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

mission and threatens to bring man.
damus proceedings in the supreme
court He claims that the proceedings
of the text book board must be pub
lished under the law and that they are
more important than the printing
board thinks. He has consulted the
attorney general and if he rules that
the stuff must be printed the board no
doubt will follow his opinion. If he
rules that it is discretionary with the
board, then Dayhoff will have to bring
suit
Sharpley, of St Louis, was sentenced
Mt Hutchinson to eight years in the
state peniscn tiary at Lansing. He
married Della Housiuger of Sylvia,
Reno county, when he had wife in
st. Louis. He also obtained money
from farmers boys, telling them that
his father owned n street railway in
St. Louis and by promising tlem jobs
there.
RECEIVED HIS LETTER.-A man i'll
Hiawatha received letter addressed
to him, but, instead of the name of the
town, was bar or SO of music. The
postoffice officials had passed the letter
along until one was found who could
sing and he sang the music and found
it to be u part of the brink of an early
grave. The letter vas then sent at
once to the man in Hiawatha.
FIRE AT COLUMBUS Hoyt-Klien-
field building was destroyed. The
lower story was occupied by an imple-
ment company, while the upper was
the Odd Fellows and the Masons'
lodge rooms. Very little of the con-
tents was saved. Thel loss will reach
from Sc, 900 to 5000
SOLDIERS HOME CROWDED.
ans of the Leavenworth Soldiers home
who have been absent on fulough are
coming back at the rate of six to ten
day. The home will be crowded soon
and by December 1 there will be an
order that no more can be, accommo-
dated
LARGEST CREAMERY. The Belle
Springs Creamery company, which has
just finished its fine creamery plant at
Abilene, has now 1000 patrons and
pays $500, 900 4 year for milk. The
plant is the largest exclusive creamery
plant in the world.
RANSOM WANTS CoAI~-The citizens
of Ransom, Kansas fled complaint
before the railroad commissioners
against the Missouri Pacific railroad
for it's refusal TO haul coal to that
place. There is danger of coal fam
inc there.
RECEIVES $1,000 BACK PAY.-By
proving a common law marriage in
1874 to a negIo union soldier in Missis-
sippi, "Aunt Molly" Washington, an
old negro wasnerwoman in Ottawa,
will receive 81, 600 back pay on her
pension.
RULE AGAINST FooTBAIL.-The EN-
poria board of education has ruled that
the Emporia high school football boys
cannot miss school during the week to
play football.
BURNING CoRN.-Last spring the
floods in the Smoky Hill and Kaw
river valleys spoiled large quantities of
corn in the crib which is now being
used for fuel.
CALDWELL. BUILDS HIeHwAY.-Thc
Caldwell commercial club appointed a
committee to begin work on a road
south to the state line.
GILLETT CAN RETURN he PROB
ably will come back to Kansas as the
time has expired in which he can be
prosecuted.
LOST II Our OF II GAMEs.-This is
the seasons record for the Marysville
baseball team.
THROWN FROM WAGoN.-Marshal
May field, farmer near Jonesburg,
was almost instantly killed while
hauling wheat to Peru. He was de-
from his wagon and run over, death
rcsuitin5 almost instantly. He was 40
years old and leaves a family.
WITHOUT SECTION MEN.-Reports in
dictate that there arc as many rs 1000
to 5000 miles of Missouri Pacific track
in Southeast Kansas and Southwest
Missouri without a single section la
borer except the forcmcn.
ALSO AT OTTAwA.-The Missouri Pa
cific section gangs at Ottawa have quit
work. Striking section men there
declared that there was not a section
cre.v at work between Hoisington and
the Mississippi river. The men have
heard that gangs of Italians, willing
to worl, for the 81. IS scale, are being
gathered up to take the place OF the
strikers.
The MAYOR SIsNs.-The mayor of
Arkansas City who at first vetoed the
interurban franchise, has relented and
signed the ordinance.
STILL LosIsG Hoes.-Since the first
OF October large number of farmers
in Geary county have been losing many
head of hogs by cholera. The disease
spread rapidly, but for the two months
it has been confined to small portion
of the county. A number of farmers
have already lost more than a hundred
head of hogs each.
CHASUTE SCHOOL CAsE.-Judge Still
well has handed down a decision in
the big Chanutc school fight submitted
to him favorable to the colorcd people
and against the school board.
A DOUBLE TRACK.-Surveys are be-
ing made for n double track for the
Missouri Pacific from Atchison to Kan