Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-06-06

Trying to Burn This Town?-What
is believed by many to be the second
deliberate attempt of firebugs to
burn the town of Lebanon recently,
occurred the other night A resi-
dence lately used as an office was
discovered on fire by a night watch
man, the citizens were aroused and
the fire put out. Just two weeks ago
fire, the origin of which is a mys-
terry, occurred at midnight and burn
ed a fourth of the business section
before it spent its force.
Kansas and Nebraska Compared
In 1901 the state of Kansas produced
99,079, 304 bushels of wheat, while
Nebraska raised 42,006SS5 bushels.
The yield in Kansas being IA bushels
per acre greater than in Nebraska,
the price, under the law of supply
and demand, should have been lower,
but it was cents higher Compar-
ing rail hauls from Kansas City and
Omaha, the principal shipping ports
of these states, it is found that the
former is thirty-four miles nearer
Chicago and 129 miles nearer st.
Louis and by water it is 230 miles
nearer the river route to New Or
leans, so that this gain in 5 cents per
! bushel for that year, on a yield of
1875 bushels per acre, represents a
| net revenue of 92.5 cents an acre
over Nebraska. Had the entire state
been sown in wheat it would have
produced an additional revenue of
nearly s5O,OO0OO0. The actual re-
turn on this crop above that for Ne
braska was nearly $5,0O0,00O. Kan
sas received cents more per busheI
on her corn and cents more on
oats. making total net gain of near
ly $12,000,000, while on her crops Ne
braska lost over s14,0O0,000 because
of her geographical position with ref
erence to waterways.
Statute Book Is Out.-The statute
books containing the laws enacted by
the legislature of 1907 have been is
sued by T. A. McNeal, state printer,
and with their appearance a number
of important laws became operative.
One of these is the famous Bird Red
Can" bill. From now on it will be
unlawful to put gasoline in anything
except receptical which is painted
red.
Unhealthy For Horse Thieves. -
Horse thieves will do we'll to keep
away from Whitewater, in Butler
county. The farmers there have an
Anti-Horse Thief Association which
has never failed to get every thief it
has tried to capture. Within the last
few days a team of horses was stolen
from Dean & Co. and a horse and
buggy from E. P. Burns. The Anti
Horse Thief Association went
promptly to work and the thieves
were captured with the stolen prop
erty in their possession. One was
captured at Yates Center and the 9TH
er at Leon, small town thirty miles
southeast of Whitewater. Both are
in Jail awaiting trial at the next term
of the district court.
| Cost More Than Last Year. = The
maintenance of the nine charitable
institutions for the first ten months
of the present fiscal year has cost
approximately $26,S54.35 more than
during the first ten months of the
| preceding fiscal year. During the
first ten months of 1906 the cost was
S313, 1904 and in 1907 for the same
period $34O,S76.52. More patients
are being taken care of, and scien-
tific apparatus and methods relating
to their care and cure have been
added.
Improving Their Play Ground. -
| The construction quartermaster at
Fort Riley has been notified that the
war department has made an allot-
ment of $4,000 for the construction
of bungalow at the officers new
polo grounds at Fort Riley
Two New State Banks.-The state
bank commissioner has chartered
the Walton State Bank, at Walton,
in Harvey county, for $4,000; and
the Russell Springs State Bank, at
Russell Springs, Logan county, for
$4,000.
Avoiding Noise.