Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-04-02
KANSAS COMMENT.

Dy PRESIDENT Roosevelt 10 d So;ooo Pei
year position in Oregon.
WITH THREE DAYS MoRE.-When the
time to close registration in Topeka
was three days ahead the number OF
voters registered was 14,oso.
AN ARMY CLERK.-Arthur L. Good
win, of Scott City, Kansas, has been
appointed 81, 900 clerk in the medical
department of the army, at st. Louis
TOPEKA Boy Run OvEB.-Henry
Meers, 13-year-old son of Henry Meers,
a Rock Island employe, was run over
by a freight train at Topeka and killed.
Snow STOPPED PIowINe.-The farm
ers of Clay county were busy with their
blowing and also with seeding their
fields with oats, but all their work was
stopped by a coating Of six inches OF
snow which fell last week
A FAULTY LAw-The act which was
passed by the legislature authorizing
Kingman township, Kingman county,
to vote 81, 200 in bonds for a township
hall, lacked an enacting clause and is
likely to be declared invalid.
To DRAIN A SwAMP-Severalw wealthy
farmers of Lyon and Coffey counties in
tend to drain big swamp near Hart
ford and have taken the matter to the
Coffey county district court Some of
farmers want to use s-inch thing and
kk,nk A-ir1
ing is necessary The drain will bene-
fit about 700 acres of bottom land.
LANDMARKS CovERED.-The county
surveyor of Hodgeman county says the
sandstorm last summer covered up all
the stone posts on one side of the coun-
ty and it is impossible to tell where the
county line is. He has written to the
state auditor, who is also land commits
sioner, asking what to do. The auditor
has replied that Hodgeman will have
to settle its own troubles in regard to
the matter as the state has no funds
with which to run county lines.
THE REGISTER OF DEEDS LAw.-1t is
now thought TO be invalid for the reas-
on that the enrolling committee sent
the bill to the governor with different
provisions from those in the bill as it
passed. Registers of deeds who ex-
pected to gain large additions to their
earnings under this new law are the
parties to suffer from the mistake.
SAVED HER MoNEY.-Miss Florence
Lindley, Brown county school teach
err, saved her wages and few years
ago bought seventy-two lots in the
town of Sapulpa, 1. T., from an Indian
who owned the large part of the town
site. She paid less than So lot. The
Indian afterwards realized that the
place was the making of a big town
and, regretting his sale, sued Miss
Lindley for the amount of her note
which he held, expecting she would be
unable to meet it at the time. She
borrowed money and paid the total
amount as soon as she received notice
of the suit. Not long ago the Sapulpa
court house was burned. The Indian
SLlll WdAICu LIE lhhA OoShs anu sup
posing that papers, titles to the land
and SO forth, had been consumed in the
fire, he again brought suit, claiming
the young woman never had paid him.
At the trial, after he had testified
under oath that the land was not paid
for, Miss Lindley brought forward his
receipt for the amount in full, which
she had preserved. The Indian is on
trial for perjury. The town lots in
question are valued at not less than
$4,000.
BANK RoBBED.-The state bank OF
Quincy, east of Eureka, was entered by
robbers who blew open the safe and Sc
cured about S., 900. The robbers stole
hand car and went south toward To
ronto, later taking the Missouri Pacific
west The bank had been in operation
less than n month.
ENGINES STILL GRowING.-Orders
have been received for twelve new
switch engines to be built in the To
peka shops. The engines are to be
bigger and much heavier than the ones
now in use in the yards there.
Is A KANSAS RoAD.-President Still.
well, of the Orient railway, has prom
Used that Kansas City, Kas., shall moi
be Disseminated against by the Orient
and that every train running over the
Outer Belt will be required to stop OIL
I 4 .An%
THREsHIne MACHINE 5UITs.-Thert
are frequent instances of threshing ma
chimes breaking through bridges. Suits
usually follow; counties are sued fol-
damages to threshers and thresher'
are sued by counties for damages tC
bridges
WESTERN KANSAS LANDS. -Georg'
w. Adams, Union Pacific land agent
with headquarters in Marysville, say
the land in the western part of Kansas
belonging to the Union Pacific Rail
road company is fast being gobbled VI
by homeseelsers and spectators. HI
looks for sharp advance in price il
the near future.
CoFFELT's THIRD TRIAL. specia
venire of 100 men for the jury in thu
Coffelt case being tried at Winfield
was exhausted and the court ordered
another hundred men drawn.
For DEFECTIVE SIDEwALK.-The sec
ond trial of suit for damages to
Holton woman on account of falling
through defective trap door on tn,
sidewalk resulted in Il verdict for 81,
200 with interest during the time thu
case has been tied up in the courts.
OLD PLANT SOLD AGA1N.-George A
Clark, state printer-elect, will buy thu
present state printing plant of w. Y
Mornrar rvhen Mr. Ainrnan,s term ax