Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-12-31

Robert .Bunten. Il have received no
tification from the Santa Fe officials OF
a 20 per cent freight advance unless
shippers stand good for all short
weights when delivered to the dealers.
As the coal is in charge of the railways
and the loss is due to them it seems un-
fair for us to stand the shrinkage In
either case coal will be advanced.
Two Fool BoYs.-They were from
Falls City, Neb.. and were making a
trip to HiawatiIa when they met a
farmer with tenn of colts who asked
the boys to stop until he got by them.
They kept on, shouting and the farmer
shot holes in the rubber tires of their
auto, The boys then hired the farm
er to haul the auto back to Falls City,
where they also had to pay for the
ruined rubber tires
MORE WRECK V1cT1Ms.-Sheriff Kan
able, the marshal of Coopertown. Okla,
who was injured in the wreck of the
ST. Louis & San Francisco's fast train,
the Meteor, near Fort Scott, is dead.
This makes the total dead ten. Il. f.
Garroway, of Jonesboro, Ark, is be-
lieved to be dying and H. B. Darling
ton, mail clerk, of Kansas City, is in
a dangerous condition.
WILL Nor MARRY DIvoRcED.-The
Winfield Ministerial union adopted the
following: I'VE express our disap-
proval of the laxness of divorce laws
ard the exercise thereof by the courts;
and refuse to officiate at the re-mar-
riage of those who are divorced for
other than scriptural reasons.
STONE MAsoN's WILL.-The probate
court has paid S1O.545.15 the amount
willed some years ago by John Swayne,
of Franklin county, to to the Catholic
order of st. Catherine, England.
Swayne worked at Ottawa as stone
mason and lived alone boarding his
money.
MARRIED 6S YEARs.-Mr. and Mrs J.
S. Upton celebrated their 6sth we'd
ding anniversary at Salina They
have been married longer than any
other couple in the county, and they
have great-great-grandch Mr..
| Upton is SO and his wife 81.
To REDEEM WARRANTs.-State Treas
urer T. L. Kelly has given notice
that all warrants now outstanding
! will be redeemable after January 81,
and fh1+ inf I,A
warrants after that date.
AN OPEN SwITcH.-A Missouri Pa
citic passenger train from Omaha to
Kansas City, ran into an open switch
at Everest and into a freight train on
the siding. Two of the crew and two
passengers We're hurt.
FoR AUDIToRIUM.-The Salina trav-
cling men who are raising money for
the erection of a $50, 900 auditorium in
Salina, went to Junction City on
special train to give two minstrel per-
foImances.
STRUCK BY TRAIN.-Mrs. NJ. Weber.
an aged woman living one mile south
of Westphalia. while walking to church
was struck by freight train. receiving
injuries which caused her death three
hours later.
WHEAT Nor SPRoUTED.-A Norton
county man is quoted as saying that
from lack of moisture much of the
wheat in his county, planted in Sep
tember has not sprouted vet
INSANE MovED.-Shawnee county is
removing the insane from the Bedwen
private asylum. The county has been
paying SO per week while the state al
lows the county So for their care.
KANSAS LIBRARIEs.-There are 6S of
them, of which Andrew Carnegie helped
to plant II. Miss Helen Gould has given
half as many more.
ONE Potato EAcH.-At the Christmas
eve meeting of the First Baptist church
of Wichita one potato was the admis-
sion fee.
A 1,O00BARREL WELL.-The Phoenix
Oil company has a well that flows LOCO
barrels of good oil a day. 1t is located
on the Lockport lease, three miles
southeast of Humboldt.
COOPERATIVE LAUNDRY.-A Topeka
laundry has just paid its employees the
regular annual dividend, amounting
this year to about six weeks full pay
OIL NEAR ALTAMoNT.-Oil has been
discovered on the Clarence Sillcott farm
four miles south of Altamont. 1t has
not been known that the section was
in the oil belt.
GOT ENOUGH CAsH.-Several Nor
wegians and other foreigners, who
have been living in Brown county, are
leaving for their former homes. Some
will spend only the Christmas holidays
there, but others will go for good, hav-
ing made enough by hard work and
careful saving in the last few years to
guarantee life of comfort in the fu-
ture.
NEosHo FALLS OIL.-Oil wells are
multiplying at Neosho Falls, the latest |
being one of the strongest in the Kan
sas oil fields.
EXPRESS AGENTS LIABLE.-Assistant !
Attorney General Close has rendered an
opinion to the effect that where c. o. |
D. liquor packages are not ordered by |
the consignee, but are turned over to |
him by an express agent the agent caa |
be prosecuted for violating the prohib-
itory liquor law.
TAXES ON WIREs.-Telegraph com
panies pay taxes on s915, 61o of property
in Kansas. They have 9,2s7 miles of
line in the state. Telephone companies
have 5,171 miles of line and pay taxes