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

pose of boring for oil and gas. They
will commence operations at once
Jewell county is well underlaid with
fine quality of coal which is being
mined in paying quantities and is
thought to have every indication of
oil and gas. In many places along
the streams an oily substance seeps
out and covers the water for some dis
lance.
SIXTY YEARS MARRIED.-Mr. and
Mrs. John Lester, of Ottawa, have cele-
brated their sixtieth wedding ami
versary, The couple were married in
Eastern New York on December 20,
| 1913, and have been residents of Ottawa
for thirty-fve years. Mr.. Lester has
been an active member of the Masonic
lodge for more than sixty years and is
| the Oldest Mason in Franklin county
BOYS ATTEMPT MURDER.-Joe
Thompson and Frank Harris, two
young Hutchinson men, are in Jail
charged with attempting to kill Simon
Nusbaum, nine miles south of town.
The boys went hunting and shot some
of Nusbaum's chickens, and when he
demonstrated with them they shot at
him with shotgun, barely missing
him
HE GAVE HIS MITE.-James Gushwa,
cripple who makes his living in Con-
cordia by selling popcorn, remembered
sent twenty-five pounds of freshly
popped and buttered corn to the in
mates of the county infirmary and
twenty pounds to the unfortunates in
the county Jail.
HOME GROWN MATERIAL.--Dav Arm
strong, Sedgwiclk county farmer liv
ing near Cheney, is building a new
house. He will have one of the rooms
| finished in black walnut lumber grown
on his farm. Another room will be
finished in catalpa wood grown on the
same farm. He has lived on the farm
about IS years.
1O7 MILES IN 1O5 MINUTES. run
made by engine 666, Engineer George
Fuller, from Limon to Goodlond, dis
lance of 107 miles, broke all previous
records when that engine pulled pas
schedule time, having made up As min
uces and covering the 10T miles in 105
minutes.
MEASLES EPIDEMIC.-It exists in EN-
poria. The board of health officer es-
| Inmates that there are between rs and
100 cases in the city. Most of the cases
are light however, and so far there has
been but one death, that of John Hof-
ferty, a young man 81 years old, who
lived at Hartford, few miles south of
Emporia.
DISABLED FIREMAN.-Charles O'Brien,
a disabled fireman of Goodland, has
been taken to the Railroad Mems home
in Chicago. He fired an. engine fov
twenty years and never had an acct
dent but is now disabled by paralysis.
He is the second Oldest member of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
LIONS EAT DoGs.-Two Italians,
connected with circus wintering at
Topeka have been catching the street
dogs and feeding them to the lions. 1t
is said that three dozen dogs have been
devoured by the lions. The humane
society will prosecute.
HAS OIL LEAsEs.-J. o. Davidson of
Wichita, has leases on thirty thousand
acres of oil lands in Montgomery coun-
| ty alone, besides some valuable oil
lands in other sections of the country.
SUICIDE IN AsYLUM.-Daniel Rich
committed suicide at the Topeka in
sane asylum by choking himself with
stocking. He was a patieut from
Emporia about 60 years old.
INsULTED WHITE G1RL.-Eugene
Dunn, negro, was fined $500, the
limit, by Judge Stanley of Wichita,
for making insulting proposals to 15-
year old white girl.
SIXTY-sIXTH REPoRT.-The state
printer has completed the sixty-sixth
Kansas supreme court report. The
sion 1908, and includes the record of
all cases decided prior to the May ses-
sion, 1908, and not heretofore reported
WITH a LOCAL CIRCUIT.-The Mis-
souri, & Kansas Telephone company
has connected the Minnesota Valley
Telephone company's system with their
toll line at Belle Plaine. The MINES
cab Valley Telephone company have
rural lines to Peck and Riverdale
For MILITIA CoNrEsT.-The members
of militia companies of Wellington and
Wichita have been practicing for the
shooting contest of January 1.s--.Wel-
lington received the Krag-J orgensen
rifles several weeks in advance of Wich-
tia. Eight men will be picked from
each company when the contest is
held. The men making the best rec
ords at practice before that time will
be the ones chosen.
DWELL IN PEACB.-The Methodists
and Baptists of Preston held a Christ
tree occasion together.
BURNING FLOOD CoRN.-Along the
Kansas river the corn spoiled by the
food. since dried out, is being burned
for fuel and it makes very good ar
ticle. There is considerable substance
in the grain and it makes a hot fire
The corn, which is filed more or less
with silt from the food, is sold on the
large amount of it.
PRISONERS PREsENTs.-Of the 1,o4o
prisoners in the federal prison at Leav-
enworth, 1000 of them received Christ
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