Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-06-22

BY November 1.-workmen at To-
peka broke ground for the new state
printing building, which is to cost
$4,000. The building will be ready
for occupancy November 1.
Old Couple Marries.-Captain VIII
liam Jenkins. II years old, of Atlanta,
was married at Winfield to Mrs. Mary
Cochran, 60 years old, of Burden.
Both are prominently connected.
Ottawa Gas Franchise.-A contract
was approved by the city council last
night by which financiers of Mercer,
Pa, propose to furnish to the local
artificial gas company natural gas for
distribution from the Rantoul fields
east of town.
Click Heads Commission.-Govern-
or Hoch appointed the state grain in
spection commission as follows: Elk
Governor G. w. Click, Atchison; Re-
preventative John T. White, Ada;
Mont Cory, Harper. The duty of the
commission is to establish grades of
grain. Governor Click is a Demo
crat.
Clerks Help Accountant. - C. M
Morris, the expert accountant who is
examining the state treasury, now
has three clerks assisting him. The
work is behind locked doors, and the
nature of it is not known. Mr. Nor
ris and Governor Hoch have frequent
interviews, but neither will talk about
the progress of the examination.
Matter Under Amusement. The
proceedings by John Jobling, owner
of the Looms hotel at Geuda Springs,
brought to permanently enjoin ]. L..
futile, owner of the springs there,
from compelling him to pay 81 day
for each guests use of water, was
heard at Winfield before Judge
Swartz. The court took the matter
under advisement.
For Commander-in-Chief - Captain
P. H. Coney, department commander
of the Kansas G. A. R., is in receipt
of letters from comrades in various
states urging him to run for command
er-in-chief of the order. The captain
says he is not a candidate. but his
friends declare that if the honor
should be thrust upon him he would
feel it his duty to accept.
Fourth of July Rates.. The rail,
roads have agreed upon the rates for
the Fourth of July. The round trip
rate will be one fare plus fifty cents,
except in cases where one and a third
fare will be cheaper. There will be
no restrictions as to distance. This
is new feature. 1t has usually been
restricted to. 200 miles, Tickets will
be good returning on the 5th.
Aged Man Seeks Divorce. - At
old, filed suit for a divorce from OF
tilea Kihm, 81 years old. They were
married more than forty-five years
ago and now the husband alleges
cruelty and incompatibility of temper
and says his wife's relatives interfere
with them. They have property
worth $4,000, which the husband Of
IerS 10 QlVlQe.
Railroad Shops at Parsons.-Mayor
Gabriel has received a telegram from
President Finney of the Missouri
Kansas & Texas railway, saying that
the company accepts the proposition
made by the city of Parsons for the
construction of new railway shops
The new shops are to cost $1,650,000
and the site selected by the company
contains thirty acres and is in the
residence part of the city.
Sunday Law at SaIina. = At Salina
in decision by Police Judge Blum
don the Sunday ordinance was practi-
cally knocked out. A barber had been
arrested charged with keeping open
Sunday. The BARRIERS attorney was
present ready to fight the ordinance,
when City Attorney Levitt dismissed
the case without arguing it. The
movement to keep the lid on in Sa-
lima has now reached the place where
it devolves upon the county attorney
as the city ordinances are not suffi.
cient.
Cannot Stop Pipe Lines.-The STU.
preme court has denied the petition
for rehearing of the case of the
state VS.. the Kansas Natural Gas Com.
pany, and that of the state VS.. Smell.
ing. These were the two cases which
involved the right of the Kansas Nat
ural Gas Company to lay it's pipe lines
in the highways
Having Good Crops. - Crop pros.
poets in central Kansas are better
now than they have been at any time
in the past four years. The first few
days of June, previously the culmina-
ton of the flood period, have been
passed in safety, and all over Lyon,
Coffey, Greenwood, Chase and Morris
counties the farmers are preparing
to harvest one of the bumper crops
in history.
Haven Store Robbed.-The general
merchandise store of B. W. Talbot,
of Haven, Kan, station thirty miles
north of Wichita on the Missouri Pa
cific, was burglarized. Thieves broke
in the front door and carried away
several hundred dollars worth of dry
goods and jewelry. A posse spent the
entire day searching for the thieves
but no clue has been discovered.
Larned Voted School Bonds.-The
proposition to issue $4,000 in bonds
for school purposes was voted on at
Larned and the proposition carried by
majority of 81 votes. The money
thus raised is to be used in the cree
ton of new high school building and
the repairing of one of the ward build
ings.
Fell Downstairs.-Mrs. ]. F. Brow
er was killed at Cherryvale by fall
ing downstairs at her home. She