Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29

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steam box. The train proceeded on
it's way and men were sent out up
the track on a handcar. They found
a man at the crossing nine miles
south of Eldorado. lying by the side
of the track, terribly mangled and I'M
conscious and tangled up in the run
ming gear of buggy. The buggy was
smashed into splinters but the team
was not hurt. He was mangled be-
yond recognition, but papers and let
tiers in his pockets identified him as
F. o. Rucker, a liveryman of Augusta,
who was on his way home from Edo
RADIO.
Stole Church collection.-The mean
est person in Brown county has been
definitely located at Hamlin, where
he stole a church collection. A series
of revival meetings has been held at
that place. At the close collection
was taken to help pay the expenses
of the revivalist in charge, after which
every one was invited to come for
ward and enjoy an old fashioned hand
shaking. In the interval someone
made off with the collection. Neither
the money nor the thief has been To-
Gated.
81 Bushel.- The Stout boys are
doing business In the vicinity of
Manchester. Speaking of the yield
of seed. the boys say their jobs so
far have hulled out fairly well. They
charge $3.50 per bushel for hulling.
The present price of alfalfa seed is
about 81 per bushel. Mr.. Seeley had
SO bushels of seed from so acres of
the plant, and this is said to be
about an average yield in this sec
ton.
Gas Symptoms.-D. H. Shepherd,
the Hanson Milling
of southern Kansas, is in
consulting with Nicholas
Bremen, Thomas Langan and others.
about prospecting for oil, gas or coal
in Doniphan county. Shepherd wants
to lease ten thousand acres, and I'M
der certain conditions. will give a
guarantee to begin active operations
at once.
Lost Her Suit. At teavenworth
after being out just twenty minutes
the jury in the $4,000 damage suit
Of Mrs. Sarah Gish versus the Kan
sas City-Leavenworth road for in
juries she alleged she received by be-
ing showed from a Fifth avenue car
by conductor, returned to the court
room with the verdict finding that the
plaintiff was not entitled to any dam
ages.
First White child.-The funeral of
the late Colonel A. s. Johnson, the
first white child born in Kansas, took
friend, George NJ. Noble in Topeka
All of the state officers attended in a
body. Most of the prominent men of
Topeka were also there. The body
was inferred in local cemetery.
May Be Trance. - Preston folks
are worried. They buried last week
a corpse that was as flexible as any
living body, and the fact that the man
lived for eighty years seemed only to
increase the fear that they were cut
ting a long life short by interring a
man in trance.
Talk to Kansas Farmers. - Secre-
tary Coburn has issued the program
for the annual meeting of the Kansas
board of agriculture to be held at To
peka on January lib. The meeting
will open on the afternoon of January
II with business session.
Most Successful Week. - The sew
enth annual Barton county poultry
show closed at Great Bend, after the
most successful week in the history
Of the association.
Enterprising Religion.-The farm
ers in the vicinity of CORTLAND want
ed a church They went to work,
built it and paid for it. Then they
wanted it furnished and at the first
meeting in the new edifice they raised
$500 by subscription. The church is
i've miles from any town.
Inspect Army HospitaI.-Colonel E.
B. Byrne, of the army medical depart
nent, chief surgeon of the depart
nent of the Missouri, arrived at ort |
Riley from Omaha to make his annual |
inspection of the post hospital and |
he sanitary condition of the post.
Change Towns Name. - The sta |
ton of Sage on the c., K. & w. rail- |
road, six miles west of Larned, has |
been renamed Frizell in honor of |
Mayor E. E. Frizell, of Larned, who
Is the owner of the Fort Larned |
Stock ranch, containing 5000 acres,
and upon which land the station is
situated.
Banner Apple county.-Three hun
lred thousand bushels of apples were |
shaken from Reno county trees the
past season, enough apples for Christ
mas dumplings for the people of TWEEN
y states of the Union
Wanted in Kansas.-James Smith,
arrested for disturbing the peace at
South McAlester, was identified as
James Hardistone, wanted at Scam
non, Kansas, on the charge of kill
ng Jerry Stephens in June, 1900, and /
vas taken there by Sheriff Reins of
Cherokee county. Hardistone has
lived in Arkansas and Indian Terri
DRY since the killing.
Civil Service Examination.-A civil
service examination will be held
January 10 for the position of clerks
Ind letter carriers in the postoffice
It Junction City.
Superintendent 35 Years.-Judge
will resign as superin-
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