Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-01-04
KANSAS COMMENT


Lyons county, on the night of Novem-
Der 20 and stealing $500 worth of pos
tage stamps, was sentenced to the
penitentiary for thirty months and to
pay fine of $500.
Kansas Pure Food campaign.-The
state board of health is now making
a pure food campaign. 1t has sent
a number of samples of different kinds
OF prepared foods to the state chemist
for analysis. If any unhealthy sub
stances are found in them the board
will bar their sale in Kansas
Old Road Being Opened Up. = The
government has just commenced work
on public road north of Junction City
on the Fit. Riley reservation, known as
the "Old Governor Harvey road" 1t
has been closed for couple of years,
but at the last session of congress
an appropriation of $4,000 was made
to reopen the highway and make a
first-class road of it.
Little Contagious Disease. - Only
two cases Of contagious disease are
in Emporia, all the others having
been released from quarantine. The
danger of an epidemic from diph-
iberia, which was feared some time
ago, has been allayed by the doctors
who state that there is little sickness
of any nature in Emporia and no con,
faOiouc diSoococ avoaDt +ba f.yO NOV,
toned.
kaiiir Corn Yield. = Probably the
largest yield of kaffir corn in Kansas
this year was harvested by W. J.
Thomas from prairie farm in But.
Ter county. He threshed 4S5 bushels
from measured acres, or 20 bushels
to the acre. At the present price of
thirty cents a bushel, Mr. Thomas re-
ceived $21 per acre for his crop. This
is sample of what Butler county
prairie land will produce in a gool
beason when properly tended.
The SunfIower. - The Kansas sun
flower. the buffalo chipless desert sun,
flower, the sunflower that originated
here and was here when the Spanish
explorers first visited this region in
1913, may become tie national flow
er of this country The department
of agriculture is agitating the ques.
ton of .sunfiower culture, believing
that there is much money in the in,
dustry if the farmers of this country
can be persuaded to take it up.
Bad Language Barred.-On account
of offensive language causing disord
ers that resulted in two murders be
ing committed at Fort Riley recently
instructions have been issued by the
post authorities that any enlisted man
who violates the twenty-fifth article
of war, using offensive language and
melting one to a personal encounter
will be compelled to apologize to the
person insulted in the presence of the
troop.
Farmer Slabs Merchant. = Because
John Schalz, a merchant of Hobart
told Edward Morris, a farmer, when
of shoes and then complained that il
was exorbitant, that those shoes are
much too good for you to wear,
Schalz was stabbed to the heart with
a pocketknife. The stabbing was or
the threshold of the store. .Schal,
leaves a wife and eight small child
rem. Morris, who is in jail, has 6
family of six.
Captured contraband Game.-Aftel
a lively chase through several pas
senger coaches and after having out
witted two men, Gerald Void, deputy
game warden, secured two travelins
bags containing thirty dozen quail a
the Santa Fe railway station at WITCH
tia. Both men were forced to droI
the grips containing the birds to make
their escape. The grips also con
tanned eleven wild ducks. The de
putty warden asserts the game was
killed in Oklahoma and brought here
The Oklahoma game law does moi
permit of game being killed and ia
ken out of the state.
Question for courts-Attorney Gen
eral Coleman has rendered an opinion
to the effect that the state board OF
railroad commissioners have no right
to dip into the quarrel between Edo
RADIO and the Missouri Pacific rail
road over the removal of shops. Many
years ago Eldorado voted bonds to aid
the road in establishing shops at that
place with an agreement that the
shops should be operated there "as
long as grass grows and water flows
Recently the road decided to move the
shops, and Eldorado brought its griev
ance to the railroad board Attorney
General Coleman holds that the trou
BILE between Eldorado and the Mis-
souri, Pacific is question for the
courts to settle.
His Horse Threw Him.-Lieut. Bar
nard of the Fifth cavalry, of the staff
college at Fort Leavenworth, is con
fined to the hospital as a result of in
juries sustained by being thrown from
his horse on hard pavement.
Good for Trego.-"There must be q
considerable satisfaction living in Ire
go county" This was a remark made
by one of the representative citizens
of Wa---eeney, who claims that $4,000
will cover the entire bonded indebted
ness of Trego county, and the county
has court house valued at $4,000
and all paid for.
cremated in His Home. = William
S. Madden, a farmer living two miles
east of Holton, was burned to death
at his home. His children were at
tending Christmas entertainment in
town at the time. Upon their return
they found their home in ashes. Mr.
Madden's bones were found in the
ruins.
Leedy Getting On. = Word comes