Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-02-16

TeCleu Tue attorney general W De5iA
action against the city of Lawrence to
recover 100000 due on delinquent
! bonds held by the school fund. Law
renee issued these bonds as bonus
to secure the location of the state uni
versity. The bonds were placed in the
state school fund. Later Lawrence
| lobbied law through the legislature
providing that when 1t had paid inter-
est equal in amount to the face of the
bonds it should be relieved Of paying
the principal. 1t paid 100000 in in
terest and then quit, claiming 1t had
complied with the law. The bonds are
still held by the school fund.
Pay Price Raid Scrip.-At the regu-
lar meeting of Hiawatha post G. A. R.
the following resolution was offered,
and after some discussion, unani-
mously adopted: Whereas, Kansas
in her early days was heroic and hon
est, though poor, and, whereas, she is
now rich and prosperous and ought to
be rich and honest; therefore, be it re-
solved, that we petition the legislature
of Kansas. now in session, to take such
action as will, without further I'M
necessary delay. make just and equit-
able settlement with the holders of
the Price raid script
| Snow Extinguished Flames. - Mag
| gle Linn was badly burned at her
home at Fort Scott. She was in the
/ nxo fr1fr 70 fnr
| which were frozen, when the candle
which she carried set fire to some
papers. In attempting to extinguish
the flames her clothing caught fire.
She ran into the yard and buried her
! self in a snowbank to put out the
flames She was badly burned about
the chest and is in critical condi-
| ton.
Knocked Him 80 Feet.-George D.
Vaughn, a Santa Fe brakeman. had
a miraculous escape from instant
death in the railroad yards at We'll
lington. To avoid an approaching
passenger train he stepped on what
he supposed was a clear track, but
which, proved to be the one on which
| the train was coming. The pilot
knocked him thirty feet, breaking
one leg and infiicting other serious
! injuries.
Mustache Club. - The latest freak
to break out on humanity's skin is a
mustache club at Pratt. The first
i member who shaves his labial adorn-
ment off is required to pay one dollar
| to every other member.
New Way to Collect. A Cloud
county merchant has purchased a
camera and is making some good col
lections by threatening to take pict-
ures of his delinquent customers and
| hang them up in his store labeled.
Bond Issue Carries. At Garnett
the bond proposition carried and
| $4,000 will now be spent in enlarg
ing the present city water works
plant and running a pipe to Cedar
creek, three miles west.
To Aid Refinery. - Petitions have
been sent from Cloud county to Sena-
tor Peck and Representative Briefly
asking them to give their support to
the project for the establishment of
| a state oil refinery.
| Prominent Man Dies. - Judge
George W. Nimocks, mayor of this
city in the early days, judge of the
| district court and county attorney
| for two terms, died at his Great Bend
/ home.
Good and Prosperous.-LaCros is
advertising for occupants for both it's
| Jail and the county poor farm. They
are both vacant and the keepers are
| likely to lose their jobs.
On Artificial Ice. - Concordia will
go through the year on artificial ice.
Not a pound of river ice has been put
| up.
Expect Early Spring. - Jewell City
is looking for spring. Three new
milliners have struck the town.
! A Good Law.-The house live stock
| committee has recommended for pas
sage bill giving farmers the right to
kill sheep-killing dogs without con-
sent of the owners of the dogs.
Cleaned Up Calendar. - The house
omnibused forty local bills on one roll
call. This cleaned up the local calen-
dar. The Waggener bill ceding the
states ownership of coal under the
| Missouri river to the Atchison Coal
Mining Company was in the local list
but was not passed. 1t was placed
under general bills and must run the
gauntlet of separate roll call.
Whole Train Derailed. - Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific passenger train
| No. 6, east-bound, was wrecked two
miles west of Labanon. Running for
| ty-five miles an hour, the engine left
the track and the full train of eight
cars followed. One car turned over,
but no one was dangerously injured.
| Twelve persons were slightly bruis-
| ed.
A Pioneer Dead. - Philip Bowers
died at Perry. Kan, of paralysis, at
the age of IS years. He had been i'll
about a year. He was one of Kansas
pioneer settlers.
| After Pool Rooms.-Senator Brewer
is after the pool room and race track
betting stands. He introduced a bill
making it unlawful to operate such
concerns in the state. either for the
purpose of making books or bets on
races, either at home or in other
| states, or on election results.
Cold Stops Development. - On &C
count of the cold weather and the
deep snow there has been little de-
velopment in the Paola oil field this
week. The Standard will pump oil
from its tanks at Paola into the pipe
line.