Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-06-23
KANSAS
KANSAS COMMENT.


church at Udall lost the roof off it:
church building. The loss is $3.50.
ONAGA AMBITIoUs.-This Pottawato
mic county town has grown to the
point of planning to build new opera
house.
WILL PRosPEcr.-Great Bend will
prospect for oil and gas. A company
has been organized and two thousand
shares of stock placed on the market
at five cents per share.
COUNTY CLERK DEAD.-Will A. Lich-
tenberger, county clerk of Sumner
county, died at his home in Yelling
ton, of peritonitis, following an attack
of acute stomach trouble. He was Sc
years of age and had recently been re-
nominated by the Republicans for a
second term as county clerk.
BISHOP SELLS HoTEI.-The National
Hotel at Salina has passed out OF
the hands of the Bishop of Birming-
ham, England, to Ezra Criley, of the
Coates house of Kansas City, for n cash
consideration of S24, 900. The National
was built in an early day by local
parties. 1t was mortgaged to the
English bishop.
STRANGE BUT TRUE.-Ottawa is not
in Ottawa county; Wichita is not in
Wichita county; neither is Kiowa in
Kiowa county nor is Chase in Chase
county; nor Lyons in Lyon county;
nor Douglas in Douglass county; nor
Harper in Harper county. And there
are others, perhaps.
! MUST FURNISH AIB.-The state legal
department has ruled that coal opera
tors must always furnish their miners
with fresh pure air in the mines, even
ST it is necessary to run the fans on
Sunday. Some of the operators close
down their fans Saturday night, when
the miners quit work, and don't start
them up until Monday morning few
minutes before the miners go to work.
CHARTERED A CAR-Teachers and
students from Campbell university at
Holton chartered a car of the Rock Is
land for an excursion to the worlds
fair. There were forty persons in the
party, wko will spend several days at
the fair and return in the same car.
The Rock Island has planned for a
number of such excursions to the fair
The Santa Fe has made arrangements
for the same service.
8 BABY WAS ALL RIeHT.-The wife of
J. o. Sewall, of Galena, after search
ing some time for her baby, concluded
she heard its cries from an old shaft,
and jumped into the shaft, which was
ninety feet deep and contained pos
sibly forty feet of water. She was
hoisted to the surface by ropes, un-
conscious, and was kept from drown
ing by her clothing catching on the
sides of the shaft. Her injuries are
fractured skull and many severe cpts
about the head and face. After the
excitement abated neighbor brought
OdOy
/ BOYS AND GUNs.--In Wichita Miss
Anna Jones, stenographer, aged 10
years, was presumably accidentally
shot through the head by William
Ward, Il carpenter, and received in
juries from which she died a few min
utes later. With party of girls she
left an evening meeting at a church
gang of young men were outside the
church when the girls left it. They
followed the girls and discharged their
pistols number of times in the air
and into the ground. Then the boys
all shot nearly at once and ball en-
tered Miss Jones' head and killed her.
A. P. COLLINS SEI.Is.-One of the
largest land deals that has been con-
summated in Saline county for
years was the sale of the A. P. Collins
farm south of Solomon to w. H. Jones,
of Kansas City, for $1,000 cash, or
S45. SO per acre. MIR. Collins has been
identified with Saline and Dickinson
counties since their early settlement
and represented Saline in the legisla-
ture in 1ss3-s5. Mr.. and Mrs. Collins
are in California, where they went for
the formers health and where they
own large fruit farm.
CONTRACT FOR LIeHT.-The Concor-
dia city council has let the contract
with 20 year franchise. The con-
tractors will furnish the city lights
Mt $40 per year, a reduction of $40.
New machinery will be put in and the
company announces that a fiat rate
will probably be inaugurated on the
start.
PROMINENT MAN DEAD.-Sidney C.
Ashton, manager of the r. G. Dun
Mercantile agency in Wichita, who
was one of the prominent business and
club men of the city, is dead.
JAY SMITH REsIeNs.-Jay Smith, of
Mcpherson, has resigned his position
as charter clerk in the secretary of
states Office, to take effect July l. He
will be succeeded by A. L. Morrison, of
Colby. Mr.. Smith is going back to
the farm. He finds 1t more profitable
than holding down state house Job.
He is the son of Farmer A. w. Smith.
WOMAN COUNTY CLERK.-The COM
missioners of Sumner county appoint
ed Miss Lena NJ. Pfeifer county clerk
to fill ont the unexpired term of W. A.
Lichtenberger, deceased.
ANNUAL TREAT.-Peabody schools
have an annual treat which is quite an
event. This year it comes on June IS
and is held in the park. The event
originated some years ago when W. D.
Butler in dying bequeathed 81 900 for
the purpose. The earnings on this
amount of money are to be expended