Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-02-23
Opposes cttv Court Bill. = A mass

ent. most of them being from the
country. Workingmen and business
men of Arkansas City and Winfield
were also largely represented. The
meeting was called Ivy Senator Will
kerson to get the expression of the
people OF both court houses and city
court bills. After considerable dis
cussion a vote was taken. the result
being 141 against and SO for the court
bill. The city court bill was defeat
ed by reclamation.
Favor the Standard.-A meeting of
the most prominent oil men of the
Miami county field was held at Paola.
Resolutions favoring the Standard
were adopted and signed by those
| present. 1t was unanimously decided
not to take part in the fight on the
Standard None of the operators is
in favor of state refinery, as they
think they will in time receive fair
| treatment at the hands of the Stand
ard. and that it will soon resume TAX
ing oil here Today oil was pumped
from the Standard tanks into the
pipe line.
Would Raise Flash Test.-Senator
Brewer has introduced another bill
which will have a tendency to make
| the Standard Oil Company sit up and
take notice. 1t provides that the
| flash test of kerosene shall be raised
to 40 degrees The law now fixes
ha Of
only robs us on the price of oil, -
I said Brewer. ''but it gives us a quail
ity that smokes up lamp chimneys.
My bill will not stop the robbers, but
1t will stop the sale of chimney smok-
ing oil. -
Many Cattle Lost.-It is stated that
at least one-third of the cattle in
| Wichita and Greeley counties are
lost. In many cases they stood in
the snow up to their sides and their
/ legs were frozen. In these cases
they had to be killed. They were
skinned where they fell, the skin be-
| ing cut around the throat. horse
| hitched to the hides and carcass left
on the snow.
| Oldest kansan a Pauper.-The old
est man in Kansas is an inmate of
the Cherokee county poorhouse. His
name is Patrick Harrington, and if
he lives until March Z he will be
los years of age. He was born in
Ireland, and was a peddler for forty
years out of st. Louis, finally drift
ing to Cherokee county. He is in
fair health and talks freely of his
life.
The Deal Closed. - The Kansas
Natural Gas company has closed
deal for forty acres of land six miles
north of Chanute upon which $780,
900 gas pumping plant will be erected
and probably an Oil refinery in con-
| junction. Surveyors have already be-
gun work.
Women Against 1t. - Speaking OF
woman's suffrage, woman's club at
| Coffeyville took vote on the mat
ter the other day and of twenty-eight
members, only one wanted the right
| to vote.
Will Take Vacation. - Dave Doolit-
tie. a druggist of Sabetha. has been
doing so much in the past fifteen
years that he has decided to take a
much needed vacation.
School Building 5urns.-The public
school building at Haddam was de-
stroyed by fire. The fire is supposed
to have originated from a defective
flue. Insurance $4,000.
Will Have New Library.-McPher-
son doesn't expect to have much to
do with her neighbors after the first
of April. She will have a city library
of her own after that.
Warm Friendship. - A half-grown
| kitten at Oskaloosa is cumming
these cold nights with a box of half
grown chickens. And no fuss or
feathers about it.
Talked Sugar Beet Culture. - The
Tri-County Farmers Institute, of Cow
ley and Sumner counties. Kan. and
Kay county, o. T., opened a three
| udgo ocSolOu DIT SlIg. 1uC
culture of sugar beets is the principal
subject before the session. Tomor-
row ]. G. Hamilton. secretary of the
American Beet Sugar Company. will
be here to attend the meeting. He
will he accompanied by C. L. Sea-
| graves, Of the industrial department
of the Santa Fe. Their visit is for the
purpose of getting farmers to contract
to raise the beets.
Stepped on Stove Lid-Will Haines,
head of Haines Brothers Hardware
Company, was severely burned at EN-
poria. A stove exploded. Mr.. Haines
rushed in his nightclothes and bare
footed to put out the fire and stepped
on a redhot stove lid. The explosion
was caused by ice stopping up the
steam pipes.
Is Woman's Job.-While trying to
split kindling a Louisville man near,
ly put one of his eyes out the other
morning. He agrees with most other
men now-that splitting kindling is
a woman's job anyway.
Snow Is Drifting. - At Larned the
worst weather of the winter prevails.
Snow has been falling and is badly
drifting Conditions are reported
very much worse among the stock.
men west of here and it is now GER
tain that hundreds of head of stock
will he lost, If the winter does not
break very shortly.
Child Dies Of Burns.-Robert. the g.
year-old son of John H. Order, a
prominent attorney and politician at
Fort Scott: died from the effect of
burns. The child was playing near a
crate when its clothes caught fire.