Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-27
HANS A ITEMS
SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGS

vember report of l.. T. Hussey, state
oil inspector, has been issued 1t
shows that the department collected
$3,445.7O in fees during the month
of which $2,761.O6 was paid over to
the state treasurer, the rest being
used for the running expenses of the
department.
Lower Death Rate. = Health condi-
lions have improved considerably in
Kansas during the past year accord
ing to vital statistics made public
by Dr. s.. ]. Crumbine, secretary
of the State Board of Health, in his
annual report In 1905, 9,003 easel
of typhoid fever, diphtheria and scar
let fever, with 1851 deaths were re-
ported to the State Board. In 1907
only 6,S24 cases of these diseases
with 566 deaths have been reported.
Recommend Fire Marshal Law. -
Gov. Hoch will again recommend
the enactment of q state fire marshal
law in his message to the legisla-
ture. The duties of the fire marshal,
as fixed by the bill introduced at the
legislative session of 1905, are to in
vestigate the causes of fires with a
view of discovering incendiary or
igin and establishing regulations
which will tend to lower insurance
premiums by decreasing the risk of
loss through fire. AT the last session
of the legislature, the fire marshal
bill passed the house but was defeat
ed in the senate.
Found Dead in His Yard.-Search
is being made by the authorities of
Grant county, O. T., for the suppos-
ed murderers of Frank Oerke, a citi-
zen of Caldwell, Kan, who was
found dead in the dooryard of a cab
in on his farm about five miles south
of that place, across the Oklahoma
line Oerke was bachelor. spent a
good deal of his time at his farm,
living alone in a shack or dugout.
The only known motive for the crime
is the fact that he had some diff
Guilty with his neighbors in regard to
the location of a road through his
place. The house bears the marks
of several bullets.
Teachers Must Be Paid. - Accord
ing to an opinion issued by Superin-
tendent Dayhoff, a school board can
not cut off the teachers salary while
the school is closed on account of
epidemic. The opinion was written
at the request of the superintendent
of Clark county. There have been
several epidemics of contagion in
some parts of the state and some
of the schools had to be closed. The
directors of the school districts be-
lieved it was not necessary to pay
the teachers for the days the schools
were closed The opinion says that
an epidemic is public calamity, and
as long as the teacher is ready to
work but cannot. the salary must be
paid
Taxing the Corporations. - ]. r.
Burrow, secretary of state, has pre-
pared a bill in line with the recon-
made in his biennial re-
port to the governor regarding cor
poration taxes. The bill will be in
troduced in both houses and senate
shortly after the opening of the leg
islative sessions next month. Osten-
sibly, the bill would provide an en-
tirely new charter or corporation
act. In fact the law would be chang |
ed materially only as regards taxa
ton of corporations. Mr.. Burrows
bill provides that all Kansas corpo-
rations shall be taxed on their CAPT. |
talization in the same manner that !
banks are now taxed under the Kan |
sas law. In Mr.. Burrows Judgment !
such system would effectually con-
troll corporations, preventing over
capitalization and excess of water" |
N the stock.
Water Works Dam COMPLETED. =
The new concrete dam across the !
Walnut at Ell Dorado, built by the |
city to provide better water sup
ply. has just been completed and a
banquet was rendered Eli Warren,
he contractor and builder of the
lam, at the Delmonico by the bust
less men, which was very success
'ui affair.
Four Jointists to JaiI.-Four joint
SITS, of Arkansas City. Art and
Henry Schmidt, Chef Thomas and
frank Thorp, have been sent to Jail
o serve sentences ranging from four
o nine months on commitments is
'ued from the district court. They
we're convicted last spring upon evil
lence secured by John Marshall, as
istant attorney general, fined heavi-
Y and given jail sentences. They
lpplied to the supreme court where
he verdicts of the lower court were
Two more jointists, Jack
3atty and Bert Files, are already
erving Jail sentences there. making
tx who have gone the adverse route
n the last year. Frank Nanny, who
erved two months in January and
february, died after his release.
Gift For a College. - President
Norman Plass of Washburn college,
t Topeka. announced that he had
eceived a gift of $4,000 for the
gymnasium from an unknown source
The college library recently receiv-
ID a $4,000 gift from a Rockefeller
institute and a $4,000 gift from An
rev Carnegie.
Will Spend $4,000 on Depot.-Im-
are planned by the Rock
sland Railroad on its passenger sta
ion at Wichita. entailing an expendi-
ure of $4,000.
One Locomotive, 200 Cars. = The
ongested condition of the yards of
he Rock Island Railway N Caldwell
nay be taken as partial cause of
he shortage of coal in western Kan
az towns Recently there were |