Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14

supplied with natural gas, piped from
the gas fields of Flmdale. The pipe
line is to be laid a distance of six
miles, by the New Mexico Oil, Gas
and Pipe Line Company and gas will
be furnished from their wells in and
around Elmdale.
Can't Accommodate AIl.-Since the
pure food law crusade has been on
the analytical departments of the
state board of health have been
swamped with requests from COM
mercial concerns both in Kansas and
from outside the state for analyses of
different food products to ascertain
whether they will conform to the new
law. Secretary Crumbine has issued
circular on the subject in which he
wishes to inform commercial con
Germs that the forces employed by the
board of health are not large enough,
! and the contingent fund entirely in
adequate. but that if these concerns
correspond with the state board of
health, proper directions will be Civ
en- them as to where they can have
this work done at their own ex-
pense.
Doubts Per Cent Part. - Secre
| tary Norris. of the Kansas State Tenn
perance Union, has had some serious
doubts about the 2 per cent part of
1.-TWO Per Cent" He has believed
that the name was a blind" in
good many instances, and to that end
quietly gathered up a lot of it for the
purpose of finding out. After holding
conference with Professor Love i
well, Secretary Norris stated that
most of the brands of "2 per cent"
which he has had analysed contains
more than that amount of alcohol.
Mr.. Norris would not tell just where
the lightning will strike first. He
did indicate that one town in the Gen.
trail Eastern part of the state will
some time within the next few days
get Jared to the extent of having
some ten or twelve of its violators of
the prohibitory law arrested. 1t is
well known that the attorney general
and Mr.. Norris have had their heads
together several times regarding this
new beverage.
Hoch SettIes Dispute Over Rewards.
The governors office has settled
dispute over a reward offered for the
capture of Lewis Bloomfield, who was
charged several years ago with the
murder of Jesse SCISSOR in Butler
county. While in Jail Bloomfield
escaped and fled to Oklahoma. The
state offered a reward of $3.50 for his
capture, but he managed to keep
out of the clutches of the law. A
short time ago a horse was stolen at
Grenola. in Elk county. and the A. H.
T. A. got busy. They heard that a
man riding a horse fitting the discrip-
ton had been seen across the terri
tory line riding south. They COM
municated with two men at Roraker,
Okla, and a short time later the two
men arrested the thief He was
brought back to Kansas under the
name of VIM. Ray and lodged in the
Butler county Jail The A. H. T. A.
in the meantime had offered a reward
of s125 for the capture of the horse
thief. 1t developed after he was in
Jail again that Ray was no other than
Bloomfield. The A. H. T. A. put up
claim for the two rewards. The
governor finally settled it by giving
the $3.50 reward to the A. H. T. A. for
capturing Bloomfield and advising the
association to give s125 to the Okla
homa men for capturing the horse
thief.
Doctors Cry for Help. - Dr. S. J.
! Crumbine, secretary of the state
board of health, has received the fol
] lowing startling letter: IF your
board of health will remove the
cause of the alarming amount of good
health which this state is enjoying il
will render a lasting service to our
profession. Otherwise, you had bet
ter ask the legislature for an appro-
priation to support "the doctors out
of job"
Unlawful Love Costly. - George
Thouvenell, of Lucas, Russell county,
and Bessie Gilman, also of Lucas,
and later of Great Bend, were fined in
| Justice Krauss' court at Hutchinson
on the charge of illegal cohabitation.
This happened at Nickerson, where
the man in the case had been run
| ming pool room. They are said to
have families, but they left them and
| tried living together as man and wife
without the papers that made it le-
gal. The officers were warned about
| it and the arrests followed. They
paid fines amounting to SIS each and
costs, the entire sums aggregating
about 800. 1t was rather expensive
, living.
Tried to Dynamite Joint. Twelve
sticks of dynamite with caps and
electric wires. arranged for explod-
ing them, were found in the rear Of
Joint in Leavenworth.
| Still Looking for Child Labor
State Labor Commissioner johnson is
sending out uniform card to all fac
tories in the state to be flied out by
youthful employees who may come I'M
der the child labor law. Il do this
said Mr.. Johnson, so that | will get
just the information want and am
certain that in all instances the right
questions will be asked
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the income from the crop reached its
highest mark, or $2,552 200, although
the largest production, GO,511,3GO
pounds. was in 1896"
Died From Nose-BIeed-Otis Rob
inson. the 10-year-old son of Ell Rob
inson. of Falum, Saline county. is
dead, having bled to death from the |
nose For year or more the child