Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-11-08

Biggest Salt Plant in Union.-Near-
ly hundred men are at work on the
new addition to the Morton salt plant
at Hutchinson This will be far and
away the biggest and best salt plant
in the United States when it is com
pleted and will have an output of
1,S00 barrels daily.
May Renew County Seat Fight. =
The burning of the court house at
Howard may mean the renewal of
the county seat fight in Elk county.
Moline, in the extreme southern part
of the county, will probably make
strong effort to get the new court
house there. 1t has railroad facilitie
far superior to Howard, but Howard
is the exact geographical center of
the county
Hughes Finally Ready. - Adjutant
General J. w. F. Hughes has an
bounced that the work of paying out
the $4,000 government money to
$500 Kansas veterans of the Spanish
war will begin November 1. The
money was received by Governor
Hoch last winter under special act of
congress providing double pay from
date of enrolment until date of mus
ter in. Vouchers for the amount due
each soldier have been sent out.
Every soldier and officer gets from
one to twelve days extra pay.
The Expenses of a State. The
total expense of running the state
government for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1906, was $2,641 410.99.
The books in the Office of the audi
tor of state show that this amount
of money was expended out of the an
pronriations made by the legislature.
The total amount appropriated was
5000, $3.50 and of this amount the
sum of s360,207.31 has been return
ed to the general revenue fund of the
state treasury. The amount returned
will be available for expenses of the
state only after it has been reap
propriated by the next legislature.
Enforced Eight-Hour Law. - The
assistant superintendent of the state
bureau of labor and industry. w. D.
Robinson, of Topeka, has returned
from Stafford, where he went to en-
force the eight-hour labor law. The
city is putting in system of water
works, and as there is no contractor
in charge of the work, the city Off
GERS are directing the laborers and
fixing the hours of labor. The mayor
has been working the men ten hours
a day and Mr.. Robinson went to
Stafford to make an investigation af-
ter the report reached his office.
When he found that the report was
true he says he notified the mayor
that it must stop and was told that
the law would be ignored. He claims
he had to threaten to arrest the
mayor before the hours were chang.
ed.
Hangs Son and Takes Poison. -
One of the worst tragedies ever en-
acted in Republic county was that
which took place near Cuba when
Mrs. Tony Havel hung her three
year old son and attempted her own
life by the poison route. When the
husband and father came in from his
work in the evening horrible sight
met his eyes. Locked in a room he
found the lifeless body of his son,
and his wife, in whom life was al
most extinct, both dressed in black,
all of which was evidence that the
terrible deed had been premeditated.
Mr.. Havel Immediately summoned
Dr. Peter of Cuba, who was able to
save Mrs Havels life. The family
is in good circumstances and there
is no possible reason given, except
dependency, and not even her
closest friends know of any cause
why she should be respondent.
Winfield to Burn Oil in Furnaces.
Winfield will burn oil in its fur
naces at the electric light plant in
the very near future. City Engineer
Scothorne has arranged to install
about ten oil burners of his own
patent and through these will flow
the oil furnished by the Standard Oil
Company. The city engineer said
that the saving to the city on using
oil would be about 25 cents on every
s22, or 10 per cent.
In National Cemetery. - The re-
mains of General w. H. Bell, United
States army, retired, who died re-
Gently near Denver, were buried in
the National cemetery at Fort Leav-
enworth. The body was escorted by
the entire regiment of the Eighteenth
infantry, platoon of artillery, troop of
cavalry. AS the remains were car
ried from the post chapel the band
of the Eighteenth played dirge and
the minute guns, eleven in number,
were fired by the Twenty-ninth bat
terry. Six of the higher officers of the
post acted as pallbearers, while the
body was carried by six of the old
sergeants of the Eighteenth infan.
try.
Killed by Passenger Train. - Joe
Hornsby, a brick workman, was kill
ed by Santa Fe passenger train one
mile west of Cherryvale. Hornsby
must have been sitting down in the
middle of the track when the locomo-
tive struck him. Hornsby is an I'M
married man, aged about As.
Wife Fell Dead Husking Corn. =
Mrs. Anna Reeher, aged 81 years, fell
dead in field near Ottawa while
helping her husband husk corn Heart
failure caused her demise. Mrs.
Reeher had no children.
State Irvine Plant in Operation
The state Irvine plant has been start
ed preparatory to the harvest next
year. The state Irvine plant is ex-
pected to turn out 100000 pounds
of Irvine between now and the begin