Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-05
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SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGS

Vi q SHSiIn uSdlu, TODDeQ d SlOTS,
stole horse, broke jail and who was
convicted of first degree murder at
Ell Dorado for the shooting of Ses-
ser, was sentenced to life imprison-
ment. Bloomfield is a desperate
man. He was sentenced to the re-
form school when boy and was
sent from that school to the peni-
Tertiary for assaulting a guard. At
ter getting out of the penitentiary he
served in the regular army in the
Philippines and was a brave, daring
soldier
cady Will Be in Charge. - For
the present Assistant Superintendent
Cady of the Hutchinson Reformatory
will act in the capacity of superin-
tendent to succeed E. E. Marshall,
bank commissioners Office. This an
nouncement was made by Gov. Hoch
A superintendent will be appointed
soon. Mr.. Marshall submitted his
resignation to the board of managers
at recent meeting. Mr.. Cady has
DCCh SOhnCSbCu Will Tie
for years and the governor states that
he is thoroughly competent to handle
the work connected with the posi-
ton.
Another Cemetery Plant. - Plars
are on foot to establish at Cherry
vale a mammoth modern Portland &c.
ment plant. For this purpose the FL
deity Portland Cement Company was
recently organized with an authorized
capital stock of 100000. 1t is pro-
posed to build a cement mill on the
site of the Watson and McCorkhill
lands, composing a 800 acre tract.
This site is located a mile southwest
of the refinery on the west side of
Drum creek, 40 rods south of the
Santa Fe railroad and the same dis
lance from the right-of-way of the in
terurban line and crossed by the pro-
posed southwest extention of the
Frisco near Cherryvale.
Would Retain Indian SchooI.-The
effort of Congressman Bird S. Nc
CURE of Oklahoma to have the
Chilocco Indian industrial school
turned over to the new state for use
as a state institution will be fought
by the Kansas delegation in congress
if the influence of the Arkansas City
business men will have any effect.
! Oklahoma wants the reservation, four
miles square, together with the build
ings, valued at several hundred thou
sand dollars, claiming that the Okla
homa Indians, under statehood, will
attend the public schools and that
there is now no need for this institu-
ton. Arkansas City has been greatly
benefited by the institution under the
control of the government and fears
/ that it will lose these benefits should
! the change be made.
Four More Get Benefits. - Four
more towns in Kansas will receive
part of the insurance fund for their
| firemen's relief fund. Charles H.
Barnes, state insurance commission
err, has just finished the list of towns
which will participate in the distri-
button this year. There are 1873 of
them. Downs, Cawker City, Madison
and Waverly are the new ones. Each
city which has an organized fire de-
partment and apparatus worth $1,000
is entitled to participate in the fund.
The money is obtained by tax of
2 per cent on the premiums of all in
surance written in each town in the
year. The fund is used in paying
physicians bills and for medicine
and nurses and pensions for firemen
injured while on duty. The fund
amounts to about $4,000 year.
To Teach Wrestling at University.
! Regular instruction in the art of
wrestling will be added to the varied
assortment of things that may be
learned at the University of Kansas.
A room in the new gymnasium is set
apart for wrestling. The floor is pro-
vided with mat that is four inches
thick and the walls are padded to
match from the floor to a height Of
four feet.
Hoch is opposed to showing clemency
to jointists who have continuously
violated the prohibitory law. He re-
fused to grant pardons to Bert Jenk-
ms and Frank Noonan, two Fort
Scott jointists. They were sentenced
to Jail for eight months each with
fine of $500 attached. Several at
tempts have been made to secure
paroles for these men and only re-
Gently there was a delegation sent
to Topeka from Fort Scott to confer
with the governor. Attorney General
Jackson objected to their release on
the grounds that his Office was re-
sponsible for their conviction and
that they were habitual violators of
the prohibitory law.
Finds Water in Milk.-The milk in
spector at Wichita has made pre-
liminary inspection of the product of
several diaries and has found six
dairymen who. put water in their
milk
Governor Issues Two Pardons. -
I the penitentiary = Jesse Tinker Of
Saline county and w. H. Tackett of
! Sedgwick county. Ex-Warden E. B.
Jewett urged the pardon of Tackett
and Senator Fred Quincy the pardon
| of Tinker.
Horse Mailed to r. r. Track.-Af-
| ter mailing the hoofs of horse Sc
curely in the Rock Island railway
crossing, near Kechi. in Sedgwick
county, over which a train would
soon pass, unknown parties walked
away and left the animal to die.
This inhuman act was attempted at
about IS o'clock at night. To Engi-
neer Hoy of the Frisco local train
No. 95 is given the credit of discov-
ering the animal and averting the
| fiendish crime. 1t is surmised that it
| belonged to some travellers passing