Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-01-07

] pounds of melted silver, was found in
his room on farm north of Atchison-
| The police are certain that Lockett had
confederates and that they have opera
ted extensively in this section. The
police hold recipes said to have come
from Lockett which gave the formal
formula for making gold and silver
coins. The silver dollars taken from
Lockett were splendid limitations. 1t
is believed that Lockett's real name is
Hendricks er,l that his home is at
Cairo, Ill.
Y. NJ. C. A. BUnDISG.-The new
$4,000 building is now the exclusive
property of the Railroad Y. NJ. C. A.,
the gift of the Santa Fe company and
the citizens of Topeka, who recognize
the power for good there is in the as
ISOLATION. Members and friends of the
association crowded the assembly hall
to its utmost capacity when it was for
mally dedicated and presented to the
trustees of the association by CharlesS S.
Gleed, one of the directors of the Santa
| Fe road.
WEATHER BY PHoNE.-The farmers
! living around Hiawatha now get the
government weather report every
morning by telephone. The. weather
report reaches town about 10 a. M,
and it is Immediately telephoned to
central. The farmers on the many
| toll lines have only to step to their
/ phones and be given the prediction
for the next twenty-four hours. The
plan is a most popular and successful
one
SUES For His FARM.-R. 3. Robin
| son, Lyon county farmer, who has
| just returned from the insane asylum,
has entered suit in the district court
sold while he was in the asylum. His
wife sold the farm for $500 and he al
! leges that it was worth 81, goo.
| KANSAS GIRLS TAERE.-JennieC Cola
day wrote to her father in Hutchinson
that she would attend the fatal mat
inee at the Iroquois theater with
Bertha and Nellie Flodine, also of
Hutchinson. kilograms to the three
| girls, who were attending school in
Chicago, brought no responses.
CAPTAIN RowAS's WIFE.-Mrs. Ida
Rowan, wife of Captain A. S. Rowan,
is dead at Atchison. Captain Rowan
is distinguished as ''the man who car
ried the message to Garcia" in the
wilds of Cuba at the outbreak of the
Spanish-American war.
775 ENGINEs.-Seven hundred and
seventy-five engines were handled at
the Missouri Pacific yards in Wichita
during December. The employees are
kept on the run continuously at the
yards.
A PIONEER GoNE.-L. S. Herbert,
pioneer resident of Brown county and
father of Ewing Herbert the we'll
known Kansas editor, died at his home
in Hiawatha aged 80 years.
WHEAT TRAIN WREcKED.-An extra
Union Pacific freight train hauling
wheat, was wrecked at Luray and six
teen cars of wheat were piled in heap.
No one was injured.
WAITED Fo BIRTHDAY.-Two Hia-
watha girls are looking forward to
February 90, 1904. They were born
on that day in 1896 and have not had
birthday since.
AN SIS, 900 CARLoAD.-Forty thousand
pounds of dressed chicken, ducks and
turkeys We're sent to San Francisco
from Sterling. The car brought SIS, 900,
o. ELEvAToRs.-C. Hoffman &c Son,
of Enterprise have bought % elevators
of the A. ]. Poor Co., for SIS, 900. The
elevators are all in Kansas.
LEAVES Observation-Disclosures w. A.
Harris, of Kansas, is to leave Kansas
and take up his residence, at least tenn
porarily, in Chicago.
AFTER FIVE YEARS.. w. Crawford
disappeared from Wamego five years
ago. He was in debt and was heavy
drinler. Recently he suddenly re-
turned to pay old debts, and found
that his family had already paid them
all. He had been in the mountain
states and had prospered.
KILLED BY A HoRsE.-The five-year-
old son of Ed Carlisle, of Arkansas
City, was kicked to death by the fam
lily horse. The horse kicked at dog.
the full force of the blow striking the
boys head, causing instant death.
| FORESTRY MEErING.-A forestry
meeting will be held in Manhattan on
January 81 for the purpose of discus
sing the subjects relating to forest
tree planting. The meeting will be
addressed by George L. Clothier, field
assistant in the United States bureau
of forestry.
New TELEPHoNE.-The Missouri &
Kansas TELEPHONE company are string
ing new copper circuit from Yelling
ton to Harper to be used as through
circuit for their toll lines in Western
Kansas and Oklahoma.
Four IN JAn.-Walter Jones is con-
fined in Jail at Ell Dorado pending an
investigation of the mysterious murder
of his brother William near Leon. This
makes four persons that are being held
in connection with the murder
THE FoRNEY FAsnLY.-The Forney
family holds a family reunion on New
Years day at Belle PLANE, upon the
invitation of A.'G. Forney and j. w.
Forney. both former state senators.
BRIsTow VISITS HoME--Fourth AS
sistant Postmaster General Bristow
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