Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-01-22
KANSAS COMMENT.

CHOSEN IN CAUcUs.-R Representative
Pringle, of Burlingame, was the choice
for speaker in caucus of the Republi-
can members.
SUNDAY THEATERs. Hazen
of the Shawnee county district court.
has rendered a decision declaring in
valid the city ordinance prohibiting
Sunday theaters in Topeka.
OLD SOLDIERS Nor THERE.-Ed Ellet
of Ell Dorado, who has attended every
inauguration in Kansas for 80 years,
says, "the old soldiers are out of it."
He sat in the Copeland for two hours
the other day and in all that time saw
only two G. A. r. buttons.
New SANTA FE SURvEY.-It is re-
ported from Dodge City that a Santa
Fe surveying gang is working south
west from that place 1t was talked
that it was for cutoff from Dodge
City to Trinidad, before it was reported
that the surveyors were at work in
Beaver county, Oklahoma
For SCHOOL Observation-Disclosures
ment in favor of the wholesale CONSOLE
dalton of rural schools is spreading
rapidly. 1t was the chief topic dis
cussed by the Kansas teachers. 1t was
shown that in Ellsworth county, where
the system has qeen adopted, the effiic-
iency of the schools has been improved
greatly. One of the strongest points
in favor of it is that the per cent of at
tendants is larger than in the district
school,
CONTRACT For GAS WELL.-The Ar
kansas City council has let contract
to S. J. Gilbert to furnish that city
with gas well or series of wells which
will produce 1900, 600 cubic feet of gas
per day. The work will be done by
company composed of local capitalists
and will be commenced within twenty
days. This is only the preliminary to
a systematic hunt for gas and when it
is found it will require several times
this amount to supply the city.
KANSAS WANTS EsTELLE.-Warden
z. B. Jewett has asked the Illinois au-
thorities to turn Estelle, the noted out
law, over to Kansas. Estelle, while
serving life sentence here for murder
escaped. Later, he held up train in
Illinois and was captured a few days
ago at Memphis. There is no excuse
for Illinois to go to the expense of Civ
ing him trial" said Jewett. I'VE
can hold him for life in Kansas and
that ought to satisfy illinois,"
SALE OF FEEDERS Holton,
Towanda, 500 feeders coming four
years old. Mr.. Robinson had been
buying feeders at the Union stocllyards
in Wichita and when the cattle came
too slow to suit Mr.. Robinson some of
the commission men put him on the
track of Mr.. Holton's herd. The feed
ers were sold for 81 per hundred and
the parties to the trade think that
when the cattle are delivered Mr.. Rob-
inson will have to write his check for
something like $4,000.
COUNTY NORMAL INsrITUTEs-Stat tie
Superintendent Dayhoff has arranged
for four series of county normal insti-
tutes during the coming year in order
to accommodate the teachers. The
first series will commence May % and
and end June 10. 1t is expected that
f1of TO- nhar a..
harvest fields during the summer will
take this course. The second series
will begin June l and end June &c,
the third will begin June 90 and end
July "a, while the fourth will begin
July 27 and close August 81.
KILLED BY HIS HoRsE-Daniel
Thompson, of Douglas county, 65 years
old was kicked and stamped to death
by one of his own horses which was
running loose.
A CHcRCH AT AUcTIoN.-The build
ing belonged to the Methodist Protest
ant church of Fort Scott and was sold
by the sheriff and bid in by the mort
cages for $500.
INCREASE PRIcE.-The coal mining
companies of Leavenworth have in
creased the price of coal so cents per
ton within the last month.
STATE SHORT OF CoAL-Warden E.
B. Jewett is having considerable trou-
BILE in keeping the various state. insti-
tutions supplied with coal None of
them have large reserve supplies and
should there be break down at the
mine, purchases would have to be made
on the open market. Inability to Sc
cure cars when needed, the increased
consumption of the state institutions,
greater difficulty in getting coal out of
the penitentiary mine and the lack of
any means of storing reserve supply
of coal are the causes of the trouble.
DRUG STORES WIN DEcIsIoN-In the
district court Judge James Lawrence
has decided that the city of Yelling
ton had no cause of action in suit
brought against druggists for the oc-
cupation tax for selling whisky and
beer. The suit was brought on an or
dinance framed by the council fixing a
tax of 500 year for selling whisky
and $500 year for selling beer.
RELIEF DOES Nor CoME-Topeka
and many other places are still out of
coal. The railroads have sent large
numbers of cars to the coal districts
WINFIELD Y. NJ C. A.-Their new
building is finished at a cost of
Sc, 900. 1t is a handsome one and a
half story building with all conve-
niences for amusement and religious
rites. The money to build it was
~o;ead hv ,,0nular er,hecr;pf;oD The