Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-31


than eight hours a day. The attorne,
general has held that while a stree
railway may pave streets and do tn
work for the city in consideration of
valuable franchise it cannot be consid
cred a municipal contract such as tn,
eight hour labor law applies to.
CHAs. F. DRAKE DEAD.-His age wa
II years. Mr. Drake Yves president o
the Bank of Fort Scott and one of tn,
wealthiest men in that part of Kansas
In 1858 he came to Kansas on foot prac
tically penniless All his money wa.
made in this state. In 1868 he wa:
elected to the legislature by almos
| the unanimous vote of the county. He
recently proposed to give the city o.
Fort Scott a large tract of land for &
park. His proposition had not beer
acted upon by the city council.
FARMERS HAVE PLAN.-The Farm
ers' Grain, Fuel & Live Stock company
of Pawnee Rock, Kansas, which has
been refused site for an elevator on
the right of way of the Santa Fe rail
road at Pawnee Rock, may build a
spur track and ask the board of rail
road commissioners to issue an order
compelling the Santa Fe to connect the
spur with it's main line track and to
set cars at the elevator as demanded.
FOUND DEAD.-The attention OF
neighbors was called to Bruce Desl1ins
place east of Ottawa, by his cattle
which were showing by their actions
that they were hungry. The house
had to be broken into for the neighb ors
to get in, where they found Deskins on
the floor dead, with lamp tightly
grasped in his hand and match on
the floor beside him He was an old
soldier and lived alone
PIANO Nor NEcEssARY.-In Ford
county a school district bnilt a new
school house. Some of the patrons of
the school wanted a piano installed,
the expense to be borne by the district.
Under the law the district board is au-
thorized to contract for school house
and necessary appendages. The ques-
ton is whether piano is necessary
appendage." The state superintend-
ent says it is not.
THE TRUANCY LAw.-The child pass
es out from under the truancy law the
day he is fifteen years of age. The
firms
tees in person. The mail won't do,
no does the law recognize a deputy
truancy officer. Habitual truancy is a
matter for the court to pass upon and
each case must be decided upon its in
dividual merits.
WITHOUT RAILoADs.-There are five
counties in the state which have no
railroads and as result get no aid
from railroad tax. They are Grant,
Haskell. Morton, Stanton and Stevens.
THE SCHOOL Book CAsE.-The Amer
lean Book Company case. which in
wolves the constitutionality of the Kan
sas corporation law, is set for hearing
in the United States supreme court.
OLD LAW INvALID.-The Kansas su-
preme court has declared that the law
giving people the right to vacate town
sites and additions upon petitions in
the district court is unconstitutional.
BUYING THREsHERs.-Since the or
ganization of the Threshermen's trust
in Brown county many of the farmers
have dubbed and bought threshing out
fits which they lave used together.
nual meeting of the Kansas State Bee
keepers association. which was organ
lied at the state fair last fall, will be
held in Topeka on December 80.
SUGAR FAMINE.-The wholesale gro
GERS of Wichita, during holiday week.
could not supply the retailers with
sugar for several days.
KANSAS UToPIANs.-FrankA A. Bush.
of Belleville, Kan, the originator and
manager of the Kansas Utopian asso-
citation. an organization to nullify the
prohibitory laws of the state, has been
sentenced, aftor two trials in the dis
trict court at Troy, to serve sixty days
in Jail and pay fine of $500.
LOWER Coal RArE.-The state board
of railroad commissioners announce a
reduction of ten cents ton in the
coal rates from Pittsburg, Kansas, to
30 = 4 L.
kind issued by the board.
IT WAS A SwrNDLE.-S. T. Butner.
the Highland man who started for
Spain in response to several letters no.
tifying him that he had fallen heir to
a large Spanish estate by the death of
a brother-in-law in that country, has
returned home, convinced that he was
only party to a swindle.
New YARDMAsTER.-Jame Finley,
of Chicago, will take charge of the
Santa Fe yards at Newton. He sue
ceeds Tom Curd, who resigned. Mr..
Finley was formerly yardmaster both
at La Junta and at Purcell.
WICHITA LIBRARY.-Two years and
a half ago the Wichita city library had
had 300 members. The library was
then made free library and now it
has membership of 1900. There are
three young women employed in the
library at present, where only one was
necessary before it became a free Ii
brary.
DIED on TRAIN.-Miss Ellen Culver.
of Wichita, died suddenly on South
ern Pacific train while en- route from
Portland, Oregon, to Wichita. Con-
was the cause of death.
KANSAS DELEGATEs.-Govern Bal
ley has appointed Frank Lore, of Coun-
ell Grove, Albert Dougherty, of Logan,
and II. w. McAfee, of Topeka, as dele