Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-03-04

2lOQ8 q WINE longer WITHOUT u wire
less telegraph system. The ways and
means committee of the house has
killed the Phillips bill which estab-
Esaaes a wireless station at Yelling
ION. The committee couldn't figure
Just what good the Wellington station
would be If there was not another
station somewhere in the state to re-
ceive or. send messages. A wireless
station without means OF communica-
sdon with other wireless stations,
would be useless Besides the com
mlttee could see no Kansas war loom
ing up on the horizon.
Handling Trains by TeIephene-Tne
trains over the eastern division of the
Santa Fe between Emporia and Holi-
day are being dispatched by tele-
phone. While the new system has
not been formally adopted it has been
completed and all of the trains are be-
ing handled by telephone. The San
ia Fe is planning to equip the entire
road with telephones for d1spatching.
The first link in the system was
made between Emporia and Newton
and the work of Installing the ssys-
tenn over the double track cutoff be-
tween Emporia and Kansas City by
way OF Ottawa VIII be rushed and
then the system Will be extended to
Chicago.
Tucker Cass Disnissed--Preside
Roosevelt has made good his threat
to dismiss the case against H. H.
Tucker, charged with the wrongful
use OF the mails When the president
heard that Judge Amidon of South
Dakota had been assigned to try Sle
case against Tucker he protested to
the Federal court OF appeals of the
Rdghth district He claimed that
Fudge Amidon was opposed to the en-
forcement of the law under which
Tucker was indicted, and asked that
to try the case. The court OF appeals
ignored the presidents request. When
Judge Amidon arrived in Topeka to
try the case, District Attorney Harry
J.. Bone arose and said he desired to
dismiss the case.
UrGergo PunishmenS.-John Thomp-
SON of Lawrence, Kan, Oscar Howe Of
Hutchinson ard v. Sexton of Wichita,
have accepted the offer of J. P. Con
nors, president of the Oklahoma board
OF prison control, for any one who will
undergo the punishments, alleged to
have been inflicted on the convicts
i'm the Kansas pen. The show viii be
put ON in the Busby opera house at
McAlester;, and the receipts Will go to
the Oklahoma pen library fund. Mr..
/ Oonnors wrote them, accepting their
services, and telling them that it was
mot the alleged punishments'' they
were to undergo, but the zones really
adopted in the Kansas pen" These
plgnifshments include the Crib the
waiter cure" and other forms made IA
nnes;Es by the Barnard report.
For Mtany Pahfte Bull dTngs.-The
ssoifhry GtGfl appropriation bill, report
ed from Washington, contains the
| feIgk0wifng, among items from the
Southwest: Public buildings at EN-
lr1nta, Malfs., Sd5!000; Enid, Okla
|. sG6 IDDD;;; Independence, Kan. 100000;
0lbIaharTa City, Okla, $4,000; Par.
SONS, Mans., s50n00; rittsburg, Kan,
i $35! 1906; Wellington, Kans., $4,000;
Carfgl hall at Fort Riley, Kans., $780,
GOO; one double barracks, $4,000;
-four barracks at Fort Sill, $180,0O0;
guard house, Fort Leavenworth, $82
F000 administration building, $4,000;
remodeIing barracks, S91 900; addi-
ton to staff colleee, $4,000; militia 3
prison, 100000; for western branch
Soldiers Home, LeaHenworth, Kan.
| $448,OC0
The Contests important.-The Kan
'sas boys and girls contests are re
sgarded as one of the most important
educational movements ever inaugur-
ated in Kansas. Last year about
5000 Kansas farm boys were in the
acorn contest and several hundred girls
entered the contests for bread, pies
'mending, etc." said an official. but
everyone knows that Kansas ought to
have three times that many boys in
the corn contest and ten thousand OF
our Girls should enter one OF the many
contests open to girls. Why not? Pos
'sipfy because the parents do not show
enough interest. Committees every
where are announcing the contests
and inviting boys ard girls to enter
Coed prizes are anrounced and it is
hoped this year that contests may be
organized in at least SO counties ant
that every county that had a confess
last year may have double the nun
her it had last year. Sumner county
last year gave out seed corn to 344
boys and this year the committee says
1T viii have 500 boys and 200 girls
Why net? What viii be the record
for your county? Committees will re
port on March g 1t least as to entries
Consolidate TWO SehooIs.-It is re
parted that arrangements have beer