Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-29
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FidintiHS AttdCn brewery properly
The supreme court has permitted
Emma Bair and Martha Smith to file
attachment claims on property of the
Val Blatz Brewing Company in this
state, subject to the receivers. These
women sued the Val Blatz and Other
brewing companies for damages over
a murder which took place in North
Topeka drinking resort.
Receivers Got $3.75o.-The Anxious
er-Busch Brewing Company has sur
rendered completely to the custer &C
ton brought against it by the attor-
ney general by paying up full costs
assessed against it. summing up tot
al of $3.977.0S. OF this sum, the three
receivers got jointly $3.50. The ex-
penses were 500; dispositions, s10I.-
IS; sheriff fees, s2.7O; court costs,
s164O.
Last Dividend Paid-The checks for
the payment of the last dividend of
II per cent to the depositors of the
First National bank at Topeka, which
failed in the Devlin crash, have been
filledtout and forwarded to the comp
troiler at Washington. He will in
spect and sign the checks and return
them to Topeka. The money will
probably be available within a few
days.
G. A. r. has a Grievance.-The G.
A. R. of Kansas has filed complaint
before the interstate commerce
commission alleging discrimination
against the rates granted them to
Saratoga for the national encamp-
ment and in favor of the jamestown
rates. Not enough stopover privi-
leges. it is alleged, are granted while
the jamestown trip is favored in that
manner. Nebraska joined the Kan
sas complaint.
Fifty Counties Crimeless. Fifty
counties in Kansas sent no prisoners
TO the state penitentiary during the
past fiscal year. according to the re-
port of expenses for the conveyance
of prisoners to Lansing. The total
cost per diem for expenses. guards
and board of prisoners was $4,000. A
total of POI prisoners We're sent to the
penitentiary during the year. Wyan-
dotte had the largest number. TWEEN
ty: Montgomery was next with fif
teen: Geary third with ten
Gift Larger than She knew.--Mrs.
Fanny Murray, of Lancaster. Atchi-
son county, died three years ago. leav-
ing lot in San Diego, Cal, and t1o
lots in Middleton. Cal, to The Wom-
ems Home Missionary Society of the
Kansas conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church and to the Womer's
Foreign Missionary society of the
Methodist Episcopal church of New
York. At the time of her death the
lot in San Diego was believed 20 be
worth about $4,000, but it sold last
week for $4,000.
Who Owns This LAMBDA new
phase in the liquor traffic has present
ed itself in the vicinity of Caney and
is the subject of much speculation. It
has developed that a strip of land was
left in the surveys of Kansas and In
dian Territory. The strip is about a
mile long and ten feet wide in the
center, tapering to point at each end.
1t 1ies between Kansas and Oklahoma
and is still government land. Two
"jointists" have filed on this strip
which is a part of the public domain,
and have erected Il Joint building
and gambling house, 91A feet wide.
They believe they are immune from
sas and will run little country of
their own. The matter will be taken
up by the authorities and the juris-
diction over the strip established.
Harvester Wore Low Shoes.-Jack
Kyle, a st. Louis clerk, wore loose,
low shoes while at work in the har-
vest fields in Kansas recently. His
feet became badly blistered and bruis-
ed from striking the stubble. After
working a week his right foot became
swollen and blood poisoning set IN.
He is now at the Topeka Provident
Association hospital and the doctors
fear his leg may have to be amputat-
ed.
State Loans Money.-The state of
Kansas has loaned $971,000 to banks
of the state under the depository sys-
TEN. The highest rate of interest Of
fered was 31s per cent, by the North
up National bank, of lola. Seventy
seven banks bid for the money. 1t
was given to thirty. The Commercial
National bank of Kansas City, and
the Bank of Topeka each got 100000.
The smallest sum was $4,000, to the
Louray State bank. The lowest rate
of interest accepted was 2.75. while
the majority ran over 3 per cent.
There was one bid of 31s per cent.
but it was unaccompanied by certi-
fed check.