Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-02-18
KANSAS COMMENT.
KANSAS

enrolment of 522.
ington are pretty generally suffering
from grip.
MAYOR VEToEs.-Mayor Leist, of
Kingman, vetoed an ordinance reducing
the salary Of the police of his city.
STONES Is SkcKs.-The Wellington
merchants complain of finding stones
with the potatoes they receive in sacks.
FROZEN IN PoND.-At st. Francis a
sheep, COW and horse some way got
into pond and were found the next
day frozen solid.
SwEpENBoRG's WORKS. - Pretty
Prairie has sent to the Hutchinson Ii
brary several volumes of the works Of
Emanuel Swedenborg.
A KANSAS SoLDIER.-Dudley Chap
man, a member of the 22nd Kansas
volunteers, is in the Dakota peniten-
tiary for selling whisky to Indians.
ALAsp SALE. A. Glace, ex-coun-
ty commissioner, of Clay county, sold
his farm of 100 acres on the Republican
river for S11 900. almost $40 an acre.
CITY TO BUILD IT.-Leavenworth' S
gymnasium will be fitted up for an
opera house. An appropriation of
81 $50 has been made for that purpose.
SECOND TIME.-The burning of the
PRESBYTERIAN church at Chetopa is the
second time in five years that this
church has lost its house of worship by
fire. Both fires were caused by fur
naces.
GRIP AT FoRT RILEY.-An epidemic
of the grip has broken out at Fort
Riley and more than half the officers
there are on the sick report. The big
hospital is filled with sick soldiers and
many others are confined to barracks
and quarters.
CATTLE INsPECTED.-The state live
stock sanitary commission reports that
during last year 332, 1854 head of cattle
were inspected and were admitted
to the state. Bills of health were
issued to 2O7, o5s head, and 1876 were
admitted for slaughter. The cattle for
which bills of health were issued were
brought into the state to be fed or win
tered. A large number were turned
back at the quarantine line because
they were infected with Texas fever.
THE WORLDS FAIR.-The Kansas
worlds fair commissioners have select
ed the exhibit made by the Otto
Kuehne preserving works at the mid
winter exposition in Topeka, to be
a part of the horticultural exhibit tc
be made by Kansas at st. Louis. Be
sides the preserves and pickles prepared
by Mr.. Kuehne, Mr. Schell is prepar.
ing jars of fruit and preserves and
pickles. The Kuehue exhibit is Of
fruits and vegetables, preserved and
picked, that were grown in Kansas
and put up in Kansas.
3FARMER USES CASA Neosho county
farmer is running his farm by gas. A
we'll sunk for oil yielded gas, and now
he keeps six stoves going in his house
lights every room, including hall and
cellar, has gas heaters in his coops an6
hog pens, furnace out doors for cook
ing food for his live stock, a gas engine
to shell corn, grind feed and pump
water, turn igrindstones and work the
churn, gas light with reflector tt
light the barnyard, continuance to
illuminate the barn when he opens the
door, heaters for water tanks in the
field, SO that his cattle may drinl
tepid water all the winter if they wan
it.
oJERUsALEM.-The delegation from
Wichita to attend the worlds Sabbath
school convention at Jerusalem OF
April 1920, are E. Higginson, Mr.. ant
Mrs. James Allison, DIR. and Mrs. Basl
and DIR. Lynch. They will leave Marcel
for New York, from where they will
sail March with the $50 delegates
from all parts of the United States.
ANOTHER MAsroDoN.-Anothe mas
todon skeleton was dug up by Ray anC
Ed Duncan, few miles southwest o
Medicine Lodge. The tusks measured
81 feet long.
FIRE AT LEAvENwoRTH.-Fir broll,
out in the law office of Sam Wheat, OF
Delaware street. The fire was easil.
subdued, but what was considered t,
be one of the oldest and most complet,
law libraries in the state was almos
totally ruined by fire and water.
SHOE FIRM FAILs.-Weiss Bros, wht
conducted the Model shoe store at Pitts
burg, have made an assignment in ia
vor of their creditors. Their liabilitie
are SIS, 900, and the creditors are prin
cipally wholesale shoe houses of st
Louis and Kansas City.
AT FEDERAL PRIsoN.-Grading TO
the front or main cell wings of the new
United Statss penitentiary at For
Leavenworth will commence in few
weeks. The erection of two fine resi-
dences, one for the warden and tn,
other Tor the deputy wardens family
will begin in March. They will b,
about 300 yards south of the main en-
trance to the penitentiary, where tw,
frame dwelling houses stand.
Two CANNoNs.-Senator Long ha
secured two cannons for the city parl
at Great Bend.
on FIELDS CoNNEcTED.-Ave very larg,
flow of oil was struck about halfwa,
between Leroy and Neosho Falls upoI
the east side of the Neosho river anC
about one and one-nalf miles from tn,
group of wells east of Leroy and abou
the same distance above the mos
northern well in the Neosho Fall
field. Oil men say that this wei
al Il.