Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-11-24
KANSAS COMMENT


supreme court.
Elected ofHcers.-The Second Dis
trict Federation of Woomen's Clubs
closed ITS session at Ottawa, after
electihS officers for the ensuing year,
Oppose the Franchise.-A commit
tee of fifteen prominent citizens met
at Leavenworth and elected spokes-
men to appear before the city council
to protest against the granting of
gas franchise to certain attorneys who
represent corporation that is not
yet in existance.
To Face the Music.-Four Chanute
small boys stole a team, borrowed
wagon, burglarized a neighbours house
and decamped for Indian Territory to
hunt the red men. The temperature
dropped several degrees and they
abandoned their outfit to return home
and face the music.
Dead of Typhoid.-E. B. Weiner,
cashier of the Warrington National
Bank, is dead of typhoid fever as
the result of eating oysters at his
sisters wedding several weeks ago.
Thirty other guests were made i'll and
several may not recover. Both bride
and groom are dangerously i'll.
Prisoner Convicted Again.-Benja-
min Simmons, convict in the Kansas
penitentiary, pleaded guilty to man.
slaughter in the second degree in a
trial in the District Court at Leaven-
worth yesterday afternoon. Simmons
hit Remins Gouche on the head with
an iron and killed him while they were
working in the penitentiary coal mine
April 2.
Caught Incendiary.-The incendiary
who set fire to a livery stable in
Olmuty and succeeded in almost burn
ing down the entire town was. caught
by the enraged citizens and beaten so
badly that the local physician ex-
pressed fear for his life. He was taken
to a hospital at Council Grove. The
culprit is said to have set the fire be-
cause of being refused a drink.
kan.-okIa. TroIIey.-The Kansas
Oklahoma Interurban Railway Com
pany has begun its permanent survey
and announced that the actual work
of grading the line from Arkansas
City to the Chilocco Indian school in
Oklahoma would begin within thirty
days. The construction of this part of
the road will be followed at once by
the construction of the one between
Arkansas City and Winfield.
Cash Running Dry.-G. A. Richard
son, of Roswell, N. NJ, special COM
missioner appointed by the United
States supreme court to take testi-
mony in the Kansas-Colorado water
suit, got about all the money left in
the Kansas fund. He receives SIS
a day and expenses. The government
pays one-third, Kansas one-third and
Colorado one-third. He drew SIPS
from Kansas. This leaves only SIS
in the fund. The attorneys will not
get any more money In the case until
the legislature meets and makes
another appropriation.
For Pttsburg Normal.-The state
board of normal school regents met
at Pittsburg and adopted a resolution
recommending that the state legisla-
ture appropriate 100000 to buy land
and erect a building in this place for
the normal training auxiliary to the
state normal. The school at present
occupies building which was lent to
the state by the board of education of
the town. The normal has grown so
rapidly in the short time it has been
in existence that the present quarters
have become entirely inadequate and
larger building must be secured.
Mrs. Stewart Divorced.-Mrs. Grace
Bliss Stewart has been granted d.
vorce from Alonzo H. Stewart on the
ground of gross neglect of marital
duty. Mr.. Stewart is an assistant SER
geant-at-arms of the United States
Senate, and their wedding was a
prominent social event at Atchison a
few years ago. Mr.. Steward made no
defense.
Go to Observation-Disclosures re-
ceived by the officers of the Sixth in
fantry leads to the belief that the regi-
ment will leave Leavenworth for the
Philippines February 10.
Fell From Pilot. w. Manning, a
Frisco freight brakeman, of Pittsburg,
was killed at Kramers Junction, near
that town. He was the head brake
man of the train, and went out of the
engine cab over the running board to
open the junction switch. The last
seen of him alive he was on the pilot
of the engine.
Injured by Train.-1van Simonton,
district manager of the Bankers, Re
serve Life insurance company, was
seriously injured while trying to
board a. train at Geneseo.
Mortar and TroweI Men.-The Sec
ond annual meeting of the state asso-
citation of brick masons and plaster
ers convened in Fort Scott. State La
Dor Commissioner Johnson was in at
tendance. The next meeting of the
association will be held at Topeka on
November 10, 1905.
Spring a Surprse.-It has leaked
out that the cattlemen of Western
Kansas are expecting to spring a sur
prise in the form of an airship at
their next annual picnic at Kingman.
Later they expect to use it in round
ing up their cattle.
DR.. Meffert Loses-The supreme
court of the United States affirmed
the decision of the supreme court
of Kansas in the case of DR.. William
M. Meffert, of Emporia, Kansas,
whose license was revoked by the
state medical board on the charge of
improper conduct. The state courts
sustained the validity of the act.
Short Term.-Federal court will be
held at Fort Scott next week. There
are few interesting cases to be tried
and it is not likely that the term of
court will last mora than three nf fn,lr