Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-04-27
superintendent Bowen RESIGNS.

superintendent DOWcn ncSi9uS.
D. H. Bowen, who held the position
of superintendent of city schools at
Fort Scott for ten years, resigned to
accept position as a member of the
faculty of the state manual training
normal established by the last legis-
lature at Pittsburg.
Lover Blows OFF His Head.-Clyde
Selkins, an 1S-year-old farmer boy at
Thompsonville eighteen miles north
east of Topeka, committed suicide.
He blew his head off with charge
from shotgun. He was engaged to
young girl in that neighborhood and
they had lovers quarrel.
No Nepotism at Dodge City. = Ne
potism cannot be practiced at the
state soldiers home at Dodge City.
In the law appropriating money for
that institution a clause was inserted
prohibiting the officials from giving
official jobs to any relatives. Such a
provision might have been inserted
in some other laws but for some rea-
son the legislature overlooked it.
Skeleton on the campus.-There is
considerable comment at Manhattan
regarding the recent prank played by
students of the State Agricultural
college in taking a skeleton from the
laboratory and burying it on the col
lege campus. 1t presented grew
some sight when found by member
of the faculty at daybreak with head,
shoulders and feet left exposed.
Buying Bonds Under Burrow Law
The school fund commissioners met
at Topeka and made their first pur-
chase of bonds under the new Bur-
row law. This law provides for wide
publicity of all proceedings. The
state printer has not yet furnished all
the books necessary to run the affairs
of the board under the new act, and
as result only some small emery
ency deals were closed.
Coal Output of misunderstanding
to the report of State Mine Inspector
James Orr, Kansas produces about
100000 tons of coal annually. OF
this amount Crawford county pro-
duces 81 per cent and Cherokee
county SO per cent The other 10 per
cent is divided among eight other
counties. Leavenworth supplies
about per cent, Usage 3. This leaves
/ per cent for the other six coun-
ties.
Make Sanitary Survey. - In a
bulletin issued Secretary S. ]. Crum-
bine, of the state board of health,
calls upon all health officers in the
state to make a sanitary survey of
their respective districts and require
people to clean up their premises. Lo-
cal officers should compel people to
clean their yards, stables, feed lots,
alleys and burn all the refuse, he
says. This is necessary to check the
various epedemics that are now ras-
ing.
Gets Out New Book. - Miss Kate
Stevens, who at one time held chair
in the Kansas University, has issued
a book entitled American Thumb
Prints The book is study of peo-
pie and our institutions. The story
deals with the captains of industry,
of the great waterway of the Middle
West and with the agriculturists of
Kansas who were chasing the politi-
cal phantoms. There are points in
the story which will be of especial
interest to women because of the re-
marks regarding households.
Why Not Kansas oiI?-Kansas oil
producers will make inquiry why the
federal government stipulates that
Beaumont crude oil only shall be used
in cattle dipping stations. There is
vast amount of crude oil used annu-
ally in dipping Southern cattle, and
under the government regulations the
crude oil used must come from Beau
mont. At dipping stations in the
heart of the Kansas oil belt oil must
be shipped in from Texas. One dip
ping plant in Southern Kansas stands
within 100 feet of a big oil well, but
the oil cannot be used, although it
would do the work Just as well as
Beaumont oil.
DiSSSi ~ FN00C0s Ill al
hours canvass the citizens of Wells
vile subscribed $500 to add to the
county reward of the same amount of
fered for the arrest and conviction of
the murderer of Mrs Caroline Job,
the aged woman who was fatally
wounded by fiend of the Jack the
Ripe type at Ottawa recently. A
subscriptions to the reward fund, and
it is believed that several hundred
dollars will be added The officers
are sending out requests through ad-
joining states asking to be notified of
similar attempts anywhere. 1t is the
theory that some maniac did the MUIR
der.
Big Apple Crop Sure. - W. H.
Barnes, secretary of the state horti-
cultural society, says reports from all
over the state indicate that there will
be fine crop of apples this year
prospects for pears, cherries and
plums also are good. There will be
an excellent crop of strawberries.
Blackberries and raspberries, how
ever, are in bad way, Mr.. Barnes
says. The crop of grapes also will
be short. Peaches are dead, as usual.
PIowboy's Neck Broken. - Albert
Rossillion, the 13-year-old son of
Francis Rossillion, Lyon county
farmer living eight miles southwest
of Olpe, had his neck broken in a run
away. The boy and his father were
blowing on opposite sides of a large
field, when the fathers attention was
attracted to the sons side of the field
by an unusual noise. He looked up
and saw his sons team running away,
dragging the pillow behind them. When
he reached that side of the field the