Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-01-08

SAID IT WAS A JoKE.-Henry Whit
son, young insurance and real estate
agent in Wellington, was stopped near
the Rock Island tracks by man who
wore a mask and carried revolver
and who demanded that Whitson dis
gorge. Whitson flew into the would
be footpad, giving him sound beat
ing. He then allowed him to go, as
the man said he was playing a joke
and mistool1 Whitson for another
man..
STRUCK By TRAIN-Peter Miller,
who has worked in the Santa Fe shops
at Topeka for IL years and who lived
at Tecumseh, was driving home from
his work as usual and while crossing
the tracks at Tecumseh was struck by
a fast train. He was little deaf and,
besides, had his head tied up in muf.
fer and his cap pulled down. The
horse and wagon were ground to
pieces and Miller was thrown thirty
feet away. He lived a short time.
CORN AND WHEAT SHIPMESTs.-The
Greenleaf-Baker Grain company, of
Atchison, will at once begin making
regular shipments of Kansas corn and
wheat to Europe by way of New Or
leans. Fifty thousand bushels of corn
and wheat have already been shipped
to New Orleans for export. A ship
loaded with corn and wheat from
Atchison leaves for Europe in a few
days.
THREE HUNDRED OF ONE FAMILY
The old homestead of A. q. Barrett, at
Barrett, was the scene of an extraor-
binary faulty gathering Christmas
About eighty-ive of the relatives of
the Barrett family ate turkey together.
This represents only about half of the
family, who now reside in Marshall
county. At one time more than 300 of
the family resided there, but about $50
went to Oklahoma.
An ATcmsoN PIoSEER.-Jacob Gar
side, is dead, aged 81 years. He was a
pioneer of Atchison. His first work
there was as boolkkeeper and cashier
for the Byrams who were plains.
freighters. Later, with his son, James
H. Garside, he was engaged in the
general forwarding business. For 20
! years he was cashier of the Missouri
Pacific freight Office.
/ Box SAVES A LIFE.-Will Thorne,
| aged II. saved a companions life on
the Smoky Hill near Abilene. A num-
Der of boys were skating and Bernice
Mare went through the ice into fifteen
feet of water. Thorne crept to the
edge of the ice and caught him as he
came up the second time and after a
| hard struggle rescued him.
BURIED CAsH.-Charles ". Robinson,
of Ottawa, was told by the physicians
that he had consumption, and could
neighbors that he bad $1,000 buried in
the manger in his barn. Robinson
died and the money was found where
he said it was. He had packed the
money in glass fruit jars.
TURNS ON GRIMES VoTE.-In a con-
test over a county Office in Wichita
county the claim of the contestant
hinges on the question whether Frank
Grimes, who voted there, is resident
of that county or of Topeka, where he
is building a home.
DAYHoFF's ASSISTANCE Su-
| perintendent-elect l. L. Dayhoff has
announced two of his appointments.
They are: Assistant superintendent,
Frank r. Dyer, of Wichita, and Miss
Laura a. Payne to be statistical clerk
For As CHRISTMAS DAYs.-Ado Hun
nins, of Leavenworth, has a record
showing the weather conditions of
every Christmas there since 1857.
AN AGED PHYsIcIAN.-Dr. Anna
Hoyte, an aged woman, for years a
practicing physician of Central Kansas
died at Salina on December 90.
Too MUCH PRESSURE. fires at
Coffeyville the other day resulted from
an over-pressure of natural gas
SALT AT WELLINGTON The parties
who have been boring at that place
have gone to Chicago with samples of
the product of two wells. In each
they are reported to have found s. to
1o0-foot veins of excellent rock salt
and have ordered the men at the wells
to begin arranging for sinking shafts
MRS. LEASES SoN.-Charles Lease,
Jr., is government inspector at New
York city, and he has sent to his father
in Wichita some of the finest imported
rum and cigars, which are samples
given to him by immigrants.
LOT HOLDERS HAVE CoNTRoL.-The
Kansas supreme court recently held
in Fort Scott case that the lot hold
ers in graveyard and not the stock
holders have control The stockhold-
ers have appealed to the United States
supreme court.
THREE ARCH BRIDeE.-A stone
bridge is being built across the Wal
nut river near Arkansas City, which,
when completed, will be the largest of
its kind in the state of Kansas. 1t con-
sists of three arches each seventy feet
in length.
FIRE AT LABNED.-R. B. Williams
tailor shop in the second story of the
Wilson block is almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire, which started from the
explosion of small gasoline stove
The stock in Doerr's hardware store
under the tailor shop, was greatly
damaged by water.
BANK LoorED.-The State bank at
Weber was dynamited and robbed of
81, 500 in cash. The bank, which was