Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-11-03
KANSAS COMMENT

Will Guild Church.-Six. thousand
dollars was raised in the town of Stat
ford within twenty-four hours last
week to put up Methodist church. 1t
kept the recording angel buster than
an election judge.
Shot Through Heart.-Cornelius
Reyonlds, an employee of the quarter
masters department at Fort Riley,
shot himself through the heart while
walking along the street. No cause is
known for his suicide.
Burton's Hearing.-The United
States supreme court has granted the
motion to advance the pending case
against United States Senator Burton,
Of Kansas, and fixed November % as
the day for the hearing.
Forthcoming Benefaction.- Miss
Helen Gould, before leaving Coffey-
vile, intimated that benefaction of
several thousand dollars will be made
soon for an addition to the Y. NJ. C..
A. building, which is very crowded.
Annual CarnivaI-The annual car
nival given at Lincoln under the aus
pieces of the Modern Woodmen lodge
was a success. Lincoln is one of the
solidest built towns in north central
Kansas, and her business men are
among the most enterprising.
Kansas Miner Arerested.-Thomas
Miller, a coal miner at Scranton, has
been arrested by the United States
marshal, charged with embezzling
postoffice funds at Hawks Run. Pa.
Miller was postmaster there and got
away with some money orders. He
came to Kansas and got job in the
coal mines. He will be taken back to
Pennsylvania for trial.
Want Normal Flow-Judge S. S.
Ashbaugh, of Wichita, one of the at
torneys for Kansas in the water suit
against Colorado says that the testi-
mony for the witnesses for Colorado
has shown a way out of the trouble.
They have testified that it is practi-
cal to store flood waters. Now Kansas
is willing for Colorado to. store all
the flood waters, but to let Kansas have
the normal flow or the river.
Died From njuries.-Lieutenant H.
A. Roberts, of the Seventh cavalry, is
dead at Fort Riley after an operation
for injuries received in hunting &C
cident. Lieutenant Roberts, with 9TH
er officers of the fort, were hunting.
Part of the harness of their team be-
came unhitched. Lieutenant Roberts
tried to adjust it and one of the mules
drawing the wagon kicked him and
threw him back under the wagon. A
wheel passed over him.
Typhoid Observation-Disclosures is
alarmed over the outbreak of typhoid
fever. Up to date twenty-seven per-
sons have been taken down with the
disease all of whom were guests at
the May-Wimer wedding October IL.
Several new cases have developed
within the last forty-eight hours and
as the guests of the occasion number
ed over seventy-five great anxiety is
felt. The source of the infection has
not been definitely traced but it is
supposed to be due to impure water
Can't Take Appeal.-At Ottawa
Judge Smart has decided in district
court tkat there is no appeal in Kan
sas from the ruling of the probate
court on matters affecting the person
and estate Of an insane person, and
that the state of Kansas cannot re-
cover board bill amounting to some
$4,000 against the guardian of w. H.
Walked, insane. Walker had a large
back pension allowance after having
been in the insane asylum some time
The probate court refused the states
claim.
Child Murderer.-Noah Chism 10
years old, has been arrested near
Strong City, charged with the murder
of an S-year-old playmate, named
Frank VanKan, by shooting him with
a revolver. Young VanKan told on his
deathbed that Chism shot him pur-
posely and that he had threatened
before to kill him and other play
mates.
Played With Gun.-Harry Sculper.
aged years, was shot and killed with
an old gun with which some children
and he were playing in a barn on the
Baer farm south of Abilene.
Big Wheat Market.-Over ten thou
sand bushels of wheat has been
brought to Junction City by farmers of
the surrounding country IN the past
three days. Since the wheat began
to move there has frequently been
lines of wagons several blocks in
length in the business portion of the
city awaiting their turn to get up to
the buyers.
Teachers Fleeced.-Many teachers
and the superintendent of the Dickin-
son county schools have been feeced
for $500 by Library Union" CRATER
within the past two years.
Buy Oil Land.-The Rocky Noun
tain Securities company, of Denver
through w. l.. Wilson, secretary and
treasury of the company, bought the
l.. w. Hay eighty-acre farm about
three miles southwest of Paola This
is in the heart of the district where
most of the best oil wells in the
Miami county field are. Developments
on this tract will begin Immediately
Have Arrived.-The headquarters
non-commissioned staff and the band
of the Ninth cavalry. from Fort Walla
Walla, Wash, arrived at the post at
Fort Riley.
Died in Mexico.-James ]. Barn
dollar, one of Coffeyville's earliest set
tiers and wealthiest citizens, died in
New Mexico. Mr.. Barndollar died on
a train enroute from Ell Paso to Albu-
Querque of Bright's disease. He was
a brother of Postmaster George Barn
dollar of Coffeyville. He was 62 years