Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-11-26
KANSAS COMMENT.
KANSAS

THEIR 9rH DAUGHTER-A. A. Cot
trell and wife have lived i'll Wabaunsec
county 40 years Their ninth daugh-
ter will graduate from the state agri-
cultural college next spring.
LACK oE 200 TEACHERS is con-
servativcly estimated by tine state SUI
perintendent of schools that at least 200
rural schools arc closed right now be-
cause of Il scarcity of teachers.
UNIVERSITY TUITION FEES. Willis
X. Folks. secretary of the state univcr-
sity at Lawrence, turned into the state
treasury $3.50 i'll fees collected during
the month of October from students
for tuition.
SUES A RAuRoAD.-Waltcr II. OAR
iington, Il stock man of Concordia, has
brought suit for Il sum exceeding 81, 300
against the Burlington railroad for
losses due 10 delay in delivering cattle
and hogs shipped to market over that
line.
WILL NOT WGrHpRAw.-TheO Ottawa
Building and Loan association, having
moro money than it could loan, the
managers concluded to return Tie
money of foreign stockholders. MGR
riman, of Michigan, refuses to turn in
his stock and sued for dividends
amounting 20 S57O.25. The supreme
court has given him judgment i'll full
and declares the acts OF the directors
illegal They cannot force person to
withdraw.
SCHOOL CHART MEN. Complaint
are coming in to l. L. Dayhoff, State
superintendent of public instruction,
regarding the operations of a gang of
swindiers who are travelling over the
state pretending to sell school charts.
The boards are shown samples of the
charts and are induced to give a war
rant for the purchase of set. The
charts never arrive, but the warrant
turns up in the hands of an innocent
purchaser.
STATE LIBRARY AssocIATIoN.-At
the annual session ut Emporia the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the en-
suing year: President, Miss c. NJ. Watt
son, Lawrence; secretary, Miss In
Adams, Topeka; treasurer, Miss Sy-
rcna Mckee, Leavenworth; vice prcsi-
dent, ]. L. King, state librarian, To-
pelia 1t was voted to hold its meet
ing next year in st. Louis the day pre-
ceding the meeting of the American
Library association.
THE SMALEY MUHDER.-The cor
oner's jury held a second inquest at
Harveyville in the ease of the shooting
of VIM. Smaley, and recommended that
the widow, Mrs. Smaiey, and Chas.
Overman, farmer, be arrested as ac-
cessories to the crime. The brother
and father of the woman are already
under arrest charged with the murder.
1t is the contention OF the officers that
Smaley was killed in accordance with
plot participated in by all members
of his family.
THE NEWEST FAKE.-The newest
kind OF fake in Western Kansas is
the man who boards with the farmers
pretending that he wants to buy land.
1t works ike a charm and means free
board continuously. The CRATER goes
to the farmers place and prices his
land, and, of course, gets an invitation
to dinner He stays over night, and
the next day he goes to another neigh
borhood to look around u little before
deciding on the trade. Then he re-
turns to the first farmer and stops an
other day and then returns to the see
ond farmer In this way he can board
around in one county for "a month.
KANSAS APpI.Es.-It is an unusual
thing for Kansas apples to be shipped
to California for sale. Ross Bros, of
Wichita, has filled AN order for several
barrels of choice winesaps The same
firm also shipped on the same day,
some wiuesap apples to an interior
Missouri town.
BLIND BOONE TURNED OUT.-The
Blind Boone company, all colored,
were turned away from the doors of
Paola hotel although the proprietor
had signed Il contract with the COM
pany's advance agent
Will. REBUILD.-The stockholders of
the Johnson county cooperative asso-
citation decided 10y - unanimous vote to
leave the rebuilding of their depart
nent store 1T Olathe to the directors.
The new building will cover the same
ground as the burned store but it will
be only two stories high, without the
opera house feature. Each depart
ment is in rented quarters now. The
SAL, 900 insurance has been paid.
A So, 900 AvEEAGE.-Ovcr5 500 farms
changed hands in Kingman county
this year at an average of fully $4,000.
WATER GUAGEs ON THE KAw.-Prof.
Henry j. Franl1enield OF the river and
flood department of the United States
weather bureau, has been in consulta-
tion with Director Jennings, of the To-
pelia weather bureau about the estab-
lishmcnt of a river guage and the fore
casting of rises in the Kansas river
and flood danger.
PADDED PAY RoILs.-The auditor
of state has begun an investigation of
the padded pay roll of the house of
representatives last winter. It is an
interminable job.
DESTROYED BEER.-Sheriff McCool,
acting under an order from the court
destroyed $50 bottles of beer at Pratt
in the presence of q large crowd. The
beer was taken in a raid on the only
''joint" in the city and the jointist was
sentenced TO fine of 500 and thirty
days in the county Jail.