Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-14
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WEEKLY REVIEW OF KANSAS EHEryTS

Ministers Found No Joints.-The
Topeka Ministerial Union made an
investigation of the liquor situation
Topeka, and in a public report is
sued declare that the joints have been
driven from the city. Then they
view with regret that the liquor
sales at drug stores are on the in
crease. The Christian Endeavor So.
ciety of the city has indossed John
Schenck, democrat county attorney
| for reelection.
Finds Boys Body.-The body of
James Hinshaw was found at the riv-
er dam at Clay Center on Oct. 21st,
by his father. Young Hinshaw, while
in boat went over the dam on Fri
day morning, Oct. 4. He caught a
log, but lost Lis hold and was
drowned in big eddy below the dam.
The search for his body had been
kept up from that day to the time it
was discovered
Woman Fatally Injured. - Mrs
Henry Williams, the wife of a well
known farmer living northwest of Ar
Kansas City, was fatally injured in a
runaway accident. She was driving
team in a pumpkin patch on the
place when the horses became un,
manageable and she was thrown from
the wagon and injured internally, be
sides sustaining severe bruises ex
ternally. She is sixty-seven years OF
age.
Burial Association Out of Business
State Superintendent of Insurance
| Charles Barnes has put the Cloud
County Burial Association out OF
business by compelling it to suspend
indefinitely for the reason that its
rates of assessment were too low to
insure safety. The association was
organized several years ago and has
membership of about 1000 in the
county. Many of it's members have
heen buried by the association.
Fort RiIey's Progress.-A site has
| been selected at Fort Riley for the
army balloon plant. An allotment of
$4,000 was made by the war depart
ment short time ago for the estab-
lishment of this plant. Work will be-
gin soon The first balloon school of
the army was located at Fort Riley in
1898 and 1894. A site was also Sc
lected for a wireless telegraph sta
ton that will be established at Fort
Riley in the spring to work with sta
tons that will be installed at Fort
Omaha and Fort Leavenworth.
CherryvaIe to Have Street Cars. -
The Union Traction Company OF
Coffeyville has secured franchise at
Cherryvale providing for an inter,
urban and city system there the same
as the company now has at Coffey-
vile. The company by this move
now controls the traction situation in
Montgomery county already operat-
ing at Coffeyville and Independence
and the extension of the Coffeyville
independence line is now being made
to Cherryvale. The line complete
will be thirty-two miles long not
counting city systems.
Candidates Are Many.-Kansas Re
publicans are now talking of eight
men as candidates for governor next
year. They are: Grant Hornaday. of
Fort Scott; w. R. Stubs, of Law
renee; Joseph Dolley, of Maple Hill
A. c. Stitch. of Independence; w. II.
Haskell of Smith county; c. L.
Davidson, of Wichita; ]. T. Bradley
/ of Sedan; F. S. Jackson. of Eureka.
There are probably half dozen more
whose home newspapers or admirers
have given them a boost-but the lift
didn't go far enough to make state
talk of it.
Mo. Pac. Makes Money. - Accord
ing to the annual report of the Mis-
souri, Pacific made to the state board
of railway commissioners the gross
earnings of the road last year were
! S23, 6,366.35, and operating ex-
penses s16,447 ,961.29. The income
from other sources amounted to
S5.906,445.05. The passenger earn
ings per train mile were $7S7.61, and
the freight earnings per mile were
| S1,947.10.
School Land Sharks Hit.-Judge J.
C. Ruppenthal, of the Cove county
district. has rendered decision in a
school. land case which is the hard
est blow the school land spectators
have received for years. In the case
of the State against G. K. Spencer
which has just been decided in Cove
county Judge Ruppenthaul gave the
state judgment against Spencer for
| S1,230.56, holding that a speculator
can not dodge liability under his orig
inal certificate by buying out a new
purchaser of school land. Assistant
Attorney General John Dawson rep
resented the state in this case and
| won every point for which he con
I tended.
Diphtheria in Canton. - There are
three cases of diphtheria in Canton
and one death has resulted from the
disease. The schools were closed and
all public gatherings prohibited for
ten days. All cases are rigidly quar-
antined and there is very little dan
ger of it spreading.
Small Boy Burned to Death.-The
| little boy of Preston Spencer OF
Strong City was fatally burned while
he and companions were playing with
fire. The accident occurred at $3.50
a. m. and the little fellow died in the
afternoon.
trade as an important broom corn
producer Interest in the crop among
Kansans, however, seems to be wan
ing. in face of the fact that the re-
turns of assessors to the state board
of agriculture for this year show the
broom corn area of 1907 to be 20 per
cent more than in the preceding year.
when the area aggregated 23,59I