Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-08-24

Another Glass PIant.-Yates Center
is likely to have a glass plant An
lola firm will drill three test wells at
Yates Center
Shipment of Sheep. = VIM. Ritter
started from Arkansas with eight car
loads of sheep. If not sold readily he
will feed them in Sedgwick county.
Sunstroke Killed Him. Edward
Gallagher, section foreman of the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad, fell dead from
sunstroke when at work at Con-
| cordia.
On Rural Route.-Those who claim
| that they have never known a man
who amounted to anything after serv-
ing term as city marshal, will be
glad to learn that Dave Beard of Sa-
lima is carrying mail on rural routes
Wreck Victim Identified. = 1t is
found that the name of the man who
was killed near Lindsborg is John G.
Cotter, of Boston, Mass. A card
found upon his person indicates that
he was member of the street cement
workers and excavators' union of Chi
cago All efforts so far have failed
to locate any of the relatives of the
dead man.
Gas From Pipe Line.-Wellsville is
the first town near Ottawa which will
be served with gas from the big pipe
line and all is in readiness for the
turning on of the gas there. Prince
ton, too, will obtain gas from the pipe
line at once. Gas from the pipe line
has been turned into the mains in
Armourdale and all Kansas City,
Kan, will be served.
Value of Alfalfa. j. w. Robinson
of Butler county, one of the biggest
farmers and stockmen of Kansas and
practical man in all things, pins his
faith to alfalfa. alfalfa is the great
est bone producer 1 ever saw" he
said. "It is seldom we raise colt
that doesn't make a bigger animal
than it's mother Alfalfa does it.
Horses do well in Kansas, too.
Board of Control Acts.-The state
| inventory of all the property at the
nine charitable institutions and charg-
| ed it up to the various superintend-
ents. After this an inventory will be
made every six months and the SUI
perintendents must account for things.
Every month each superintendent is
also required to file a statement of
stuff used. The board has placed the
three superintendent of the three in
sane asylums under $4,000 bond each
and the superintendent of the other
institutions under $4,000 bond each !
Pension Rolls Shrink.-The Topeka
pension office has completed the quar-
| terly payment of pensions. eve paid
out about $4,OOO,OOO this quarter"
said General Metcalf, the pension
agent 1.-THE pension rolls are begin
ming to decrease some. An increase
is shown in the number of pensioners
under the 1890 law and in Spanish
American veterans and regular SOL
diers, but this is more than Offset in
the decrease under the old law. The
| foreign service is beginning to show
up many pensioners on the books.
The increase of pensions for regulars
is surprising"
Printing Law Good. R. Burrow,
secretary of state, says that there is
little doubt that the new state print
er law will result in saving of at
least $4,000 annually to the state.
"Of course some of the state institu-
lions are kicking because we have
cut their printing allowances down."
said Mr. Burrow today, ''but think
| they will find before the year is out
| that they will be given as much print
| ing this year as they were last. The
| only difference will be that the state
will get the same quantity for less
money. For instance, we have found
one class of printing for one institu-
ton on which the state will save
$4,000 annually. The saving will be
solely creditable to the change in the
law and the institution will get practi-
cally the same amount of printing it
has had in previous years."
Of Interest to Oil Lessees.-Judge
Stillwell, at Erie, has rendered a de-
cision that will be of great interest to
lessons and lessees of oil proper
ties. Mrs. Melissa Hall sued the
Health Oil Company, claiming royal
ties alleged to be due on oil pumped
by the defendants company from the
lands owned by her and leased to the
company, but which the company has
| been unable to sell owing to the lack
of market. The defendant held that
as there was no market and in order
to keep it's wells up they had to be
| pumped and the oil stored, it was not
| liable for the royalty, notwithstand-
ing the fact that oil was produced.
The court held that contention of the
company was correct.
On Kansas Farm IS Years.-Tues-
day 1. N Sparks and wife, who live
south of Wellsville, rounded out fifty
years of married life. all but four
years of this time having been spent
on the farm where they now live.
They located there in 1859. A large
number of relatives and intimate
friends, including the earliest settlers.
were invited to spend the day with
them.
In Encampment. - Captain George
Downing, of Battery A, of the Kansas
National Guard. has received word
that the battery of artillery is to re-
ceive some new equipment. This
equipment will be received in time to
be used at the encampment to be held
in Wellington next October -
A Wichita Boy.-Chas A. Ruggles,
son of Judge Ruggles of Wichita,
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