Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-04-12

Arbor Day April IL. = Governor
Hoch decided that April II shall be
Arbor day. No formal proclamation
has been issued, but this will probably
be done. =
Must Have Authority.-The govern
| ment has posted q notice that no one
shall dam the Neosho river without
| consent of the war department, be-
cause that river is. navigable
| stream.
Per Capita Pensions. = The amount
per capita paid pensioners in Kansas
is s143 year. as compared with $136
in Alabama, S137 in Arkansas, $40
in Illinois, s152 in Iowa. s153 in Michi-
gan and s162 in Indiana.
Reckless Thief. - The boldest rob-
Der in criminal annals is the one who
broke open a magazine in Montgom-
cry county the other night and stole
100 quarts of nitroglycerin. A man
who will steal that high explosive
should be given medal for bravery.6
caIdweII's Municipal Lighting. = At
the city election here the proposition
to issue $4,000 in bonds to install a
municipal electric light plant carried
by IS majority. The women are not
permitted to vote on this proposition.
At the same election the dry" city
ticket was elected.
The Splitting Trade.-Several coun-
ty seat towns which passed anti-spit-
ting ordinances are now talking of
repeating them. The merchants say
that the law drives farmers trade
away. A Kansas farmer likes to chew
as much tobacco as he is willing to
pay for and to spit when and where
he pleases.
Burglars Working in kingman. -
Burglars continue their work in King
man. In the last few months burglars
have entered the store of the Wallace
White Mercantile Company, S. News
store. the Office of the Pratt Lumber
Co.. all situated in that block and on
that particular alley and at each place
made good hauls.
., u
vey, of Sumner county, deserves a
medal for generosity. Her mother
died not long ago and by the pro-
visions of the will Mrs. Hervey comes
into possession of all the property.
Now she has filed suit to break the
family can get a portion of the es
tate.
Newton Man lnvents Device.-C. P.
Oldham has just finished and will have
patented at once an invention which
will be of interest to women that use
a sewing machine. 1t will do away
with the bobbin winding on a machine
and women that do much sewing know
the trouble when one finds the bobbin
empty or filled with the wrong
thread.
Making Brick With Oil. - A brick
company at Salina is using Kansas
crude oil to burn brick. 1t takes
about three tank cars of oil to burn a
100000 kiln, and the cost is equiva-
lent to SO coal. The oil is piped to the
kiln from a. large tank near the kiln,
and is burned from thirty jets. These
jets burn constantly from the time the
kiln is started and the heat obtained
from them is intense. Birds flying
over the kiln while it is burning meet
sudden death.
Transfers in Saline County.-It has
been years since the real estate trans
fers in Saline county reached the fig
ures in numbers or aggregate value of
property that was reached last month.
Salina property was exceedingly ac-
tive, more than seventy-four transfers
having been made. A number of
these, however, were recorded giving
the consideration as 81 and other
valuable considerations. In getting
the value of the land sold in the city
nothing was taken with value less
than $50 and the total number OF
transfers were seventy-four, with an
aggregate value of S65,47S. The sales
of farm lands reached the limit, eight
transfers, and the consideration in
round figures was S272 1886.
Pioneer "reminiscences. - In pion-
eer "reminiscences of Cawker City and
the Solomon Valley it is learned that
Judge Clark A. Smith, now supreme
court judge, taught the first regular
district school in that town as early
as 1S71-72. In those good old times
people came to Cawker City for a dis
lance of $50 miles for their mail, and
it is said that in 1873 the deposits in
the money order business alone were
as high as $4,000 and $4,000 week.
Hoch at Pttsburg July 4. - Presi
dent R. NJ. Scott, of the Pittsbure
Chautauqua Assembly, announces
that Gov. Hoch has accepted the invi
tation of the committee to make the
address on the Fourth of July.
Miners Quit at Leavenworth.-Sev
en- hundred and fifty men from the
Home Riverside Coal Mining Company
and 200 from the Carr mine have
gone on strike. They were ordered
to strike in the southwest district, but
on account of the miners in the 9th
er districts going out the Leavenwortt
miners have stopped work until the
difficulties have been satisfactorily
adjusted. No strike order was re
csived here.
: NortonviIIe Man. Patent-Richard
Smithers of Nortonville is the paten
tee of hedge moving machine thai
is attracting considerable attention in
mechanical magazines. Mr.. Smithers
proposes manufacturing it and put
ting it on the market this season.
Addressed the Farmers. = Prof. E
A. Popenoe of the Kansas State Agri
cultural College, and Mr.. Young, ad
dressed a large crowd of farmers a
: Garrett in the opera house on the sub