Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-10
X A N S A S ITEMS
SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGS

reTfy NJ. HclSlESton. president OF
the Officers Association of the Kan
sas national guard, has called a
meeting of the association in To-
peka. January IA, for the purpose of
permitting the officers to attend the
inaugural ceremonies and to discuss
legislation which the guard will want
this winter
Prison For Amasa Thomas. -
Amasa Thomas, who killed Charles
McEwen at Winfield last May, has
been sentenced by the district court
to serve ten years in the pelitenti-
airy, the lowest penalty for the
crime, which was murder in the Sec
ond degree. To killing occurred in
drunken quarrel, the weapon being
q heavy club.
Marking Santa Fe TraiI.-The four
boulders which are to mark the
route of the old Santa Fe trail
through Finney county have arrived
at Garden City and will be placed
soon, with appropriate exercises,
conducted by the school children.
One will so in at Pierceville. anoth-
er at Sherlock and the two remain
ing ones ct Garden City. the trail
having passed quite close to Garden
City.
Obliged to Enforce Quarantine. -
There is much anxiety at jamestown
over the presence of several cases of
malignant type of diphtheria. Two
deaths have occurred in one family
and two children in another are
very low. These two families, it is
claimed. refused to obey the orders
of the county health officers as re-
CARDS to a quarantine and it was
necessary to send the sheriff there
10 enforce the law. Further spread
of the disease is feared
Taft Not Going to Ottawa.
reply has just been received by the
Ottawa Chautauqua assembly to the
invitation to Secretary of War Taft
to address the assembly at Ottawa
next summer, extended by Senators
Benson and Long and Congressman
Scott. Secretary Taft writes that it
will be impossible for him to come,
as he will he making\a trip to the
Philippines later in the summer, and
does not want to take the time to
cross the country twice.
Health Board Wants More Money
DR.. S. J. Crumbine. secretary of
the state board of health, will ask
, the legislature for large appropria
lion for his department. He says
tat the campaign for pure food
which he has begun will require the
expenditure Of large amount of
money. The legislature two Years
ago gave the board of health only
$1,000 a year and Dr. Crumhine
wants an appropriation nearly equal
to that given the board of aSricu-
ture. Tho legislature will also be
. asked for an appropriation to cstab-
fish a chemical laboratory in Topeka.
for the examination of samples of
/ food
Kansas Wheat in Good Shape. -
Kansas wheat is goin" into the win
ter in excellent condition according
to reports which F. D. Coburn, secre-
tary OF the state board of agricul-
ture. is receiving from the secre-
taries of county agricultural socie-
ties. Every report which he has re-
ceived showing the condition of the
grain during the month of Deem
Der SAYS that the wheat is in better
condition than it has been at this
! =
growth of the plant has not been SO
vigorous, but the root is in good
/ condition and there is moisture
/ enough in every section of the state
except in a few of the northwestern
counties to carry the wheat through
the winter.
/ Funds Are Exhausted. - The Ger
/ tingent fund of the state board of
control is exhausted and for several
weeks past the members of the board
have been compelled to dig down in
TO their private purses to pay postage
on official correspondence, express
and telegrams and other incidental
office expenses. The board of con-
troll was given contingent fund of
| $500 by the last Legislature. and
good part of the appropriation for
this year was used in the purchase
of an adding machine needed for the
office. The travelling fund of $500
has so far been ample to meet the
demands upon it.
Would Create New Office. - At a
meeting of the board of directors of
the Kansas Travelling Association it
was decided to ask the legislature
for an increased appropriation for
the work of extending the travelling
library field. The legislature will be
asked to create the Office of travel
ing library commissioner. The du-
ties of the officer will be to organize
libraries in the smaller communities
of the state and to assist the smaller
libraries in getting under Roadway
Looks For Opposition. - John @
Royce, state bank commissioner, ex,
poets strong opposition to his scheme
to guarantee the deposits in state
banks. 81 expect" said Royce, that
the bankers opposed to the plan will
have a strong lobby here to fight the
measure. But in spite of all that the
bill will pass. 1t is growing in ia
vor every day"
Burned by Coal Oil Explosion. -
, Mrs Albert Rise, of Concordia, was
dangerously burned above the wais
as the result of an explosion while
hurrying a fire with coal oil.
Amateur Horse Thief Captured. -
Claude Barker, % years old, stole a
: horse from W. G. Meyer. Of Wetmore
r and a mare from J. f. Howe, of Whit
ing lie was arrested at Atchison
and turned over TO the sheriff CT
Jackson county. who took him to
: rI.lll.. onn fnr-nd tho c-tonI