Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-17

National Guard at Fort Scott = 1t
has been decided that a new COM
pany of the Kansas National guard
will be located at Fort Scott to take
the place of the one recently disband-
i ed at Sabetha
Arranging for Harvest.-T. B. Ge-
row, state free employment agent, is
sending sout to the farmers and grain
dealers for advance information in re-
gard to the condition of the wheat
crop and in regard to the number of
men which may be needed in the
state.
dodgers were given a shakeup in
Dickinson county the local assessors
have been able to find about twice as
much money and mortgages to tax as
they found last year. One assessor
found three times as much property
of that kind.
No Conclusion Reached. - At the
meeting of the State Temperance
Union in annual convention at Tope-
ka the question of whether the So
ciety should be merged with the Anti
Saloon League of America was dis
| cussed but no conclusion was reach
| ed.
Burbank May Locate.-It is report
ed that ex-Lieutenant Sidney S. Bur-
bank will take up his residence in
Leavenworth when his term of i'm
prisonment in the United States peni-
| Tertiary ends next spring. 1t is said
that a friend there has already Sc
cured employment for him. Burbank
is said to have dropped this informa-
| ton during a conversation just before
he entered the prison.
Will Ask States Aida. w. Baker,
who has been let out as city marshal
of Girard. and who was succeeded by
| Cecil Sturgeon, young man who was
appointed in his place, is threatening
| to contest the appointment. Ex-Mar-
/ shall Parker is an old soldier, and he
claims that the state law which gives
veterans, the preference in appoint
ments of this kind has been ignored
by the mayor of Girard y
Cow Gave Birth to Triplets. - The
first record of triplet calves in this
section of the state comes from Elm
Creek township near Marysville. A
cow belonging to Alfred Jensen, who
lives about four miles from Marys-
vile, has given birth to three calves
at one time. Two of the animals are
still living and apparently healthy.
The other lived but few hours. The
cow is of the Hereford strain.
Large Class of Graduates. Two
hundred and seventy-five young men
and women will receive diplomas
from the University of Kansas at the
thirty-fourth annual commencement
of the university, Wednesday, June 6.
This will be by far the largest class
that has ever been graduated from the
university and probably will retain
that distinction for several years.
Last years class. which was about
the average in size, numbered only
1913.
Holds UP Divorce Cases. = Judge
Foust at lola has called the May term
of court. Twenty-one divorce cases
are on the docket In many of these
the usual service has been made by
publication. All of these cases were
continued awaiting the arrival of the
decision of the Supreme Court on the
legality of divorces in which the de-
PENDANT is served by publication. Be-
fore granting any more divorces
Judge Foust is DESTROYS to know ex-
actly what the decision is.
National Guard to Participate. -
Under orders issued by Gov. Hoch the
Kansas National guard will partici-
pate in the celebration of Memorial
day. The members of the various
companies of the two regiments and
the members of the batteries have
been ordered to report fully armed at
their armories at 10 o'clock May 80
and to act under orders from the G.
A. R. from that time until o'clock
in the afternoon. Blank ammunition
will be furnished by the state.
WeIIington's New Hotel. - Fifteei.
thousand dollars have been raised to-
wards the construction of a modern
hotel in Wellington. The plan has
been on foot for some weeks.
Looks Like Child Murder. - What
is believed to have been a child muir
der was discovered at Arkansas City
when the body of a. white child was
found in the Arkansas river. The
child is about 1 month old and the
body was badly decomposed. A
stocking tied around the child's neck
leads to the murder theory. An in
quest has been ordered by the corou-
er and the officers are investigating
the case.
Convicts Building a Dike.-A fore,
of sixty prisoners from the military
prison is at work putting in a dixie
along the Missouri river bank to pro-
tect the farm land in the bottom
northeast of the post The dixie will
be mile and half long, six feet
high and ten feet wide. 1t will pro-
tect the prison farm and the soldiers
gardens from an overflow, especially
during the June rise of the river. Of
ten the crops are spoiled by the regu-
lar annual June rise
Be Their Own Operators. The
Miners union of Arcadia has decided
to solve the supervision problem by be-
coming coal operators on their own
hook, and operating their own mine.
The Arcadia local union No. 2757, of
the U. NJ. w. of A. has leased 200
acres of coal land two miles south of
Arcadia on the Frisco and will open
a mine. in which all of the members
of the local will find employment The
contract provides that the mine shall