Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-12-18
KANSAS COMMENT.

in fees during the last year.
WOMEN SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
There are % Kansas counties which
have elected them and the number
grows larger at every biennial cleo
ton.
BoUGHT EAGLE CITY LOTs.-Many
Marshall county people are interested
in the opening of Eagle City, the new
Oklahoma town, having purchased lots
in that city.
A FEDERAL SITE Representative
Jackson prepared a bill to provide for
the purchase of site for federal
building at Winfield, and had it intro
duceG in the house.
FIRE AT LI;ICoLN CESTER.-A fire
started at 1 o'clock a. m. in n restaurant
which burned, together with vacant
building and Morgan's general store.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
CULP GETS IT.-Edward C. Culp, of
Salina, has been appointed secretary of
the committee on ceremonies for the
st. Louis exposition. He served in
similar capacity in Chicago in 1890.
KANSAS HORSES carloads of
horses have been recently shipped from
Abilene to Chicago, where they topped
the market The farmers received 500
for most any kind of good horse.
WILL DOUBLE THE PLANT.-John
Cudahy visited the Cudahy packing
plant in Wichita and announced that
within year the capacity of the plant
will be doubled at cost of 5000, 900.
SOME BIG APPLEs.-The students of
st. John military academy at Salina
have received barrel of apples from
near Guthrie, o. T., which averaged
Is inches around and 10 ounces in
weight.
LYON COUNTY COURT HoUsE.-The
Lyon county court house has been &C
copied by the county commissioners
from the contractor, after a two days
discussion of extra claims. The court
house, complete, cost about SIS, 200.
The original contract for the building
alone was 1000. The furnishings,
light and fixtures are the latest kind
and very fine.
WHIsK BROOM FACTORY. - Senator
Bob Findlay, of Rice county, will en-
eeavor to get a bill through the legis-
1ature this winter establishing a whisl1
broom factory at the Hutchinson re-
formatory, to be run by inmates. The
reformatory is at the edge of the great
broom belt of Kansas. This state has
no whisL broom factories. In fact,
most of the whisl1 brooms are made by
convict labor in other states.
GOOD FINANCIERING.- countys
total bonded indebtedness, including
county, township, city and school dis
trict, aggregates only 5000. This
amount was issued by one township for
cemetery purposes. When Cove wants
to make an improvement it makes
tax levy to cover the cost instead of is
suing bonds to run long period of
years, drawing big rate of interest.
Foul PLAY FEARED.-At Pittsburg
A. Il. Marston, assistant general man
ager of the Texas e Pacific Coal COM
pany, who died there, was a victim of
arsenic poisoning. Marston has been
trying to induce colored miners to go
to Thurber, Texas, and it is thought
his death was brought about by some
one opposed to his work in this line
The poison was taken in a bottle of
mineral water.
WORST OF BAReAIN.-Since the state
has paid salaries to court reporters and
taken stenographer's fees instead
the courts have been lax in collecting
the fees, putting the state to the loss of
about $4,000 year. The legislature
is likely to go back to the old system of
giving the stenographers the fees.
MINE INSPECTION. - The supreme
court upheld in decision the law re-
quiring coal mining companies to en-
ploy competent men to inspect the
mines every morning before the miners
go to work.
SAFE BLOWING GANG.-Sheriff J. l..
Seitz has arrested three men for safe
blowing at Galva on the morning of
November 81, and it is believed that in
their arrest he has unearthed scheme
to loot safes all over the country and
particularly those of small postoffices.
ELEVENTH KANSAS SURVIVORS,
Companies e and were represented at
the annual reunion at Emporia upon
the anniversary of the battle of Prai-
RE Grove. P. b. Plumb was the first
captain of Co. C, and later was colonel
of the 18th.
REEDER's LONG GRAss.-Representa
tive Reeder took to Washington blade
of grass which measures % feet in length
1t was raised on his irrigated farm in
the short grass county. This Kansas
production has been placed on exhibit
ton in the museum of the agricultural
department
CLERK OF FEDERAL CoURT.-Judge
Hook, of the Federal court, has ap-
pointed NJ. E. Roarlx, of Junction City,
as United States commissioner. At the
same time he abolished the Office OF
commissioner at Hays City.
Box AND BARREL PLANT-The Hutch
inson salt trust, which controls all OF
the local salt plants, proposes to estab-
lish a plant for the manufacture of
barrels and boxes. 1t will cover five
acres of land to have daily capacity
of 400 of those articles Work will
commence with 100 men and boys.