Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-04-13
KANSAS COMMENT

Kansas Egg King.-J. E. Brewer,
state senator from Dickinson county.
is the egg king of Kansas.
A New Precedent.-No wine will be
served at the banquet of the Sedgwick
County Bar Association. This is a
precedent worthy of notice.
On Good Terms Again.-Salina is
once more on speaking terms with
the Union Pacific The officials of
the road, worried at Salinas cold
manner, promised to spend 100000
there for terminal facilities. thus find
ing favor with naughty Salina.
OIL and Gasoline cheaper.-West-
ern Kansas towns have begun to feel
the effects of the oil agitation and the
anti-discrimination law. Refined oil
out there is now selling at Is cents
a gallon. Up until the legislature
met it sold for 20 cents. Gasoline
formerly sold at II cents in small
quantities and 10 cents in barrel
lots.
Inquest Over Body.-At Topeka the
coroner will have an inquest over the
body of Owen Farrell, who was killed
by a Missouri Pacific train. The in
quest will be held April at 2 o'clock
In the afternoon. In the probate court
Judge Hayden appointed r. H. Cav
as the administrator of the estate if
any estate can be discovered. Farrell
did not recover consciousness after
being hit by the train.
Job For The coroner.-E. C. Nc
Callen of lola, general agent for the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Company for lola, Gas City and La
Harpe, was arrested on a complaint
sworn to by the American Surety
Company for the embezzlement of
$1,000 of the funds of the katy
railroad in Gas City. The lola Office
will also be investigated So far as
known there is no shortage in the
express accounts.
Against Oil Kings Gift. - At the
Congregational church at Mcpherson
the Rev. Schnackle preached an elo-
quent sermon on the subject of giving
in connection with the gift of one
hundred thousand dollars to the
church by John D. Rockefeller. At
ter the taking on the acceptance or
rejection of the gift, as an expression
of the sentiment of the congregation,
the result of the vote was to
against the acceptance
Saved $1.16 acknowledgements
tive Polly. of Republic, has written
letter to the governor. showing how
the maximum oil rate law works up
In that country. Prior to the pass
age of the law said he. 9" the mer-
chants of Belleville paid $1.52 freight
on barrel of oil from Atchison. They
now pay Sc cents. or S1.16 less than
the old rate. If the anti-discrimina-
ton bill works as well as the maxi
mum rate bill the people of Kansas
will reap much benefit
For the Semi-Arid District. At
Hays City the new experimental sta
ton will make an experiment in grow
ing wheat this season. The object is
" get d ludl Will Dc dudDlGu
to the semi-ard district of the West.
More than fifty varieties will be test
ed. The station will develop more
work in horticulture this season than
ever before. A horticulturist from the
agricultural college has been sent out
to have charge of the department,
and plans are in process for work
with xnoofah1aC in
and landscape gardening. New stocks
CT trees, plants and seed will arrive
with which it is hoped something can
be ascertained that will prove of
great value to horticulture in the
West
No Pardon For SmiIey.-Governor
Hoch will not grant pardon to E. ].
Smiley, convicted of violating the
Kansas antitrust law while acting as
secretary of the Kansas Grain Deal
ers' Association. Mr. Smiley is a
miniature Rockefeller, said Govern
ar Hoch today, in discussing the case.
ls his methods were to prevail the
farmers of Kansas would have receiv-
ed only $2O000,000 for their wheat
this year, instead of $50 1000 600 / am
glad we have a law that will protect
the men who raise the wheat
Open Old Plant. The National
Packing Company, owner of the plant
of the Hutchinson Packing company,
througs its representative, w. E. Rem
fro, of Hamilton, Canada, announces
that the local plant will be opened in
side of sixty days. The building has
not been operated as a meat packing
plant for seventeen years, being clos
ed down after the boom days The
Hutchinson Salt Company leased the
plant for five years after the Armours
bought it and made salt there a part
of the time. until last November, when
the lease expired. 1t has been idle
since that time.
More Than One Production. = The
Standard refuses to buy Kansas oil.
but that does not interfere with the
market for Kansas salt, Kansas
wheat, Kansas corn, Kansas beef and
the several other little notions Kan
sas has on the counter.
Sale of School Lands. = County
Treasurer Grissom is advertising for
sale to the highest bidder Saturday,
April s, at his Office in Syracuse five
sections of school lands appraised at
S1.25 per acre. They will be sold in
lots of so acres each, and will afford
excellent profits to investors.
Paroled Man Kills HimseIf.-S. A.
Paugh, % years old, paroled inmate
of the reformatory. who had been at
work on a farm near Kinsley for sew
eral months. shot himself though the
heart. No cause was assigned, as
Paugh had been making his reports