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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-26

WORK AT PARsoNs.-At the new asy-
lum the main building, accommodating
about 200 patients, will be ready for
occupancy about the first of May, after
which the other three buildings will
be finished as rapidly as possible
Probably by the first of July the four
buildings will be open for patients.
GROWTH OF GAS CITY-The Beggar
Prince Opera company played to big
audience in the Gas City opera house,
near lola. Three years ago the site of
the building was in waving field of
corn.
CHARGED WITH MURDER.-The cor
oner's jury on the case of Amos L.
Maxwell, who was killed in the Kan
sas insane asylum, returned a verdict
charging Attendants Patterson and
Neil with the murder. They were ar
rested after they had refused to testify
in their own behalf at inquest.
WAS CURSED WHIsKY.-When Harry
Kelly, of Emporia, was about to re-
ceive sentence of years in penitentiary
for clipping with his sister-in-law, he
said: sit was not Harry Kelly that COM
mitted the crime but cursed whisky"
New COMPANY For CASA company
of capitalists from Neodesha, Chanute
and Independence has secured leases
on $4,000 acres of land near Mulvane
and has shipped two complete drilling
outfits from Chanute to Mulvane, and
the work of placing them and begin
ming operations will go forward at
once.
EXECUTIVE HOUSE CoLD.-Governor
Bailey says he will board somewhere
else next winter unless there is an inn
provement made in the heating plant
at the governors house.
HAYS BRAcINe UP.-Now that Hays
City is normal town the City council
gave notice driving all of the bad wo-
men out the town; closed all the saloons
and only one of three drug stores has
liquor permit, and have spoilers
journed one month to give the county
attorney chance to catch any viola
tors. The school this year has been a
complete success.
Two HoRsETMEvEs. -They were
caught near Winfield with % horses
stolen in the Usage nation.
FIRST CITY ELECTION city
council of Herington has called a speci-
al election for April IL, to elect officers
under the new proclamation making
that place city of the second class
There have been laid out four wards
and each will have two councilmen.
B. L. Thompson has laid out forty
lot addition for residences
PEDDLERs' LICENSE LAw.-The SUI
preme court has decided that the law
passed by the last legislature is in
valid, being repugnant to the federal
constitution.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-26

The house by vote in committee of the
whole of SO to 80 approved the bill giving Ar
kansas City alternate terms of the Cowley
county district court.
The fees and salaries committee of the house
has killed jerks bill increasing the salaries of
the stenographers of the various district courts
in the state and making the minimum salary
81 200 year and the maximum 81 800.
The Sponable bill creating a state fiscal
senate has been reported for passage in the
house.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-26

The house has passed the measure changing
the system of handling state taxes. The bill
provides that all state taxes collected shall re-
main in the county treasures to be drawn out
by the state treasurer sufficient to meet the
demands upon the state treasury for the
month. 1t is expected that the senate will en-
dorse this bill
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-26
44TH DAY.

Three of the eleven resolutions for submit
ting amendments to the constitution have
been adopted by the legislature and will go
before the people. They are: To provide for
the election of state printer by the people; To
permit the governor to veto separate items in
appropriation bills; To give the state the right
of change of venue in criminal cases.
In the senate the Parsons asylum appropria-
ton for buildings is considered much greater
than present circumstances demand, and the
amount named in the bill passed by the house.
Mr.. Waggener's lynching bill is now law.
1t would punish any person WIFI takes part in
or aids or abets a lvnching which results in
death. The penalties range from years to
life imprisonment or death.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-26

The naval bill as passed by the house pro-
vides for two steel training ships and one
wooden brig for training purposes; also for
the purchase of submarine torpedo boats at
the discretion of the secretary. An effort to
limit the increase to two midshipmen to each
senator and representative to the period end
ing 1911 was voted down
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-26
57TH DAY.

The senate spent another day in discussing
the Panama canal treaty. Senator Morgan
has offered many amendments but no vote on
any of THIN was reached.
twas developed that the statehood measure
has enough votes not only to pass it but to
override a decision against lacking the bill
upon some other measure. With this in sight
the opponents threaten to prevent a vote to
the end of this session. Senator Burton sand
WICKED into the treaty debate quite lengthy
speech in favor of the statehood bill.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-26

The judiciary committee of the house has ia
vorably reported the bill providing for deed
of trust law in this state. The bill is copy of
the Missouri law.
The bill to require all prison-made goods to
be branded has been reported favorably.
The house passed the bill to extend the time
of maturity of school land certificates twenty
years and reducing the interest from six to
four per cent.
The house adopted a resolution instructing
the insurance committee to investigate the
reason for the advance of fire insurance rates.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-26

The senate is the first to pass a congressional
reapportionment bill. There is little prospect
of its being passed by the house.
The senate has passed the fish warden bill
creating state fish hatchery and providing
for stocking it. The warden is to receive s1,SO0
q year salary.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-26

The military academy bill as reported by the
senate committee on military affairs raises the
total carried by the house bill $1,000. bringing
the total to 1885,, 34S. Provision is made for a
cadet from Porto Rico
The senate in executive session heard read
the Columbian canal treaty which required
two hours, and then debated the question of
ratifying it the rest of the days session.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-26

The house by majority Of to l rejected
the conference report on the army appropria-
tiou bill because OF its provisions for the re-
tirement of civil war officers at an advanced
grade and permitting army officers to deposit
money with the government at three per cent
interest.
Mr.. Richardson (Tenn.) introduced con-
current resolution declaring that it is the sense
of congress that the Isle of Pines is territory
belonging to the United States and that no
sovereignty can be lawfully exercised there
except by the United States
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-26

The HOUSE. passed the sundry civil bill, after
spending the better part of a week upon it. On
the house broke all records in passing pension
bills. The calendars of both houses We're
cleared Of these bills by the passage of 325 of
in one daY is 3l2
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-02-26
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Senators Think Appropriations For Par
sons Asylum Too High.

The big joint committee recommended the
passage OF the new tax law, striking out Wag-
gener's amendment exempting notes and
mortgages: The bill provides for listing prop
Lobbyists from the state institutions who
are pressing for large appropriations, find a
strong sentiment in the legislature against
giving them all that they ask. The senate is
in more liberal mood than is the house
A broom factory bill has appeared in the
senate. 1t provides for the manufacture of
brooms at the Hutchinson reformatory. 1t
provides for s25, 900 for plant and $20.00O for
revolving fund.
The senate killed the long train bill which
provides that every train Of over five cars
must have full train crew and that there
must be an extra brakeman for each additional
ten cars.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-14
THE sMALL-TOwN NEWSPAPERS.

a British visitor TO this country not long
since was quoted as saying that he estima-
ted the character and quality of the people
largely by the newspapers. A fairly accur-
ate estimate may be made In this way. no
doubt, but could not come from inspection of
the papers which in all probability fell into
the hands of this Englishman. He would
naturally see the prominent metropolitan pa
pers, and at furthest only the leading ones
of the smaller cities. From the character of
these he could draw certain correct infer
ences as to the people for whom they were
printed. He would know, first and most
distinctly, that these people were full of
enterprise and energy and were ready for
any commercial undertaking. however vast;
he would learn that they were generous in
a large way, somewhat boastful, rather
careless. individually, Of their public obli-
cations, but on the whole having rather a
high standard by which to measure public
men. These and numerous other conclusions
he could draw from the papers that would
in all likelihood fall into his hands. but un-
less he made a study OF the country press
he would miss view of these same people
quite necessary TO a proper understanding
and estimate Of them
The metropolitan papers deal with affairs
OF general interest-foreign and national
events. politics, matters relating to public
men, news that concerns many classes of
readers. etc.: the papers of small towns and
villages deal with matters of another sort:
they are in close touch with their readers
and treat Of local and personal affairs. Poll
ties and outside news may have place in
their columns. too. but merely in an Incl
dental way. 1t is the local record that gives
them interest and character and makes
them valuable and delightful. In a COM
munity where everybody knows everybody
else there is a natural and perfectly proper
interest i'm knowing that Uncle Jake Snyder
Is having his barn painted. that Sam
Sweeney is having trouble with his eyes.
that Farmer Johnson has raised the big
gest tomatoes ever seen I'm the region that
John Jones visited his ''best girl on SUM-
day night. and SO on and SO on and so on.
II Is not love OF trivial detail or petty gos-
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-14

The Journal is pleased to note a revival
of the temperance zeal in the Methodist
ministry, as shown in the conference meet
ing of Saturday. Too much cannot be said
in condemnation of the havoc caused by the
drink habit in both the moral and the phys
ical life of the people. The Methodist min
listers and all good men and women should
be welcomed to any field of action, religious,
social, educational or political, where they
can work effectively to combat this evil.
But it is to be regretted that in all the
oratory on the subject in Saturdays meet
ing there does not seem to have been any
thing said in regard to the fields in which
be most effectively done. namely, the pulpit
and the home of the parishioner. All the
talk was of civic action. Civic action there
should be just as fast as the people are
ready for il, but they must be made ready
for it in the church and in the home. This
is democratic republic, our form of gov
ernment, city, county, state and national,
is democratic. We can have only such laws
as the people want, il they exercise their
will in the regular way. and the people have
the power to enforce the laws, if they desire
to exercise it. Speaking generally, we have
just about the character of government and
the kind of law enforcement the people will
tolerate. If we would have better laws
and better enforcement thereof, we must
have better people,
Nothing great was ever accomplished in
day. in year, nor in one election The
betterment of the American people, the cul-
tivation of proper popular sentiment in re-
gard to the drink evil means work, long,
patient. vigiant. laborious work-and lots
Off 1t means the enlistment of the eff
forts of all the good women of the land, it
means the cultivation of the youthful mind,
1t means the promotion of a social war
against drinking in all it's forms, it means
the long and persistent use of the religious
and social. as well as the political influence
of the pulpit to elevate men and women
above the demands of appetite.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-14

Years ago Marion Harland published a
cook book, and so trustworthy and satisfae-
tory did its recipes prove that it speedily
took its place an authority on culinary
matters. Many an accomplished house
keeper would testify that she owes much of
her success TO that book and that she still
counts ii among her treasures. Its great
value lay in the fact that the author did not
make compilation of the formulas of other
cooks. but wrote out of the fullness of her
own knowledge and experience. She now
offers another book on the arts of the
household: Marion Harland'S Complete
COOK Book, ii is called-"A Practical and
Exhaustive Manual of Cookery and House
keeping" An examination of the pages in
dicates that this title does not claim too
much. The volume contains chapters on
every branch of housekeeping, including
marketing, the care of food. the sick room.
serving, carving, etc. Most of the space, of
but interspersed are many talks on the
subjects in hand which are full of practical
common sense. The arrangement of the
book differs from most works of the kind
in giving all breakfast dishes together fol-
lowing these with luncheon recipes and
these with dinner dishes. All the instruc-
tions are so simple and clear that novice
might easily follow them. 1t is difficult to
see what more could be desired in the way
of a kitchen manual than this book. Ii is
well indexed, printed in good type and has
numerous effective illustrations. The BobbS-
Merrill Company, Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-14
ARMY ORDERS.

First Lieut.. Paul A. Barry. artillery
corps, at Fort Monroe, Virginia has been
ordered to the general hospital Washing
ton barracks. for observation and treatment
First Lieut.. o. G.. Brown, assistant sur
geon, has been ordered TO temporary duty
at the general hospital, Washington bar
racks. during the absence on leave of Mai.
Henry II. Birmingham, surgeon
Capt. Charles c. Wallace. signal CORPS
has been relieved from duty with the civil
government I'm the Philippines and ordered
TO San Francisco.
First Lieut. George T. Peed, assistant SIR
geon, has been relieved from duty at WASH
ington barracks and ordered TO di,:y at the
general hospital. Fort Bayard, f>ew Mexico
Contract Surgeon j.. l.. X. Tefamore AT
Fort Grant Arizona Territory. has been or
dered 10 accompany the Seventh Infantry
to the Philippines.
Mai John T. French. quartermasfer has
been ordered 10 temporary duty at Fort
Screven, Georgia.
Contract Surgeon c. 4. Sturtevant has
been granted leave OF absence for two
months and the leave of Second Lieut..
John A. Degen. Fourth Cavalry, has been
extended one month.
Changes i'm the medical department have
been announced as follows: Capt Henry
Philippines: First Lieut.. l. Il. Williamson
from the Preside of San Francisco to Jef-
ferson barracks, Missouri; First Lieut.
Charles L. Foster, TO duty at Fort WASH
ington, Maryland, relieving First Lieut.
Charles X. Reynolds who is ordered TO duty
with the company of instruction hospital
corps. at Washington barracks during The
maneuvers at West Point Kentucky and
Fort Riley, Kansas.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-14

Indiapa seems to be entering on new
line Of material development-that of her
waters for hydraulic and electric purposes.
AT least three companies have been incor-
porated to develop such powers in different
streams. and others will probably follow.
There 10 considerable water power I'm the
upper White river. Of which a government
photographer says:
At It's source Tin Randolph county, the
stream has an elevation OF not less than
LILO feet, while at its mouth the elevation
- but 315 feet above tide. IL has, therefore
an average fall OF nearly three feet per
mile. or more than double the average fall
OF the Wabash river. and about five times
the rate Of fall OF the portion OF the Ohio
along the south boundary OF the State In
It's upper fifteen miles the fall Is estimated
20 be about eight feet per mile, in the next
twenty-five miles about six feet and in
the succeeding twenty miles about five feet.
making fall OF 375 feet in a distance OF
sixty miles. which Is reached near the city
OF Anderson Below Anderson the fall for
the nifty miles TO Indianapolis is nearly
two and one-haIf feet per mile Below In
dianapoIis for about thirty miles the fall
exceeds three feet per mile In the remain
1ng I'D miles of its course there Is . fall
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-14

secure Mr.. Barnard for assistant superin-
tendent," he said. for he will be OF great
value TO the institution"
1t is understood that the Republican
editors of the State are starting quiet
movement to secure the appointment of one
of their number to the secretaryship of the
Republican state committee. 1t is not
known that they are working in the in
terestS of any one man, but il is said that
they are insisting that the secretaryship
should so to some one who has been in
touch with county newspaper work, and
who would be representative of the county
press.
The Orleans Progress Examiner says Of
Charles B. Rogers, formerly of Shoals:
Charles b. Rogers, formerly consul at
Zanzibar, may return TO the government
service as district attorney for the Indian
Territory. Mr.. Rogers lived at Shoals,
Ind, until after the last November cleo
tion, when he was a candidate for state
senator for Orange, Martin and Lawrence
counties and was defeated. He removed 10
Ninita, /. T., and at once became prom
lnent in the public affairs of that growing
town. 1t is expected that because of the
frauds that are being unearthed by the
Interior Department there will be a change
in the district attorneyship for the terri
tory, and Mr.. Rogers is seeking the aid of
Indiana political influences in an effort to
secure the position. He has a wide ac-
quaintance in this State and is being in
dorsed literally. The district attorneyship
is one of the most important offices in the
territory"
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-14

through the wilderness towards Maumee
river and at its junction with the Auglaize
he built Fort Adams. In August 1884, he
went down the Maumee with about 1000
men and encamped near British post at
the foot of the Maumee rapids, called Fort
Miami. Here General Wayne, with a force
ample to destroy the Indians in spite of
British influence. offered them peace IL they
would lay down their arms. On their re-
fusal he advanced TO the head OF the rapids
and on Aug. 20 at Fallen Timbers attacked
and defeated the Indians. After laying
their country waste he moved UP To the
junction of st. Marys and st. Josephs
rivers. where he built strong fortinca-
ton which he called Fort Wayne He spent
the winter in Greenville, where, the next
August, was signed very important treaty
peace. This stirring period furnishes the
materials for Under Mad Anthony's Ban
ner. a story for boys which is full OF ac-
ton and Indian warfare and adventure
1t is published by the Saalheld Publishing
Company, Akron, o.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-14

Two Little SevageS'' the first long book
Mr.. Seton has written. tells US everything
that boys OF any age want TO know about
woodcraft. our native animals and the
JOY OF country living
In Volume 5 of the Jewish Encyclopedia
eFunk & Wagnals). which will appear late
In September, the history OF the Jewish
communities of England. France and Ger
many Will prove unusually interesting 10
the general reader that on England. written
py Joseph Jacobs. formerly president OF the
Ing up the subject from the Jewish advent
with the Normans down TO the present day.
france and Germany are treated i'm an
equally exhaustive way. The biblical and
geographical departments contain many ar
ueles from the pens of foremost American
ana European scholars. More than six
hundred collaborators are now engaged upon
the work
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-14

sip, but an outgrowth of neighborly and
kindly feeling that calls for recital of
these things. To an outsider the personal
comments may at times seem overly IA
miliar. but with the free give-and-take of
small community they are not so considered
by the persons concerned. but are regarded
rather as family pleasantries II Is through
these papers. indeed. that glimpses are to
be had of the best family life of the coun-
try. the dinners. the picnics. the reunions.
the gayeties, as well as the more serious
phases The relations of the people to each
other are discernible. One who reads be-
tween the lines of these brief records of
local happenings and doings can see the
simplicity. the open-hearted hospitality, the
kindliness of the men and women who are
mentioned from time TO time; their pur-
suits, their ambitions. and, alas, Also their
sorrows, are made clear.
Many man long resident of a city takes
regularly the little paper published in his
old home and reads it eagerly thus keep
ing in touch with his former associates: but
even the stranger of sympathetic mind and
a degree of insight finds charm in such
papers that more pretentious sheets cannot
possess. They bring him into close rela-
tions with the people who, above all others,
are representative Americans and who make
the country what it is
Hundreds of these papers are published in
Indiana, and they are the best of their kind
Their editors know what their patrons want
and supply it, and having achieved this
combination they have solved the problem
that confronts all newspaper publishers
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-14
COLOMBIAN CANAL SUGGESTIONS.

IL the Colombian Congress devotes any
time to discussion of the provisions OF the
bill reported back to it by it's committee
appointed to study the canal question, that
time will be wasted. The bill, as summarized
In the cablegram of Minister Beaupre pub
lished yesterday, contains at least one i'm
possible provision and some others that the
American people would be unlikely to ac-
cept. For example, the proposition to leave
the two terminals of the canal, Colon and
Panama, out of the lease, would give the
United States commercial control over the
inland part of the ditch without any legal
means OF gaining access TO it and leave
mercantile and Industrial establishments at
these terminals at the mercy of petty CO.
lombian officials. who, following the usual
Latin-American custom, would doubtless
tax them out of existence.
But the most serious obstacle set up by
the Colombian committee is the PROPOSE
ton that the police and sanitary commits
sion shall be exclusively Colombian. This
is utterly out of the question. If the Ameri-
can government builds an interoceanic
Sohdi ~ IL ana IL must nave
charge of the sanitary regulations. Our
government would have a merry time col
lecting tolls keeping the canal in repair and
doing the other things necessary to it's
successful operation with the whole propo-
sition under the police control of a lot of
turbulent. fiighty and corrupt Colombian
military officials The sanitation of the
canal and the towns connected Herewith
would be ably handled by Colombians, who
cannot show clean and healthful center
of population throughout their whole do
main! The money appropriated for sani-
tary purposes would go boldly into official
pockets, with no effort to control disease
What the outcome of the canal tangIe will
be Ii is impossible to predict at this stage,
but it is safe to say there will be no treaty
on the lines suggested.