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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Girls Glad to Learn.

Statistics recently gath
cred by the management of the Kan
sas State university here show that
more girls work their way" through
this institution and pay for their
board and lodging while securing an
education, than in any other like edu-
cational institution in the United
States. 1t is now stated by the regis
trar of the university that $50 girls
from homes throughout the state have
asked the university employment bu-
reau to secure them places in Law
renee where they can pay for their
board and lodging by tutoring or do
ing household work mornings and
evenings.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04

Some of the New Jersey farmers are
advocating a form Of conservation
that is rather out of the ordinary. Deer
have been SO well protected In the
state that the animals have multiplied
10 remarkable extent and have be-
come so fearless and commit so many
depredations in the fields that the
farmers regard them as nuisances. To
modest deer at this season means
severe punishment. but the sufferers
are moving to secure such action as
will save their crops from destruc-
tion. Vermont and some other north
ern localities report occasional dam
age to vegetation by deer, but it
sounds rather oddly to hear of such
things in state which is largely a
suburb of the metropolis.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
STATE PROPERTY VALUE
SHOWS BIG INCREASE
WYANDoTTE LEADS WITH $685.
42s,471; sEDeWlcK NEXT
WITH $1os, 1878.
Gain Is Almost Quarter of Billion Dol
lars in Year-Tax Levy Accord.
ingIy Decreases.

Topeka.-The values OF Kansas
property have increased almost ID
quarter of billion dollars in the last
year. The state tax commission COM
pleted the equalization of the values
Of all property in Kansas. The total
value Is $2.752,09S.125. The valuation
in 1909 was 1851, 26O,2S5, showing an
increase of $24O,OOO,OOO in the past
year
The tax commissioner fixed the rate
Of the levy for the state taxes for this
year at $1.05 on the $1,000 of valua-
ton. Last year the tax levy was $125
per 1000 and the increased value Of
the property in the state made the de-
crease In the levy. The levy will raise
$685. O2 with which to pay the state
expenses from November of this year
until the same month in 1911. To this
total must be added the fees of the
various departments.
The following shows the valuation
Of the different classes Of the prop
erty IN the state
Personal, 1909, s5O5,O65,221; 1910,
1854, ISL, 451.
Lands. 1909, $1,21O,19S,155; 1910,
1888, 1918.
Public service corporations, 1909,
$416,314,476; 1910, $420,132,536.
Wyandotte county is still the rich
est county in the state with total
valuation of sos, 42S,471 and the tax
payers will have to contribute $11o,,
800 to the states expenses this year.
Sedgwick county is close second
with total valuation Of $1O8,199,773.
Stanton county has the smallest valu.
alton, $1,7OO,O66 and its state taxes
will be $1,789.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
KANSAS TOPICS
EXAMINATIONS for Rhodes sehoIarshlps


Lawrence.-The next qualifying ex-
animation for Kansas college men
who wish to be Rhodes scholars will
be held at the University of Kansas
October 26 and q. Chancellor Strong
received a letter from George R. Par
kin, the secretary of the Rhodes
scholarship trust, designating the
date. Sealed examination papers will
be sent from Oxford. Examinations
will be given simultaneously in every
state in the union. In Kansas the
contest will be open to any college
student who can pass the examination
and meet a few other requirements.
The rotation system by which for sew
eral years the scholarship was grant
ed in turn to students of Washburn
college, Baker university and Univer-
sity of Kansas, was abandoned last
year, and the right to contest was
thrown open to all college students
in the state.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Graduates Get Positions.

Manhattan-Eugene Blair, Of the
school of horticulture and Fores
try at X. s. A. c., has been elected as
sistant horticulturist of the expert
ment station at San Antonio, Tex, and
has gone to take up the work. D. E
Lewis, another graduate of the same
school, has been elected assistant bo
tanist at the Ohio State university
Van Smith, also a graduate of that
course, has been assigned to record
and investigation work in the college
demonstration orchards in four coun
ties in southeastern Kansas.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Died DAYS After Accident.

Winfield.-The body of W. H. Mad
ison, who died here, was shipped to
Rockdale, Tex, where he has wife
and five children. Mat Caldwell, a
brother-in-law, came here, identified
the body and told the story of how
Madison received his injuries. While
loading some horses at small station
in Texas, sixty miles north of Rock.
dale, his foot caught in stepping from
the car and he fell face downward on
a pile of rock. His injuries had been
dressed at two different places before
he reached Winfield. 1t now develops
that his fall produced a hemorrhage
in the brain.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Budding MeIbas Quit Stage.

Hutchinson.-With the temperature
at 2O9 degrees, two budding Melbas
received heavy frost here. Miss Mn.
bred Hames and Miss Annie Harrison,
both of Wichita, aspired to be Thes-
plan lights, but their stage careers
have flickered and gone out. The
chorus at Riverside park presented a
beauty exhibition Of six. They sang
and they danced. Next morning two
angry mothers came to Hutchinson.
At the sight of the mothers the girls
broke down and said that they were
willing to return home.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
FATHERS DAY.

Fathers Day. has been inaugur-
ated in Spokane. Wash. by Rev. DR..
William J. Hindley, pastor of a Con
gregational church In founding II DR..
Hindley said he wanted to give every
body "a chance to speak a few kind
words for the old man who surely
needs sympathy" The few kind words
we're said last Sunday, and, perhaps,
the "old man" felt better for them.
When the movement spreads through
out the country, as the founder and
his followers believe 1t will, papa prob
ably will begin to chirk up and feel
that he is appreciated at something
approaching his own estimate of his
real worth Mother already has her
day, and its observance, we hope,
brings Joy to her dear old soul, but
father has been rather a negligible
quantity in the household scheme. 1t
is true he Is permitted to provide the
money to pay the bills, but what does
it profit a man to own a palatial home
and supply the table with the fat Of
the land If he must adjourn to the eel
lar or the back steps to smoke his pipe
or cigar because tobacco smoke is in
furious to the lace curtains he did not
select but had to pay for? Nor does
It add to the joys Of his outcast nj
cotinous vigil to listen to the strains
Of Everybody Works but Father" as
played and sung by the young hope
fuls amid the comfortable surround
ings from which he has been banished.
Surely father needs little sympathy,
and perhaps a little more considera-
ton.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
NEWS ITEMS FROM Topeka
WHAT OUR "HIRED MEN" ARE DO.
ING THESE HOT DAYS.
Little Business Being Transacted at
State capitaI-Everybody Try :.
ing to Keep Cool.
New Heating system for Senate

The State Executive Council has
granted the contract for a new sys.
tenn of heating and ventilating for the
senate chamber. The contract went
to w. F. Sheahan of Topeka at little
more than $4,000 However, this fig.
ure includes new plumbing for the
toilet rooms adjoining the senate
chamber.
The same system of heating and
ventilating installed in the house of
representatives two years ago will
be installed in the senate chamber.
Cold air from the outside is pumped in
to the room through registers in the
floor. The stale air is pumped out by
fans through registers in the walls
and floor. The system has given great
satisfaction in the house of representa-
tives.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
$500 For Arrest of Murderers.

Topeka-.Rewards aggregating $500
for the arrest and conviction of two
murderers were offered by Governor
Stubs. One is Of $3.50 for the arrest
of the murderer Of William Miller,
who was found with bullet hole III
his head in his tent near Great Bend.
His team was missing and the tracks
about the tent point to man and wo-
man as the murderers. The other re-
ward was for the same amount for
the tramp who murdered Ambrose
Donahue, a policeman in one of the
Leavenworth railway yards the night
of July 2.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04

Numerous arrests for smuggling
give evidence both that this particu-
larly contemplate torn of offense
against the national laws is prevalent
and that the customs officials in New
York are thoroughly on the job. Col.
lector Loeb started in by making it
clear that he did not intend to sub
ject passengers on incoming steamers
to unnecessary annoyance and incon-
venience, while at the same time he
should exact compliance with the
treasury regulations. There can be
no good ground for complaint against
this system. The person detected in
smuggling may be set down as will
full offender and entitled to no SYM
pathy when caught In attempts to
cheat the government.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
RulId New catholic church.

Coffeyville .-Excavation work for
the foundation for the handsome new
100000 edifice to be erected by the
Holy Name Roman Catholic church at
the northwest corner of Fifth and Will
low streets, has been commenced. The
new structure will be 60x140, butt of
brick and terra Gotta stone of Roman
architecture. The church is to be paid
for as the work progresses, and will
be, when finished, one of the most
handsome edifices in this section of
the country.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Holslnaton city Of Second Class.

Hoisington, in Barton county, is now
city of the second class. 1t was so
proclaimed by Governor Stubbs. 1t
has attained a population of 1000 peo-
pie and under the law, when applica-
tion is made to the governor by city
having that population, that official is
required to issue proclamation to
the effect that the city has has en-
tered the list of second class cities.
The officials of Hoisington desire to
institute the form of government pro-
vided for second class cities by law.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04

Aviation is going to have its mar
tyrs like other great enterprises, the
more as they are, in way, fanatics.
too; for no amount of danger and
actual accident will deter men from
trying to conquer this elusive element
or dim Ns fatal destinations, The
measure Of success which has attend
ed latter-day effort will serve to mini
mize effects Of the danger still more.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
RIeIsner Is Not Dead.

Seneca.-Fr Bleisner is not
dead. Reports sent out that he had
died proved erroneous. His condition
is better and it is believed that he is
out Of danger. Frederick Keehn was
remanded to Jail without bail when
the preliminary was postponed until
August 8. His brother, August Keehn,
was required to give new bond in the
sum Of $4,000.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
ReIented After rakino POISON.

Holton.-E. Winkler committed sui
side here by taxing a dose of strych-
nine. He got up early and took the
poison before the rest of the family
were up. Before he became uncon-
scious he seemed to regret what he
had done and told his family, asking
them to do something for him. Be-
fore a doctor could be summoned,
however, he was beyond help. Men
tai alteration, probably caused by the
intense heat, was the cause of his act.
He leaves wife and six children.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Four States Participate at Fl. Riley


Junction City.-Four states, Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma, are
to send militia organizations to the
maneuver camp at Fort Riley, com.
mencing August Is. The troops Will
not be at the maneuvers at the same
time, however. The Kansas and Me-
braska troops will be here from Au-
gust Is to 26, and the Oklahoma and
Missouri troops from September l to
Is. Kansas will send $500 men more
than any of the other states. Two
regiments of infantry, one battery of
artillery, one signal corps detachment,
and a medical department will repre-
sent the state at the maneuvers.
Missouri will send two regiments
of infantry, two batteries, a signal
corps and hospital corps, 1900 men
in all Nebraska will send the same
number, two regiments OF infantry a
signal corps and medical department
Oklahoma will have $50 men, divided
as follows: One regiment of infantry,
one signal corps detachment and
medical department. The militiamen
will participate in the same problems
and movements as the regular sol
diers.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Rev. w. A. Matson Dead.

Jewell City.-Rev. w. A. Matson of
Salina, aged 83, for sixty years a
Methodist preacher, we'll known
throughout Central Kansas, died al
the home of his son, w. A. Matson,
cashier of the Citizens State bank in
this city. Mr.. Matson was the father
of C. A. Matson, formerly of the To
peka State Journal, now editorial
writer on the Los Angeles Express,
also of Miss Carrie Matson of the
Kansas Wesleyan university, and e.
e. Matson, Smith Center Merchant.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Potterton Denied Freedom.

Arkansas City.-Judge Swartz of the
district court rendered his decision in
the habeas corpus case of l.. w. Pot
terton, who was released few days
ago on a $4,000 bond. The court holds
the man for trial on the charge of
poisoning his wife last January. He
was placed in the hands of the sher-
IF. Bond was fixed at $4,000.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
To Reopen Glass Plant.

Independence.-After three years Of
inactivity and idleness the Western
Glass plant will open for business in
the fall. The plant will be run night
and day and goodly number of men
will be employed. Local men are be-
hind the movement to open the plant,
and thus start another paying enter
prise in this city. There are 20 men
holding stock in the company.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04

The official figures showing immigra.
tion into the United States for the
calendar year 1910 indicate that the
movement is once more at high tide,
The total arrivals for May were 169,.
472. which has not been surpassed
since 1907, a record-breaker. That
year 1885 aliens came here in May.
But soon after there was a subsistence.
This year, however, the accessions
continue in increasing volume. The
total immigration was 1,334,166; in
1908. following the panic" 1t fell to
41O,319; in 1909 1t was 957,1O6; and
this year, up to and including May,
1t has been 549,492 with a good pros
pect of attaining and perhaps exceed
ing the 1907 total for the entire
twelve months.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Bride Of Five Months a Suicide.

Hutchinson-Mrs. Ethel Hauschild,
aged 20, a bride of five months, COM
mitted suicide at her home near Nick
erson. Her husband, John Hauschild,
young farmer, was doing the chores.
In his absence the young wife put a
shot gun to her mouth, pushed the
trigger with poker and blew her
head Off A note was left, reading:
Honey boy, goodbye. This is the bet
ter thing for me. Bury me in my we'd
ding dress" The young wife told her
mother she feared she would go in
sane.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Topeka Man Plans Flight.

Atchison.-H. w. Jacobs of Topeka
is building an alrship to fly it here
this fall. The engine for the aero
plane is of Mr.. Jacobs own design,
but the Planes will be of the Curtiss
pattern. Parts of the engine are now
being made in Atchison and the ma
chine will be assembled here. Mr..
Jacobs is an inventor OF ability. ia
cobs is assistant superintendent of
motive power of the Santo Fe rail-
road
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Issues Circular on Rabies.

Manhattan.-The experiment station
Of X. s. A. c. has just issued circu-
lar on rabies or hydrophobia. This cir
cular gives the history, cause, symp-
toms Of furious rabies and dumb rab-
les. These symptoms are given for
dogs, cattle and horses. 1t also gives
the manner of diagnosis of the affect
ed brain and gives instructions for
shipping to the veterinary department.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Wants Primary in Spring.

"I hope the next legislature will
amend the primary law so that the pri-
mary will be held in March or April,
said John Dawson, who will be the Re-
publican nominee for attorney general,
having no opposition. "The candi-
dates should make their campaign in
the winter, when people can get out
and hear them without having to let
their crops and, business suffer. Be
sides it would be better for the car
didates. Campaigning with the ther-
mometer at 105 is no easy task"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
A Real Argument.

They were talking about argument
not in the abstract, but as applying
to domestic happiness. What do you
think is the most unanswerable ar
gument you ever heard?" one bach
elor asked married man.
That's very easy" he replied.
when your wife says: If they can
afford it, we can there is no flaw in
that-and never will be."-Youth's
Companion.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
New Church at Wichita.

Wichita.-A Latter Day Saints
church is to be organized here August
Z by Elder James C. Page, an ordained
minister of the creed. He says the
church will start with membership
of thirty. The new congregation is to
be branch of the church at Lonioni,
Iowa.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04

Pratt.-Brakeman John Walton OF
Pratt, Kan, who was so horribly man.
gled in a wreck on the Rock Island
road at Arlington, and who was taken
to the hospital at Hutchinson, died
shortly after reaching there. There
being no way to get to Hutchinson by
train owing to the wreck, Mrs. Walton
made the trip from Pratt by automo-
bile, reaching the bedside of her hus-
band shortly before his death.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Found Dead In Corn Field.

Great Bend-The body of William
Miller, a farmer, rs years old. was
found in a corn field near tent in
which he lived three miles south of
here. There was a bullet wound in
the head. NIiller's horses were gone
from their stalls. Foot prints believ-
ed to be those of man and woman
were found near the body.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Police shakeup May Result.

Wichita-A shakeup is believed to
be brewing in the Wichita jolice d.
partment. 1t is probable an investiga-
tion will be started by the attorney
general of the state. Conferences on
the situation are being held daily by
the city commissioners and Mayor
Davidson.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
The Dentists .Ioke

At a recent dinner of the Authors
club in London to Mr.. owen Seaman,
the editor of Punch, Mr.. Walter
Emanuel, another member of the staff
of Punch, referred to the fact that the
man with the largest sense of humor
he had ever struck was an EnglishmaD
"a dentist He went to him after SUIT
fering long with toothache. He re-
fused to have gas, and the dentist
pulled out tooth, leaving him with
ing in pain, and took the tooth to the
window, where he laughed quite heart
lily. He groaned: Whats the joke"
wrong TOOTH" said the dentist.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
RIohard Reslans to Re.enter Ministry

Hutchinson.-C. A. Richard resign
ed as superintendent of the Kansas
State reformatory in order to return
to the ministry. Superintendent Rich
ard is at present acting as pastor of
the First Christian church in this city,
while the regular pastor is away. In
presenting his resignation to the board
OF managers, Superintendent Richard
said: "My sole reason for leaving
this work is my desire to again enter
the ministry. The reformatory work
is great work but it does not appeal
to me-"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Offers New Subjects.

Manhattan-The American nation,
constitutional history, industrial his.
tory, business law and international
law, are some of the new subjects
that will be offered by the history de-
partment of the Agricultural college
this fall. This greatly strengthens
the department and deal directly in
the making of better citizens for Kan
sas.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Ex-senator Dies at Wellington.

The death of former Senator j. w.
Forney of Sumner county at Belle
PLANE was followed by that of the
man whom he succeeded in the senate,
Hon. w. ]. Lingenfelter. who died at
his home in Wellington at the age of
seventy years. Both men died Of the
same complaint, creeping paralysis,
and the two funerals were held the
same day.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Boy Perlshes in Barn Fire.

Atchison.-The 7-year-old son OF
Herman Hattersall, farmer living
two miles south of Greenleaf, lost his
life in fire which destroyed large
barn on the Hattersall farm. Four
horses also persisted 1t is said the boy
had been at play with matches in the
hay loft in company with two other
lads, who escaped.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Condemns 5 out of 9.

State Inspector John Kleinhans con-
demned out of sets of wagon scales
in Concordia as illegal. The inspector
has with him one ton of tested and
sealed test weights, which he uses
He says that about one-third of the
wagon scales are "off' and that the
majority of them are incorrect in
weighing on account of having low cor
ners.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Anthony Man Suicides.

Anthony-E. e. WISE assistant man
ager of the Long-Bell Lumber com
pany, shot himself with small rifle.
Dependency and poor health, due to
the intense heat, are given as reasons
for his act.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Killed by Brother.In-Law.

Pittsburg.-James e. Thompson was
shot and killed by A. H. Gillian, his
brother-in-law, on the latter's farm
south Of this city. Thompson hau be-
come suddenly insane and had attack
ed Gillian with a shovel.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
cholera spreads IN Russia becaul

Cholera spreads IN Russia because
so many people do not seem to see
much difference living under the car
and dying with the cholera. At least
that appears to be the Interpretation
OF the reports about the fatalistic way
they neglect to take the most ordinary
precautions.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04

Behold how blessed we are with the
abundance of the earth--green corn.
tomatoes. peaches. cantaloupe. Gym.
lings and ice cream soda!
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04

An auto while travelling in New York
turned turtle and broke surgeons
leg. which may be Put down as a gross
infraction Of professional courtesy.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
Drinks carboIlc Acid.

FL Dorado.-in i'll health and de.
spondent, Abel E. Banks, aged %,
committed suicide by drinking car
bolic acid.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04
THE LIMIT.

Landlady-Mr. Hall Roome is about
the meanest man ever met.
Mrs. Slowpay-What's the trouble?
Landlady-Wants me to reduce the
price of his board because he's lost
two teeth.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04

What would the vaudeville singer
who had his upper lip treated by .
chiropodist do for a corni
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-08-04

Freedom doesn't always bring hap
piness, but you'll notice that 1t is the
tied dog that bowls.