Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-23

| notes and checleS- A suit arose between
an Arkansas City bank and business
man in that city over the question of
| the transfer of warrant The case
came to the supreme court and it held
that municipal warrants are not ne
| gotiable, saying: "A municipal. war
rant although negotiable in form is
non-negotiable in fact. Therefore a
bona tide holder will not be protected
! by the law merchant in its purchase
| from one without authority to SELL"
WHOLESALE SPONGE HoUsE-The
only concerns of this kind in the United
States are at New York. Chicago, st.
Louis and San Francisco, but fifth is
TO begin business at Wichita on May
10. Men experienced in the business
are to conduct it, and they will make
Wichita the distributing point for the
middle west. The sponges will be
bought at the dock from the divers, the
larger portion from the Florida coast
and the West Indies. Several experts
will be needed in sorting and treating
sponges, but large part of the work
can be done without skilled labor.
BINDING TwINE PRICES. Warden
Jcwett has announced that the peni-
Tertiary Irvine plant will this year sell
Irvine at ten cents a pound in lots of
5000 pounds, and at nine and half
cents in lots of greater amount This
is reduction of one cent Il pound in
last years prices The Irvine trust has
announced that it will sell Irvine for 10
and one-half cents per pound for less
than CARROTS and ten and one-fourth
cents for carlots with freight added
from Chicago.
BIDS FOR SHOW BUILDING.-At it's
regular session the Kansas board of
worlds fair commissioners decided to
advertise for bids for the construction
of the Kansas building at St. Louis.
The bids will be opened on May 6, and
work on the building will be COM
menced as soon as possible. All of the
members of the commission will go to
st. Louis to attend the dedicatory ex-
ercises of the fair.
DIVISION OF ScHooLs.-The Topeka
school board maintains separate schools
in the lower grades for white and col
ored pupils. The negroes in one OF
the grade school districts refused to
occupy the school house provided for
their use and the dispute went to the
supreme court to test the authority of
the board of education. That court
has decided that the action of the
board is valid
PENsIoNER LOSES HIS ALI.-Ralph
Mulvane, an old man about 65 years
old, who has been living on an island
in the Kansas river above Topeka, lost
all of his personal property in a fire.
Mulvane is pensioner who rented
part of the island. He purchased
tent and invested all the money he had
left in hunting and fishing outfit
The EASTER SToRM-The bad
weather on Easter day reminds old
settlers of the great Easter storm of
1871, 80 years ago. Easter came that
year on April Is and Kansas felt the
most severe storm ever known. People
were lost and frozen to death, and
great herds CT Texas cattle persisted in
the western part of the state.
YATES CENTER ALso.-The city coun-
ell has let the contract for six oil and
gas wells in that region. This terri
tory has never been developed, but re-
Gently in we'll that is being sunk by
some of the citizens oil was struck in
good quantities and now the field is at
tracing capitalists.
Two ABILENE CITIzENs.-D. Trott,
the well known breeder of Duroc-Jer-
seys, died at his stock farm north of
Abilene, aged 81 years. He was con-
tributor to leading agricultural papers
on farm topics. Hiram Thayer. aged
so years, died at his home in the city;
both on the same day.
UNDER THE CUBBIsoN -''Shorty"
Buchanan and G. ". Shook were con-
victed in the district court of Coffey
county of running a gambling room at
polser. Judge Madden sentenced them
both to two years at hard labor in the
penitentiary.
TEE BRANCH NoRMAL.-The branch
normal school at Hays City has an en-
rollment of 100. 1t is noted that the
big normal at Emporia was in existence
three years before it had an enroll
ment of 100.
Miss WOOSTER LOSES CAsE-The
case brought by Miss Lizzie Wooster
the author of several school text books
adopted for use in this state, against
Crane & Co., the publishers of the
books, for a RECESSION of contract, was
decided by Judge Hazen in the district
court in favor of the publishers.
LAMBS BRING s7.7O.-James Higgins,
of Cawzer City, sold on the St Joseph
market the other day 1872 head of Mex
lean lambs, averaging "a pounds, at
S7.7O, the record price Tor lambs in the
west
A CHARTER TAKEN. Nebraska
Kansas & Gulf railroad, supposed to
be Burlington extension, has taken
Kansas charter, and permanent sur
vey has been started. It is proposed
to build through Central Kansas and
connect with Gulf line at Fort Smith,
Arkansas.
GALLON COMES BACK.-George Gal
Ion, general auditor of the Gulf, Beau
mont e Kansas railroad, will return
to Topcila and become travelling audi
tor of the Santa Fe. He was formerly
connected with the Santa Fe at Topeka.
DRILLERs FouND GAs.-At Arkansas