Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1902-12-04
KANSAS COMMENT.

Inns was given verdict for $3.50 dam
ages for re-setting broken bones
badly.
Ten DAYS IN 20 YEARs.-G. D.
Woods, of Newton, has been in railroad
service twenty years and has not missed
getting in full days work in only ten
days during that time.
VIo1ETs BLooMING.-At Cherokee
violets were blooming during the third
week in November. Mercury stood at
at about 20 during the day and went
down to GO during the night
INDEPENDENT PHONE MEN.-The
Kansas association of these people is to
hold two days meeting in Topeka
during the second week of January.
A company to build trunk lines is 10
be formed soon.
HAVE FIRM FAITH.-Westmorel
parties have organized to drill for oil.
A well informed man from Colorado
believes that Pottawatomie county is
the best undeveloped district in Kan
sas if not in the United States.
MEN SCARCE AT ANY PRIcE.-The
section men on the Southern Kansas
division have been given raise in
wages from Sl.25 to S1.40. Men are
scarce even at this price. Laboring
men are scarce in Ottawa. The new
church, the library and other building
improvements are taking all of the ex-
ira labor.
MILLER CASE CoNTINUED.-Thec case
of George w. Miller, president of the
SOL" live stock ranch, who is charged
with the murder of Santa Fe Detective
Montgomery, is continued until the
March term of district court of Cowley
county and his bond reduced from
$1,000 to $1,000. Miller declares his
innocence of the crime and insisted on
IN early trial.
MILLERs HAVE TROUBLE. Cen
ter millers are experiencing consider
able difficulty in getting the railroads
to take their flour out of town, owing
to the heavy traffic. One miller had a
car lay on the track about twenty days
before 1.-THE railroad could handle it.
When an engine finally stopped for
the car the miller had fifteen cars
ready for shipment.
DRILLING AT Neutrality-suspicious.
tractors began drilling on farm few
miles south of that town for coal
They are down 35 feet and expect to
go several hundred feet. A stock CON-
pany has been organized to conduct
the work. The gas find at Winfield is
squirting the drillers to extra effort.
The hole is being drilled on line east
and west with the Winfield gas hole.
SOLD CHARITY BADeEs-The ladies
who solicited on the streets and in the
stores of Wichita for charity, received
a total of S5o4.63 in one day. There
was no set price, the people who gave
few cents were given badge as glad.
ly as those who gave a dollar. The
money will be divided among the
Kings Daughters, the Wichita Hos
pital, Children's and Rescue homes.
GENEROUS PAsToR.-Rev e. o. Smith
has been the NJ. E. pastor at Leaven
worth for three years and paid off &
church debt of Sc, 500. He is still pur
suing the same policy he began a
Maple Hill years ago, when he paid of
the debt of the NJ. E. church there ant
would take nothing for his services al
10 hoe o.
enworth and goes to Omaha. His OLE
Maple Hill friends follow his upward
course with pride.
WOULD Buy GAS WELL.-The financ,
committee of the Winfield city council
authorized Mayor Cation to place SIS,
900 of city bonds on the market Il
make the purchase of the RACES ga
well which ''came in" a week ago
The well is believed to have capacit,
OF one million cubic feet daily.
Boy DRAGGED TO DEATH-Near An
dover Ralph Boucher, a boy, wa
dragged to death by buclxing pony
by having his foot caught in the stir
rup after he was thrown from the sad
die.
MISCHIEF CT MANIAC.-Martil
Auran, a Montgomery county farmer
became 4 raving maniac and set fire t
his barn which was destroyed. II
then tried to burn his house and threat
ened to kill his wife. Sheriff Squire
was called and he took Auran il
charge.
VERNON OF LARNED.-W. H. Vernon
of Larned, will be stenographer TO
Judge Henry F. Mason, of the suprem
court. Vernon was in the speaker:
bureau at Republican state hendqual
tiers during the recent campaign.
HIS sO-ACRE ORCHARD.-T. D. Mill
has finished shipping his apple Gro
near Wamego. His shipments file
20 cars with 10, 500 bushels of apples
Each car took IT'S barrels. A thousan
barrels are in cold storage in Topeka
the rest went to Texas
No ESCAPE IN Two YEARs-"Not
single inmate of our institution ha
made his escape during the past tw
years." said Superintendent Simmons
of the Hutchinson reformatory. 9Th
escape whistle has blown four times i
two years.
GAS AT WINFIELD.-With rush an
roar natural gas broke forth from
well half mile east of Winfield. Mu
and water was thrown to height c
80 feet by the force of the gas. Tn
flow is estimated at from one-half t