Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-22
Encour.oe Bic FamiIies,-In order

| county propose to increase the salary
| of every clerk in the court house So
per month for each new baby born in
| his family. I'm placing a premium
on babies" said W. E. Sterne, one of
| the commissioners, I'VE are simply
carrying out the Republican policy of
encouragement to infant industries
and the Roosevelt idea of big fami-
lies" In case of twins the clerk will
get raise Of SO month and if
triplets, SIS. The county board has
no way of offering bounty to the
people generally as an inducement to
raise big families said Mr.. Sterne,
but it can reacn clerks employed by
the county through salary increase
and we propose to do it,
| Only One Desertion.-Only one de-
sertion from the Kansas national
| guard is reported for the past two
years by Adjutant General Kelsey.
During that period 1904 honorable
discharges were issued, thirty-five
without honor issued, five dishonor-
able, four physical disabilities and
1913 mustered out by reason of CON-
! panies going out of business.
| Should Be Encouraged.-W. r. Car
| ter, superintendent of the Topeka
Indu~rial school, colored, wants the
| legislature to give his school $4,000
this time. 1t has been giving it 81 900.
He says that the institution is trying
| to make useful citizens of the colorej
youth by teaching them how to do
things with their hands and that it
should be encouraged in this work.
Auditorium Dedicated.-The $4,000
auditorium at the state agricultural
college was dedicated with appro-
pirate exercises. Regent F. T. Fair
child, of Ellsworth, made the address
of welcome. President E. R. Nichols
followed with address on aims and
needs of the college. President A B.
Storms, of State college at Ames, Ia,
made the dedication speech.
Locomotive Crew Injured.-Engi-
neer B. NJ. Myers and Fireman F. NJ.
Dolan, both of Harrington, were slight
ly injured in wreck which happened
just inside the city limits of Wichita
on the Rock Island tracks. Both were
taken to the Wichita hospital, but
neither was injured, aside from few
slight cuts and a severe shaking up.
Back to Kansas.-Commissio of
Pensions Eugene F. Ware called on
the president to pay his respects on
the eve of his departure for his west
ern home. 81 am about to leave for
Kansas. the land of cyclones he said
Il want something easy after my eX-
perience in the pension Office
Crazy Man Found.-An insane man,
stark naked, was found at the Union
Pacific depot and is now in the county
Jail at Manhattan. He is unknown,
but gives the name OF Andrew ]. Nc
Allister. and says he has been at
Osawatomie.
Scarlet Fever Scare. - The scarlet
fever scare has invaded Clyde. Two
children of farmer near town have
tended the cases pronounce them
scarlet fever. Considerable anxiety
prevails.
Pays His Own Board.-State Ac-
countant Rowett has reimbursed the
state for the S112 board bill which he
illegally drew from the treasury. The
auditor took the amount out of his
November expense voucher.
Dropped Dead in FieId.-E. E. Can
nady, a farmer in Jefferson county,
near Dunavant, dropped dead of heart
disease in corn field while husking
corn. His body was not found for
several hours, and was frozen stiff.
Big Snow Fall. - At Jetmore
heavy snow fall of eight inches is re-
ported. There being no drifting it
will wet the ground evenly. as did the
fall on the 3rd. Farmers feel assured
of a wheat crop.
Shot BY Mistake.-James O'Brien, a
railroad laborer, was killed at Pied
mont by the accidental discharge of a
shotgun in the hands of S. H. Drake,
who was preparing to shoot a chick
en-. O'Brien is about 40 years old and
leaves a family. Drake is an elderly
man and the shock has so Frustrated
him that he may not recover.
Acquitted of charge.-R. L. Mar
tin has been acquitted of the charge
of strangling his wife to death on Oc-
tober 8. Evidence showed that she
had taken poison of her own free
will.
Won't Quit Smashing. - Blanche
Boise refuses to agree not to smash
any more windows and therefore will
have to serve her time out in the To-
peka jail. The county commissioners
figure it is economy to pay her board
rather than any more prosecution
costs.
the Hutchinson Salt company has
abandoned it's we'll at Caldwell is de-
MED by the officials themselves. Much
trouble is being experienced by cave
ms, but the company expects to over
come these and continue drilling.
Child Lost in Cold.-The 5-year-old
son of George Lewis of jamestown,
near Concordia, wandered away from
home and could not be found for "a
hours. He had wandered all day and
night in corn field north of town
with the thermometer 10 degrees
above zero. He had waded the creek |
in the night and his hands and feet !
were badly frozen.
Charter Withdrawn.-The Kansas
City Stock Yards company will not |
incorporate in Kansas, the applica- |
ton for charter to operate in Kan |
sas having been withdrawn.