Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-02-09
Gas War Is over.-The Arkansas

valley OH, Gas ana Improvement
company is now carrying on its.
operations in Arkansas City without
restriction. The company's bond to
protect the city against damages, and
the formal acceptance of the frau
chise have been satisfactorily filed
and were accepted by the city coun-
ell at its special meeting yesterday.
| Thereupon the guards were with
drawn and the work of laying new
pipe to supply the town with gas is
going on uninterrupted. The new
1 company has leased the mains and
plant of the Arkansas City Artificial
! Gas Company, and will use the mains
in connection with the new ones be-
| ing laid.
Santa Re Panhandle Changes - T.
]. Whisenand has resigned as super
| intendent of the Panhandle division
of the Santa Fe. with headquarters in
Wellington, and will be succeeded by
l.. Z. Morris, now trainmaster at
| Dodge City. c. L. Rupert. chief dis
patcher at Dodge City, comes to sue
coed D. Conchlin as trainmaster. The
latter goes to Dodge City to take Mr.
Morris place as trainmaster of that
division
Would Teach Agriculture. The
state board of agriculture, at its re-
cent annual meeting, adopted a reso-
luton urging. that as Kansas IL an
agricultural state, agriculture should
be included in the common school
curriculum. In response to this
Senator Smith introduced in the SEN
ate a bill making agriculture a part
of the course of study of common
schools. and requiring it to be
taught.
Froze Her Feet.-Mary Brown, a
! colored girl who was sent to the poor
! farm of Shawnee county about two
months ago, because she was desti-
| tute ard her feet had been frozen,
ran away from the county farm and
! tent that it is believed that both will
| have to be amputated.
Killed in Mine Explosion.-An ex-
/ plosion at Devlin Mills, nine miles
north Of Pittsburg, Kan, killed John
Yost and Antoine Smardo. 1t Twas
i caused by a windy shot. The mine
F. was not damaged aside from the
/ blowing down of two or three doors
/ The dead men each leave a widow
! and four children.
/ Condemned Milk Factory. - ]. w
Reed of Chicago, together with local
| capitalists, has organized the Ottawa
Condensing Company and will estab-
lish condensed milk factory, open
! ing for business April 1. The factory
/ will be, it is believed, the first of
/ its kind in Kansas, Missouri or Ne
| braska.
| Big Fire at Marysvilie.-The new
Excelsior Roller Mills at Marysville
were destroyed by fire: Loss $780,
900. The Excelsior mills were built
/ in 1867 and in the early days furnish
/ ed flour to feed the entire west from
( st. Joseph and Atchison to Denver
+ Colo. Sometime ago it was remod-
eIed.
( :. Take Up Claims. - Kansas owes
thirty-one counties $4,000 for the
maintenance of destitute insane The
amount has not been so small in
/ twenty years. The house ways and
means committee yesterday intro
duced a bill appropriating money to
take up the claims.
Applies to Home Town. - An En-
poria man says it's a long block that
has no joints. His statement applies
exclusively to his home town.
Ground Hog FooIed.-If the ground
hog came out to look for his shadow
anywhere in Kansas he was pretty
much Of fool
Build Masonic Temple. - The Ma
sonic orders of Wellington have pur-
chased a site and will some time erect
a temple
! Close Unfit Mines. - The minins
committee of the senate has reported
favorably the bill giving the state mine
inspector more jurisdiction over coal
mines than he now has. If the in
spector now finds mine or part of a
mine in an unhealthy condition, and
the company refuses to put it in shape
the inspector must go into the court
and get an order compelling it to dc
so. Under the pending bill the in.
spector is given authority to close ur
the mine or part Of mine which he re
CARDS as unfit for workmen to enter
without resorting to the courts.
Kansas charter.-The state charter
board has granted charter to the
Union Brick. and Gas Company, of
Cherryvale, with 100000 capital. This
will be one of the biggest brick COM
panies in the state. 1t will use gas to
burn brick.
Keeping Things Warm. Topeka
has a grand jury session and a mid
winter exposition that are helping to
keep things warm.
Least in Ten Years. The state
owes thirty-one counties, for the care
of destitute insane. 100000 the least
for ten years.
Tax Bills Ordered Printed.-An tax
bills introduced in both houses have
been ordered printed. The two COM
mittees will hold joint session and
map out the main features of a tax
bill. 1t will then be introduced as a
committee bill, if an agreement on it's
provisions can be reached, and showed
through the legislature.
! Santa Fe Depot Rurned.-At Thaye1
u strong gas pressure coming on caus-
ed the Santa Fe depot to burn down.
Nothing was saved. The building con-