Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02
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n"OUT THERE IN KANSAS" h
IL THE LAND OF PEACE. PROSPERITY AND PLENTY ~

Cherokee County Won Meet. =
The Kansas State High School track
meet held at Emporia was won by
Cherokee county high school which
won 46 out of a possible $50 points.
Garrett was second with Al points.
Chase county was third with %
points. The high schools participat-
ing were Eureka. Chase county.
Garrett. Cherokee county and Scran-
ton. The individual prize was won
by Diamond, of Cherokee county,
who took three firsts and fourth.
Next to Diamond in individual points
was Croft, also of Cherokee county.
with two firsts and fourth. This
is the second annual meet of the
high schools of the state held on the
Normal athletic field.
Took $s,6ss.44 From convicts. -
lected from the prisoners brought
into the federal penitentiary as is
shown by the records kept by Deputy
Warden Lemon during the past six
years. His figures show that
$8.G9S.G4 has been taken from the
men entering the prison. Each of
the newcomers is searched and all
of the valuables turned over to the
deputy warden for him to keep nm
I'll they are released from the insti-
tuition. Deputy Warden Lemon has
been making record of the amounts
taken from each of the men since
May 20. 1901. He found that large
number of the men had only one
cent on their person. The largest
amount ever taken from one prison
er was $206.
Another Kansas Train.-Syl Dixon,
exploiter of the resources of Kan
sas, is to take another train through
the Eastern states, showing the
great products of Kansas. The Syl
Dixon Kansas jamestown EXPOSE
ton and Advertising Train will leave
Topeka about September / and will
will visit a number of the larger
cities both on the trip going and re-
turning. and finally will enter the
gates of the jamestown exposition.
jamestown, Va. there to remain as
long as is believed feasible. The
train will make daylight run of 20
days between here and that city.
The train will be made up OF from
fifteen to twenty cars loaded with
Kansas flour. two baggage cars used
to exhibit the fruit. grain. mineral
and other resources OF forty coun-
ties of the commonwealth. and there
will be two sleepers for the accom-
mediation of those who accompany
the train. One man will be allowed
from each county. That man will be
expected to praise the good things of
the particular county which he rep
resents in every possible way. A
band of music from some good Kan
sas town will be on board the train.
Il think" said Mr.. Dixon, that we
are going to have fine train.
have been out in the northwestern
part of the state and the people out
in all of that country are enthusiast
tic. We shall go first by way of Gin
cinnati and Louisville. making a day
light run of twenty days over an it
inerary therefore we'll advertised.
We are sure to get big crowds. and
it is unnecessary to say that we
shall do the state a tremendous
amount of good We shall make eX-
hibits on the return trip, after spend
ing plenty of time at the jamestown
exposition. After the train returns
! to Kansas the exhibit with the ex-
ception of the flour will be taken
| throughout the states of the North
west during the early winter
months
Hutchinson Hotels Enjoined. -
! Another step in the process of MAX
| ing Hutchinson a dry town was ia
| ken when Judge Gale granted tenn
porary injunctions forbidding the
selling of liquor in any room or any
part of the premises. including any
of the three floors of the buildings
occupied by the Midland Hotel. Del
monico Hotel and Baldwin Hotel.
There are injunctions previously
| granted already in force on these
three places, but they were only
against specific rooms in the build
| ings. This time the injunctions are
against the entire buildings and are
to help screw the lid down tighter. 2
Bar Fixtures Found Guilty. A
constable at Arkansas City destroy
ed thirty-three beer cases filed with
bottles and quantity of beer, whis-
/ key and other liquors. which were
captured in recent raids on joints.
The goods and bar fixtures were
tried and found guilty and ordered
destroyed by the court. The beer
and liquors were spilled, and the