Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-28
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WEEKLY REVIEW OF KANSAS EVENTS

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the assistant attorney general has all
the powers of the attorney general in
enforcing the prohibitory law.
Legislature to Meet Dec. 2.-Chair-
man E. o. Cassidy. of the Oklahoma
Democratic campaign committee,
states that the new legislature will
be called to meet December End. Gov
ernor-Elect Haskell has said that he
intended issuing his proclamation for
that date
Kansas Postoffice Robbed. = Three
robbers blew open two safes in the
postoffice at Deering and secured $500
in money and stamps. Citizens were
aroused by the explosion but made
no effort to capture the robbers, con-
tenting themselves with watching the
direction in which they went.
Jewell County Druggist Fined. =
In the district court at Jewell City
Mr.. Hutchinson, druggist, entered
a plea of guilty to charge of vio-
latlng the prohibitory law and was
sentenced and released upon parole
A permanent injunction was issued
against him. Hutchinson is 20 years
old and formerly was a member of
the legislature. s.
Worthless Currency AFoat. = Two
men and one woman are under arrest
at Arkansas City on the charge of
passing worthless SIS bills. The bills
are the same as those passed at
various other points in Kansas and
In Oklahoma, by what is believed to
be a well organized gang. They were
issued many years ago by the Mer-
chants and Planters bank at Allan
ia, Ca, and to make the appearance
better two are pasted together, back
to back. The persons arrested gave
their names as C. A. Howard and C.
A. Dennell and wife. They are. being
held without bond while the officers
are investigating their cases. No
bills were found when they were
| searched.
$14o,195,2e3 in Banks. = Kansas
bank conditions make a showing
worthy of pride. For ten years the
situation has bettered steadily, until |
according to the most recent report |
OF the State Bank Commissioner, the |
situation never before was so graft |
! Tying. The increase in bank deposits |
within the two years covered by the |
last biennial report of the commits |
sioner was thirty millions of dollars. |
The total deposits then were S14O,-
/ NJ In hor1I-
were ST. 1862, S7702; in state banks |
$6S, 1882. 416.60. This might not neces-
| sarily make the best sort of showing
for the state generally were it not |
backed up by other gratifying Stats
tics. But Kansas has no large re-
serve centers and $50 of the 14O mil
lions of dollars on deposit in the
banks of Kansas is the money of in
dividuals and represents their sur
Plus earnings. After deducting from
the total deposits of the state the
deposits of banks and bankers the
amount to the credit of individual de-
positors amounts to an average of
$50 for each man and woman and
child in the state. Increase in loans
also has kept pace with swelling of
the deposits. The increasing profit
accounts of the banks indicate that
the banker is prosperous as well as
men in other lines of activity Dur
ing the time covered by the last BIZ
ennial report of the state bank CON-
missioner there was not one state
bank failure. On the other hand
there were chartered during the two
years 156 banks with a capital of
81, 094,SO0.
Hoch Remembers Friend. - E. E.
Marshall. superintendent of the state
reformatory at Hutchinson, was, after
a conference between Gov. Hoch and
Bank Commissioner Royce, appoint
ed deputy state bank commissioner at
salary of $500 a year and ex-
penses to succeed Harry Finley. who
resigned recently.
Thrown From Race Horse Fred
Fitch, the 9-year-old Sun of L. C.
Fitch, who lives about two miles
northwest of Garden City. was
thrown from race horse and injur-
ed seriously. In the fall he either
struck on his head or the horses
hoof struck him on the head caus-
ing a fracture of the skull.
Attica Woman Horribly Burned. =
AS Mrs. j. M. Bottorf, an elderly
lady living in Attica, was kindling
fire in the cook stove her clothing
caught fire and was nearly all burn
Qh off ha- du |
burned. Her husband in trying to
extinguish the flames was also quite
badly burned about the hands and
arms. 1t is thought there is no hope
for the recovery of Mrs. Bottorf
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Suspect Germs in Cups. = At a
meeting of the state board of health
Secretary Crumbine was delegated to
have the archaeological department
take swabbings from, drinking cups
on railroad trains, in school houses
and other public places. Analysis
will then be made to determine how
much disease is transmitted in that
manner. I'VE believe" said Dr.
Crumbine, that most of the results
will be negative, but we have many
instances of serious forms of disease
being carried from one person to an
other through the bacteria which are
Banks Get Stock Returned.-State
Bank Commissioner John Q. Royce !
has been able to accomplish a great !
deal in the interests of the Kansas |
banks affected by the failure of the
Bankers. Trust Company in Kansas !
City. Twenty-Five small Kansas ;
banks were affected and three of ,
them have been forced to close their
doors. Royce has secured from the
receiver all of the stock of the Kan ]
sas banks held by the Bankers Trust /;
Company. The trust company held i