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

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Closed Clyde Joints. The county
attorney has concluded an inquisition
into the liquor violations in Clyde
and secured evidence sufficient to in
dict all the saloonists. The Clyde
joints are closed by order OF the
mayor.
Inaugurated New Service. = The
Kansas & Southern railroad has in
augurated Sunday passenger service,
leaving Arkansas City at 11:15 a. m.
for Geuda Springs and Anthony. The
train reaches Geuda springs each
way in time for Sunday dinner.
Must 90 to Prison.-A jury in the
case of Homer Lamotte, charged with
committing larceny from Santa Fe
freight cars in the yards at Arkan-
sas City, returned a verdict of guilty.
The conviction carries with it pen
atty of from one to seven years.
Small Fire Near FIorence.-A large
tent belonging to H. Wolfenberger,
who is doing some grading for the
Atchison, Topeka G Santa Fe rail-
road, two miles west of Florence,
caught fire from sparks from an en-
CINE late Tuesday and was completely
destroyed. Five horses were burned
to death. The loss is more than
$500.
Great Alfalfa Crop. - Albert Robi-
doux was in Goodland recently. He
said: 81 sowed 40 acres of alfalfa
the 9th day of March, and that same
field is ready to cut and stands from
a foot to Is inches high. In a few
years | will have one of the finest al
falfa meadows in the state of Kan
sas." It is a remarkable thing to cut
alfalfa three months after sowing.
Men Teachers Scarce. - Though
their salaries run from $50 to $40 a
month, men teachers for principals
of the smaller town schools in Brown
county are almost impossible to get.
There are more than enough women
teachers, but the young men seem to
prefer to work for less money every
month in the year than to take a
teachers place for from seven to nine
months at a good salary.
Two Students Graduate.-The old
est college in Kansas, Highland uni
versity of Highland, held its COM
mencement exercises. two students
being given degrees. Highland uni
versity was started in log cabin in
1857, near where the present building
now stands. February 9, 1858, the
Kansas territorial legislature grant
ed the school a charter. and in May
of the same year the first real work
of the school was begun.
Killed by Train.-C. P. Stafford, an
old man who recently moved to Flor
ence from Eldorado, was struck by a
passenger train at the west end of the
yards and was instantly killed. He
was living alone near the railroad and
was walking up the track when
struck. His son, prominent lumber
man of Eldorado, was at Florence at
the time of the accident, and was to
have taken him to the county seat to
have a guardian appointed.
Testimony For kansas.-Testimony
for Kansas was taken at Hutchinson
in the case of Kansas against Color
ado, involving the right to use the
waters of the Arkansas river for irri-
CATION purposes. Witnesses testified
as to the underflow of the river, and
compared the quantity of water in the
river with that of ten years ago. The
Kansas side of the case will be CON-
pleted in Topeka on June II, 10 and
10. Soon after this the evidence will
be submitted to the United States SUI
preme court by Special Commission
er Richardson.
State Won First Point.-in the case
of the state of Kansas versus the
Standard Oil Company the state won
the first point in the supreme court.
This Is the case in which the state
is trying to GUST the Standard from
doing business in the state on the
ground that it is trust. The
charges are of a general nature while
the Standard asked that they be made
more definite and the names and
dates where the Standard had con-
spired' be given. The answer of the
state is that the information desired
is the peculiar possession of the de-
PENDANT company and the state doesn't
have to set it forth in detail The
tention.
Charged With Robbery. - James
Lewis, a negro about 25 years old,
was arrested charged with the bur-
glary of four Wichita homes. The
roahFries have taken place within the
past week. Lewis was arrested in an
East Douglass avenue pawnshop
while trying to dispose of a gold
watch which had been stolen from the
home of DR.. Fabrique, a prominent
Wichita physician.
Killed by Fall of Rock. - Samuel
Van Nest, employed at the Beck &
Tucker mine, southwest of Pittsburg,
was killed by a fall of rock. He was
found with heavy stone lying across
the back of his head, neck and should
ers by a fellow workman.
Kansas Harvest Rate. The Santa
Fe announced that special rates for
harvest hands were in effect, begin
ming with June IL. The other roads
will make similar announcements.
Large numbers of men from outside
the state are awaiting a chance to get
ito the harvest fields.
Southern Kansas Interurban.-Inde-
pendence is absolutely sure OF street
car services this fall. The power
house will be completed by Septem-
Der. when the city will be lighted by
electricity. The road will be built
Immediately to Coffeyville, after that