Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-07-25
1t Happened Pr X A n S a S


game warden, travelled 1000 miles on
( Kansas streams during the past
three months,
23,o01 Barrels in June. L. T.
Husey. State Oil Inspector, has filed
with the state auditor, his report for
the month of June. 1t shows that
during the month his department in
| spected 1859 barrels of kerosene
and 1852 barrels of gasoline. The
collection in fees amounted to 3d.
5l2.7O and this is the amount of the
check turned over to the state treas
| urer.
Kansas Taxes s42o, 241 800. = The
total taxable value of all property in
| Kansas, as returned by the abstracts
OF county clerks, is $425,241 800. ac-
| cording to statement given out by
Auditor Nation. Last year the figure
was s404,071 .692 or an increase this
year of $21,170,208 About 40 per
| cent of this increase was borne by
the railroads, telegraph and tele-
phone companies. The five highest
counties in total valuation were
Wyandotte, s19,54O,125; Shawnee,
$19,065,919; Sedgwick. $14,526,224;
Montgomery, s1O,591,57 Reno, 49,.
366,46S. Grant county is lowest, with
a. valuation of 1884, Butler coun-
ty has the largest acreage of land,
916,650 acres. Farm lands in Sedg-
wick county total in value $4,265,9 oil;
Reno, $4,420,712; Shawnee. $685.
$40; Lyon, $3,64O,651; Butler, 49,
449,391. These are the highest
Anheuser-Busch to Quit Kansas. -
1t has been decided by the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing Company to - with
draw from the state without a con-
test. 1t was the intention of this con-
Germ to fight the action of the State
Supreme Court ousting it from doing
business. even to the extent of carry
ing the case to the United States Su-
preme Court. The Anheuser-Busch
Company had wholesale houses at
Leavenworth and Wichita. 1t is said
to have had a property valued at
about 100000 in the state. In this
case the brewery receivers were al
lowed an aggregate of $3.50, and the
costs are believed to be about $3.50,
bringing the total up to about $4,000.
The Anheuser-Busch people are
among the latest to quit the state in
obedience to the recent custer pro-
ceedings in the State Supreme
Court.
A Tip for the Young. - This is an
age of most wonderful opportunities
and possibilities for the young;
greater and more wonderful than any
gone before. In fact, opportunities
are well-nigh reaching out to seize
them. but the opportunity and the
seizure, if effective, must be met
half way. The seizure will be of
those with integrity, industry, clear
ashamed or afraid to work with
head or hands more than eight hours
day, or twice eight hours if neces-
sary, who can be trusted to do their
best without watching, who always
give full measure, or more, without
the asking. On the other hand,
there is little of promise for the one
who studies least and strives little,
who is afraid of doing too much or
of working over time, for the youth
who thinks it manly to be bar
room patron, to tax his brain for the
coloring of a meerschaum pipe or
who decorates his fingers with CT
ings to pool halls, or argues that the
world owes him living. Such as
these may exist, but they will not be
living, in an age that, while having
much to give, will also demand much.
F. D. Coburn.
Prison Population Grows. - Sixty
three prisoners were received at the
Kansas states prison at Lansing dur
ing the month of June, larger num-
Der than usual. Fifteen were dis |
charged by expiration of sentence,
twenty-five were paroled, two died, |
one was brought back for violation
of parole and seventeen were trans
ferred to the state reformatory at |
Hutchinson.
Demands Exceeds the Supply. =
The demand for drug clerks in Kan |
sas has been so great that the avail |
able graduates of the School of Phar- |
macy of the University of Kansas
were all in good positions at time of |
graduation. The university has re-
ceived many applications for compe- |
tent clerks at good salaries since the
university closed in June. These po-
sitions have not all been filled. Some |
relief is promised in the future, as !
the demand this summer upon the |
registrar for information concerning |
the School of Pharmacy has been |
very heavy. More and more young
people will take up the study of phar-
macy as the opportunities for pleas
ant and profitable employment be- |
come more widely known.
A Hunchback's Double Crime. =
At Arkansas City, Miles Miller, a
shot and killed Mrs. |
Audrey Moore, the divorced wife of |
William NJ. Moore. and then turned |
his revolver on himself and blew out |
his brains.
Gmbalming Board appointed. -
Governor Hoch has appointed this
board: Joseph F. john
son, Osawatomie, for three years;
w. H. Johnson. of Hutchinson. for
two years; G. W. Southern, of Man
haitian, one year.
Drowned in a cistern. Alberta |
Richards, the 4-year-old daughter of |
A. H. Richards, of lola, visiting |
her grandparents at Salina with |
her mother, fell into ten feet of wa
ter in a cistern and was drowned.
Shortage Found at Postoffice. =
Postofice inspectors have developed |
in the accounts of George
Hallenbeck, former postmaster at
amounting to s7469S.
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