Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-04-15
STATE NEWS NOTES
Condensed Report of Important Events That Happened Kansas


Bank of Winfield at which four-fifths
of the capital stock was represented,
it was voted to enter under the new
Kansas state banking law. This bank
claims to be the first to comply with
&he new law.
Insane Man Swims kaw.-David
Thomas, an insane patient at the To
peka asylum, escaped and the Off
GERS pursued him. Rather than to be
taken he jumped into the Kaw river
and swan to the opposite shore. The
water so benumbed him that lie was
easily captured by a farmer and held
until an ambulance could be called.
poria.
Blue Rapids Boy to AIaska.-Ar-
thur Groesbeck, a Blue Rapids boy,
who graduated from the electrical en-
cheering school of the University Of
Kansas in February, has just left for
Valdez, Alaska, where he is to have
a responsible position with the Alas
ka Electric, Water and Telephone
company. Mr.. Groesbeck will receive
a salary of $500 and in addition he
will be furnished with quarters. >
Haskell Honors RequisltIon.-Gov-
ernor Haskell has honored a requisi-
ton for S. S. Loring, alias w. R. King,
wanted in Jackson county, Kan, for
obtaining money under false pre-
lenses from Mrs. Stella Knauber.
Loring has been serving time in the
Oklahoma penitentiary at McAlester
and when his sentence there expired
he was rearrested Immediately and
taken back to answer to the Kansas
charge.
Gov. Appoints Land Commissioners.
j. G.. Starr, Scott City; Robert
Eadie, Syracuse; Frank Lockard,
Goodland, have been named as state
land commissioners by Governor
Stubs. About two months ago con-
gress passed a law granting to the
Kansas Agricultural College 1852
acres of government land to be Sc
lected from any government lands in
the state These three men are to do
this work.
$4,000 for Paving at Newton
The city council of Newton has
awarded the contract for paving Main
street from First to Eeighth, a dis
lance of eight blocks The job will
amount to approximately $4,000 and
1t is expected that work will COM
wit III y
be completed by late in the summer,
as the specifications require that it
shall be finished inside of one hundred
working days.
Won't Publish journal Until July
Notwithstanding the efforts of Will
Beck, chief clerk of the last house, to
make a record in getting out the house
journal, it will not be published until
after the end of the fiscal year, which
will be June 80. The state printing
plant is loaded down with work 1t
has the session laws, a lot of printing
due to the bank guaranty law, print
ing for several departments and the
senate and house journals.
Applicants Lacking Here-Governor
Stubs has large number of appoint
ments that are going begging. They
are all cases Of the offices hunting
the men. A great convention is to be
held at Guthrie, Okla, on May and
| 6. The attendance will be from every
state in the union. The occasion is
the meeting of the national commits
sion on country life" Governor Stubs
Is asked to appoint a representative
delegation of Kansas citizens to at
tend this convention, but there are no
applicants for this job.
Lost Both Legs Under Train.-Eu.
gene Adops, the 9-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. William Fannie of Wichita
was accidentally thrown under a
string of moving cars in the Missouri
Pacific yards and both legs were cut
off. The doctors do not entertain any
hope of his recovery.
His Skull Was Crushed.-William
Hill, an employe at the Santa Fe
shops at Newton, was instantly killed
He was assisting the stationary en-
! gineer in starting the air compressor
| and mad piece or heaVy iron placed
| between the spokes of the compressor,
| when the machine started up sudden
t ly. The pipe struck Hill under the
| jaw. throwing him against the brick
| wall of the building, crushing his
skull. Hills home was at Meivern,
Kan.
Pay for Prisoners keep-State Au-
ditor Trap of Oklahoma issued war
rant for S4S,685.S0 payable to Kansas
| for the care of Oklahoma prisoners in
! the Kansas penitentiary at Lansing
! The warrant was issued to r. w. Dick,
! warden of tire Oklahoma penitentiary
t who transferred the amount through
/ bank draft to the proper Kansas au-
tforities.
Kansas SwTndfer csueht.-After a