Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-10-06
KANSAS COMMENT

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$4,000 hole in lumber yard at Enter
prise. 1t was apparently the work of
incendiaries.
Takes up. Missionary.-Rev R. NJ
Hardman. rector Of the Trinity Epis-
copal church of Topeka, has resigned
to take up the missionary work in
South Dakota
Committed suicide.-Lee King,
farmer living near Harlan, lost his
wife a year ago and last week his
only daughter married. He commit
ted suicide on being left alone.
-; Rain at Dighton.-A hard rain fell
at Dightcn, thoroughly soaking the
ground, putting it in fine condition
for wheat sowing. of which a large
crop is being put in. This rain
breaks long dry spell.
Eloped With Hand.-Miss Maggie
Low, of Solomon, aged 16 years, has
eloped with Harvey Harris, a young
man who was employed by her in the
summer. They were married in Abb
lene. Harris is % years old
Goes to Reformatory-Hayden King
who broke Jail at Hutchinson sever
al months ago while being held for
burglary, has been sentenced to the
reformatory. The case will be ap-
pealed to the supreme court.
Raving Maniac-Sherman Kinchloe,
a merchant of Amorita, died a raw
ing maniac of small pox, contracted at
a worlds fair boarding house. He
leaves wife and eight children, the
youngest Of whom is mere baby
New Oil WeII.-The second well of
the Lawrence parties prospecting for
gas and oil in the vicinity of this
town was located two miles directly
west of the university of Kansas. The
first one was east of town about three
miles, and proved to be dry hole.
OFF for Fair.-Governor Bailey and
staff, together with a number of small
er military attaches and their wives,
left Topeka for the worlds fair. The
crowd filled a Pullman, leaving over
the Union Pacific railroad to Kansas
City, and thence east over the Mis-
souri, Pacific to st. Louis.
! Dug Way Out.-Four prisoners es-
capped from the Jail at Ottawa by dig
ging through the floor and foundation.
M. M. Let's, convicted for burning
the railroad station at Princeton, was
the leader. This is his second es-
ctpe. The other prisoners were Arch
Putnam, Will Scott and Forrest FL
lis.
Pioneer Dies.-B. Powell, one of
the early settlers of Harvey county,
died from the effects of typhoid few
er Of which he had been ill for sew
eral weeks. Powell had been en-
ployed at the Santa Fe shops at New
ton for twenty years and was con-
sidered an especially skilled work
man. The members of his family are
all living in or near Newton and are
prominent.
Fire at BeIIevilIe.-Fire started in
Lewis & Hohandsworth's store and
destroyed their stock of general mer-
chandise and millinery goods and the
building. The loss is about $4,000
DIR. Hangs drug store also burned
The loss is about $4,000. The south
half of the Hotel Republic and also
the millinery store of Miss Hill are
in ruins and almost the entire block is
destroyed. 1t was with great difficulty
that the fire company saved the Ma
tional bank building and the postofice.
1t is believed that the fire originated
in the mitten factory in the basement
of the cash store.
Will Not Run.-Manford Schoonoy-
er notified the democratic senatorial
committee of the district comprising
the counties of Linn and Anderson,
that he would not accept the nomina-
tion for state senator, offered him sew
eral weeks ago by the populists and
democrats.
Attempt Kidnapping.-The night
that Barnum & Bailey left Hutchin-
son a woman awoke to find a man
lifting her two-year-old baby from her
bed. She screamed and the man fed,
leaving the baby. No cause for the
attempted kidnapping is known. =
Use Same Depot.-The Frisco and
Rock Island have decided to use the
same station at Medora, a town in
Reno county, and the Frisco station
is being moved to the junction of the
two roads. This fact has led local
railroad people to believe that the
Rock Island-F risco merger will fin
ally result in the Frisco being extend
ed into Hutchinson.
New Rural Route.-A rural free
delivery mail route thirty miles in
length and serving population OF
904, has been ordered established
out of Hazleton on November 1st.
Will celebrate.-Congress ].
d. Bowersock received word that a
battery of artillery had been ordered
sent to Lawrence by the war depart,
ment for the semi-centennial celebra
ton of the founding of the town
which is to occur from October to
the Sth.
Are Undecided.-About half of the
merchants who were burned out al
Oakley are undecided about starting
in business at this point again, but il
is thought that after the insurance is
adjusted they will view the matter
differently.
Growing Sugar Beets.-According to
information now in the hands of Sec
rotary F. D. Coburn, of the state
board of agriculture, ninety-three Kan
sas persons this year contracted tc
grow in the aggregate 642 acres OF
sugar beets for delivery to the beet
sugar factories at Rocky Ford, Col.
and Ames, Neb.
Early Settler Dies.-Mrs. Hannah