Meade County news., 1917-03-15
mo BEER NO WORK"
Miners in Southeastern Kansas
Talk of Making This
Their Slogan.
AROUSED N8Y BONE DRY LAW
A Serious Strike in Coal Fields May
Follow Attempts to Enforce
New Statute.


Follow Attempts to Enforce
New Statute.
Reports from the coal fields of
southeastern Kansas say that the
miners are very much aroused over
the Bone Dry" law. Many of them
declare, mo beer, no work" All of
the men in one big mine struck as
protest against the Bone Dry" law.
1t is understood that deputation of
miners is going to Topeka to demand
that the state officials wink at the
enforcement Of the new law as the
price of keeping The coal mines open.
In the mining districts the Bone
Dry bill has occasioned all manner
of concern. Nearly every mining
camp is inhabited principally by for
eigners, or men of foreign, descent.
Most of these men have made beer
a part of their daily diet. Now
Kansas legislature goes to Topeka
and passes law which threatens
to send a man to Jail for keeping
a case or keg of beer in his home.
The miners in the Pittsburg dis
trict have issued their def. If the
state proposes to enforce the Bone
Dry" bill, the men will lay down their
picks and shovels and quit work. 1t
simply means a strike throughout the
big mining district and several thou
sand men threaten to go out. That
the matter may be clearly understood,
however, the miners propose to send
delegation to Topeka TO talk the
question over with Governor Capper
and S. M. Brewster, attorney general.
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Boy a Motor Car Victim.-Otto
Adams, IL years old, while going
home from school at Caney, was run
down by a car driven by Miss Grace
Shull. The boy died on the way home.
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Manhattan Veteran Dead.-J. G.
MacMillen, rs years old, is dead at
his home at Manhattan. He was IA
veteran soldier and came to the state
in 1887, settling in Logan county.
Oneida Church Burned.-Fire, which
started during Sunday school services,
destroyed the Methodist church at
Oneida. A defective fiue caused the
blaze.
Leavenworth Banker Dead.-Ed-l
ward Carroll, rs years old, president
of the Leavenworth National bank,
and widely known in Kansas politics
for half century, died there the
other night following a short illness.
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Tore Down German FIag.-Roy
Burkholder, a junior in the Wichita
high school, tore down a flag of the
Fatherland bearing a photograph Of
the kaiser after saying he was tired
of looking into the German war gods
face. Miss Holm, German teacher,
had been asked to remove the flag,
but said the students request was
silly. Arnold Lau in the absence of
Superintendent John Lofty, who was
in Kansas City, sided with Miss Holm.
Burkholder, backed by others, then
removed it. 1t was hidden, but found
later by the German teacher, and
restored to it's place.
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K. u. Supports WiIson.-Sixty-thre
members of the University of Kansas
faculty telegraphed the other morn
ing to President Wilson their support
of any measure TO preserve the honor
of the United States.
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To Build Mine Rescue Station.
Under bill passed by the state leg
islature, the state commissioner of
labor is authorized to build and equip
mine rescue station in Crawford
county and two substations, one each
in Crawford and Cherokee counties.
The legislature appropriated $17,5OO
for the purpose.
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Kansas Troop at Fort RiIey.-Troop
A, Kansas cavalry, arrived at Fort
Riley recently from Llano Grande,
Texas. The troops consist of three
officers and fifty-four men, commanded
by Captain Oliverson.
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Episcopal Minister Dead.-The Rev.
George H. Mueller, 65 years old, an
Enfcnonal Ynipisfor oF Nbon,,4o dio1