Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-03-12

legiSlated upon. VI the tn1rty-one
three were needed; many of the other
recommendations were totally ignored;
some of them were noticed by consider
alton of bills for their carrying ont,
but the bills were all slaughtered.
LARGE HAY CoNTBACr.-Thomas
Dixon has finished his hay contract
with the government to furnish 1000
tons of baled hay at Fort Riley. He
has had two steam balers running since
August 1st with capacity of about
sixty tens day and employing from
sixty to seventy-five men and this year
paid the highest wages ever paid on a
hay contract.
rington, district freight agent for the
Santa Fe at Wichita, Richard Warren,
travelling freight agent for the Santa
Fe, with headquarters at the same
place, c. A. Walker, agent at Hutchin-
son, and II. P. Hartman, chief clerk,
held conference with officials in To-
pelza regarding freight traffic in that
section.
"A SUMNER JoB.-The legislative COM
mittee appointed to investigate the re-
ported outrages and scandals at the
Topeka and Osawatomie insane asy-
lums has decided not to commence work
until several weeks after the close of
the session of the legislature. Then
the investigation will be commenced.
EIGIN THE BIGGEsT.-Elgin, Kansas,
is the biggest cattle shipping point in
the world. 1t is small place in Chau-
tauqua county and near the Oklahoma
line. IL has but one railroad, the
Santa Fe, but it has competition in cat
tie shipping as the Missouri Pacific is
only eight miles away.
INCREASE OF SALARIES. senate
passed the bill raising salaries of state
house officials. The bill makes the
salary of the lieutenant governor Sc a
day during the legislative session and
allows him 81, 900 a year as member
of the board of railway assessors.
DRAWS OIL WORKERS.
men from near Oil City, Pa, number
of them with families, arrived in Chan
ute TO make their homes there. All of
them are experienced oil workers, and
were drawn to Kansas by the develop
ment of the new oil field.
AFTER 80 YEARs.-W. A. Morgan has
sold the Chase County Leader, one of
the Oldest papers of the state, and con-
Quoted by him for % years. w. C.
Austin is the purchaser. Mr.. and Mrs.
Morgan expect to take trip to Eu-
rope.
DIVIDE JOINT FNEs.-There are now
eleven joints in Fort Scott, each one of
which puts up monthly fine; and the
authorities one month give the fines to
the city and the next they are turned
into the county school fund.
YARDS BLoCKED.-A car from an ex-
ira freight train jumped the track in
the yards at Florence, smashing a mer-
chandise car and car of stock The
yards were blocked most of the day.
GAIN IN RADUATEs.-Harvey county
will turn out 1914 graduates this spring
from school. This is gain OF forty
over last year.
PURELY LoCAL.-Ninety-five per cent
of the laws passed at this session of the
Legislature are purely local in their ma
ture.
FLOUR SHIPMENT.-The Sabetha roll
Ter mill shipped out thousand barrels
of -four last week for eastern points.
TOPEKA PAvINe.-The city council
granted petitions for 80 blocks of pa
wing in one ordinance
BLIZZARD ON 2sTH-A fierce blizzard
swept over portion of Kansas on the
last day of February.
AN On. Co.-Osage City is organizing
a company TO drill for oil gas or min
erals.
HOME CoAL.-Home coal is now on
sale at Lawrence. IL is from 22-inch
vein, which was struck at u depth of
rs feet. The owners advertise that to
introduce it they will sell for time at
S2.75 ton. 1t is claimed that it COM
pares favorably with the Usage pro-
duct
BIG LOAD OF FLOUR is said
to be the biggest carload of flour ever
shipped in Kansas was loaded at Hal
stead the other day, consigned to Wich-
tia. 1t contained 1850 5O-pound sacks;
two tons in excess of 100, 900 pounds.
TAX PAYING RECoRD.-Out of a total
taxation of $576, 900 in Douglas county
for the present year $500, 900 has already
been paid in, and the first quarter only
Just passed; better record than the
one made last year, and it was consid-
cred an excellent one.
THE 7rH DISTRICT CoNvENTIoN.-It
trict statesmen at Topeka, that the
convention to nominate a successor to
Mr.. Long in congress, shall be on
March 81, either at Great Bend or at
Wichita
ROOSEVELT IN KANsAs.-President
Roosevelt will probably make short
talks in several Kansas towns on his
Western visit in the spring. He in
formed Representative Bowersock that
he would endeavor SO to shape his route
as to speak briefly at Kansas City and
Lawrence.
PosTMAsTERs KNow.-Ask them and
they will give information surprising
to nearly everybody, concerning the
amount of business that is done in
Kansas through the mails with de-
partment stores outside the state
No BROOM FAcIoRY.-The prison