
Wichita, to be held on March o.
TWICE AS MANY.-The record of the
births and deaths for Topeka during
1908 shows BIG births and ga deaths.
BARRIER COUNTY HoRsEs.-A string
of driving horses was taken from Bar
Der county last week to California.
CANNED RABBIT.-This product of
Kansas is said to be sold in New York
as ported chicken.
CoNcoRDIA FIRE.-A night fire in
Concordia destroyed a S25,OOo stock of
boots and shoes.
SLEETY SNow.-East Central Kansas
was covered by an inch of sleety snow
on January 2.
BANK AT BENEDICT.-Th Benedict
State bank, capital S1O,O 900, has taken
charter.
OVERLOOK FIRE.-Half the business
portion of Overlook is destroyed by
fire.
HARPER HAPPY.-It is to have Har-
Vey eating mouse.
PRESENTS TO CARRIERs.-When Will
Kipp, a rural route carrier in Green
last week he found in every box on his
route an envelope containing a piece
of money. His patrons had taken this
method of making him Christmas
present.
SALE OF SCHOOL LANDs.-School
land is selling fast in western Kansas
according to the state auditors report
which shows that that the sum of S147,-
554 has been paid to the state during
the past ak months for school land.
BUFFALO CHIPs.-Owing to the scar
city and high prices of coal out in
Pratt and Barber counties the people
in that section have gone back to early
day practices and are gathering and
burning ''prairie COAL" sometimes
called ''grassoline," and originally
called buffalo chips or COW chips.
AN OLD SETTLER.-Pliny Soper, Sr,
died at his home in Troy after an i'll
ness of several months. He was ~
years old, and one of the Oldest settlers
of Doniphan county, having lived there
about 40 years.
GILETT's DEBTs.-A careful search
of records in all the counties where
Grant Gillett could have had mortgages
recorded show that 5000, 900 will cover
all his liabilities at the time of his dis
appearance. Some of these claims
were partly paid when the creditors
fought for the cattle and other assets
Gillett left behind.