Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-07

ihSIOu ulSpdICn queues GOVeruOr hOCu
as saying that he will issue full par
don to Emmett Dalton soon. Dalton
has made a model prisoner" said he.
He has conducted himself properly
while out on parole and see no rea-
son why he should be further pun
ished. However, do not expect to
issue a pardon until Dalton's temper
airy parole expires and he goes back
to prison.
Alfalfa the Best Crop. = Late re-
ports say Twenty-Five Kansas coun-
ties have upwards of 10000 acres
each in alfalfa, forty-four counties
have more than 5000 acres, 1O3 of the
los counties of the state have some
alfalfa acreage and the total acreage
of the state is three-quarters of a
million acres, being exceeded by but
three cultivated crops = wheat, corn
and oats. There is no product of the
state more important than the COM
paratively new one of alfalfa. In
spite of the constant increase in
acreage = $4,000 acres added last
year-the demand for seed and hay
exceeds the supply and the price
keeps at figure which makes alfalfa
the most profitable produce, acre for
acre, of Kansas SOIL
Refinery Cost One Million. = The
National Oil Refinery plant northeast
of Coffeyville. which has been about
year in building, is practically COM
pleted. Brick, steel and concrete are
the principal materials used in con-
struction. There are 35 oil tanks on
the refinery site and they will hold
about 100000 barrels of OIL There
are five stills with capacity of
about 1900 barrels of refined oil per
day. Then there is a power house,
ware room, pump house and office
building. all of brick, two agitator
tanks and net work of pipe lines.
There are II powerful pumps in the
pump house. The Stevens Electric
Company are installing a light plant
in the room adjoining the power
house that will have a capacity of
300 lights. The finishing touches are
being put on the big plant and it is
expected to begin work as soon as the
pumps on the Bartlesville oil pipe
line are in commission. The refinery
will employ 200 men to start with.
The investment for the refinery and
pipe line will easily run over a mil
lion dollars. The refinery is suppos-
ed to be an independent concern.
Doubled Sales at Arkansas City. -
Since the 2-cent rate went into effect
in Kansas the receipts of the Santa
Fe and Frisco passenger offices in
Arkansas City have been doubled.
This city is but four miles from the
Oklahoma line and in Oklahoma the
old rate of cents a mile still pre-
walls. Now passengers who are wise
buy tickets from Oklahoma towns to
Arkansas City and here re-buy to
their destinations if they happen to
be in Kansas or where the 2-cent fare
operates. All trains stop here for
meals and this gives the passengers
plenty of time in which to make |
their purchases. Passengers for Ok |
lahoma also patronize the local offices |
llD6IdHy. hCy IhiOuSl AAAhoSAS
to this city for cents a mile and |
here buy tickets to Oklahoma points |
at the old rate. In this way they |
escape paying on trains where the
companies charge an extra 10 cents
which may be returned to the pas
senger by presenting the receipt to
any agent of the company. Frequent
1y at the Santa Fee ticket office there
are two hundred persons lined up in
front of the window waiting to buy
tickets.
Can't Have Slot Misunderstanding |
as the result of request from the |
mayor. Detective John Remspear has
called upon the cigar parlors and two
per cent places in Wichita and in |
structed the proprietors that here
after slot machines will not be toler-
ated
Oldest Kansas Teacher Dead. -
Mrs. Minnie C. Price, the oldest |
school teacher in Kansas. died at To |
peka of diabetes. Mrs. Price began |
teaching in the Topeka schools in |
1869 and has taught continuously |
since up until last week. She had |
charge of the primary departments
all of these years.
Honor Civil War Veterans. "A
the finest in the southern
part of the state, has been unveiled I,
and dedicated at Mercer cemetery,
Arkansas City, in honor of the veter-
ans of the civil war. At the cere-
monies attending the dedication,
speeches were made by Ex-Governor
w. E. Stanley of Wichita, Department
Commander Campbell of the Kansas
G. A. R., and Representative W. l.
Cunningham of Arkansas City.
Much Typhoid Reported. - Four
hundred and fifty cases of typhoid |
fever in Kansas were reported to the
state board of health for October.
There were probably 1000 cases, be-
cause usually only about half are re-
ported.
Declares Vote Invalid. = Because
the voters of Marion voted s33 900
worth of bonds to either purchase
or construct" a waterworks system
Attorney General Jackson held that
the purpose put before the voters
was dual, and therefore the election
was invalid and must be held again.
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onist, a London publication devoted
to the interests of people who want
to leave England and establish them
selves in the various parts of the
world, contains, in a recent copy,
glowing account of the productiy
ity of Kansas and the all-around de-
STABILITY of that state as a home
for working people who want to at
tain a comfortable position in life
Pictures of the wonderful wheat
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