Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-03-26
KANSAS COMMENT.

been put on between Kansas City and
Fort Scott
LANDS SELLING RAPIDLY.-This is
true of Dickinson county Farms are
s selling to parties coming from Iowa
and Illinois at prices nearly double
those of three or four years ago.
ISJURED Much GEAIN.-The upper
story of the Rockwell & Co. elevator at
Junction City is badly damaged by fire
and the greater portion of s12, 900 bush
els of grain was damaged by water.
FOUNDER OF HUTcHISsoN.-C. C..
Hutchinson, who now lives in Oregon,
has visited the Kansas city which he
founded and which bears his name.
He still has many friends in Hutchin-
son.
STRIKE GRowISe.-It is reported
from Pittsburg that the mechanical de-
partment of the Kansas City Southern
railroad is tied up; the boilermakers,
blacksmiths, coppersmiths and the
helpers all walked out
No ATTEMPT TO EvADE.-A Topeka
attorney who represents a number OF
slot machine owners says the bill
drawn up to knock out these robbing
devices is SO well built that it will be
useless to attempt to buck it.
WEBSTER REAPPoINTED.-P Ed.
Il. Webster, professor of the dairy de-
eko 20 a-,.infr1tnraI an1.
1ege, has been reappointed inspector
and expert of the dairy division of the
agricultural department, Washington,
d. c. His salary will be ST. 900, which
is an increase of $3.50.
HEAVY FIRE Loss.-The burning of
the Hoxie roller mills and Crum's ele-
vator at Hoxie was loss of 5000 on
the mill and $4,000 on the elevator.
The mill was fully insured but there
was no insurance on the elevator. A
part oe the wheat, about 1000 bushels,
which was in the elevator was saved.
CAUGHT FROM BALLOTS. T.
F. Carver, of Topeka, is seriously i'll
ITOLA CINSlpCldS. Lie INC oibCoSC
from handling ballots in the Hamilton
Geiger contest case. Two years ago
T. T. Doran, another Topeka lawyer,
caught erysipelas in the same manner
and was seriously i'll for several months.
FAKE Rs.-Schermerhorn's
bill to put fake fertilizer concerns out
of business passed the legislature.
Hundreds of farmers in southeastern
Kansas have been swindled during the
past few years by fake concerns claim
ing to sell pure bone fertilizer. 1t has
been discovered that the fertilizer was
made of ground stone taken from the
zinc and lead mines around Galena.
CONDITIONAL SENTENCEs.-The law
now provides that no convict shall be
sentenced to the penitentiary except
those convicted of murder and treason,
but shall be sentenced for not exceed
ing the maximum term nor less than
the minimum term provided by law
for their crimes. The penitentiary
board is authorized to parole prisoners,
after one year, on their good behavior.
HIGH SALARIED KANsANs.-A. J.
Schilling, who was Hiawatha boy,
receives $4,000 year as secretary of
bridge company. Horton sent young
man to Kansas City who gets a salary
of So, 900 a year. j. w. Fitzgibbon
FROM Hnrf0r, 10
where he gets $4,000 year. II. Moore
house, who was master mechanic at
Horton, is getting $40. 900 a year at
work for a New Jersey railway supply
company.
A LONG LAw.-The charter act re-
lating to cities of the first class, pissed
by the legislature will nearly or quite
fill page and three quarters of the
official state paper in solid nonpareil.
The miscellaneous appropriation bill is
nearly as long.
KILLED WHILE DHUNK.-George Alb
bolt. farmer At years old, was driv-
ing home at midnight from Salina
while intoxicated, and he and his horse
were found dead at railroad crossing
where his more noble dog was watch
ing.
AFTER FIFTY YEARs.-Mrs. Isabelle
Cunningham, born in 1915, is dead at
Cedarvale- The text used by the
preacher at her funeral was the one
used at the funeral of her husband just
fifty years ago. For fifty years she
had carried the desire to have this done
and it took at last the form of a death
bed request.
MORE THAN THE AvERAaE.-The
legislature cost about $4,000. This is
about SIS, 900 more than the average.
The additional cost was due to contests,
Investigations and extra help.
PASSED Mosr Bu.Is.-Senator Bus
chow holds the senate record for get
ting bills passed. Fifteen of his meas
ures have been enacted into law. Vim
cent is second with fourteen, Noftzger
is third with thirteen, while Smith has
eleven and Cubbison ten. Smith in
reality got thirty-dve bills through as
he substituted twenty-five house bills
for his own measures in the senate.
lola LEADs.-That city was the first
in Kansas which has been reported as
forcing out slot machines under the
new law.
A MEXICAN oNcEssIoN.-J JUNCTION
City and Kansas City men organized a
company recently to be known as the
Kansas and Mexico Land, Townsite
and Mining Company. A concession
of 100, 600 acres of land on the Kansas
City, Mexico & Orient railway is ex-
pected from the Mexican government,
and if this is granted the company will
develop the land