Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-02-18

Ing IN the supreme court 1Or several
months, will not be decided until the
next term of court, which will be in
March One of these cases involves
the validity of the ''old soldier" law,
which was enacted by the legislature
of 1901, and provides that veterans of
the civil war shall he given preference
by municipal, county and state officers
with appointive power. The other
was the coal trust case, which was in
stituted in Shawnee county last year.
when an alleged investigation into the
alleged combine among the Usage
county mine operators was commenced.
ALIEN LAND LAw-It is now discov-.
cred that the Kansas alien land law
passed in 1891 is null and void, as the
senate and the house each passed a
bill and they were not alike; both
houses never having taken final action
upon either bill. The bill passed by
the senate was signed by Governor
Humphrey and has since been consid-
cred law. A number of suits are
pending involving this law; among
them the contest for the Odd Fellows
home in Franklin county.
TAX DoDGERs INTEREsTED.-W. E.
Davis, a Clay Center bank cashier, re-
fused to produce accounts of his GUS
toners before grand jury where tax
dodgers were being investigated. He
was committed for contempt and has
asked the supreme court for writ of
habeas corpus to secure his release.
The case makes a commotion among
tax dodgers and will affect the banks
as deposits will be drawn out before
March 1 and hidden.
WINFIELD HosPITAL.-Plans have
been drawn and the money raised for
extensive additions and improvements
to the Winfield hospital (which recently
came into the possession of the Catho-
lie Sisters. The work of construction
will commence early in the spring.
The hospital now has only twenty
beds. When the additions now pro-
vided for are completed it will have
fifty beds, besides increased facilities
in every part of the buildings.
TAX FERRETs.-They are now MAX
ing life miserable for the tax jumpers
in several counties in Kansas. The
ferrets get 25 per cent of all taxes
which they make the tax dodgers pay
up.
COYOTES ATTACK DoG--Fred Church,
of Alta Vista, started out with his dog
for wolf chase. Two coyotes attacked
attacked the dog and Church had to
drive them off with a stick of stove
wood.
ANOTHER CUT ON GRAIN.-The Santa
Fe has issued notice of further cut of
two cents on grain frym interior Kan
sas points to Galveston for export.
on. AND GAS LEAsEs.-The agent of
an oil and gas company of Chanute
has secured leases on 1900 acres of
land six miles west of Wichita.
OF CoURsE.-An Ottawa man who
tried to commit suicide, when asked by
his physician if he wanted to get well,
said, ''Of course"
SALT WATER.-The boring for oil at
Shorey, Topeka suburb, results so
far in striking artesian salt water with
a strong flow.
To SINK SHAFT.-Progressive farm
ers of Rocks county are raising $4,000
with which to sink shaft in search of
coal and gas.
A SCHOOL CLosED.-At Abbeyville,
Reno county, the schools are closed on
account of the prevalence of scarlet
fever.
AN Ell DORADO MIss.-Miss Jessie
Owens, of Ell Dorado, has secured a
position on the Kansas City World.
1.5OO POUND BELL-The Methodist
church at Severy has a bell which
weighs 1,5OO pounds.
A HORSE SHow.-Cowley county will
have horse show on March &c.
KANSAS EDIToRs.-The Kansas Ed
itorial association held two days ses-
names were added to the rolls. Among
subjects discussed were: Do Piano
Contests Pay; The Editorial Page;
Should Country Newspaper Man Be
a Practical Printer, and general dis
cussion of the newspaper business.
RAILROAD AssEssoRs.-The state
board of railroad assessors will begin
the work of fixing valuations for the
several Kansas lines for 1904, on March
| 20.
OPERATOR WAS BURNED.-Sheu
Jones, the Santa Fe operator who was
burned while endeavoring to rescue
his instruments from the flames which
destroyed the Santa Fe depot at Flor
ence, is at the company's hospital in
Topeka. His burns were not thought
to be serious at first.
SCHOOL CHILDREN.-Wyando coun
children-25,1 31. Shawnee comes sec
ond with 1L,537. Sedgwick is third
with 14,771. Morton county has the
smallest number-61.
SAYS Lone Is WELL.-There having
been circulated statement that Sen
ator Long is sick, Mr.. Faxon, the sen
ator's secretary, gives out denial
Faxon said: Mr.. Long has passed q
quiet winter free from arduous work
and worry and 1 can state positively
that his condition is very much better
than last fall when he left the state
GEN. MILES WILL SToP.-A dispatch
from Washington says that General
Miles will be in Topeka on the after
noon and evening of Feb. IL and fore
noon of the 18th.