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

farmers who wish to receive the bulle-
tins issued by the state experiment
station at Manhattan can have them
merely by asking for them. but it APP
pears that there are many who do not
know this The best stock breeders
and farmers of the state speak in terms
of high praise of the work done at the
station. 1t is practical, and as these
bulletins tell of the results that are at
tanned they are sure to be helpful to
those who study them.
| TAKING NO CHANcEs.-The business
men of the state will take no chances
and they are now packing up their slot
machines to ship TO some other state
where there is demand for them and
where they are not outlawed. The
most of them will go to Colorado and
Nebraska. Some will go to Oklahoma
and Texas. 1t is estimated that there
are nearly $1,000 slot machines in the
state at this time; about fifty car
loads.
| Y. M. c. A. CORNER SToNE.-Presi,
dent Roosevelt wired from Washington
that he would be unable to lay the cor
nerstone of the new building of the
Erailroad Y. NJ. C. A. at Topeka on
May 2. Mss Helen Gould will be at
the corner stone laying, however, and
the railroad men believe that the cere..
mony will draw thousands of people to
| Topeka.
SPANISH WAR VETEEANs.-Over 800
Spanish-American soldiers are drawing
pensions from the Topeka pension
agency. They are coming in at the
rate of about twenty vea month now.
In addition to this number about 200
widows and orphans of Spanish-Amer-
lean soldiers are now on the pension
rolls.
IRRIGATION ExPERIMENTs.-Congress
man Reeder has received positive as.
surances from the agricultural depart
ment that it will begin making irriga-
ton experiments in western Kansas
this spring under the provisions of the
new irrigation law. yReeder wants
several wells sunk in his district.
BANKERS Assoc1AT1oN.-The Clay
Center Commercial club is making ar
engagements to entertain the Bankers
association of that section of the state
on April 16. A banquet will be given.
The meetings of the association will be
held in the court house. A large at
tendance is expected.
! PROVIDED FOR CLERK HIRE.-The
legislature did this for the registers of
deeds at the rate of $1,000 a year.
Heretofore those officers paid their
clerks out of their fees. This bill is
likely to make the Office of register of
deeds in Shawnee county worth $4,000
to $1,000 year.
| FRED DoLD HURT.-While testing a
nail machine in the box factory at the
Dold packing plant in Wichita, Fred
Dold's right hand was caught in the
machinery and painfully injured before
it could be extracted.
PECK's BILL K1LLED.-Candidates
must continue to file a statement of
their election expenses with the county
clerk. Pecl1's bill to do away with
| that feature of the law was defeated.
OUT OF BANKs.-The Republican
river at Clay Center ran over farms
again, with some danger of making
new channel. The water all comes
from the western part of the state.
WANT THAT FJREBUs.-The people
1000 for the apprehension of firebug
who has been making hot times in that
town.
Two CARIoADs.-A Washington
special says that Senator Burton with
| in one week sent two cars of govern
ment seed to Kansas for distribution.
COUNTY HIGH SCHooI. is ex-
pected to be acquired by the city of
| Nickerson.
DRUNK OBJ SoBER-By a verdict of
jury in the district court of Saline.
county a man is responsible for finan-
cial obligation he may make whether
drunk or sober. He had signed bond
for man arrested for cattle stealing
who jumped the bond, and the bonds
man claimed that he was drunk when
he signed the bond.
HYDRoPHoBIA.-There was a fatal
case of this dread disease in Wabaun-
see county lately. The thirteen-year-
old daughter of w. T. Smarle was its
! victim.
AN OLD CLAIM PAID.-Mrs. Martha
Gallop, of Beloit, has been awarded
S22a. go by the government for property
destroyed in an Indian raid through
Mitchell county in 1865. Here is one
of the items: A piece of twenty yards
OF homemade flannel, having a CASH
value of SEQ.
A DOLLAR AND A HALF-Two bills
were passed by the legislature fixing
price of supreme court reports, one of
| them at .25 and the other at S15O
Governor Bailey has signed the s1.50
| bill.
! A RUNAwAY.-Phil Wise and his
wife, of Cowley county, were working
a young horse for the first time and
the team ran away. Wise received
wounds which were considered as en-
dangering his life while his wife was
bruised about the head and had leg
broken.
KANSAS PRODUCERS CUT OUT.-The
legislature turned down a bill obliga-
ting the state board of charities to pur-
chase their supplies for the various
state institutions from Kansas pro-
ducers and Kansas dealers.
HIoH ScHoor. BUILDING