Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-01-18
KANSAS COMMENT

the district court for $4,000 damages
by Mahnda Nichols, who claims that
Blank slandered her. She states that
while living in one of Blanks houses
as tenant the barn on the place
burned. and that Blank, in the pres
ence of others, accused her of burn
ing it.
Oil and Gas Assessments. = Attor-
ney General Coleman has rendered
an opinion to the eject that all oil
and gas leases must be assessed by
the local assessors, except those ca
land used for pipeline purposes. tank
farms and other business incidental
TO the pipeline concerns. Pipelines
and appurtenances are assessed by
the state board.
Convicts to Build Driveway. -
Franklin Bell has made the state
ment that new driveway connect
ing the fort will be established. 1t
will be along the high bank skirting
the river and will connect with either
Third or Fourth street. The work
of making the driveway will be per-
formed by prisoners confined in the
new military prison at Leavenworth.
Sane EpiIeptics in AsyIum.-Ticre
are twenty-five sane ep;leptic child
rem CT school age at Inc Parsons asy-
lu-n. The legislature made no pro-
vision for their education. The state
board of control took the Lit in lis
intendent to fit up one roc Il at the
Institution with school furniture and
employ an additional. attendant to
teach the school.
Rebuilding Kansas Road. - The
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
Company has begun the work of re-
building it's line between Junction
City and Parsons. The road is being
ballasted and the old rails that were
laid about 50 years ago will be taken
up and replaced with 60-pound steel
rails. The line is 151 miles long.
The work of rebuilding the line will
be finished by summer.
Slight lnaccuracv. - A story was
sent oLt from lola recently that the
Kansas Natural Gas Co..~any was
pumping sixty parts air and forty
parts gas into its pipe line there and
selling the mixtures at Topeka, Law
renee, Kansas City, Kas., and other
towns at % cents per thousand feet
The Kansas Natural hasn't yet start
ed any of the pumps on its pipe line
Otherwise the lola story is correct.
Trees for Western Kansas. - The
state forestry commissioner has dis
tributed about 100000 trees to West
ern Kansas farmers during the past
year. which is larger number than
has been distributed for some years
The trees that have been found best
adapted for Western Kansas condi-
tons are catalpa, black locust, elm.
and Usage orange. Forestry stations
are located at Dodge City and Ogal-
lah
To Reduce Cement Rate.-A letter
has been addressed 10 the state board
of railroad commissioners by the ST
Louis & San Francisco railroad com
Francisco railroad company asking
permission to lower the rate on do
mestic cement from Fort Scott to
Wichita. The rate at the present time
is II cents. The railroad company
proposes to reduce it to II cents. to
correspond with the rate now in eff
feet between lola and Wichita. 1t
companies will make similar reduc-
tons.
Peach Tree Suit Appealed.-A fruit
tree ait was appealed the supreme
court from the Riley county district
court. S. B. Moore. nursery agent.
sold H. Strong 600 peach trees for
$3.50. Strong refused to pay for
them, claiming they were not what
he ordered Moore got Judgment for
the amount in the district court, and
Strong appealed tC the supreme
court.
Have Tons of Beets.-Persons who
question the practicability of grow
ing sugar beets in the Arkansas val
ley should inspect the figures in re-
gard to the business in Kearney
county alone Already the industry
has become one of the most prof.
table in the country. and it is yet in
its infancy. The shipping of sugar
beets for this season has just been
finished and here are the figures.
which will stagger the uninitiated:
Deerfield farmers shipped 165 cars,
being 4,447 tons Lakin As cars, be-
ing Lis tons, making total of
5,562 tons. bringing in the neat little
sum of $33,372, including the bounty.
to Kearney county farmers, besides
the tons of beet tops saved for feed
Caldwell Mayor Acquitted. = The
jury in the case of C. W. Cupp. may
or of Caldwell, who was tried in the
district court for an alleged viola
ton of the veteran preference law,
brought in a verdict of acquittal.
Fight on coffeyvilIe Pavine.-Some
properly owners of Coffeyville are
making a fight against paving
proposition. They want the assess
ment set aside because the brick and
curbing were not up to specifications.
The lower court refused to grant
them relief and they have appealed
to the supreme court
The Swine lndustry.-The western
counties of Kansas produce but
small percentage of the annual hog
crop. 1t is probable that the growing
of the new Durum wheats in these
counties, helped alons with the sor-
ghums, Kaffirs and alfalfa. will great
ly increase the swine business in the
short grass region
Diphtheritic Convict Escapes.