Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-06-26

Topeka.-Seventy-o ire insurance
companies doing business in Kansas
have brought suit in the Shawnee
county district court against State Su-
perintendent |. S. Lewis asking that
he be directed to set aside the order
made by former State Superintendent
Barnes in 1909 which reduced the fire
rates on mercantile insurance II per
cent and on dwellings IA per cent.
1t is set up in the petition that this
order is confscatory and compels the
companies to operate at a loss ana
that the losses in the last four years
under these rates are about $1,5O0,OOO
ON both mercantile and dwelling insur-
ance. Thomas S. Bates OF Chicago and
Robert Stone and George McDermott
of Topeka are the attorneys for the
insurance companies.
| Mr.. Stone said the suit was brought
under the provisions of the law of 1909
that whenever the state superintep-
dent of insurance makes any unjust
or unreasonable order the courts have
| the power W SCI ~ ooiuC'
When asked about the suit instituted
in Leavenworth county by Attorney
| General Dawson charging eighty-ive
Kansas fire insurance companies with
combining to raise rates, Mr. Stone
! said: 1--WE have not agreed together
to raise rates. The law of 1909 is an
anti-discrimination measure, which
prevents discrimination and forces
uniform schedule of insurance rates
and prevents competition"
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! The second important step in the In
vestigation of the minimum wages and
maximum hours of the women en-
ployed in Kansas, by the state labor
commission. was started the other
day. Miss Lima Bresette, deputy fac
tory inspector, has begun sending out
blanks to women employees over the
state, asking, among other things,
their weekly wages, weekly expenses
occupation, conjugal relation, time
lost previous year, hours employed,
daily and on Saturday, salary by the
day, week or month, and comparison
of work during rush and slack sea-
sons. They will be asked also wheth-
err or not they live at home; whether
dependent on themselves fora livelr
hood: what other members of the
: family work, and If they have had any
special training at their vocations Z,
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, Through misake made in reading
the opinion of the Kansas supreme
court in the Haskell county seat law
, suit, it was announced that Sublette
! had won the county seat fight and the
courthouse would be moved from Santa
Fe to Sublette Sublette lacked twelve
r votes of having the three-fifths ma
: jority required to change the county
:! seat. The mistake came about through
( the decision of the court that three
a fifths majority was all that was re
:, quired and no mention was made o.
S the fact that twelve votes were miss
t ing to make the three-fifths majority
S necessary for the change; A new cleo
S ton will be necessary.
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The egg Gambling schools, which
e were so valuable to Kansas merchants
k last year, will not be operated by thu
/ Kansas Agricultural college this year
e The Democratic legislature reduced
|. the extension funds of the college 81
n much this year that there is no
e enough money to send out the schoO
q this season. Those Kansas merchants
e who have the time may go to the col
lege and take special courses in egl
Gambling for day or for a week.
N O.
q E. T. Fairchild, formerly state So
= perintendent of public instruction, will
visit in Topeka this summer, accord
Il ing to letter received at the ofiic'
o of w. d. Ross, superintendent o
. public instruction.
il The state of Kansas mas begun thu
t. feeding of 10000 gold fish to. the blacl
bass in the ponds at the state fisl
hatchery at Pratt The shimmerinI
y morsels will be offered to the bass t,
e prevent cannibalism.
IS The utilities commission has sc
If June "a for hearing at Springfield tn
a. rate complaints against the light com
e pany and the traction company OF tina
s. city by consumers.
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n School teachers who are graduate
% from the Kansas state normal school
n. must be qualified to handle the con
If munity problems or social cente
=. problems of their districts, the DO
L. scout and girl band movements an
o. the proper regulation and fosterin
,r of the playground idea. This is tn
n new ORDER of things at the big teacf
Il. ers' school under the state board c