Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

TOUR years.
The resolution by Mr.. hartman
provides for the election of half of
the members of the state senate at
alternate general elections.
Mr.. Reynard, of Franklin. has in
troduced an anti-pool room bill in
the house. The bill provides a pen
atty of $1,000 for running a place in
which bets are made on horse races.
Topeka Kan, Jan. II. - Senator
Porter today offered a resolution en-
bodying proposition for a conven-
ton to revise the constitution to be
voted on at the next general cleo
ton.
Representative Pomeroy offered a
resolution in the house amending
the constitutional provision fixing
the salaries of members of the legis-
lature. 1t provides that the men,
bers shall receive Sc a day and Is
cents mile for travelling expenses.
Representative Jeffries a resolution
eXempting from taxation all prop
erty used exclusively for public pur-
poses
Mr.. Bergman of Clark a resolu-
ton to amend the constitution so
that members of the state senate
shall be elected half at one general
election and half at the next.
Davis of Bourbon a resolution re-
questing congress to call a convcn-
ton for the purpose of considering
amendments to the constitution Of
the United States, looking to the
election of United States senators
by direct vote of the people.
Representative Stone introduced a
bill, under the direction of Attorney
General Coleman, expected to make
it easier to obtain evidence of viola
ton of liquor laws. providing no per-
son shall be excused from testifying
before any court of record in the
state.
Representative Hendricks intro
duced for the benefit of the counties
where the records have been de-
stroyed or lost a bill providing that
the secretary of the state historical
society may furnish such records
from the newsDap rs on file in his
office and that they shall be accept
ed by the courts as official records
from that county.
One of the most stringent meas
pres yet offered was introduced in
the house providing for the taxation
of mortgages today by Representa-
tive Gesner and provides: The
assessors of the state of Kansas
snail place their seal on all notes.
mortgages and interest drawing
mercantile papers and keep a record
of the same. Ali notes, mortgages
md interest bearing mercantile pa
per not stamped shall be null and
void
A Square Deal" measure by DAY.
idson of Sedgwick to abolish the
present state tax commission and
the creation of a state tax commits
sion composed of three members to
be appointed by the governor. to
have authority over the administra-
ton of all tax laws and jurisdiction
over all county assessors.
Mr. Bird introduced a bill in the
house requiring grocers, druggists
and other retail dealers who handle
gasoline to keep it in a red en- or
other receptacle painted red.
Dr. Mayhem offered bill provid-
ing that the fare for the transporta-
ton of corpses shall not exceed two
and one-half cents a mile. and that
corpses OF persons who have died of
contagious diseases shall not be
transported unless properly en-
balmed and encased in caskets
made especially for such cases.
Senator Blaker introduced a bill
which provides that old soldiers
shall be 9iven preference for ap-
pointive positions under the forms
of government in the state and that
their age and physical disability
shall not be bar.
An emergency measure was intro
duced in the senate by Griffin for
the benefit of the penitentiary. The
Missouri river is encroaching on the
Kansas side and is threatening the
wells which supply the penitentiary
with water. The bill provides for
IN appropriation for rip-rapping the
bank
Under the provisions of measure
introduced by Senator Noftzger,
widows and orphans of soldiers of
the civil war are to be admitted to
the Mother Bickerdyke home where
hey have no means of support.
TIE bill, introduced in the senate
by Noftzger, provides that all tele-
phone lines within the state shall be
declared common carriers and plac-
ed under the jurisdiction of the
board of railroad commissioners,
and that where two companies have
centrals or exchanges in the same
city, each must give the other COM
Dany connection with its telephones.
If you have a cup of strong coffee
left from beakfast, prepare it with
sugar and milk to taste. Put into
howl one cup white flour, one cup
whole wheat flour, one-half teaspoon
salt and three level teaspoons of bak
| ing powder. Beat one egg lightly, add
to the coffee and stir it into the dry
mixture If it should be too stiff, add
little more milk or water. 1t should
be more like a stiff drop batter than
dough- and not thin enough to pour.
Bake in hot buttered muffin pans 20
minutes.
Long-Lost Treasure Found.
The director of the treasury OF
! Brazil while hunting for some lost
papers has made an astonishing dis.
covery. A box which had not appar-
emily been disturbed for many years
was found to contain gold, silver and
diamonds to the value of at least $780,.
900. Among the valuables recovered
are the imperial crown and scepter of
Brazil, valued at 100000, and the i'm
perial mantle, bordered with gold.
The box in which the treasure was
found is believed to have been de-
posted in the treasury since 1886.
Knew the Answer.
A motorist, who was touring In Ire