Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-03-31

SURVIVORS REUNIoN.-The living
members of the Kansas constitutional
convention are: Judge Samuel A.
Kingman, Topeka; Judge John T. Bur-
ris, Olathe; r. G. Foster, somewhere
in Texas; c. B. McClellen, Oskaloosa;
B. 7. Simpson, Paola; E. G. Ross,
Santa Fe n. NJ; Samuel Dexter Hous-
ton, Salina. 1t is proposed that they
hold reunion at the semi-centennial
at Topeka next May.
KILLED BY HoRsE.-H. L. thinner
man, an old resident residing near
Garden City, was kicked by a horse
! and killed. He was struck in the head
and his neck broken. He came from
Kentucky about twenty years ago. A
widow and two children survive him.
This is the third sudden or accidental
death in the family in ten years.
CAPTAIN LEE DEAD.-Captain Horace
G. Lee is dead. He was born in Full
ton, n. Y, in 1887 and he had been a
resident of Wichita since 1872. He
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Lee, and himself served with distinc-
ton in the civil war. He was captain
of the One Hundred and Forty seventh
New York Infantry.
BARN BURNED.-A big barn on the
dairy farm of Phillip Sourby, just out
side of Emporia, was set on fire by
/ lightning and burned to the ground
Fifty head of mich cows and six head
of horses were in the barn when it
caught fire, but forty-nine of the cows
were run out of the building.
A $4,000 CHURcH-The st. Joseph
/ Catholic church of Hays City. which is
now nearing completion, will be the
finest structure of the kind in the state.
1t is being built of stone and when
completed will cost $4,000 The
church property is valued at Sos, 0OO
THREE OF THEM.-The engagement
of state house stenographer shortly
will be announced and three different
stenographers have called up the Cap
ital Office, each asking that nothing
be said about the engagement until
she authorized its publication.
THE SANE OLD SToRY.-Thomas Cor
man, one of the wealthiest farmers in
Dickinson county, and for years in
early times superintendent of the
painting department of the Union Pa
cific, died from an operation for ap-
pendicitis.
ANNUAL MEETING.-The Kansas State
Ministerial association of the Christian
church of Kansas will hold its annual
convention in Wichita April and :.
They expect that the attendance will
reach 300 or 400.
SPECIAL ELECTION are in
circulation at Arkansas City calling
for special election to vote bonds to
the interurban railroad. The promo
tiers want only $500 worth.
UNCONSCIOUS FROM WORKINGS VIM.
Lantz, of Enterprise, overworked in
preparing for sale at the farm and
became unconscious and remained as
cold as death for four hours
A BANKERS MEETING.-The bankers
OF Southwest Kansas met at Great Bend
last week. There were also visiting
bankers from Kansas City, Topeka and
other commercial centers.
TROLLEY RIDE.-Hutchinson ex-
poets to celebrate the Fourth of July
by trolley ride, as it is hoped that
the electric street railway will be COM
pleted by that time.
DRILL REPAIR SHoPs-Saline county
capitalists are busy furnishing work
for the drill repair shops in eastern
Kansas and incidentally putting down
well at Assaria.
SCHOOLS CoNsoLIDATE.-The farmers
of three school districts of Dickinson
county held meeting to discuss merg-
ing.
MILK MoNEY.-G. w. Easter, of Dick
inson county, made $44o.6 5 out of the
milk from ten cows the past year.
ELECTRIC SHOCKS. --Electricity played
havoc with the telegraph instruments
in the depots at Maize, Colwich and
Andale, shocked three operators.
burned out instruments and knocked
down Missouri Pacific lineman, burn
ing him severely.
KANsAN's CoNTRACT.-James Nc
Gonigle, of Leavenworth, Kas.. was
awarded contract by the treasury de-
partment for the construction of
vault for the storing of sweepings from
the Denver mint. The contract price
s7,ss5.
A X. q. PRoFEssoR.-Miss Ida HYDE
professor of physiology at the state
university, has been invited to speak
before the International Society of
Psychologists at Brussels next August.
Miss Hyde is.the first American woman
to receive degree from German uni
versity. She has also received a de-
gree from Cornell.
AFTER 4s YEARs.-William Learner.
proprietor of the oldest store in Kan
sas, went out of business at Lecomp-
ton recently at the close of his forty
eighth year in business.
WANTS CORRECT CENsUs.-State Supt.
Dayhoff has issued a warning to county
superintendent and boards of edrca-
ton that they must secure a reliable
census of the school population. They
must do it right this time or the state
superintendent will withhold the state
apportionment of school money from
the offending districts.
DEwEYs AcoUITTED.-The Jury at
Norton in the Dewey case brought in a