Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-04-20

Anthony Closes Joints.-Upon order
of Mayor Anthony, all the gambling
and policy establishments in Leaven-
worth have been closed and most of
the slot machines taken out Of the
| saloons.
Topeka's New Police Chief. = At
Topeka Mayor Davis appointed A. G.
ed ruler of the local Elks, as chief of
police to success Frank Stahl, the
joint-buster.
Will He Make Good7-Kansas rail-
road officials have their eyes on that
lola attorney who claims to have dis
ton law. If he makes good he is
in line for a good job.
Big Fire at Edna. = The town of
Edna Is miles west of Chetopa, is
burned. Eight buildings were de-
! stroyed. The heaviest losers were R.
T. McGhee, general store, $4,000; H.
V. Harden. grocer, $1,000; Silkott
Harness company $1,000; Hunts bar
Der shop, ]. Saf1e's office, the Clark
Drug company and the postoffice. The
loss was about $4,000. The town is
practically wiped out
Long Coming Home.-Senator Long
and family expect to return to Medi-
cine Lodge on the 18th of the present
month. The senator will remain in
Kansas until the latter part of June,
| uyh hn will iAin oil
junket to the Philippines. During the
| intSrim he will deliver an address on
Decoration day and numerous
speeches at high school graduations
throughout the state and on other oc-
casions.
PaoIa Free Delivery. = The Paola
postoffice is now in the free delivery
class, the receipts for the year end
ing March 81, 1905 having exceeded
$4,000. The total amount received
for stamps and boxes was SO, 104.30.
The business is still steadily increas-
The business is still steadily in
creasing, the receipts for the first
part of last year. There was
also an increase in the money order
business. The reports show that.
$4,000 were issued and about $50, 900
paid.
Wheat in Good Shape. = 1.-THE
crops in Western Kansas are in won
derfully fine shape this spring, - said
E. E. Ames, of Norton, national bank
examiner for Kansas. In the
twenty-five years that l have been
travelling around through Kansas l
have never seen them better. Two or
three good showers are really all that
is needed for the wheat now. What
we are praying for, in view of the ex-
periences of the last two or three
years. is that we don't get too much
rain.
Socialists Defend Will. The state
committee of the Socialist party issu
ed statement generating State
Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Will and
the Wichita society of completely in
an alleged plot to wreck the Socialist
party in Kansas. The statement will
be followed by the submission of re-
ferendum on whether or not the char
! ter of Kansas City, Kan, local shall
be revoked Members of that organi-
zation are said to be responsible for
the charges against the state officer
and the Wichita local.
Reprimand Causes Suicide.-Philip
Carney, a 19-year-old boy, who lives
at Westphalia, near Garnett, commit
/ Cd e-,1iai hrr oh
shotgun. Young Carney had been
blowing that morning and in some
way his team got the besSof him and
run away, doing considerable damage
to one of the horses. His father re-
| primanded him and thought the mat
ter had passed, as the boy took his
gun and said that he was going hunt
| ing. He failed to return home and
his parents went out to look for him
afterwards and found his body
about mile from his home He had
cut forked stick and placed the
muZzle of the gun close to his breast
and pressed the trigger with the
stick
Power Company Enjoined.-Papers
were served on DR.. c. X. Raber, presi-
dent of the Republican River Hy-
draulic Power company at Junction
City in an injunction proceeding
bought by Mrs. Jean Lander of Thur
mont, Maryland, in the circuit court
of the United States for the district
of Kansas. The action was brought
to enjoin the company from building
a dam on the Republican river on the
i Landers farm.
Fighting Gas Combine.-W. A. De-
Ford returned to Ottawa from
New York, where he has been
helping the fight against the New
York city gas combine. He will
return East soon.
Mineral Water Collection. : A col
lection of mineral waters from all
over the world has just been acquir
ed by the University of Kansas and
will be placed in the chemical mu-
scum. More than $50 kinds of medi.
cinal waters constitute part of the
collection. Kansas has twelve kinds
of mineral waters in the group The
waters represent the chief attraction
of some of the most notable resorts
in the world.
Special Dairy Train. = Prof Oscar
Err, professor of dairying and animal
husbandry at the State Agricultural
college, has gone to st. Joseph, Mo-,
to take charge of special dairy train
which is provided by the Grand Island
railway company and equipped by the
Kansas State Agricultural college. It
is to visit all stations along the Grand
Island system where one hour talks
to all dairymen will be given. The
| train CONSISTS Of R1rn L.