Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1903-11-12

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ceeding week, enduring, the pain pa
ticntiy as well as the inconvenience of
writing with the left hand. On Satur-
| day she rode to town in lumber
wagon, had the fracture reduced and is
in school again.
| HALLOWEEN IDIoTs. of Hays
vile. Sedgwicis county, are the cham
pions. They smearcd the Methodist
and Christian churches with coal tar,
| leaving obscene pictures and vile in
scriptions on colored glass windows.
A subscription paper was circulated to
apprehcnd and convict the low down
scoandrels.
WANT MEDICINE HANDY.-M. X. 81
L. railroad Inen ut Parsons will petit
ton the company to establish dis
pensary at Parsons. The men claim
| that they pay fees that entitle them to
medicine free, but. that they cannot
procure it without sending TO the hos
pital ut Scdalia.
EIGHT Soys PRESENT. AT The fif:icth
wedding anniversary of Rev. Thos.
Mcbride and Mrs. Mcbride. of Indcpen-
dencc, eight sons. all of them living in
Kansas, were present. Five of them
live in Montgomery county. There
| has never been death in the family.
BLowH TO AroMs.-1he Frisco mine
! OF Gitlena was the scene of n horrible
accident. James Drake, Fred Chill
| dress and Dick Arnhart were the VIC
Tins OF all explosion. Drake was
blown to atoms, Childress fatally hurt
and Arnhart severely cut and bruised.
CASH BoHD PEEvESrED.-The To-
| pelta city council refused to grant
franchise to the Topeka Manhattan
Electric Railway company because it
declined to furnish to the city 81, 900
cash bond to guarantee the eonstruc-
ton of the line.
PATTEN RANCH SoLD.-The C. C. Pat
ten ranch, four miles north of Reading,
containing 1,s0o acres, passed in to the
hands of j. w. Jones, of Reading, and
p. II. Faucet, of st. Joseph, Mo. This
was fifty thousand dollar deal.
TROLLEY TO CANAL GRovE-The To-
pelia & Council Grove Electric Railway
company is organized. 1t is composed
of local people. Farmers and business
men along the proposed route are be-
hind the enterprise.
HOPE TO QuAsH.-The attorneys for
William Martindale have filed their
briefs with Judge Phillips in the fed
crtl court and are hopeful that the
| second indictment against Martindale
sill be quashed
SOLDIER KIiI.ED.-Earl Steinbrooli,
young man vino served two years in
the Philippines in the Forty-fourth in
| fantry, was kicked by horse at Nor
ton and died two days later from the
effects of it.
GRAssHoPPERs IN NORTHWEST
Grasshoppers have been causing con-
| siderable damage to wheat and alfalfa
in the northern and northwestern part
of the state.
BURTON BANK ROBBERS. -Four of
them plead guilty in court at Newton
and were sentenced to terms in the
penitentiary.
WAGES OF SECTION MEN.-The wages
of section men on the Frisco at Fort
Scott have been reduced from S1.4o to
100 "a day.
ARKANSAS CITY DARK.-Thc raise in
the Arkansas and Walnut rivers
drowned the electric light plant.
A BEET TEsr.-The beet test at
Rocky Ford awarded those raised near
Arkansas City first place
A STREET CAR LISE.-Salina expects
to have one in the near future, to be
built by Colorado men.
| BRINKETILoFF PROMOTED. The I'm
ion Pacific officials announce the pro-
motion OF ]. H. Brinlserhoff of LcaY-
enworth to the position of assistant
supcrinten lent with headquarters ut
Denver. Mr.. Brinkerhoff has been
supcrin tendent of the L.. K and w.
railway at Eeavenworth for four years
past.
A Mill STRENGTHENING struck
the Pierson mill at Lawrence causing
4 fire loss of $40, OOO 1t is new mill
which cost $4,000 The mill will be
rebuilt with insurance money.
A DOUBLE MIsFoRTUNE.-A. A.
Walker, section foreman at Valley
Falls, had his foot crushd by hand
car running over it. AS Walker was
carried in at The front door the neigh
bors came mp at the other side of the
house with his son who had broken an
arm while at play.
PLENTY OF CAUSE.-THE extension of
the Santa Ee west from Great Bend
(thc ''Bobtail') has been furnishing
plenty Of ears and as "a result is mar
lleting the entire 1000, O0o- bushci
wheat crop of the county.
SHIPPERS COMPLAIN. : The State
Board of Railroad Commissioners may
Investigate the alleged practice of
trainmcn on several of the railroads in
the state of exacting "tips" from ele-
vator and mill men before they will
set in empty cars, Several complaints
have been received regarding the mat
ter.
a WICHITAN THERE. jay Hamilton,
son of J. Q. Hamilton, who recently
sold the hotel bearing his name was
killed in the baseball special train
wreck at indianapolis.
SAVED HIS BoY.-As Dennis Call and
little SON were going down Il hill with a
load of hay near ANtell the wagon got
away from them and tipped over The
fathe, SlStl med n inrnlrc,, I'm, aud