Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-28

regents OF the state normal school
at their annual business meeting,
decided to send a committee to visit
manual training institutions in 9TH
er states to get pointers as to how
the new manual training normal
building in Pittsburg should be con-
structed.
Verdict For Defendant. = Judge
Pollock instructed the jury to bring
in a verdict in favor of the defend
ant in the case of Mrs. E. j. Ewing
vs.. the Kingman Salt Mining Com
pany. Mrs. Ewing sued the COM
pany for $4,000 for the death of
her husband, who was killed by an
explosion of dynamite in one of the
defendants mines. Judge Pollock
claimed the plaintiff had failed to
make a case.
Claims He Was Drunk. - Cham.
beriain Hoel, recently sentenced 20
seven years in the penitentiary for
perjury, has filed an application
with the supreme court for new
trial. Hoel was an eye witness to
| Cowley county murder and when
placed on the stand in the trial of
the case he denied all knowledge OF
the killing. He was Immediately
arrested for perjury and convicted.
| In his application for a new trial t
is alleged that he was so drunk Mt
the time of the killing that he had
no recollection Of what had taken
place. He bases his defense solely
upon this fact.
Kansas Weather Changed. - DR..
F. II. Snow, of the state university,
has issued a statement in which he
shows that the rainfall relative hui
nudity and wind velocity in Kansas
have shown a marked change dur
ing the thirty-nine years covered by
his observation. DR.. Snow divides
the time into two equal periods. Ac-
cording to his figures the average
rainfall during the first period was
3491 inchees, which increased dur
ing the second period 1916 inches.
The humidity during the first period
was 6876 and during the second
period 1921 The average velocity
of the wind during the first period
was 1884 miles per hour while in
| the second period it is reduced to
1851 miles per hour.
Legislation For Veterans. - The
last legislature made a hit with the
old soldiers of the state, if with no
/
or more new laws were enacted,
which are of more or less benefit to
the veterans of Kansas. The fol-
lowing is a list of the most import
ant measures passed: An act pro-
viding for the burial of honorab'y
discharged Union soldiers, sailors
| and marines, their wives and
widows. An act authorizing the ad-
mission to the Mother Bickerdyke
| home annex of soldiers widows and
orphans. An act authorizing cities
to appropriate money to pay the ex-
pense of properly observing Me
mortal day. An act relating to the
employment of persons who have
served and have been honorably dis
charged from the army or navy in
the War of the Rebellion. An act
making February IL, Lincoln's birth
day. a legal holiday. An act fixing
| a severe penalty for the dissertation
of May 80, commonly known as Me-
| mortal day. An act relating to the
management of the Soldiers home.
An amendment to the anti-pass law
giving the railroads the right to
grant transportation or reduce
rates to old soldiers. An act to pre-
serve the records Of the adjutant
generals office.
Bankers Colony RecruIted.-J. A.
Erickson, a banker of Minot, S. D.,
convicted of making false reports
to the bank examiner and sentenced
to five years imprisonment, was
brought to Leavenworth and placed
| in the United States penitentiary.
Quarry Foreman Killed. - Lewis
F. Bowman, foreman of one of the
quarry gangs working near the
Western States cement plant, near
Independence, was killed instantly
| by being hit with a rock which he
was endeavoring to remove from a
ledge over the quarry in which his
men worked.
Old Veteran Is Suicide. -
Michael Hayes, aged 70 years, an
inmate of the hospital at the sol
diers' home at Leavenworth since
1891, eluded attendants, went to the
lake and jumped in. He was res
cued as he was going down the
third time and carried to the hos
pital, where he died. He was
member of company C, Seventh
Missouri infantry, and entered the
home in 1888 from st. Louis, Mo- 2
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