Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-02-23
Coin with 10 stars.-Bankers ana

size of a SO gold piece, which T. l.
Crabtree owns, and which he claims
was sent him forty years ago from
Old Mexico by an uncle 1t has the
markings of a United States gold
coin, but is not denominated 1t was
weighed today and tested as TO its
quality. 1t weighed five and one-half
pennyweights and stood the gold test
The date of the coin is 1900 and it
has thirteen stars. Crabtree does not
say what he has been doing all these
years with the coin, but would like
to know how much it is worth
Troops For Philippines.-The Sixth
infantry, consisting of forty-three
officers and SIS enlisted men. left
Leayenworth on three special trains
for San Francisco. They will go di-
rectly from the cars to a transport
and are to land at Samar Island in
the Philippines where the natives are
making trouble. The Sixth came here
nearly three years ago. Before
starting discharges were granted to
over 400 soldiers of the regiment. So
many came here and enlisted. most
of them with a view of going to the
Philippines, that all could not be TAX
en- along. The regiment will be il
the Philippines two years.
Cattle Losses Will Be Great. -
Travelling men who have come in
from the western part of the state
since the storm state that losses of
cattle from freezing will be great,
especially in the extreme west. 1t
is reported, though the statement
cannot be verified, that one cattleman
at Leoti lost 200 in a bunch. An
other story states that cattle in large
droves, huddled in the ravines when
the storm began and the rayines
were filled with snow, the cattle all
being lost.
Monument For Tom AIIen.-At a
meeting of the Commercial Club at
Junction City a movement was start
ed toward the erection of a monu-
ment over the tomb of pioneer
kansan and the late city marshal, T.
A. Cullinan, who died in Kansas City
last summer. T. A. Cullinan was bet
ter known in the state as Tom
Allen. He was one of the few Dor
der town city marshals to die a nat
ural death. He was marshal in juno.
ton City for over thirty years.
New Trolley Line. The Spring
River Power Company, which has
Just finished a large concrete dam
on Spring river. three miles from
Baxter Springs, has submitted to the
council franchise providing for the
building of an electric road from
Galena to this place. The road is to
be finished in time to handle the
crowds which come yearly to the big
Baxter Springs reunion, and will be
nine miles long.
Jerome at Ottawa. - The Ottawa
Chautauqua assembly received a tele-
gram announcing the acceptance of
its invitation by District Attorney
Jerome, of New York, to address the
assembly July T. The invitation to
Mr.. Jerome was presented by w. A.
Deford, of Ottawa, who is now in
New York in the employ of w. R.
Hearts legal department
Muskrats Cut Canal Banks.-Musk-
rats, working in the north bank of
the canal which supplies water power
to the mills and factories at Arkan-
sas City, caused a large hole to be
opened up, through which the water
from the canal poured and flooded a
field nearby, besides flooding the
work on the extension of the city's
water mains.
Learned American Ways. Jake
Lansky. a young Russian who came
to this country only five months ago,
has in that time learned the Ian
guage and has acquired American
business methods sufficiently to man.
age one of the largest clothing stores
at Horton.
Will Not Divide District. Judge
Walter L. Simons returned to Fort
Scott from Topeka, where he went to
consult with representatives of the
three counties of this judicial district
in regard to a proposed division. The
plan was to make Crawford county a
separate district and Lyon and Bour-
bon a new district. The parties in
terested could not agree as to which
should be the old district, which would
retain Judge Simons as Judge, so the
matter was dropped and no division
bill will be presented to the legisla-
ture.
Oppose Bill to Issue Bonds.-A sec
ond meeting of Leavenworth county
taxpayers was held at the court house
and it was decided to oppose a bill
pending in the legislature to author
ize the issuing of sS7 900 in bonds to
pay county Indebtedness. This is
directly opposite to the plan favored
by a taxpayers meeting two weeks
ago.
Victim of Typhoid. - Miss Lula
Lauterbach, age IS, daughter of Aug
ust Lauterbach. cashier of Farmers
and Merchants bank of Colby, died
of typhoid fever.
Aimed at Gas Companies. - The
house oil and gas committee reported
bill on piping gas. The bill is aimed
at the Kansas Natural Gas Company
1t prohibits the use of pumps on the
pipe line The senate committee cut
out the clause prohibiting pumps and
now has the bill up for third read
ing.
Calling a BIuff.-The Standard Oil
Company has laid off 900 men in
Kansas. The Standard Oil Company
will probably learn that Kansas legis-
lators have an inkling of what the
term. calling a bluff, means.